Milk meter for measuring the total amount of milk from a cow in the course of a milking

In a milk meter for milking installations, for the direct measurment of the amount of milk given by a cow during milking, having a separating chamber including a floor, a roof and an outside wall, means for creating a partial vacuum in the separating chamber to effect the separation of the air from the milked milk-air mixture, a measuring chamber, means providing fluid communication between the measuring chamber and the separating chamber including a permanently open inlet aperture in the measuring chamber, two sensors situated at different levels, one above the other, in the measuring chamber for effecting discrete quantity measurements while milk is constantly being fed to the separating chamber, an outlet opening in the separating chamber adjacent the floor thereof and an actuatable valve for opening and closing the outlet opening, the improvement wherein:

• the inlet aperture of the measuring chamber is disposed adjacent the floor of the separating chamber and the fluid communication means comprises means forming a weir extending from the floor of the separating chamber upwardly into the separating chamber with the upper edge thereof disposed at a higher level than the inlet aperture, terminating at the outside wall of the separating chamber and having means defining at least one drain hole therethrough.