Pennsylvania Act 1919-147 — SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, MILK AND CREAM TESTING

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SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, MILK AND CREAM TESTING
                  Act of May 23, 1919, P.L. 278, No. 147              Cl. 31
                                  AN ACT

     Supplementary to an act, approved the eleventh day of May, one
        thousand nine hundred and eleven, entitled "An act to provide
        for the appointment of county and city inspectors of weights
        and measures; providing for their compensation and expenses;
        prescribing their duties; prohibiting vendors from giving
        false or insufficient weights; and fixing the penalties for
        the violation of the provisions hereof"; providing for the
        examination of the glassware used for testing milk and cream
        for butterfat with the Babcock test; prohibiting the use of
        inaccurate testing glassware; defining the term Standard
        Babcock Glassware; and fixing penalties for the violations of
        the provisions of this act.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That every person, firm,
     company, association, corporation, or agent thereof, engaged in
     the business of buying milk or cream on the basis of, or in any
     manner with reference to, the amount or percentage of butterfat
     contained therein, as determined by the "Babcock test," shall
     use standard "Babcock" bottles, pipettes, and weights, as
     "Babcock test," defined in section two of this act. All such
     Babcock test bottles, pipettes, and weights, so used, shall
     comply with the act of May 5, 1921 (P.L.389), having to do with
     approval of types of weights and measures and weighing and
     measuring devices as well as all of the other provisions of the
     said act. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or
     company, association, corporation, or any agents, to use any
     other than standard test bottles, pipettes, and weights, as
     provided in this section, to determine the amount of fat in milk
     or cream bought on the butterfat basis as determined by the
     Babcock test.
        (1 amended July 13, 1961, P.L.593, No.291)
        Section 2.  The term "Standard Babcock Testing Glassware"
     shall apply to glassware and weights complying with the
     following specifications:
        (a)  Standard Milk Test Bottles.
        Graduation.  The total per centum graduation shall be eight.
     The graduated portion of the neck shall have a length of not
     less than sixty-three and five-tenths millimeters (two and one-
     half inches). The graduations shall represent whole per centum,
     five-tenths per centum, and tenths per centum. The tenths per
     centum graduation shall not be less than three millimeters in
     length; the five-tenths per centum graduations shall be one
     millimeter longer than the tenths per centum graduations,
     projecting one millimeter to the left; the whole per centum
     graduations shall extend at least one-half way around the neck
     to the right and projecting two millimeters to the left of the
     tenths per centum graduations. Each per centum graduation shall
     be numbered, the number being placed on the left of the scale.
     The error at any point of the scale shall not exceed one-tenth
     per centum.
        Neck.  The neck shall be cylindrical, and the cylindrical
     shape shall extend for at least five millimeters below the
     lowest and above the highest graduation mark. The top of the
     neck shall be flared to a diameter of not less than ten
     millimeters.
        Bulb.  The capacity of the bulb up to the junction of the
     neck shall not be less than forty-five cubic centimeters. The
     shape of the bulb may be either cylindrical, or conical with the
     smallest diameter at the bottom. If cylindrical, the outside
     diameter shall be between thirty-four and thirty-six
     millimeters; if conical, the outside diameter of the base shall
     be between thirty-one and thirty-three millimeters, and the
     maximum diameter between thirty-five and thirty-seven
     millimeters.
        The charge of the bottle shall be eighteen grams.
        The total height of the bottle shall be between one hundred
     and fifty and one hundred and sixty-five millimeters (five and
     seven-eighths and six and one-half inches).
        (b) Standard Cream Test Bottles.
        Three types of bottles shall be accepted as standard cream
     test bottles: a fifty per centum, nine gram, short-neck bottle;
     a fifty per centum, nine gram, long-neck bottle; and a fifty per
     centum, eighteen gram, long-neck bottle.
        Fifty per centum, nine gram, short-neck bottles:
        Graduation.  The total per centum graduation shall be fifty.
