Abstract
Liner overpressure is a quantitative variable indicating the extent to which the vacuum difference across the liner during phase d (the liner compression phase) of milking machine pulsation exceeds the vacuum difference that would be just sufficient to stop milk flow from the teat. Previously defined methods of determining liner overpressure have required modifications to the milking machine, complex instrumentation, or both. Our method of measuring derived overpressure (OP) offers relatively simple instrumentation and realistic milking machine characteristics. We determined derived OP by measuring the duration of milk flow within a pulsation cycle, and then comparing that duration with the shape of the pulsation curve to deduce the pulsation chamber vacuum level corresponding to that duration. Derived OP by our method yielded measurements of OP that differed by less than 2.0 kPa from those determined by the most practical previous method, for 2 trial liners. Derived OP can serve as a method for comparing and evaluating liners, and the method we developed may also be applied to automatic control of the milking process.
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