Basket (unit)

Basket was a volume measure of partly imprecise size. The measure was used in the trade in dry goods such as fruit, garden crops, hay, coals and shavings.

Germany

In Germany , the basket was regionally in Osnabrück application and was in the coal trade is another name for the Kohlenmaß Ringel . Here the basket was the equivalent of half a bushel . The values ​​in detail were:

• 1 basket / ring = 723.5 Parisian cubic inches = 14 ⅓ liters
• Hüttenkorb , Saxony

Spain

In Málaga , raisins were used to calculate :

• 1 cargo = 2 baskets = 7 arrobas
• 1 basket = 3 ¼ pot = 1 1/19 kegs
• 3.5 arrobas = 40.5 kilograms

The basket was also used as a counting measure:

• 1 basket = 50 bottles of wine for champagne

Switzerland

The basket was also known as a measure in Switzerland . In the canton of Zurich revealed

• 2 baskets of charcoal a Malter , the basket (not heaped) = 0.37639 cubic meters .

In peat the measurements were different:

• 1 basket = 125.5 cups
• 12 baskets of peat = 1 peat fathom / turben fathom, the basket = 0.16424 cubic meters
• 1 peat fathom = 56.75 Paris cubic feet = 1 19/20 cubic meters

Russia

Here the "basket" measure was a weight measure for coals:

• 1 basket = 24 grids = 20 poods = 5.85 quintals (Wiener) = 327.616 kilograms
• 1 kilogram = 0.003052 basket

Other regions

In Rangoon the basket was a measure of grain . Here it was called Ten or Basket.

The dimensional chain for the ten was:

• 1 Ten = 4 Saits = 8 Sarots = 16 Pyis 64 Sales = 128 Lames = 256 Lamyets
• 1 ten (husked rice ) = 16 pehtha = 26.49 kilograms

In Bengal the basket was a rice measure and 1 basket had 16 bites:

• 40 baskets = 1 ton = ½ load for shiploads

In the Madras presidency there were 150 baskets = 1 garza

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world . Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830, p. 140.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight . Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 514.
2. ^ Stephan Behlen: Real and verbal lexicon of forest and hunting knowledge . Verlag Johann David Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1841, Volume 2, p. 581.
3. ↑ Felix von Blocken: The new dimensions and weights in tables and pictures with all legal provisions for Bavaria . R. Forchthammer, Regensburg 1871, p. 397.
4. ↑ Karl Rumler: Overview of the measures, weights and currencies of the most excellent countries and trading centers in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with special emphasis on Austria and Russia . Jasper, Hügel and Manz, Vienna 1849, p. 2.
5. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight . Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 416.
6. ↑ Moses Heinemann: The well-trained clerk and businessman . Wilhelm Schüppel Verlag, Berlin 1834, p. 285