Babson Bros. Co.

Babson Brothers Company

Harold V Swanson

Duncan M Thompson

Lyle L Needham

Lawrence J Coombs

Don W Fitzpatrick

James W Kopec

A stall for a milking parlor having an elevated cow platform with an operator's floor along one side. The stall has a series of post assemblies to which longitudinal elements are secured. Each of the intermediate post assemblies has a pair of posts secured to the platform on the side remote from the operator's floor. A cantilever member has an arched portion extending from the laterally spaced posts across the cow platform to the side adjacent the operator's floor. A post portion extends downwardly with its lower end spaced above the cow platform affording the operator ready access to the cows.

Post assembly for a parlor stall

Milker

An independent quarter milker has four teat cups with individual conduits connected from the teat cups to a manifold mounted on the stall structure. Milk from the manifold flows through a pipeline to a collection tank. A flow sensor and shutoff valve in each milk conduit adjacent the manifold provides individual quarter milking control remote from the teat cups. One or more of the milk conduits may be connected with a milk collection chamber so that the milk from a single quarter may be separately collected, as when one quarter of the cow is infected.

A teat cup has an inflation with an intermediate portion sealed against the shell, defining a space adjacent the bottom of the shell, separate from the pulsation space. Holes through the shell and the inflation wall below the intermediate seal admit air to the inflation aiding the flow of milk. An air filter keeps dirt from the milk.

Teat cup with air inlet

A milker support including a support structure adapted to support a milking unit within a stall and which may be moved downwardly in small increments during a milking process to optimize the height of the milking unit relative to the cow as the cow is being milked out. A reciprocal motor mounts the support structure and manual controls for the motor are provided whereby the initial height of the support structure may be adjusted. An automatic control is operative to cause the motor to progressively drive the support structure, and thus the milking unit, downwardly during a milking process.

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Downers Grove, IL, United States of America

Harold V Swanson