Patent ID: 9408366
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: A01J

Claim Text:
1. A milking device comprising a vessel and a cover plate; the vessel and the cover plate forming a sealed volume; the sealed volume being internally divided into a collecting chamber, a vacuum chamber and an air intake chamber; the collecting chamber being arranged between the vacuum chamber and the air intake chamber; the vessel having a first internal wall that separates the collecting chamber from the air intake chamber, a first passage between the collecting chamber and the air intake chamber being arranged at the first internal wall; and the vessel having a second internal wall that separates the collecting chamber from the vacuum chamber, a second passage between the collecting chamber and the vacuum chamber being arranged at the second internal wall, wherein the milking device comprises a partition wall which extends from a top portion of the second internal wall at a side of the vacuum chamber to a bottom portion of the first internal wall at a side of the air intake chamber and which separates the collecting chamber into a lower collecting chamber portion and an upper collecting chamber portion, wherein the cover plate comprises a plurality of conduits which protrude from an outer surface of the cover plate and extend through the cover plate into the collecting chamber; an outlet portion of each of the conduits being adjacent to a bottom surface of the collecting chamber; and wherein the partition wall comprises a plurality of openings on which tubings are arranged, a number of tubings corresponds to a number of conduits; the tubings extending from the partition wall to the cover plate in such a way that each of the openings and each of the tubings of the partition wall is arranged with an internal diameter and in a position on the partition wall to allow passage of a corresponding conduit of the cover plate through the partition wall into the lower collecting chamber portion.