Milk-claw for milking machines
AssigneeOrion Machinery Co., Ltd.
InventorsMinoru Matsuzawa, Shigetada Tsuchiya, Toshiyuki Okatani
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Abstract
A milk-claw for collecting milk sucked from cow's teats through teat cup liners and sending it to a vacuum milking machine, in which the horizontal sections of the collecting chamber in the milk-claw are formed polygonally to prevent the milk which flows into the milk collecting chamber through liner nipples from forming a whirlpool, and the vertical section of the collecting chamber is formed polygonally to prevent milk directed forcibly through a liner nipple into the milk collecting chamber from flowing backward through another liner nipple.
Claims5
A milk-claw for a milking machine, comprising:
- a housing having an inner surface bounding and enclosing a milk collecting chamber, said housing having an upper part and a lower part below said upper part;
- at least one liner nipple in said upper part, communicating with an upper end of said chamber;
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- a milk tube nipple in said lower part, communicating with a lower end of said chamber;
- said inner surface having a polygonally shaped vertical cross section, said inner surface having a polygonally shaped horizontal cross section so that said inner surface obstructs milk entering said chamber via said at least one liner nipple from forming a whirlpool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.