NEW MILKING MACHINE.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18651, 1 June 1932, Page 11

NEW MILKING MACHINE.

LEOTRO MILKER. SIMPLIFIED CONSTRUCTION.. ELECTRICAL OPERATION. A new milking machine that is revolutionising the milking industry Is on display at the Waikato Winter Show and is creating immense Interest. This remarkable machine, which is a New Zealand invention, contains less than half the parts usually associated with mechanical milkers. The designers have discovered many new facts in relation to machln'e milking. These new disooverles explain for the first time numerous points in milking machines that have always puzzled the farmer. In designing the maohlne the inventors have given special attention to sanitation, and to a new simplified method of cleaning. There are no shaftings, pulleys, belts, plummer blocks, vacuum tanks, sanitary condensers, air pipes, gear •boxes, . and no lubrication —in fact, there are no moving parts except the vacuum pump, yet the machine functions even more perfectly than hitherto.

The success of the machine is made possible by using electricity dire'ot instead of converting it to a mechanloal motion,, hence t.he name,'“Lectro Milker.” All parts are positive In action, and unalterable. The voltage used Is about the same as In a pocket torch battery, consequently shocks are quite impossible. It may seem strange to state that although it is an eleotric milker, the farmer need not have the power connected, as the machine is self-contained; in fact, if a farm Is in the baektoloclcs where no power Is available the surplus electricity from the milking machine may be used to light the cow byre. As years go by no alteration occurs in the pulsation, and no adjustments are necessary. The machine always retains the snap' that Is found In 411 machines when new, •beoause electrioity alone controls the pulsation in the teat cup and the speed of electricity cannot toe altered. , A farmer may, with a pair cf pliers, take down the whole maohlne In a few minutes. Th? * parts cannot be assembled Inoorreotly; the ma’ohlne does not need to. be lined up with eleotrlo motor or engine, or even levelled. Owing to the absence of all moving parts there is nothing to wear out or make the machine any different In 25 years’ time from the day It was installed; the only thing that could put the machine out of aotlon would be some deliberate damage on the part of the operator. There are fewer parts to wash, and the selling prloe: of the “Lectro Milker” Is so mu’oh cheaper that had the “Leotro Milker” been available in 1930, the dalryfarmers in New Zealand would have , saved £IOB,OOO. The distributors throughout New Zealand are the New Zealand Express Company, Ltd., who have branches and agencies in every territory. 650