DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

BUREAU OF STANDARDS

George K. Burgess, Director

SUBJECT INDEX

OF

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

MASTER SPECIFICATIONS

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS No. 73 May 1, 1926
HOW TO OBTAIN SPECIFICATIONS

SOME MUST BE PURCHASED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS;

OTHERS CAN BE OBTAINED, UPON REQUEST, FROM THE FEDERAL SPECIFICATIONS BOARD

In 1921 the Federal Specifications Board was established for the purpose of coordination and economy

in the procurement of material and services used by

the Government under specifications prepared in the

various branches thereof, to avoid duplication of

effort, and for the better utilization of resources and

industries- To this board was assigned the duty of compiling and adopting standard specifications for materials and services, and of bringing the specifica- tions into harmony with the best commercial practice wherever conditions permit, bearing in mind the

desirability of broadening the field of supply.

SPECIFICATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE

FEDERAL SPECIFICATIONS BOARD

The following specifications have been officially adopted and promulgated by the Federal Specifications Board as United States Government Master

Specifications for the mandatory use of all departments and independent establishments of ' the Government.

Specifications bearing only a Federal Specifications

Board number are in mimeograph form and can be obtained upon request from the Federal Specifications

Board, Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.

Specifications bearing Bureau of Standards circular numbers or other bureau publication numbers in addition

to the Federal Specifications Board number are in printed

form and must be purchased from the Superintendent

of Documents at the prices indicated. In requesting

specifications from the Superintendent of Documents

the bureau publication number must be stated. Do not send purchase orders to Bureau of Standards

or Federal Specifications Board. Address request, accompanied by cash or money order, to the Superin- tendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. The price of each printed specification is 5 cents per

copy, unless otherwise noted.

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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF COMMODITY SPECIFICATIONS

Commodity

Federal

Specifi- cations Board number

Abrasive cloth, aluminum oxide Aluminum bronze castings Aluminum bronze ingots (for remelting). Aluminum ingot Amalgam, dental, alloy Aprons, surgeon's rubber

Asbestos copper gaskets, corrugated.. Asbestos high-pressure rod packing.. Asbestos metallic cloth sheet packing. Asbestos metallic cloth gaskets Asbestos millboard Asbestos plaster, magnesia

Asbestos sheet packing, compressed.

Asbestos valve stem packing

Asphalt for mineral surfaced roofing.. Asphalt for unsurfaced built-up roofing Asphalt for use in road and pavement construction. Asphalt for waterproofing and damp proofing Asphalt, petroleum, for joint filler (squeegee or pouring method) type PAF-1-25

Asphalt plastic cement..

Asphalt prepared roofing.. .' Asphalt prepared roofing and shingles, slate -sur- faced Asphalt primer for roofing and waterproofing Asphalt-saturated rag felt for flashings Asphalt-saturated rag felt for roofing and waterproofing -. Asphalt-saturated woven cotton fabric for waterproofing Asphalt varnish Bags, ice, helmet shaped

Bags, ice, rubber

Bags, Politzer Bandage, gauze, compressed

Bandage, plain gauze roller, assorted. Bandage, plaster of Paris Bandages, rubber Bands, rubber

Bars, concrete reinforcement. Bases, cutout Bed, general service Bed, hospital, standard Bed, surgical

Belting, leather , Bituminous built-up roofing, surfacing materials

for Board, gypsum plaster Board, gypsum wall

Bottle, hot-water, cloth-inserted

Bottles, hot-water, rubber

Brass castings, naval and commercial

Brass castings to be brazed

Brass pipe, seamless, iron pipe size, standard and

extra strong Brass rods, bars, shapes, plates, sheets and strips, commercial

Brick, clay, fire Bronze, aluminum, ingots (for remelting). Bronze castings Bronze castings, aluminum

Bronze castings, manganese

Bronze ingots (for remelting) Bronze, manganese, ingots (for remelting). Broom, rattan push , Broom, rattan (upright).. Broom, scrubbing. Broom, wire push

Brooms, corn Brooms, whisk.

Brush, blacking and dauber.

