A milking apparatus is described in which air is periodically introduced into the milking cups for the purpose of teat care and improved milk removal and in which a mutual separation of the udder quarters is effected in the collection chamber via a non-return valve arrangement to avoid back spray and reverse flow.

The milking tube section for a milking inflation is provided with a plurality of axially spaced, circumferentially extending grooves which define segments having opposed edges and which are dimensioned to permit relative movement of the sides of adjacent segments and afford a predetermined degree of bending movement of one segment relative to the adjacent segment in one direction without causing a substantial reduction in the internal cross sectional area of the flow passage through the stem por...

The milking tube section of a milking inflation includes an elongated stem portion having a claw end portion which has an upper end located above the outer end of a milker claw nipple when installed thereon. The stem portion has a circumferentially extending, generally V-shaped groove at a location near the lower end of a teat cup shell in which the inflation is installed and/or at a location adjacent the upper end of the claw end portion. These grooves are arranged to permit substantial relativ...

A milking inflation or liner of the soft tubular rubber kind arranged for fitment in a rigid tubular teat cup shell to which pulsating air/vacuum is applied, the invention comprising the provision at the head or mouth end part of the inflation of a flexible resilient teat engaging collar having an inner annular part defining the inflation mouth in the form of a depending flange shaped to provide an inner inverted frusto-conical face at least part of which constitutes a main vacuum seal when enga...

A milker for lactiferous animals particularly in situations where the milk is to be transported a considerable distance or against a considerably hudraulic head in which a variable vacuum chamber is connected to a pulsator for causing pressure variations, a constant vacuum chamber is connected to means for producing a vacuum, a flexible diaphragm separates the variable vacuum chamber from the constant vacuum chamber, and an annular partition provides a passage between the constant vacuum chamber...

A milking apparatus includes a bottle for storing drawn mother's milk, a milking section to be pressed against the mother's breast, and a suction portion including a suction generating section, for generating a suction in the bottle, and a pressure adjusting mechanism for adjusting the amount of suction. The pressure adjusting mechanism and the suction generating section include an attaching body formed with an open-air introducing hole, a compression coil spring, a valve rod having a tapered su...

A milking machine detects a flow rate of milk during milking and integrates by a completion timer the time when the detected flow rate is smaller than a reference flow rate near an end of the milking, the integrated time being displayed graphically. The reference flow rate is corrected by a specific resistance of milk. The specific resistance is obtained by selecting a minimum resistance value from resistance values of milk which are actually measured during a predetermined time interval startin...

In a machine for milking cattle the teat cups are supported in a structure (2,3) movable horizontally towards and away from the animal to be milked, the teat cups being suspended by pivoting arms (15) so as to be swingable to move between the hind legs of the animal between a milking position and a retracted position. The arms 15 have horizontal pivoting axes at an angle to the longitudinal direction of the animal. This permits the teat cups to move between these two positions at a horizontal an...

Machine for milking animals, comprising a mobile carrier for taking a number of teat cups under an udder, the common carrier being a narrow oblong element carried by a supporting structure supported on the fixed surrounding area, and bearing on both sides one or more carriages which are movable along it independently of each other, each carriage carrying a teat cup and being able to move the teat cup from and to the carrier and up and down. Preferably the common carrier is connected to the suppo...

A milking equipment is formed with an electric suction section, a milk sucking section equipped with an open trumpet at its side, and a bottle connected vertically to each other in a manner to effect vertical communication among them. The electric suction section is equipped with a pressure adjusting screw and a pressure releasing button which can freely adjust the internal pressure by intaking the air. The operation of the pressure adjusting unit is easily attained only by holding the equipment...