Abstract:
The invention relates to a conduit for transferring milk. The conduit is provided with at least one flexible wall, which divides the conduit into at least one milk duct and at least one secondary duct. The milk duct and the at least one secondary duct extend along a longitudinal axis of the conduit, it being possible for the at least one milk duct to be substantially emptied by pressing through filling the at least one secondary duct.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to preparing dairy animal teats for being milked, and more particularly to teat preparation, rinsing, and milking that all take place in a milking machine teat cup liner. Such a method includes: applying a teat sanitizer to the teat; injecting air into the liner to force the teat sanitizer toward a waste milk line connected to the liner; pulsating the liner at a first pulsation rate; drawing a rinsing milk from the teat; directing the teat sanitizer, the air, and the rinsing fluid to the waste milk line; pulsating the liner at a second pulsation rate to draw additional milk from the teat; and directing the additional milk to a good milk line.
Abstract:
According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided an improved fluid treatment system, including a low-pressure source, where the low-pressure source imparts a low pressure to at least part of the internal volume of the improved fluid treatment system, and at least one fluid inlet (5), and a primary chamber (2), wherein the primary chamber (2) contains at least one baffle (7) adapted to control the flowrate of fluid out of the primary chamber (2), and, a secondary chamber (3), wherein the secondary chamber (3) defines at least one inclined surface (4), and at least one fluid outlet (10), characterised in that, fluid entering from the fluid inlet (5) is pooled between the primary chamber (2) wall and the baffle (7) before flowing out of the primary chamber (2) past the baffle (7) to form a thin film laminar flow on at least part of the surface of the secondary chamber (3) to remove at least part of the gas entrained within the fluid.
Abstract:
A novel milk processing system is disclosed which generally comprises a mobile milk processing unit mounted on a motor vehicle and by which raw milk can be processed and discharged directly at the farm, for example. In the preferred disclosed structural embodiment, the mobile unit for processing raw milk directly at the location of a source of supply thereof comprises a movable vehicle which has disposed thereon a milk processing assembly including at least a pasteurizer, means for delivering raw milk to the pasteurizer and for discharging processed milk therefrom, means for circulating water as a heat transfer medium through the pasteurizer, and electrically operable temperature conditioning means for selectively heating and cooling the circulating water. The mobile unit further carries an electrical generator which, in the preferred inventive embodiment, is itself driven by the motor of the movable vehicle, or by an auxiliary motor the vehicle being contemplated to comprise a tractor/trailer combination. The electrical generator provides electric power for operating at least the milk processing assembly and the temperature conditioning means disposed on the vehicle. By so utilizing an electrical generator as the power source, marked savings in economy, size, and weight can be achieved over conventional steam-operated apparatus and related machinery, thus enabling production of a commercially feasible mobile milk processing system.
Abstract:
An apparatus for the treatment of fluid solutions with an electric field has a vessel for containing the fluids to be treated, the walls of said vessel being made of dielectric material, at least one system of electrodes inside the vessel and at least one system of counter-electrodes outside the vessel for producing electric fields of parallel lines of force and variable strength, to which electric field the fluids are exposed for treatment and purification.