INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR MEASURING ELASTICITY OF NIPPLE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily measure the teat elasticity of an artificial teat by providing the instrument with a pressure applying means for applying pressure to the teat part of the artificial teat along one direction, guiding means for guiding that pressure in one direction, and means for measuring the pressure applied to the nipple part. ;SOLUTION: When measuring the teat pressure of an artificial teat 5, a teat part 5a of the artificial teat 5 is placed on a base 6 so as to be positioned at the almost center of a counter member 16. Next, a holding member 11 of a pressure applying means 2 is fully moved to left and afterwards moved to right along a guiding means 3. At such a time, a contact member 15 applies pressure to the side face of the nipple part 5a and this nipple part 5a is pushed onto the side of the counter member 16 and elastically deformed. In this case, however, the contact point between the contact member 15 and the counter member 16 is exactly observed through an observing means 17, the pressure applied to the holding member 11 is relaxed at the time of that contact and the indication of a scale 13 shown by a fixed pointer 14 of a gauge 12 is read so that the elasticity of the nipple part 5a can be measured.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO