Milking equipment

Abstract

Verschaft is a milking system with milk cups. The milk cup comprises a cup housing and a teat liner, which define a pulsation chamber and a teat chamber with a teat opening and a cup milk drain opening. The milk cup has a chamber for milk air separation, which extends downwards from the cup milk drain opening, and features a chamber milk supply opening and a chamber milk drain opening, as well as a separate chamber air drain opening above the chamber milk drain opening. The milking system furthermore has a milk collection vessel for the temporary storage of a single milking, with a vessel milk supply opening and from there a milk hose to the chamber milk drain opening, and with a vessel air drain opening, and a vacuum device for setting a pulsation vacuum VID at the pulsation chamber, a milk vacuum Vm at the chamber, and a transport vacuum vt at the milk collection vessel. In this case, V|D s Vm < Vt. Due to the milk air separation in the chamber, the milk vacuum is easily controllable.As a result, the pulsation vacuum can be selected smaller than or equal to the milk vacuum, preventing bulging and vacuum leaks at the teat liner.