Bucket
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A bucket is typically a watertight, vertical cylinder or truncated cone, with an open top and a flat bottom, usually attached to a semicircular carrying handle called the bail. In common usage, the terms "bucket" and "pail" are often used interchangeably. As a shipping container, a pail is a package with a sealed top or lid.
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[edit] Types and uses
There are many types of buckets;
- a water bucket is used to carry water
- Household and garden uses are often for carrying liquids and granular products
- Elaborate ceremonial or ritual buckets in bronze, ivory or other materials are found in several ancient or medieval cultures and are known by the Latin for bucket, situla.
- Large scoops or buckets are attached to loader and telehandler for agricultural and earthmoving purposes.
- A lunch box is often called a lunch pail
- Buckets can be reused as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamberpots, "street" drums, livestock feeders.
[edit] Shipping containers
As a type of packaging, a pail has a closed top or lid. Open headed and closed headed pails are used as shipping containers for chemicals and industrial products
[edit] Gallery
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Roman bronze situla from Germany, 2nd-3rd century
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A wooden bucket
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German 19th century leather fire-buckets. With wood, leather was the most common material for buckets before modern times
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A man carrying two buckets
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A young lady carrying a bucket. By the German artist Heinrich Zille.
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An excavator bucket.
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Plastic buckets on a beach, with two shovels
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Bucket full of stones
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Safety warning label
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Container for food products
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Plastic pail used for milking
[edit] History
Building materials and solvents have been packaged in large metal pails, but in recent decades plastic buckets have been greatly favored. Plastic buckets have more uses due to the popularity of plastic for food products and the tendency of metal pails to rust.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Plastic Buckets; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Request for Comments and Information". Consumer Product Safety Commission. 1994-07-08. http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/frnotices/fr94/94-35058.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
[edit] External links
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