Abstract:
In certain embodiments, a system includes a front wall (124a), a rear wall positioned (124c) substantially parallel to the front wall (124a), and first and second side walls (124b, 124d) each extending between the front wall (124a) and the rear wall (124c). The first side wall includes a gate, and the second side wall is spaced apart from the first side wall such that the front wall, the rear wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall define a milking box stall of a size sufficient to accommodate a dairy livestock. The system includes an equipment portion (128) located adjacent to the rear wall. The equipment portion (128) houses a robotic attacher configured to extend between the rear legs of a dairy livestock located within the milking box stall (122) in order to attach milking equipment to the dairy livestock..
Abstract:
The invention relates to a teat cup magazine (1 ) which is arranged to store at least two teat cups (3) when they are not used, The teat cup magazine comprises a removing device for each teat cup (3), which is arranged to retract the teat cup (3) into the teat cup magazine when a milking process has finished. Each removing device comprises a cylinder (8) and a piston (9). The cylinders (8) of the removing devices are formed by at least one cylinder profile (35, 38, 39), manufactured in one piece, which constitutes the sole load-bearing structure of the teat cup magazine. The at least one cylinder profile (35, 38, 39) comprises on one side integrated attachment zones (37) for attaching milking components, and on the other side a guiding track (13) for each cylinder (8), adapted for a movable guiding element (6) supporting a milk tube (4) and a pulse tube (5) connected to the teat cup.
Abstract:
A teatcup liner comprises an upper mouthpiece, an intermediate barrel and a lower connecting tube. The upper mouthpiece further comprises a mouthpiece transition, a mouthpiece lip, and a groove on an outer surface of the upper mouthpiece to provide flexibility in the upper mouthpiece. The intermediate barrel extends along an axial direction for receiving a teat inserted axially thereinto through said mouthpiece.
Abstract:
A device for supporting milk and/or vacuum conduits (3, 4) for a milking machine, comprising a rail (10) at least one dropper (20) supported for longitudinal movement along the rail (10). the dropper (20) having locating means (41) to position milk and/or vacuum conduits (3, 4) when in use.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for supplying a compressed gas to a conduit (3) for transporting milk in the conduit (3). The device comprises at least a second part (10b) of a passage (10), which passage (10) extends from a control valve (11) to the conduit (3), a venting valve (12) arranged to vent at least the second part (10b) of the passage when the control valve (11) is in a closed position and a nonreturn valve (15) having an outlet for the second part (10b) of the passage (10) and being arranged to allow a gas flow from the second part (10b) of the passage to the conduit (3) when the control valve (11) is positioned in an open position. The nonreturn valve (15) comprises a sealing member (26), which has elastic properties and is provided across said outlet in a pre-stressed state.
Abstract:
The invention refers to a device and a method for carrying a milking member (1), which includes at least one teatcup (3) and which is connected to a milking machine (5) via a flexible conduit member (6). A support element (10) is fixedly mounted in or at amilking box (13) arranged to receive an animal to be milked. An arm arrangement (9) is pivotably connected to the support element and arranged to support the milking member at least in connection with the application of said teatcup to a teat of said animal. The arm arrangement is moveable from a first position, in which the milking member is located beside said animal, to a second position, in which the milking member is located below said animal. The device includes first means arranged to lock the milking member in relation to the arm arrangement in order to facilitate the application of said teatcup to said teat.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a milking processing system wherein milk is extracted at each teat of a mammal such as a cow and subsequently stored for a longer period, and prior to storing of the milk it is at least partially or wholly filtered in the connecting conduit to the storage, wherein the filter with the residue which may have remained behind thereon is carried outside the conduit and subsequently detected and in the case of a predetermined quantity or quality of the residue of the or each animal a signal thereof is generated for the control, this such that diverse control functions can be started on the basis of varying signals.
Abstract:
A milking plant for a cowshed with tie stalls comprising a stationary conveyor rail (3), which extends substantially horizontally above the floor (8) of the cowshed and along each stall, and at least one stiff elongated carrier (1) which is displaceably suspended in the conveyor rail and in its length extending essentially vertically. The carrier (1) is arranged for the support of milking equipment and transport of this along the conveyor rail (3) to the milking positions at the respective stall. According to the invention the milking plant comprises means (4) for such a fastening of the carrier (1) to the floor (8) of the cowshed, when the carrier is at any of said milking positions, that at least the lower end of the carrier is prevented from movement in horizontal direction. Hereby, heavy parts of the milking equipment hanged upon the carrier, such as e.g. a milking stool, can be arranged displaceably relative to the carrier to positions closer to the cow which is to be milked so that the work of the milker is unloaded.
Abstract:
A milk meter operably coupled to a controller, the milk meter comprising an inlet, an outlet, an inner column coupled to an opening of the outlet. The milk meter further comprises a conductivity sensor comprising a first conductive strip positioned at a first portion of the milk meter and a second conductive strip positioned substantially parallel to the first conductive strip wherein the conductivity sensor measures a change in resistance between the first and second conductive strips as fluid collects inside the milk meter before the fluid exits the milk meter through the outlet opening. The controller is operable to receive data about the fluid from the conductivity sensor and calculate a total quantity of fluid flow through the milk meter over a period of time.