Containers

Twenty nine values for 238 containers

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There are only twenty nine distinct capacities on this shelf Nine ounce values account for 201 of the 238 rows So the practical choice is much narrower than the row count suggests Which is the useful way to read a catalog of this kind The depth at eight and four ounces is where the shelf is strongest The one ounce end is surprisingly thin At the top the shelf stops at sixteen ounces Categories follow the same concentration And so do the neck finishes Availability is a snapshot and it is a large fraction References

Nine ounce values carry 201 rows. Twenty values carry the other 37.

There are only twenty nine distinct capacities on this shelf

Across 238 containers. Which means the shelf is not a continuum of sizes, it is nine common sizes with a scattering around them.

Nine ounce values account for 201 of the 238 rows

Two, three, four, six, eight, nine, twelve and sixteen ounces, plus one ounce. Everything else on the shelf is a single row or a pair.

So the practical choice is much narrower than the row count suggests

Two hundred and thirty eight containers, but a size decision between about nine options. The remaining choice is material, color, shape and closure rather than volume.

Which is the useful way to read a catalog of this kind

A long list of rows at one capacity is a list of variants. Counting rows overstates how much the shelf can do and counting distinct capacities understates it.

The depth at eight and four ounces is where the shelf is strongest

47 rows at eight ounces and 44 at four. For a bench collection of bits and discs those two sizes cover most of what is wanted and offer the widest choice of everything else.

The one ounce end is surprisingly thin

Four rows at one ounce and nine rows anywhere below 30 milliliters. Which means the smallest sorted sets are the least well served, and that is the opposite of what a bits-and-pieces shelf might be expected to look like.

At the top the shelf stops at sixteen ounces

31 rows at 473.176 milliliters, and nothing above 500. So a collection that outgrows a pint has to be split rather than moved up.

Categories follow the same concentration

204 jars, 21 bottles, 12 tubs and pails and one tube. A jar is a wide mouth relative to its body, which is the right geometry for reaching into, and it is 86 percent of the shelf.

And so do the neck finishes

56 rows at 89-400 and 56 at 70-400, then 36 at 58-400 and 16 at 53-400. Sixteen rows record no neck finish at all, which puts them outside any closure match.

Availability is a snapshot and it is a large fraction

149 of 238 containers were marked available when this was measured on 19 October 2026, 88 were not, and one is unrecorded. Which is a figure for one day and the page says which day on purpose.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. Of this group’s 238 containers, the recorded capacity string is in fluid ounces for 215, in milliliters for 21 and in cubic centimeters for 2. The milliliter figure stored alongside it is arithmetic performed on that string: 1 oz becomes 29.573 mL on 4 rows, 2 oz becomes 59.147 on 29, 3 oz becomes 88.721 on 8, 4 oz becomes 118.294 on 44, 6 oz becomes 177.441 on 17, 8 oz becomes 236.588 on 47, 9 oz becomes 266.161 on 6, 12 oz becomes 354.882 on 19 and 16 oz becomes 473.176 on 31, with single rows at 0.75, 1.25, 1.5, 2.2, 8.4, 8.9, 10, 14 and 14.5 ounces. The 23 rows recorded natively carry 15, 30, 50, 55, 75, 100, 125, 150, 200, 250 and 500 milliliters, one or two rows each. There are 29 distinct capacity values across the 238 containers.

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. 238 containers and 286 closures, a subset of the 251 and 288 that nine groups share identically. 204 jars, 21 bottles, 12 tubs and pails, 1 tube. 117 PET, 71 polypropylene, 50 glass. Nine colors, of which 88 are clear, 44 white, 30 amber, 24 black and 24 natural. Height 1.25 to 6.745 inches with a median of 2.60, recorded for 224 of 238; diameter 1.062 to 4.625 inches with a median of 2.87, recorded for 211. Neck finishes: 56 at 89-400, 56 at 70-400, 36 at 58-400, 16 at 53-400, 8 at 48-400 and 8 at 18DIN, with 16 recording none. Case packs 12 to 6,370 with a median of 280. Availability, a snapshot and not a promise: 149 of 238 marked available, 88 not, one unrecorded. These are outside dimensions.

Written from 29 CFR 1910.1200 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. That section is the Hazard Communication Standard and it governs the classification and labeling of hazardous chemicals in the workplace; it does not govern bits, blades, wheels or collets, and nothing here says it does. Nothing here determines whether any item is an article under paragraph (c), because that turns on a particular use. No container on this shelf is described as rated for any chemical, fluid or dust, and nothing here is guidance about handling a tool, about dust exposure, about ventilation or about protective equipment. This shelf is a subset of the store-small-dry shelf and the sewing notions property enumerates that shelf.