MILKING UNIT Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: agricultural engineering, in particular, mechanized milking of cows.

SUBSTANCE: milking unit has milk claw comprised of four chambers equipped with vacuum restricting device and consisting of upper control chamber and working chamber, said chambers being separated by flexible membranes with conical protrusion. Control chambers are separated from pulsator branch pipes by conical valves provided with gauged cylindrical apertures formed therein. Second part of collector includes milk collecting chamber with valve and milk discharge branch pipe. Pneumatic valves are mounted on casing of single-chamber teat cups and are made in the form of variable vacuum chamber connected to pulsator branch pipe and variable atmospheric pressure chamber connected with milk branch pipe of teat cup, said chambers being separated from one another by flexible membrane. Variable atmospheric pressure chamber is equipped with valve connected through stem to flexible membrane.

EFFECT: increased efficiency in cow milking.

2 cl, 7 dwg