§ 241.6 Classes of barrels for tolerance application.

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Title 15 CFR: Commerce and Foreign Trade › Chapter II: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE › Part 241: BARRELS FOR FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND OTHER DRY COMMODITIES, AND FOR CRANBERRIES › § 241.6: § 241.6 Classes of barrels for tolerance application.

This text was captured on Aug 14, 2026. It is a snapshot, not a live feed, so check the official code before relying on it.

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For the purpose of the application of tolerances, barrels for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities other than cranberries, are hereby divided into two classes as follows:

(a) Class 1 shall include (1) all barrels no dimension of which is in error by more than the following amounts, and (2) all barrels one or more of the dimensions of which are in error by more than the following amounts, and which in addition have no dimension in error in the opposite direction:

Error, inches

Effective diameter of head

1

⁄

4

Distance between heads

1

⁄

4

Circumference of bulge, outside measurement

1

1

⁄

2

(b) Class 2 shall include all barrels at least one dimension of which is in error by more than the amounts given above, but which in addition have at least one dimension in error in the opposite direction. (This class includes all barrels mentioned in section 1 of the law in the proviso reading:

“Provided,

That any barrel of a different form having a capacity of seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches shall be a standard barrel.”)

(Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 1186; 15 U.S.C. 234)

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