IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MILKING
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John
Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR MILKING."-A communication from abroad by Louis Grasset, of
No. 15. Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, Tinman.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 7th July 1863.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son of No
11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR MILKING," (a communication to me from abroad by Louis Grasset, of
No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris, France, Tinman,) to be as
follows:-
The apparatus the subject of this Invention will be best understood by
reference to the accompanying Drawing, forming part of this Provisional
Specification, and on which A indicates a balance beam; B, pump barrel; C,
cover with screw and air holes; D, lantern, fixed by the collar E, which is

page_text: closed by the key F; G, screw thread for fixing pump. barrel to reservoir;
H, tap to facilitate the running off of the liquid by the tap I; J, reservoir;
K, plate of glass, by looking through which the yield of milk is ascertained; L,
caoutchouc tube; M, taps for intercepting air, in case the cow should have one
or two sore teats,or it be desirable to milk from two teats only; N, caoutchouc
teats; Q, position in which the reservoir for the milk should be placed;
(P, position of the teats).
To milk the cow, stretch out the caoutchoucs so as to pass them over and
fix them on to the teats, pass the milk-conducting tube L between the hind
legs of the animal, place the reservoir for the milk a little behind it, (see
P and Q,) and pump.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th January 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence that I, the said
William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MILKING," (a communication to me from
abroad by Louis Grasset, of No. 15, Passage des Petites Ecuries, Paris,
France, Tinman,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be

page_text: filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Williain Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawing hereunto
annexed, and forming part of this Specification, and to the letters of reference
placed thereon.
This improved apparatus for milking is com posed, firstly, of a pneumatic
pump A; secondly, of a reservoir B, intended to receive the milk; thirdly,
of a caoutchouc tube C (or tube of other suitable material), which conducts
the milk from the teats of the cow or other animal to the reservoir B. This
tube is provided at its back part with a tap G, and at its fore part with a
second tap G', and at the extremity furthest from the reservoir it divides into
four branches, each terminating with a funnel E of the same material
intended to receive the teat of the animal, and at the conical part of each of
these funnels is fitted a tap F. In front of the reservoir B is a large tap H,
which is opened when; after the operation of milking, it is desired to run the
milk into cans or other receptacles. On one of the lateral faces of the
reservoir B is fitted a transparent plate I, carrying a graduated scale, so that
the quantity of milk in the reservoir may be ascertained at any moment. At
the upper and back part of this reservoir is a large screw stopper or bung J,
upon unscrewing which the arm may be introduced into the reservoir to
cleanse its interior, after which the stopper must be tightly screwed down by
the aid of a stick or iron bar passed through its ring until hermetically closed.
The method of operating is as follows:-All the taps being closed, the pump is
worked until a vacuum is produced in the reservoir B, the tap G is then
opened, afterwards the tap G', and a vacuum is produced in the tube C; then
as the teats of the animal are introduced into the caoutchouc funnels the
corresponding tap F is opened, upon which an attraction takes place, drawing
the teat into the caoutchouc funnel, and placing it in communication with the
tube C, by which the milk runs into the reservoir B. After the operation,
that is to say, after the desired number of cows or other animals have been
milked, and the milk has been withdrawn into cans or other receptacles, all the
taps excepting Hareopened; the four caoutchouc funnels or teats are plunged
in a vase of lukewarm water, the pump is worked, the water enters thereservoir
B, where it is moved about until the reservoir is thoroughly rinsed in all its
parts; the large tap H is then opened to let out the water, and this operation

page_text: completed, all the openings are left free, in order that air may circulate in the
interior and dry the apparatus.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)