Brush, calcimine

387

173 134

Bureau

of Standards

Circular number

215a C247

83 103a C238

94a C24S

87a C242

54

21186a 5J241 95

84 C16B

88 C168

276a

85 C1C0

277 330

214 C192

298

87 C182

295 C283

bo

294

19 C104

218 C228

217 C227

218

298

C222

299 300

21964a C219

350

65

185

186 18737 C148

82 C158

285 C23.Q 284 C21I

220a C249

221a C248

272

286

S42

392

268 C298

17S 172 399

870 290

89 204

205

208

207 833 832

191 386

Commodity

Federal

Specifi- cations Board number

Brush,casting Brush, clothes-scrubbing Brush, cuspidor Brush, dauber, long paddle. Brush, deck-scrubbing Brush, dust, ceiling and wall. Brush, fiber, garage Erush, flat fitch.. Brush, floor-scrubbing, hand.. Brush, glue, flat Brush, glue, round

Brush, hair, military Brush, hand scrub, white tampico. Brush, lacquering, fiat, camel hair. Brush, marking

Brush, mottling, camel hair. Brush, radiator-dusting Brush, sash tool, oval Brush, shaving Brush, sidewalk.. Brush, tocth Brush, window

Builders' hardware (price, 15 cents) Cabinets, insulated safes and

Cabinets and furniture, steel, office seotional. Cabinets and trays, office, sectional furniture (wood)

Cables, wires and, rubber covered, for ordinary purposes.. „ . Cccao products, coijee, tea Calendar stands and pads— _ Canvas cot, folding Castings, bronze, aluminum

Castings, bronze, manganese

Castings, iron, malleable

Catgut ligatures, boilable (surgical catgut suture

material) Catheters, rubber

Cells, dry Cement, asphalt plastic Cement, Portland (price, 15 cents) Cement, rubber, for medical rubber goods

Cereals and cereal products Chain and attachments, miscellaneous standard. Chain, ship

Chairs, office Cheesecloth, bleached or seniibleached Cheesecloth remnants for wiping purposes

Cheesecloth, unbleached

Cheesecloth for wiping purposes Chimneys, lamp, and glass lantern globes Chinaware, vitrified Chrome, ferro Chrome ore, ground

Clay brick, fire - C!ay, fire Clay, plastic, fire, refractories.... Cloth, abrasive, aluminum oxide

Cloth, emery

Cloth, mercerized cotton airplane, grade A

Cloths, wiping

Coal-tar pitch for roofing Coal-tar pitch for waterproofing and damp proofing. Coal-tar saturated rag felt for roofing and waterproofing

Coffee, tea, and cacao products Compound, rust-preventive, heavy Compounds, rust-preventive, medium, and light. Condenser tubes, and tubes for ferrule stock (Admiralty metal) Condiments

Conduit, rigid, enameled

Copper gaskets, asbestos, corrugated Copper, ingot

192

188 194

195 196 887

398

899

197 402

401

198 407

403 404

405

199 406

200

201 202

203 386 (3376 60 /AO

85965

161 866 240

869

870

378 857

222 3226 58 3139 880 CSS

223

317 848

171a 253a D257 844 252a C268

251a C255

122 243

139 C202

125 268 C299

834 C298

335 C297

887

388 358a C270

260 C267

80 C167

88 C155

81 C156

161 239 C200

298 C214

874 364

Sll93

180 (1)
2

Commodity

Federal

Specifications Board number

Copper, phosphor

Copper pipe, seamless, and tubing, copper, seamless, standard iron pipe size Copper, silicon . Cork, compressed (cork board)

Cork, ground, for insulating purposes

Cot, folding, canvas..

Cot, hospital, folding.

Cot, liberty, steel

Cots, rubber finger...

