System and method for treating livestock
AssigneeAfimilk Agricultural Corperative Ltd.
InventorsNiv Pinsky, Efraim Garti, Itamar Cohen
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Abstract
A system for treating livestock may include a ramp for containing dairy livestock and one or more mobile units configured to travel on the ramp, below the dairy livestock, and milk the dairy livestock. A mobile unit may be adapted to travel to a predefined location within a stall, and attach a milking equipment unit to the dairy livestock in the stall. A plurality of mobile units and a central management unit may be configured to dynamically cause at least some of the plurality of mobile units to each perform a portion of a treatment or task.
Claims12
A system for milking dairy livestock having at least one teat, fore legs and hind legs, the system comprising:
- a mobile unit;
- an annular rotary driven milking platform comprising a plurality of milking stalls and configured to translate both the dairy livestock and the mobile unit, wherein each one of at least two of said plurality of milking stalls is coupled to a teat cup holder, and wherein said mobile unit is positioned on said annular rotary driven milking platform and moves along the platform between at least two of the dairy livestock positioned on said annular rotary driven milking platform;
- teat cups positioned in said teat cup holders;
- wherein the mobile unit comprises an arm comprising a gripping unit, and wherein the mobile unit is configured to
- position itself at least partially at a location between the fore legs and hind legs of the dairy livestock;
- remove at least one teat cup from at least one teat cup holder;
- and
- attach said at least one teat cup to said dairy livestock teat, such that said dairy livestock is milked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.