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:
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
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight . Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 514.
- ^ Stephan Behlen: Real and verbal lexicon of forest and hunting knowledge . Verlag Johann David Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1841, Volume 2, p. 581.
- ↑ Felix von Blocken: The new dimensions and weights in tables and pictures with all legal provisions for Bavaria . R. Forchthammer, Regensburg 1871, p. 397.
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight . Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 416.
- ↑ Moses Heinemann: The well-trained clerk and businessman . Wilhelm Schüppel Verlag, Berlin 1834, p. 285