Device and method for milking animals
AssigneeProlion B.V.
InventorPieter Adriaan Oosterling
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Abstract
A device is provided for the automatic milking of animals. The device includes milk cups with an inner wall which at the topside possibly encloses an upper chamber and at the bottom continues as a milkline provided during milking with underpressure. The upper chamber and possibly the milkline are connected with one or more uninterrupted lines with an air supply. By supplying air to the topside of the milk cup during milking, the milk cup does not creep upward during milking to prevent the milk cup pinching the milk supply to the teats.
Claims19
A device for the automatic milking of animals, comprising:
- a milk cup with an outer-wall and a flexible inner-wall configured to be attached around a teat of an animal and which continues at a bottom of the milk cup as a milkline provided during milking with an underpressure, which milkline is provided with a valve for alternately connecting the milk cup with a receptacle for milk and a drain, wherein the flexible inner-wall at a topside is provided with at least one opening which is coupled to a first supply line and which is provided with dosing means for dosing of rinsing fluid, wherein the first supply line is also embodied as an airsupply for supplying air during milking.
A method for milking of animals in which a milk cup with an outer-wall and a flexible inner-wall is placed around a teat of an animal to be milked, which milk cup continues at a bottom as a milk line provided during milking with underpressure and wherein the flexible inner-wall at the topside is coupled via at least one opening to a first supply line, wherein via the first supply line after the attachment of the milk cup air is dosed continuously into the topside of the milk cup, alternatively preceded by dosing of a rinsing fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.