Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring DevicesDIANE Publishing, 1995 - 300 pages This handbook is designed to be a working tool for the weights & measures official, the equip. mfr., installer, & repairman. It conforms to the concept of the primary use of metric measurements by citing metric units before inch-pound units where both units appear together, & placing separate sections containing requirements in metric units before corresponding sections containing requirements in inch-pound units. Covers: liquid-measuring devices, milk meters, water meters, mass flow meters, liquid measures, graduates, dry measures, odometers, taximeters, etc. Tables. |
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Page 6 - Dry Measure. — 2 pints = 1 quart; 8 quarts = 1 peck; 4 pecks = 1 bushel.
Page 1-16 - ... that is not so positioned that its indications may be accurately read and the weighing or measuring operation observed from some position which may reasonably be assumed by a customer. (9) Violate any provision of this Act or of the regulations promulgated under the provisions of this Act for which a specific penalty has not been prescribed.
Page 17 - ... barrel for liquids" at 31 1/2 gallons: one state fixes a 36-gallon barrel for cistern measurement; federal law recognizes a 40-gallon barrel for "proof spirits"; by custom, 42 gallons comprise a barrel of crude oil or petroleum products for statistical purposes, and this equivalent is recognized "for liquids
Page 12 - The meter is the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
Page 14 - States"(1) to designate the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce...
Page 1-11 - ... in proving the size, quantity, extent, area, or measurement of quantities, things, produce, or articles for distribution or consumption purchased or offered or submitted by such person or persons for sale, hire, or award...
Page 5-18 - ... finest graduations with which it is used, unless the indicator and the graduations are in the same plane, in which case the distance between the end of the indicator and the ends of the graduations, measured along the line of the graduations, shall be not more than 0.04 inch.
Page 12 - The metre is the length equal to 1 650 763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the levels 2p,0 and 5d5 of the krypton-86 atom.
Page 3-4 - If the graduations are not parallel, the measurement shall be made, (a) Along the line of relative movement between the graduations and the end of the indicator, or (b) If the Indicator Is continuous at the point of widest separation of the graduations.
Page 13 - This resulted in the new value being shorter by two parts in a million. At the same time it was decided that any data in feet derived from and published as a result of geodetic surveys within the US would remain with the old standard (1 ft - 1200/3937 m) until further decision. This foot is named the US survey foot.