Pen having high cow flow for automated milking

Details Pen having high cow flow for automated milking Pen having high cow flow for automated milking

1990-11-13

1992-08-25

Mancene, Gene

Animal husbandry

Milkers

Methods of milking

A01J 300

Patent

active

051409429

ABSTRACT:
In a milking barn having milking stalls disposed at an angle to the cow entry-exit path, an improved stall configuration is disclosed having parallel entry and exit paths for simultaneous entry and exit by individual cows. Each angularly disposed milking pen includes an overlying loading pen. The path between the loading pen and the milking pen spans across both the entrance and exit paths. The entrance path passes immediately adjacent the loading pen; a cow passing along the entrance path is diverted into and received into the loading pin by an open loading gate and confined by that same gate to the loading pen upon entrance. The exit path passes immediately adjacent the milking pens; a cow exiting from the milking pens along the exit path is permitted to pass to the exit path by an open milking pen gate. The entrance and exit paths in running parallel one to another are divided by overlapping gate matrices. A loading pen connects across the entrance and exit path to the milking pen by a temporarily defined crossing path defined by the open loading gate, the opened overlapping gates, and the opened milking gate. A backing wall backs the cow from the loading pen to the milking pen where the cow is captured for attachment of the teat cups to the bag. Only when such automated backing occurs is either the exit path or entrance path blocked; at all other times the paths are opened for the self-herding entrance and exit of cows.

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patent: 3536045 (1970-10-01), Flocchini
patent: 4241699 (1980-12-01), Orchard
patent: 4419961 (1983-12-01), Vandenberg et al.
patent: 4508059 (1985-04-01), Anderson

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