IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MILKING COWS
Year: 1871

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LETTERS PATENT to Richard Keevil, of Overcourt Farm, North
Bradley, in the County of Wilts, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MILKING COWS."
Sealed the 27th June 1871, and dated the 28th April 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Keevil at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th April 1871.
I, RICHARD KEEVIL, of Overcourt Farm, North Bradley, in the
County of Wilts, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MILKING Cows," to be as follows:-
:-
My Invention has for its object increased facility in milking cows
without employing instruments or mechanism that may cause incon-
venience to the animal. For this purpose I connect or combine with
a milking stool a pump suitably supported, to which pump are connected

page_text: by flexible pipes four small metal tubes, each perforated near the end,
and so arranged as to allow of the said metal tubes being readily
inserted in the teats of the cow and of the milk being drawn off through
them. These metal tubes are supported at the required elevation and
kept within the teats of the cow, notwithstanding the motions of the
animal, by means of a support fixed to the pump or the stool. And
in order to adapt such support to the purpose it is made capable of
adjustment vertically and moveable to the required extent in a hori-
zontal plane. To the pump is also connected the end of a flexible pipe
leading to the pail or other receptacle for the milk placed in any
convenient situation.
By working the pump as required the milk is drawn through the
small perforated tubes inserted in the teats of the cow, from which tubes
it
passes into the pump and is delivered by the outlet pipe to the pail or
other receptacle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Keevil in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
KEEVIL, of Overcourt Farm, North Bradley, Trowbridge, in the County
of Wilts, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Richard Keevil, Her special licence that I,
the said Richard Keevil, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Keevil, 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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MILKING
Cows," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 12 a plan or horizontal view of the
apparatus.
A is the milking stool, on the top or frame uniting the legs of the
stool is also fixed and supported a pump C to be worked by the handle D
as required; E, E, are the four small metal tubes to be inserted in the
teats of the cow to be milked. These tubes are shewn detached in plan
and clevation in Figures 3 and 4.
In Fig. 5 one tube is shewn in clevation full size. On reference to
this Figure it will be seen that the tube has perforations in its upper
end, and that its lower end is inserted in a flexible pipe F. Each
metal tube E is inserted in a flexible pipe F, and the four pipes F, F,
are connected by a junction G with the flexible pipe H leading into the
pump C. These tubes and pipes are held in their required positions
in the teats of the cow by means of the support I which is fixed
in a socket at the top of the pump C, and is adjustable therein as to
elevation by means of the adjusting screw K, and is free to move in
a horizontal plane by means of the joint L. M is a flexible pipe
having one end inserted in the top of the pump, and its other end
being intended to pass into a pail or receptacle for the milk as it is
drawn off.
It will be evident that on inserting the four metal tubes E, E, in
the teats of a cow to be milked, and working the pump C, milk
will be drawn through the said tubes and caused to pass through the
flexible pipes F, F, and H into the pump C, from which it will be
delivered through the flexible pipe M to the pail or receptacle for the
milk.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that I do not
claim as of my Invention any of the parts of apparatus represented and
described considered separately or otherwise than as connected or com-
bined for the purpose described; but what I do claim as of my Invention
is, the combination of a milking stool and pump with metal tubes
adapted for insertion in the teats of a cow to be milked, and suitably

page_text: supported and connected with the pump, to which is also connected a
delivery pipe, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Keevil, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twelfth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
Witness,
HENRY BAGLEY BARDWELL,
North Bradley,
Wilts,
Baptist Minister.
RICHARD KEEVIL. (L.S.)