| 摘要 |
Milking platforms for respective cows are each provided with a teat cup cluster of milk receiving vessel hermetically connected to the cluster, the platforms being movable in unison along a closed path or circuit while the cows are being milked to supply the respective receiving vessels. The platforms move successively past an emptying station comprising a pipeline swingable about the center of an arcuate portion of the closed path. As each platform arrives at the emptying station, the outlet of the corresponding receiving vessel is hermetically connected to the inlet of the swingable pipeline, and thereafter the vessel is emptied through this pipeline while it swings during movement of the platform along the arcuate portion of the path, the pipeline then being swung back to its initial position in preparation for emptying the vessel on the next platform.
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