Milking device
AssigneeLely Patent N.V.
InventorMark Brummel
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Abstract
A milking device, including: a platform that is rotatable in a direction of rotation and includes an edge and a plurality of milking stations, and a milking mechanism for milking a dairy animal; a plurality of feeding troughs which are distributed along the edge, outside next to the platform on a fixed world frame and within reach of the dairy animals on the milking stations. The feeding troughs do not have to be made unnecessarily complicated and movable or foldable, so that reliability of in particular the feed portion of such a milking device can be improved.
Claims21
A milking device, comprising:
- a platform which is rotatable in a direction of rotation and includes an edge and a plurality of milking stations, and milking means for milking a dairy animal;
- a plurality of feeding troughs which are distributed along the edge outside of the platform, and fixed on a fixed world frame and configured to be within reach of dairy animals on the milking stations;
- wherein the plurality of feeding troughs are not rotatable with the platform when the platform rotates.
A milking device, comprising:
- a platform rotatable in a direction of rotation, the platform including a plurality of milking stations;
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- a plurality of feeding troughs fixed in place and distributed outside the platform and configured to be within reach of dairy animals on the milking stations,
- wherein the plurality of feeding troughs are not rotatable with the platform when the platform rotates.
A milking device, comprising:
- a platform rotatable in a direction of rotation, the platform including a plurality of milking stations;
- a plurality of feeding troughs distributed outside the platform and configured to be within reach of dairy animals on the milking stations, the feeding troughs configured so as not to co-rotate with the platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.