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US 6,546,893 B1Granted
Milking cup
OwnerFritz Happel, Werner Happelinventors
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Abstract
A teat cup comprising a liner having movable thin-wall portions which are adapted to be differently pressurized is disclosed.
Claims22
A teat cup comprising:
- a cup sleeve;
- and
- a liner having a teat receiving portion and a liner wall, inserted into the cup sleeve and forming an interior space which can be supplied with vacuum via a negative pressure source in a suction cycle, wherein one or two supporting faces of a closing to the vacuum inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of the liner are formed below the teat receiving portion of the liner, the supporting face being adapted to be closed at least partially by an opposite thin-wall portion of the liner wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.