Apparatus for automatically milking animals and cleaning teats

Details Apparatus for automatically milking animals and cleaning teats Apparatus for automatically milking animals and cleaning teats

1997-02-12

1999-01-26

Swiatek, Robert P.

Animal husbandry

Milkers

With signals, indicators, registers, and timers

119 1418, 119651, A01J 704

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058627766

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for automatically milking animals in a milking compartment by means of teat cups on a robot arm that also includes a sensing device for locating the teats of the animal to be milked. The robot arm is automatically positioned longitudinally under the animal to be milked and includes a cleaning element which is connected thereto by a further arm member that can pivot relative to the robot arm about substantially horizontal and vertical axes. The cleaning member is pivotable from a position for cleaning the animal's teats to a further position displaced therefrom. The cleaning member includes a cover plate thereunder which is disposed under the cleaning member and above the teat cups mounted on the robot arm when in position for cleaning the animal's teats. The cleaning member comprises motor rotated parallel horizontal profiled spaced apart rollers and a spraying device is provided on the cleaning member for moistening the rollers. The cleaning member is pivoted to an inoperative position about the vertical axis and to a position for maintenance about the horizontal axis.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5383423 (1995-01-01), van der Lely
patent: 5678506 (1997-10-01), van der Berg et al.

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