Milking hose

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Reference numeral 1 of FIG.
1 identifies in general a first embodiment of a milking hose.
The hose consists of four hoses 2,3,4 and 5 which are approximately identical in cross section and are connected to one another such that the hoses 3 and 4 are connected along a common centrally located longitudinally extending segment 6.
The hoses 2 and 5 are each connected to the hoses 3 and 4 along two connecting segments 7,8 and 9,10 and on opposite sides thereof.
The central axes of the hoses 2 and 5 lie in a plane containing the centrally located longitudinal segment 6.
The connecting segments 6 to 10 can as a whole be constructed very thinly, so that the advantage results that the segments can be separated if needed along the longitudinal direction of the individual hoses, so that if needed at the ends of the milking hose 1, the individual hoses 2 to 5 can be separately connected to the other lines.
A further advantage is achieved in the arrangement illustrated in FIG.
1 in that a space is provided between the connecting segments 6,7 and 8 and between the connecting segments 6,9 and 10 and is substantially triangular in cross section and can be used as additional conduits 11 and 12.
These conduits 11 and 12 can be utilized, for example, for transmitting the pulsator pressure to the milking cup.
An extremely compact, however, still extremely flexible hose arrangement with altogether six supply conduits or discharge conduits is achieved in this case.
To better facilitate a connection of the pulsator-pressure connecting conduits to the conduits 11 and 12, the ends to which the conduits 11 and 12 are to be connected must, if needed, be adjusted to conform to the form of the conduits 11 and 12.
A second embodiment is illustrated in FIG.
2, in which four milk discharge passageways 22 to 25 having approximately the same cross section and two pulsator pressure passageways 26 and 27 having the same cross section, however, a reduced cross section compared with the cross section of the passageways 22 to 25, are formed in preferably a one piece, elongated extruded member, wherein the center points of the passageways 22,26,27 and 25 lie in a first common plane, while the center points of the passageways 22 and 24 lie in a second common plane perpendicular to the first plane