Udder Protector for Cows and other Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Udder Protector for Cows and other Animals.
We, JENS NIELSEN, Engineering Draughtsman and FREDERIK PETERSEN Butcher
both of No. 5 Raadhusstrade Copenhagen Denmark do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
Cows often lie down in their own and other dirt so that the udder and teats are
soiled, whereby the milk may easily be dirtied and the udder is exposed to inflamma-
tion especially with cows in stable. This invention prevents these evils and is also
otherwise very useful as it protects the udder against the sting of insects, against
external injury for instance by one cow treading upon another who is lying down, and
against the influence of the weather which causes cracks and collection of matter in
the udder skin; it also prevents the cow from giving suck to herself. The udder
protector is not in the least a discomfort to the cow and can easily be taken off for
milking and put on again.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shews such an udder protector as applied
to a cow, and Figure 2 shews it separately to a larger scale.
The udder protector consists of a bag A made according to the size of the udder of
strong flexible material such for instance as canvas, rubber canvas or oil cloth,
enclosing the udder and kept in place by means of straps, cords or the like which go
round the body of the cow and to which the bag is attached in some suitable manner.
The drawing shows one mode.
The udder protector proper A is here provided with three safety hooks or
rings S₁ S, S, applied to the edge of the bag, viz. S₁ at the back and S, S, iu
the front part as shown at Figure 2. These books or rings correspond with rings (or
hooks) TT, T, fixed to the straps E and F which like braces go round the body of
the cow, the strap E in front of the hips which keep it from sliding back, and the
strap F from the back of the bag A up each side of the body and buckled together
at top.
When the cow has no hips that could give the strap E sufficient bearing we
may for keeping the latter in place use a strap D which is buckled around the
cow a little in rear of the forelegs and. which is connected to the strap E by
means of a strap or straps G (one such might be on each side of the back). To
the strap F we may further more fix a strap and buckle R for holding up the
cows tail during milking so that she may not therewith throw dirt into the milk."
The udder protector may of course be attached to the bearing straps or cords
in various other ways. In some cases the same may be omitted and the bag be
made to fix by making the edge of it with a rubber ring which contracts round
the upper part of the udder and thus holds the protector in place and keeps it
from slipping down. On the drawing it is shewn as a bag which encircles the
udder as well as the teats. But it may also be of such a form as to consist of a
large bag enclosing the udder and several smaller bags enclosing the teats and
connected to or forming a continuation of the large bag, each small bag enclosing
one or two teats. Or sometimes the protector merely consists of a number of
small bags each enclosing a teat and held onto it by suitable means such as a rubber
ring which contracts round the upper part of the teat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of any said inven-
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
First. An udder protector consisting of a bag of strong flexible material such for
nstance as canvas, canvas rubber, oil cloth or the like which enclo es the udder or

page_text: teats and is provided with means for fastening for the purpose of protecting same
against dirt, the sting of insects the effects of the weather and other deleterious
influences substantially as set forth.
Second. An udder protector bag as hereinbefore described in combination with
fastening straps or cords E and F with or without the parts D and G substantially as
set forth.
July 1890.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.