IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR MILKING Cows
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Martin Stanley and Henry James, both of
Sheffield, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR MILKING Cows."
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Sealed the 26th June 1874, and dated the 27th April 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Martin Stanley
and Henry James at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 27th April 1874.
We, JOHN MARTIN STANLEY and HENRY JAMES, both of Sheffield,
in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIANCES FOR MILKING Cows," to be as
follows:-
Our present Invention has for its object an improvement in the present
system of milking cows, which will save both time and labour and secure
a more cleanly process of milking.
In carrying out our said Invention into practice we propose to use

page_text: instead of hand milking; but instead of delivering the milk from the
cow into the milk pail in four streams from the four flexible tubes, one
to each teat, as has hitherto been the practice where tubes have been
employed, we provide a common receptacle or channel into which each
of such four delivery tubes is inserted and properly secured by any
suitable and efficient means or material. It is made of any suitable
material either flexible or rigid, and is in form or shape a simple tube of
larger diameter, or it may be of any other convenient form or shape, with
an internal cavity or common channel large enough to receive therein
and convey to the milk pail the four streams of milk discharged therein
by the said four flexible tubes.
To prevent dirt or other impurities from passing into the milk pail
during the milking process we propose to fit such receiving vessel with
a top or a moveable lid or cover, by preference in the form of a dome,
which top or cover has in or near its centre a neck, socket, or nozzle, in
which the lower end or orifice of the said common receptacle or channel
slides, so that the milk passes from the cow to the milk pail or other
receiving vessel without exposure and consequently free from admix-
ture with any foreign matter whatever. The said common receptacle is
lengthened or shortened at pleasure by sliding the same in the said neck
of the top or cover of the receiving vessel, and fixing it thereto at the
required distance or length by a set screw fitted in the neck, socket, or
nozzle of such top or cover.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Martin Stanley and Henry James in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, JOHN
MARTIN STANLEY and HENRY JAMES, both of Sheffield, in the County a
of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of April in the

page_text: year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said John Martin Stanley and
Henry James, Her special license that we, the said John Martin
Stanley and Henry James, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said John Martin Stanley and Henry James,
our 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 APPLIANCES FOR MILKING Cows," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said John Martin Stanley
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our,
or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 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 we, the said John Martin Stanley and Henry
James, 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 :-
Our present Invention has for its object improvements in the present
present system of milking cows, which will save time and labour and
secure a more cleanly process of milking.
In order that our said Invention may be more clearly and more fully
understood and be more readily performed, we now proceed to explain
the same with the aid of the accompanying Drawing which forms part
of this Specification, reference being made thereto by the numerals
and letters marked thereon, and which reference applies to cach Figure
of the said Drawing where the same index numerals and letters
appear.
Figure 1 is an elevation of our improved milking appliance or appa-
ratus fitted in the neck of a domed milk pail.
Figure 2 is an elevation of a similar apparatus fitted in the neck of a
milk can.
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page_text: Figure 3 is a full size elevation of a small flexible tube and its
metallic tube for insertion in the cow's teat, which latter tube is herein-
after called the "insertion tube;" and shewing also our improved elastic
bands and loops for holding the said insertion tubes in place during the
milking process.
Figure 4 is a full size view of the lower end of the said small flexible
tube, shewing one end of a short metallic tube or lining fitted therein.
In carrying out our present Invention into practice we propose to
use flexible tubes a with metallic insertion tubes b; but instead of
delivering the milk from the cow into the milk pail c or can d (herein-
after called " receiving vessels ") in four streams from the four flexible
tubes a, one to each teat, as has hitherto been the practice where tubes
have been employed, we provide a common receptacle or channel into
which each of the tubes a is inserted and properly secured at e by any
suitable and efficient means or material. This common receptacle may
be made of any suitable material either flexible or rigid, or partly of
each, and is in form or shape a simple tube of larger diameter; or it
may be of any other convenient form or shape, with an internal cavity
or common channel large enough to receive therein and convey to the
receiving vessel the four streams of milk discharged therein by the four
tubes a; the lower part of the said receptacle, shewn in Figure 1, is
formed of metal in which the upper part g, made of vulcanised
caoutchouc slides. The common receptacle f¹, shewn in Figure 2, is
wholly of vulcanised caoutchouc in one tube, the lower end of which
slides in the neck h² of the milk can d, and is provided with a free elastic
ring fitting sufficiently tight to support the tube f¹, and prevent
its sliding down in the neck of the receiving vessel below the point at
which the ring is fixed or placed.
To prevent dirt or other impurities from passing into the receiving
vessels during the process of milking, we fit such vessels with a top h, h',
or a moveable lid or cover, by preference in the form of a dome, which
top or cover has in or near its centre a neck, socket, or nozzle h², h³, in
which the lower end of the common receptacle or channel slides; or the
top or cover may be fitted with two necks, sockets, or nozzles to receive
a common receptacle or channel from two cows at the same time, so
that the milk passes from the cow or cows to the receiving vessel
without exposure and consequently free from admixture with any foreign
matter whatever. The common receptacle, shewn at f, g, Figure 1, is

page_text: lengthened or shortened at pleasure by sliding the lower or metallic
tube f in the neck h' of the top or cover h of the receiving vessel, and
fixing such tube f at the required distance or length by a set screw i
fitted in or to the neck of such top or cover.
In order to prevent the insertion tubes 6 from sliding or dropping out
of the teats of the cow by any motion of the latter or otherwise, during
the process of milking, we secure the said insertion tubes in or to the
teats by means of elastic bands or cords j, one end of which is attached
to the root or lower part of such insertion tubes, and having attached
to their upper ends an elastic loop or circular band or cord k of a suitable
size and strength to grasp the teat of the cow with just sufficient
pressure to hold the insertion tubes 6 in place.
Our improved apparatus is self-acting after being attached to the
cow, and the milking process occupies less time than usual, especially
when two cows are milked into the same receiver at the same time.
Having thus fully described the nature of our said Invention and the
method of performing the same, we wish it to be understood that we do
not claim the flexible tubes a nor the insertion tube b, per se, as new,
but we claim as our Invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent,
the common receptacle tube or channel, also the domed or raised top,
lid, or cover of the receiving vessel with a neck, socket or nozzlo fixed
thereto or fitted thereon, and also the elastic bands or cords j with their
elastic loop or circular band or cord k, all substantially as and for the
purposes herein described and shewn in the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Martin Stanley, on behalf
of myself and the said Henry James, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
JOHN MARTIN STANLEY. (L.s.)