AT387686B - Milking equipment having a collection piece for connecting teat cups - Google Patents

Abstract

Milking equipment having a collection piece for connecting teat cups, which equipment can be exposed to a vacuum and which has a milk chamber and an outflow valve controlling the outflow of milk from this, the milk chamber being alternately connectable to the milking vacuum and the atmosphere by an atmosphere valve arrangement controlled by a level sensor, for example a float or two electrodes, disposed in the milk chamber, in which milk chamber the outflow valve is disposed in its bottom region, which valve, when the milk chamber is connected to atmosphere, releases the outflow, in which a separate milk inflow valve 7 is provided for each teat cup 31, opening countercyclically to the outflow valve 4, and each teat cup 31 has a separate buffer chamber 16 which serves to receive the milk when the milk inflow valve 7 is closed and is preferably disposed directly at the bottom end of the teat cup, and can be connected via a separate connection 19 of its interstitial annular space 22 in the milking cycle alternately to milking vacuum and atmosphere, and that above the milking chamber 1 a vacuum chamber 24 which is exposed constantly in a known manner to the milking vacuum, which vacuum chamber can be connected to the milk chamber 1 via the atmosphere valve arrangement which controls an orifice 10 connecting these chambers 1, 24. <IMAGE>