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BS 5545-2:1988
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Milking machine installations Specification for construction and performance
Hardcopy , PDF
15-04-1997
English
31-03-1988
Foreword
Committees responsible
Specification
1. Scope
2. Definitions
3. General
4. Vacuum pump
5. Regulator
6. Vacuum gauge
7. Air pipelines
8. Dain valves
9. Interceptor and sanitary trap
10. Vacuum taps
11. Pulsation system
12. Milk system and cluster assembly
13. Bucket units and direct-to-can milking machines
14. Design of milking pipelines
15. Milk cocks
16. Recorder jars
17. Attachment affecting the milking vacuum level
18. Flexible tubes
19. Rigid connectors or nipples for use with flexible
tubes
20. Teatcup liners, shells and claws
21. Receiver
22. Releaser
23. In-place cleaning and disinfection
24. Instructions for use and maintenance
Appendices
A. Method for the determination of the minimum internal
diameter of milking pipelines
B. Recommendations for the maximum number of units on
the milking pipeline
Tables
1. Minimum effective reserve
2. Examples of minimum effective reserve
3. Relationship of internal diameter to air flow
4. Nominal milk flow rate per unit
Figures
1. Relationship between requirements of 5.3 and 5.4,
the definitions of manual and effective reserve
and total regulator leakage
2. Minimum diameter for a single milking pipeline
3. Minimum diameter for a milking pipeline (loop)
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