Cotton, absorbent

Cotton airplane cloth, mercerized, grade A

Cotton duck, numbered

Cotton fabric for waterproofing, asphalt saturated woven

Cotton pillowcases, bleached

Cotton rags, colored, for wiping machinery (steri- lized) _. Cotton rags, white, for wiping machinery (steri- lized) Cotton sheeting, bleached wide

Cotton sheeting, brown

Cotton sheeting, brown wide

Cotton sheets, bleached (medium and high count

sheeting) Cotton waste, colored ' Cotton waste, white

Cups, sponge and pin

Cushions, ring, cloth inserted Cushions, ring, rubber

Cyanide, sodium (for use as an insecticide in fumigation) Dairy products Dam, rubber Damp proofing, asphalt for waterproofing and Damp proofing, coal-tar pitch for waterproofing and

Denim, blue, indigo (shrunk)

Deaiin, blue, indigo (unshrunk) Denim, brown (shrunk) J. Denim, brown (unshrunk)

Dental amalgam alloy Desks

Dredging sleeves

Drier, paint, liquid Dry cells Duck, cotton, numbered.

Duck, light weight (Army duck, gray) , Duck, tent (special construction for bleaching or dyeing, gray) Duster, counter

Electric lamps, large tungsten filament incan- descent Emery cloth Enamel, red, water resisting EosinY(C. I. Kb. 763) Ether, petroleum

Extinguisher, fire, hand chemical (carbon tetra- chloride), 1 quart

Extinguishers, fire, hand chemical (soda-and-acid

type)

Fabric, cotton, for waterproofing, asphalt saturated woven..

Fasteners, paper, brass _ Feeds and forage

Felt, asphalt saturated rag, for roofing and waterproofing

Felt, coal-tar saturated rag, for roofing and waterproofing

Felt, hair

Felt, rag, for flashings, asphalt saturated Ferrochrome Feiromanganese

Ferromolyb denum

Ferrosilicon : Ferrotitanium

Ferrovanadium

Ferrule stock, tubes for, and condenser tubes

(Admiralty metal)

118 287

119 837 S38 240

168

190

258a

53 294

S05

259

201 308

301 302

304 263a

262a

388 226a

227a

355

381 228

8588 258a

257a

254a

255a

S5842

20

685S

159 180

208a

23

388

88

S18 310

124 213

294

37725b

81 153 295

139 133 143

145

144

135 374

Bureau

of Stand- ards

Circular number

C27C

C136

C277

C261 C284

C273 C273

C278 C274

C263

C262

C254

C248

C21S

C160

C155

C285 C266

C258

C259

C105

C138

C138 C168

C167

C13

C146

C161

C158

C286

Commodity

Filler, joint, petroleum asphalt for (squeegee or pouring method) type PAF-1-25

Finger cots, rubber

Fire extinguisher, hand chemical (carbon tetra- chloride), 1 quart

Fire extinguishers, hand chemical (soda-and-acid

type)

Fire extinguishing liquid (carbon tetrachloride base) _

Flax packing

Flint paper

Fluoride, sodium (insecticide). Foods (see Provisions) Forage, feeds and

Frame, Catch, adjustable spring bottom , Fruits (fresh, canned, and dried) and fruit products

Fuels, liquid, lubricants, and methods for testing

(price, 15 cents) Furniture, office, sectional cabinets (steel) Furniture, office, sectional, cabinets and trays (wood)

Fuses, nonreflllable cartridge inclosed Fuses, plug, nonrenewable

Fuses, renewable cartridge inclosed Garnet paper

Gaskets, asbestos-copper, corrugated... Gaskets, asbestos metallic cloth Gaskets, rubber packings and (molded, sheet, and

strip) Gauze bandage, compressed

Gauze, plain Gauze, roller bandage, plain, assorted.

Glass, flat, for glazing purposes

Glass tableware

Glass lantern globes and lamp chimneys

Globes, glass, lantern, and lamp chimneys

Gloves, rubber, for electrical workers (for use in connection with apparatus or circuits not exceeding 8,0G0 volts to ground)

Gloves, rubber, surgeons'. Gypsum, calcined Gypsum plaster Gypsum plaster board Gypsum wall board. Hair felt Hardware, builders' (price, 15 cents) Hose, air brake and signal, and gaskets. Hose, chemical

Hose, divers Eose, fire, cotton rubber lined (couplings and gaskets) Eose, gas Ho3e, gasoline, rubber-metal

Hose, oil suction and discharge _

Hose, pneumatic (a) hose, rock drill: (b) hose, pneumatic tool Hose, spray

Hose, steam

Hose, tender (corrugated) Hose, water suction (smooth bore)

Hose, water and wash deck

Hosiery, sizes, measuring

Ice bag, helmet shaped

Ice bags, rubber.

