Bucket

This article is about the physical container. For other uses, see Bucket (disambiguation).

A yellow bucket

A bucket, also called a pail, 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. A pail can have an open top or can have a lid.

Buckets come in various sizes (e.g. 5, 10, 15 litres, 5, 10 US gallons) and materials (e.g. metal and polyethylene). The handle can be made of metal or plastic handle.

Types and uses

There are many types of pails and buckets;

• 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.
• Farm chemicals often come in pails and buckets and can be reused for many farm tasks
• Large scoops or buckets are attached to Loader (equipment) and Telehandler for agricultural and earthmoving purposes.
• Open headed and closed headed pails are used as shipping containers for chemicals and industrial products
• A Lunch box is often called a lunch pail
• Food containers

Bucket drumming is where a person drums on five gallon plastic buckets.[1]

Buckets can be recycled into items such as seats, tool caddies, hydroponic gardens, chamberpots, "street" drums, livestock feeders.

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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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  A mop bucket with a wringer.

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  An excavator bucket.

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  A helicopter 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

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]

See also

• Bobrinski Bucket
• Mop
• Pail (container)

References

1. ^ "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. 

1. Earth Day 2008 article, Fredericksburg, VA, Free Lance-Star Newspaper[2]
2. Warning[3]

External links

Articles on 5 gallon bucket as Americana

• "Passing the Bucket: How the five-gallon plastic bucket came to the aid of grassroots environmentalists" by Michelle Nijhuis
• "Five-gallon farm collectibles" by Jennifer M. Latzke
• "How To Bucket Drum"