Box (unit)
The box was a coal measure for charcoal in the Grand Duchy of Hesse with its capital Darmstadt . The dimensions were 5 feet long by 4 feet high and 2 feet in width. Half boxes were allowed. Smaller amounts were calculated according to the lime bucket and amounts with ½ cubic foot content were also allowed. The lime chest for lime and coal was only about 1/5 of the box in metric. Their dimensions were 20 by 20 by 25 inches . Half and quarter hand-made paper, or 1 cubic foot, was common. The vat was different. The measure was taken heaped and struck.
- 1 box = 40 cubic feet = 625 liters
- 1 lime vat = 10 cubic feet = 156 ¼ liters
The box was also a Bremen measure according to the Police Ordinance of 1857. It was called the sand ballast measure. A distinction was made between large and small boxes. The little one was half in all values.
- 1 box (large) = 2 boxes (small) = 10 load = 600 cubic feet (Bremer) = 14,536 cubic meters
Conclusion
- 1 cubic meter = 0.0688 box (large)
- 1 cubic meter = 0.13759 box (small)
literature
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, government papers, bills of exchange and banking and the customs of all countries and trading venues. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 212.
Individual evidence
- ^ Legal Gazette of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (1869) . Carl Schünemann, Bremen 1870, p. 137.