Ink, black waterproof drawing

Ink, drawing, colored waterproof... Ink, indelible marking, for fabrics. Ink, record and copying

Ink, red

Ink, stamp-pad

Ink, writing

Insect powder (pyrethrum powder).

Insecticide in fumigation—sodium cyanide.

Insecticide—sodium fluoride Iron bar, wrought, refined Iron boiler tubes, lap welded, charcoal.. .. Iron castings, gray

Federal

Speci

flcatfcmi Board number

224 C228

124

21336a C124

101a C239

385 35425b

189 2702c 0)

403

359

56 346

176 383

9397a C242 Ula

298

C235

289 299

123 C134

121 122

122

312 C271

229 C217

248 C206

247 C205

285 C210

284

158

SSfi C275

434744b

38b C114

40b

loca 63b

41b

4549b C263 48b

50a

48b

92

216 C228

217 C227

265 C196

379 C301

236a C197

163 C182

165 C184

166 C185

184 C18S

353

355 354

391 349

141 Bureau of Mines Technical Paper Ho. 823A
3

Commodity

Federal

Specifications Board number

Iron castings, high test gray (semisteel). Iron castings, malleable

Iron, pig, foundry

Iron, unions, malleable, or steel Iron and steel, welding wire lamps, electric, large tungsten filament incandescent lead, pig lead, red, dry and paste Lead, sheet lead-tin solder Lead, white, basic carbonate, dry and paste- Lead, white, basic sulphate, dry and paste.. Leather belting Leather, lace Leather, sole. Leather, upholstery

Ligatures, catgut, boilable (surgical catgut suture

material). Lime, hydrated, for structural purposes Lime (quick), for structural purposes Linoleum, battleship Linoleum, plain, inlaid, and printed

Liquid,, fire extinguishing (carbon tetrachloride base) Lithopone paint, flat interior, white and light tints .. Lithopone paint, gloss interior, white and light tints. Lubricants and liquid fuels, and methods for testing

(price, 15 cents) Lumber (grading and inspection rules) Magnesia asbestos plaster Magnesia molded pipe covering and blocks. Manganese bronze castings Manganese bronze ingots (for remelting)... Manganese, ferro Manganese ore ^ Matting, rubber

Matting.rubber.foruse around electrical apparatus

or circuits not exceeding 3,000 volts to ground Measuring devices, liquid, retail type Meat and meat food products

Metals, general specifications for. Millboard, asbestos. Molybdenum (ferro) Nickel, for remelting Nickel steel, structural Ocher, dry and paste

Oil, cottonseed (edible grade)

Oil, linseed, raw, refined and boiled.

Oil, olive (edible grade) __

Oil, road, for hot application (type OE-1-25).

Ore, chrome, ground

Ore, manganese

Oxide, leaded zinc, dry and paste. Oxide, zinc, dry and paste Packing, asbestos high pressure rod..

Packing, asbestos metallic cloth sheet. Packing, asbestos sheet, compressed..

Packing, asbestos valve stem

Packing, diaphragm

Packing, fabric condenser tube

Packing, fiber, for lubricating and fuel oil. Packing, flax Packing, low-pressure spiral gland

Packing, metallic (fixed ring type) Packing, metallic, flexible Packing, metallic, plastic ..._•.„ Packing, semimetallic Packing, metallic, solid (floating ring type) Packing rings for boiler blow-off valves , Packing, rubber, cloth insertion ^ Packing, rubber, wire insertion Packing, rubber, and gaskets (molded, sheet, and

strip) , Packing, Tucks ^ Padlocks Pads, surgical operating

Paint, black, semipaste and ready mixed..;

i Bureau of Mines Technical Paper No, 823A

140 378

123 S93

174

11?

