The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material

CHAPTER XLIV TABLE GIVING WEIGHTS OF VARIOUS MATERIALS Lb. per Cubic Foot. Cubic Feet per Ton. Lb. per Bushel. ! Ashes, coal ----- Asphalt, solid ------ * Asphalt, broken, loose 1 * Ballast, loose - - - - Barley ------- Barley meal ------ Basalt, solid ------ * Basalt, broken - Bath stone ------ Beans, horse - ■ - Beans, white ------ Bean meal ------ Blue Lias, solid - * Blue Lias, broken - - - - Bones ------- Bone meal ------ Bones, calcined - Bone charcoal, wet ----- Buck wheat ----- Castor beans - - - - - ' - Cement clinker - Cement, fine ------ Cement, Portland ----- Cement, Roman ----- Chalk, solid ------ * Chalk, lumps ------ Clay, solid ------ * Clay, stiff, loose - Clay-shale, solid ----- * Clay-shale, broken ----- Clover seed ------ * Coal, average mixed broken Coal, anthracite, solid - * Coal, anthracite, loose - Coal, bituminous, solid - - - - * Coa), bituminous, loose - - - - Coal, Cannel ------ * Coal, Cannel, loose- - * Coal, Welsh, loose ----- * Coal, Scotch, loose ----- 44 156 120 112 39 35 189 170 123 50 47 43 154 140 50 to 70 56 23 60 37 36 100 120 86 to 90 100 125 to 150 77 80 to 120 78 155 93 47 50 95 53 78 50 79 50 52 53 51 14-35 18-6 20 57-5 64 11-85 13 18-2 45 48 52 14-5 16 32 to 45 40 95-5 37-33 61 62 22-4 18-7 26 to 22-6 22-4 18 to 15 29 28 to 18-5 28 14-45 24 48 45 23-5 42-3 29 45 30 45 43 42 ... 50 45 64 60 56 47 46 60 * The weights of these materials are only approximate, and vary greatly with the size of the pieces. 726