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US 2003/0140860 A1Published application
System for the presentation of animals to be milked and method
OwnerFangjiang Guoinventor
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Abstract
A milking parlor for presenting an animal to be milked rearwardly loads the animal into a milking stall through an ingress/egress gate and forwardly unloads the animal from the milking stall through the same ingress/egress gate to pass along a unique exit path to a released area.
Claims51
A method of presenting an animal to be milked, the method comprising:
- (a) rearwardly loading the animal into one of a plurality of milking stalls;
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- (b) forwardly unloading the animal from the one of the plurality of milking stalls, each milking stall having a unique exit path extending from the milking stall to a released area.
A method of presenting an animal to be milked, the method comprising:
- (a) rearwardly loading the animal into a milking stall from a moveable transport cart;
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- (b) forwardly unloading the animal from the milking stall.
A method of presenting an animal to be milked, the method comprising:
- (a) loading a first animal onto a transport cart;
- (b) translating the transport cart to align with an unoccupied milking stall;
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- (c) rearwardly loading the first animal into the unoccupied milking stall from the transport cart.
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A method of presenting an animal to be milked in a milking parlor, the method comprising:
- (a) translating a first animal transport cart along a predetermined path relative to a plurality of milking stalls to operably locate the transport cart with respect to an unoccupied milking stall.
A milking parlor comprising:
- (a) a milking stall;
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- (b) a transport cart translatable relative to the milking stall between a first position aligned with the milking stall and a second position spaced from the milking stall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.