11

313

5887 184

241

183 S57 243

250

209

21036a

21672c 24

211

212

370

89 138

142 382 414

267

339

54

143 371 372

12734

77

275

125

142

103a 94a

S5

100 101a

104a

105 102 100

107

108

109 110a

112a

111a

118a 418 230a

14

Bureau

of Standards

Circular number

C13 CD0

C84

C85 C148

C213

C198 C212

C204

C201

C191 C190 C134 cm

C147

0)

C91 C82

C88

C87

C238

C248 C241 C240

C239

C237

C236

C234

C235 C233

C245 C94

Commodity

Paint drier, liquid

Paint, green, semipaste and ready mixed

Paint, lithopone, flat interior, white and light tints.. Paint, lithopone, gloss interioff, white and light tints. Paint, olive drab (semipaste and ready mixed)

Paints, iron oxide and iron hydroxide

Paint, outside white titanium-zinc (semipaste and

ready mixed)

Paints, thinning, volatile mineral spirits for Paints, thinning semipaste, when the use of straight linseed oil is not justified Paint, white, and tinted paints made on a white

base, semipaste and ready mixed

Paper, blotting, 25 per cent rag, white and colored.. Paper, blotting, desk, colored *.. Paper, blotting, white and colored. Paper, blue print, No. 1 grade (sensitized and unsensitized) Paper, blue print, No. 2 grade (sensitized and unsensitized). Paper, blue print, No. 3 grade (sensitized and unsensitized) Paper, bond, 50 per cent rag, white and colored Paper, bond, 100 per cent rag, white and colored Paper, bond, sulphite, white and colored Paper, brown process (sensitized and unsensitized). Paper, chart Paper fasteners, brass Paper, flint Paper, garnet ^ "... Paper, general specifications for Paper, ledger, 75 per cent rag, white f Paper, ledger, 100 per cent rag, heavy, white

Paper, ledger, 100 per cent rag, white

Paper, manifold, 50 per cent rag, white and colored.

Paper, manifold, 100 per cent rag, white and colored. Paper, map, lithograph-finish Paper, map, 50 per cent rag, lithograph-finish Paper, map, 75 per cent rag, lithograph-finish....... Paper, mimeograph

Paper, mimeograph,-50 per cent rag Paper, wrapping, kraft Paper, wrapping, rope manila

Paper, wrapping, sulphite manila

Paper, wrapping, wood manila... Paper, writing, sulphite, white and colored

Paste, office and library Paste, polishing Pavement construction, asphalt for use in road and. Petroleum asphalt for joint filler (squeegee or pouring method) type PAF-1-25

Petroleum ether Phosphor copper Phosphor tin Pigment, titanium, dry and paste

Pillowcases, cotton, bleached

Pillowcases, rubber

Pillows, air, rubber

Pipe, brass, seamless, iron pipe size, standard and

extra strong Pipe, cast iron, soil, and fittings, coated and ancoated

Pipe, copper, seamless, and tubing, copper, seamless, standard iron pipe size Pipe covering and blocks, magnesia molded

Pipe threads.

Pipe, welded steel (black and galvanized) Pipe, wrought iron (welded) (black and galvanized)

Plaster board, gypsum

Plaster, gypsum

Plaster, magnesia asbestos _ Polish, liquid metal

Polish, silver Polishing paste Portland cement (price, 15 cents) Powder, insect (pyrethrum powder) Powder, soap

Preservatives, wood, and processes of treatment, --

Federal

Specifications Board number
4

Commodity

Federal Speci

fications Board number

Provisions: Cereals and cereal products

Coffee, tea, and cacao products Condiments - Dairy products

Fruits (fresh, canned, and dried) and fruit products : Meat and meat food products Miscellaneous provisions Sea food (fresh, salt, smoked, and canned) Sugar and sugar products Vegetables (fresh, canned and dried) Putty Pyrethrum powder (insect powder)

Quicklime for structural purposes

Eadio receiving electron tubes _._ lag felt for flashings, asphalt saturated Sags, colored cotton, for wiping machinery (ster- ilized) : Sags, white cotton, for wiping machinery (ster- ilized) Bed lead, dry and paste

