Animal husbandry – Milkers – With automatic control
Patent
1974-09-30
1976-08-10
Chamblee, Hugh R.
Animal husbandry
Milkers
With automatic control
119 1415, A01J 504
Patent
active
039735206
ABSTRACT:
An automated milking assembly is disclosed for moving a claw and teat cup assembly under a cow for milking and for automated retraction of the claw and teat cup assembly upon completion of milking. A vertical arm is constructed for articulation and vertical reciprocation. The arm is hinged at its upper end about a horizontal axis disposed transverse of the cow and carries at its lower end the milking claw and teat cups. When the cow is in position to be milked, the vertical arm reciprocates downwardly and articulates to an arcuate disposition wherein the claw and teat cup assembly is supported under the center of the cow adjacent the bag. Manual plugging of the teat cups occurs and milking is commenced. When the cow is through being milked, the vertical arm reciprocates upwardly and articulates to a vertical disposition wherein the claw and teat cups are supported to the side of the cow out of the walking path of the cow. Interruption of the milk flow is detected at a metering receptacle which has a periodically opening large aperture to prevent clogging of the metering device due to the inevitable presence of some solid particles in the milk. Upon interruption of milk flow, a signal is communicated to a circuit which integrates both the time interval of interruption of milk flow and the time interval of the resumption of milk flow. This time integration, when completed, triggers the automated retraction to assure retraction only when complete milking has occurred over a large part of any given sample of the cow population.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2812742 (1957-11-01), Millar
patent: 3593687 (1971-07-01), Clegg et al.
patent: 3861355 (1975-01-01), Johnson et al.
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