     The graduated portion of the neck shall have a length of not
     less than sixty-three and five-tenths millimeters (two and one-
     half inches). The graduation shall represent five per centum,
     one per centum, and five-tenths per centum. The five per centum
     graduations shall extend at least half way around the neck to
     the right. The five-tenths per centum graduation shall be at
     least three millimeters in length, and the one per centum
     graduations shall have a length intermediate between the five
     per centum and the five-tenths per centum graduations. Each five
     per centum graduation shall be numbered, the number being placed
     on the left of the scale. The error at any point of the scale
     shall not exceed five-tenths per centum.
        Neck.  The neck shall be cylindrical, and the cylindrical
     shape shall extend at least five millimeters below the lowest,
     and five millimeters above the highest graduation mark. The top
     of the neck shall be flared to a diameter of not less than ten
     millimeters.
        Bulb.  The capacity of the bulb up to the junction of the
     neck shall not be less than forty-five cubic centimeters. The
     shape of the bulb may be either cylindrical, or conical with the
     smallest diameter at the bottom. If cylindrical, the outside
     diameter shall be between thirty-four and thirty-six
     millimeters; if conical, the outside diameter of the base shall
     be between thirty-one and thirty-three millimeters, and the
     maximum diameter between thirty-five and thirty-seven
     millimeters.
        The charge of the bottle shall be nine grams. All bottles
     shall bear on top of the neck, above the graduations, in plainly
     legible characters, a mark defining the weight of the charge to
     be used (nine grams).
        The total height of the bottle shall be between one hundred
     and fifty and one hundred and sixty-five millimeters (five and
     seven-eighths and six and one-half inches), same as standard
     milk test bottles.
        Fifty percentum, nine gram, long-neck bottles:
        The same specifications in every detail as specified for the
     fifty per centum, nine gram, short-neck bottle, shall apply for
     the long-neck bottle, with the exception, however, the total
     height of this bottle shall be between two hundred and ten and
     two hundred and thirty-five millimeters (eight and one-fourth
     and eight and seven-eighths inches), and that the total length
     of the graduation shall not be less than one hundred and twenty
     millimeters.
        Fifty per centum, nine gram, long-neck bottles:
        The same specification in every detail as specified for the
     fifty per centum, nine gram, long-neck bottles, except that the
     charge of the bottle shall be eighteen grams. All bottles shall
     bear, on the top of the neck, above the graduation, in plainly
     legible characters, a mark defining the weight of the charge to
     be used (eighteen grams).
        (c)  The Standard Babcock Pipette.
        Total length of pipette, not more than three hundred and
     thirty millimeters (thirteen and one-fourth inches). Outside
     diameter of suction tube, six to eight millimeters. Length of
     suction tube, one hundred and thirty millimeters. Outside
     diameter of delivery tube, four and five-tenths to five and
     five-tenths millimeters. Length of delivery tube, one hundred to
     one hundred and twenty millimeters. Distance of graduation mark
     above bulb, fifteen to forty-five millimeters. Nozzle, straight.
     To contain seventeen and six-tenths cubic centimeters of water
     at twenty degrees Centigrade delivery in five to eight seconds.
     Maximum error shall not exceed five-hundredths of a cubic
     centimeter. ((c) amended June 20, 1947, P.L.630, No.269)
        (d)  Standard Weights.
        The standard weights shall be of nine (9) grams and eighteen
     (18) grams denominations.
        (2 amended Apr. 26, 1921, P.L.300, No.152)
        Section 3.  Any person violating any of the provisions of
     this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject
     to the same penalties as provided in the act to which this is a
     supplement.
        Section 4.  The Bureau of Standards of the State of
     Pennsylvania, through its inspectors of weights and measures,
     shall be charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this
     act.
        Section 5.  The provisions of this act shall take effect
     January first, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, with the
     exception that the provisions of section two, as respects the
     denominations of the glassware therein specified, shall not be
     held to require the abandonment of the use of glassware of other
     denominations in use at the time of the passage of this act,
     provided that the said glassware of other than standard
     denominations shall have been certified, after examination by
     the proper officer of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Standards, to
     be correct to their graduations.