Refractories, plastic fire-clay. Refrigerators... 1 j Ribbons, computing and recording machine

Ribbons, hectograph „ Ribbons, typewriter ling cushions, cloth-inserted Ring cushons, rubber

Rings, rubber jar Road oil for hot application (type QK-1-25) Road and pavement construction, asphalt for use in Sods, weldiag, ncaferrcus, for g&a welding

Roofing, asphalt for mineral surfaced

Roofing, asphalt prepared

Roofing, asphalt primer for, and waterproofing

Roofing, asphalt saturated rag felt for, and waterproofing

Roofing, asphalt for unsurfaced built-up

Roofing, coal-tar pitch for Roofing, coal-tar saturated rag felt for, and waterproofing

Roofing, construction of built-up, type SACS , Roofing, construction of built-up, type 3TCS

Roofing, construction of built-up, type 4ACS

Roofing, construction of built-up, type 4AWS

Roofing, construction of built-up, type 4TCS

Roofing, construction of built-up, type 4TWS

Roofing, construction of built-up, type 5ACS

Roofing, construction of built-up, type SAWS

Roofing, construction of built-up, type 6TCS

Roofing, construction of built-up, type 5TWS , Roofing, installation of metal flashings with built- up bituminous

Roofing, installation of plastic flashings with built- up....

Roofing and shingles, asphalt prepared, slate-sur- faced

Roofing, surfacing materials for bituminous built- up

Rope, manila „, , Rope, wire (price, 15 cents). Rubber aprons, surgeons'... Rubber bandages Rubber bands Rubber catheters.... Rubber cement for medical rubber goods , Rubber covered wires and cables for ordinary purposes Rubber dam _ Rubber finger cots Rubber gloves for electrical workers (for use in connection with apparatus or circuits not exceeding 3,000 volts to ground) Rubber gloves, surgeons' Rubber goods, general specifications for (methods

of physical testa and chemical analyses (price, 10 cents) Rubber hose, metal gasoline Rubber hot-water bottleo.,

817

181 384

881 270

267

889

365

315

271

353 250

410

Bureau

of Standards

Circular number

C216

C201 C286

259 C961

261

11 C264 C80

835 274 C297

169 168

167

C188

C187 C186

228a 227a

51

C254

C248

275 276a

26984 214

87

C159 C182

C182

88 C161

8880 C168 C157

81 148 C156 C172

151 149 146

152

154

C175 C173

C170

C176

C178

150

147 153

155

C174

C171 C177 C179

156 C180

157 298

C181

82 C158

61 297 215a

21964a

208 C247

C219

222 223 C225

65 228 C218

224 C226

312

229 C271

C217

69a

136a 22U

C232

C269

C248

Commodity

Rubber ice bags Rubber jar rings Rubber-lined fire hose, cotton (couplings and gaskets) Rubber matting Rubber matting, for use around electrical apparatus

or circuits not exceeding 3,000 volts to ground Rubber packing, cloth-insertion ; Rubber packing, wire-insertion Rubber packings and gaskets (molded, sheet, and

strip) Rubber pillowcases... Rubber pillows, air... Rubber ring cushions. Rubber sheeting Rubber stoppers Rubber syringe, fountain. Rubber tape, insulating.., Rubber tips for crutches.

.

Rubber tubing Rubber valves Rulers

Rust-preventive compound, heavy

Rust-preventive compounds, medium and light Safes, burglar-resisting

Safes and cabinets, insulated

Scales, railroad-track.

