Bagging milk in the 1960s - GIF

[Altair]

Bagging milk in the 1960s.




Previously:

One-legged milking stool - photo
How cow milking machines work - GIF
Automated cow milking ring - GIF
Using milk doors for vintage remodeling
How margarine was made in the 1940s - GIF

[Hoosiersmoker]

Not bad for the 1960's but no hair net and no gloves. At least he's wearing a "clean" smock.

[Tooler2]

around here bagged milk accounts for most of the milk consumed at home.

[MeJasonT]

I worked for a while at Nestle, the factory produced and packaged Nido powdered milk (not the alleged milk factory Bombed by the US in Iraq, Nestle didnt produce powdered milk outside of the UK and yet the news loved to show the cans and bags of Nido lying around the bombed out building). The machines responsible were 2 made by Bosch and an old girl made by Rovema which we lovingly called the rocket launcher on account of its shape. In its life it had packaged tonnes of powdered milk and was barley ever turned off. Thes pictures are of similar Rovemas but not as i remember the old girl. It was like a huge cast iron thing painted white ish.

[MeJasonT]

You know on some milk products they add titanium to make it easier to blow it through transport pipes especially Coffee-mate. Coffee-mate has very little milk product in it, its mainly made of fats and sugars plus titanium, acids. Scientifically it is the same chemical consistancy of sick and smells just like it during mixing. Coffee anyone.

[MeJasonT]

The film passes over the collar and is joined using a vertical hot iron, a horizontal Irons and blade at the bottom of the formed bag seal the top of the bag thats filled and the bottom of the bag thats filling. When the heater jaws open the cut bag drops (the bottom of the next bag is already formed). The bags dropped onto conveyors and taken to Bosch packing machines. It picked up a flat cardboared box and using a series of steel tines folded and glued the base of the box, the bags of milk dropped in off the conveyor and the box then traveled through anothe couple of metal tyne which folded the box shut + a squirt of glue. Cant remember how many packs per box or boxes per pallet layre but they travelled into an old palletiser which was like an elevator as a layre was built up the layre would lower untill a full pallet was made up. The paletiser was interesting as it used a cam for its control logic. Like an old music box. It had a series of cams and limit switches to time all the machine functions, it was a bit of a bitch to be honest.

[Tooler2]

Is there any bagged milk in the UK? I have heard that it is a Canadian thing.

[mklotz]

Once the bag is opened, is the milk decanted into a container with rigid sides? I can picture myself scissoring off the corner, pouring a teaspoon or two into my tea, and then absentmindedly laying the bag on the table.

[MeJasonT]

There is the odd tin in supermarkets but most of the Nestle powdered milk is for export. Coffee-mate is on the shelves over here aswell. They use some of the milk product in Cappachino sachets and powdered Hot Chocolate drinks. It is definately not a baby product, it has never been approved for babies why i have no idea. They have huge dairy farms in Canada (Holstein cows - big black and white things). We used to get AI semen straws from bulls in Canada on the family farm. Odd that you/they stick to powdered milk.

[Tooler2]

The bagged milk in Canada is liquid whole milk. You buy a special plastic jug that the bag sits in and you cut off a corner of the bag depending on how big a flow you want.The bags are 1.33 litres sold in a bag of three(4l)
We do not have huge farms in Canada because we have a quota system and quota is expensive. In the USA they do not have supply management quotas so they have many farms with thousands and even tens of thousands of cows. Their margins are so slim that family farms cannot compete whereas here the quota is so valuable that young people cannot afford to get into the business.