MILKING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 1994 - IPC

FIELD: agricultural engineering. SUBSTANCE: apparatus comprises teat cups, receiver with milk chamber divided into four parts, pulser with a working chamber for each quarter of the udder, milk meter accommodating milk traps fixed on partition. Said traps are made as paired cylinders with pistons and rods, circular magnets and drain holes. Displacement of drain chute is limited by stops. Floats are connected by rods with drain chutes. Depending on the position of the chute, milk is drained into one of cylinders 17. At a certain weight of milk the piston comes in contact with circular magnet and milk flows out through drain hole into a cavity, then into milk chamber and milk duct. EFFECT: improved design. 5 cl, 2 dwg