Scissors, shears and

Screws, wood

Sea food (fresh, salt, smoked, and canned) Seams, stitche3 and stitching (price, 20 cents) Shades, window, shade cloth, rollers, slats, and

cords Shears and scissors Sheeting, cotton, bleached wide

Sheeting, cotton, brown

Sheeting, cotton, brown wide

Sheeting, rubber

Sheets, cotton, bleached (medium and high count

sheeting) , Shellac, flake orange

Shellac varnish

Shingles, roofing, and asphalt, prepared, slate- surfaced

Silicon copper

Silicon, ferro Silver solder

Sizes of hosiery, measuring

Slate-surfaced, asphalt prepared roofing and

shingles r Sleeves, dredging

Soap, automobile

Soap, chip , Soap, grit, cake

Soap, grit, hand

Soap, laundry, ordinary

Soap, liquid Soap, liquid (for laundry use). Soap powder

Soap, powdered (for laundry use)

Soap, salt-water r Soap, scouring compound, scouring compounds

for floors Soap, toilet, milled

Soap, white, floating (for toilet use) Sodium cyanide (for use as an insecticide in fumigation) Sodium fluoride (insecticide) Solder, silver - Solder, spelter (for brazing)

Solder, tin-lead Spelter solder (for brazing)

Spelter (zinc slab) Spiegeleisen _ Spring bottom, adjustable (Gatch frame)

Steel blooms, billets, slabs, and bars for reforging, carbon and alloy Steel castings .. Steel (semi), high-test gray iron castings

Steel, structural, for bridges

Federal

Specifications Board number

217

5138b

382

414

110a

112a

111a

231 232a

227a 233a

383 235a

2D2

22539b

114a

360

239

293 363

60 314

381

52 365 384 367

S61

303 301 802 233a

304

875 378

119 145 307

92

29642SO

31S3

3582

27 246

245

34 244

26

355 354

807

306

SIS

306

91 273

S18

170 140 S61

Bureau

of Stand- ards

Circular number
5

Commodity

Federal

Specifications Board number

Steel, structural, for buildings..

Steel, structural, for cars

Steel, structural nickel..

Steel unions, malleable, or iron.

Steel welding wire, iron and...

Sterilizers, dressing containers and stands, port- able lockers for use in conjunction with sterilizers, electric heaters, and steam sterilizing apparatus.

Stitches, seams, and stitching (price, 20 cents) Stoppers, rubber

Sugar and sugar products Sweep, floor, hair Switches, knife Switches, snap

Syringe, cloth-inserted fountain. Syringe, rubber fountain Tableware, glass Tableware, silver-plated Tape, friction Tape , rubber-insulating ... Tar, coal, pitch for roofing. Tar, coai, pitch for waterproofing and damp proof- ing

Tar, coal, saturated rag felt for roofing and waterproofing Tar, refined, for construction

Tar, refined, for hot application (type TH-1-25)... Tar for use in repair work

Tars for cold application... Tea, coffee, and cacao products.. Tent duck (special construction for bleaching or dyeing, gray)

Textile materials, general specifications (methods of physical and chemical tests) Thermometers, clinical Threads, pipe

Tin-lead solder

for

Tin, phosphor

Tin, pig Tips for crutches, rubber..

Tires, pneumatic, solid, and inner tubes. Titanium, ferro Titanium pigment, dry and paste. ^ Titanium-zinc paint, outside white (semipaste and

ready mixed)

Trays, office, sectional furniture, cabinets, and

Tube, colon.

852

373

872

393

174

68a S84

388

315 400

17562 234a 235a

121 411

291 29280

280

281

279

161

160

345

313

11890 2253b

144

115

359 236

Bureau

of Stand- ards

Circular number

C283

C250

C251

C2?,9 C2S0

C157

C155 C158

C167

C293

C22S

C115

C163

C215

C221

Commodity

Federal

Specifications Board number

Tube, stomach or lavage Tubes, boiler, iron, lap welded charcoal Tubes, boiler, lap welded and seamless steel. Tubes, condenser, and tubes for ferrule stock (Admiralty metal) Tubes, inner, pneumatic, solid tires and

Tubes, radio receiving, electron Tubing, copper, seamless, and pipe, copper, seamless, standard iron pipe size Tubing, flexible, nonmetallic Tubing, rubber

Turpentine (gum spirits and wood turpentine). Unions, malleable iron or steel Valves, rubber.

Vanadium, ferro. Varnish, asphalt. Varnish, interior. Varnish, shellac Varnish, spar, water resisting Vegetables (fresh, canned and dried).

