Monitoring the inner surface of teat cup liners made from different materials

R. Gálik, Š. Boďo and L. Staroňová
Additional contact information
R. Gálik: Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovak Republic
Š. Boďo: Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovak Republic
L. Staroňová: Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Nitra, Slovak Republic

Research in Agricultural Engineering, 2015, vol. 61, issue SpecialIssue, S74-S78

Abstract: The modern milking equipment consists of several rubber parts. Among these rubber parts, the most important is a teat cup liner, which provides direct contact force to teat tissue. Properties of teat cup liners directly affect the technical and technological process of milking, udder health condition and quality of obtained milk. The aim of the study is to specify the inner surface roughness of cup liners made from different materials. Roughness was measured using Surftest-301 Mitutoyo connected to a printer. Teat cup liners were monitored and evaluated at three different locations of the inner surface, every three months in primary production. The obtained results showed linear regression between the inner surface roughness of teat cup liners and exposure time. Significant differences of selected indicators of silicone liners were observed with P-value (0.029) < alpha (0.05). The model equation shows that if the value of cup liners exposure time increases by one month, inner surface roughness is likely to increase by approximately 0.039 μm.

Keywords: teat cup liner; exposure; roughness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://rae.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/50/2015-RAE.html (text/html)
http://rae.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/50/2015-RAE.pdf (application/pdf)
free of charge

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:caa:jnlrae:v:61:y:2015:i:specialissue:id:50-2015-rae

DOI: 10.17221/50/2015-RAE

Access Statistics for this article

Research in Agricultural Engineering is currently edited by Bc. Michaela Polcarová

More articles in Research in Agricultural Engineering from Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ivo Andrle ().