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US 2003/0150389 A1Published application
Construction for milking of animals
AssigneeDeLaval Holding AB
InventorJohn M Christensen
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AssigneeDeLaval Holding AB
InventorJohn M Christensen
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The invention relates to a method of milking animals which uses an implement having a moveable floor on which the animals are milked in milking spaces. The animals enter and exit the floor via automatic gates. The invention involves automatic adjustment of the speed to the moveable floor first, on an estimated milking time of the animals presently in a milk flow mode, i.e. attached to a milking unit and second whether milking units have been attached to the animals before leaving an attachment zone, where the milking units are attached to the animals, either manually or automatically by a robot. The speed of the movable floor is primarily adjusted with the aim at optimizing the occupancy rate of the implement for milking animals with respect to the first condition. The second condition places constraint on when a speed increase is permitted.
A method of milking animals in which animals to be milked are located in milking spaces on a movable floor, the method involving an automatic adjustment of the speed of the movable floor on basis of an estimated milking time of the animals which are on the movable floor and are attached to milking units, characterised by
A method of automatically adjusting the speed of a movable floor on which animals to be milked are located in milking spaces, each animal becomes attached to a milking unit when the respective animal is located in an attachment zone, the attachment zone being stationary relative to the movable floor, the method involving
A construction including an implement for milking animals, the implement comprising
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.