Vitrified chinaware

Wall board, gypsum _ Waste, cotton, colored ., Waste, cotton, white..

Waste, wool, colored Waterproofng, asphalt for, and dampprcofing...

Waterproofing, asphalt primer for roofing and

Waterproofing, asphalt saturated rag felt for roofing and

Waterproofing, coal-tar pitch for, and damp proof- ing Waterproofing, coal-tar saturated rag felt for roofing and..

Welding rods, nonferrous for gas welding. _ Wire rope (price, 15 cents) Wire, welding, iron and steel Wires and cables, rubber covered, for ordinary purposes Wood preservatives, and processes of treatment... Wool waste, colored Zinc oxide, dry and paste Zinc oxide, leaded, dry and paste Zinc paint, titanium, outside white (semipaste and

ready mixed)

Zinc slab (spelter)

287 C220

349

347

8743b C115

410

287

5739b

fi l/OO 393

114a C244

135

19 C104

22 C117

376 C30S

13 C103

ail 243 C202

284 C211

263a

262a C262

264a C230

85 C160

87 C162

86 C161

83 C155

81 269 ClOD

297 C208

17465 895 264a C280

89 C87

C88

278 215

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A DIRECTORY OF SPECIFICATIONS

Considerable economy can be realized in the purchase of commodities by the use of specifications. Real competitive bidding can be invited, and the delivery of satisfactory material can be insisted upon. To an ever-increasing extent State and city governments, public utilities, and the better organized industries

of the country are adopting the use of specifications, which has been a feature of Federal Government

purchasing for many years. Information regarding the best known specifications for more than 6,000 commodities is given in convenient form in the National Directory of Commodity Specifications, which has been issued by the Bureau of Standards with the cooperation of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Depart- ment of Commerce. The book tells not only what specifications are in general use, but also by whom

they were prepared and where copies can be obtained. In it are conveniently indexed for ready finding about 27,000 specifications prepared by the Federal Specifications Board and the separate departments

of the Federal Government, by State and city purchasing agents, public utilities, technical societies, and

trade associations. At the request of Secretary Hoover an advisory board was selected by these interests

to represent them in supervising the preparation of the Directory.

The contents include: A statement and indorsement by the advisory board, a foreword by Secretary

Hoover, a thoroughly classified list of specifications for all types of commodities. There are also included an alphabetical list of commodities, which serves as an index to the specifications, and directions for obtaining copies of specifications listed in the Directory.

Summary of commodities and specifications therefor

Decimal

class

000

100 200

300

400

500

600 700

800

900

Commodity groups I Commodities

! indexed

Animal and animal products

Vegetable food products, oil, seeds, expressed

oil, and beverages

Other vegetable products (except fibers and

wood)

Textiles Wood and paper

Nonmetallic minerals

Ores, metals, and manufactures (except machinery and vehicles)

Machinery and vehicles Chemicals and allied products

Miscellaneous. Total

350

525

400

275

625 725

700

800

600

650

6, 650

Approximate number of specifications

1, 600

2, 100 800

1,900

3, 300

3, 300

6, 400

2, 900

2, 400

2, 400

27, 100

Whether you are a producer or a consumer, a seller or a buyer of commodities; whether you are inter- ested in the preparation or in the use of specifications, the Directory contains for you information which

you can not afford to do without. It is printed in small, but legible type, and thus the number of pages

has been kept at the minimum, 385, without sacrificing the usefulness of the Directory. It is bound in

cloth.The cost of printing and binding the book at the Government Printing Office is $1.25.

DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING THE DIRECTORY OF SPECIFICATIONS

Copies of the National Directory of Commodity Specifications may be obtained from the Superin- tendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, by sending with the order a remit- tance either in the form of post-office money order, coupons (issued for the specific purpose of purchasing

Government publications), express money order, New York draft, or cash—at the sender's own risk. It is important to follow these directions explicitly to avoid delay and confusion. If the Directory is to be shipped to a foreign country (other than Mexico and CanadaK add one-third to the price, making the

total $1.67.