摘要:
A milking robot for automated milking of milking animals, comprising a cylinder supporting movement of at least one movable component. The cylinder has a wall with a ventilation opening and a cylinder rod which can move in and out of the cylinder. The cylinder wall surrounds at least one variable volume part for movement of the cylinder rod. The opening configures the cylinder to remain in virtual pressure equilibrium with an environment. A gas capture device is connected which has a variable volume and which together with the variable volume part, forms an air-tight gas volume. Thus the variable volume part is kept at almost ambient pressure, so that no unnecessary counter-pressure occurs in the cylinder, during extension and retraction of the cylinder rod. Also less to no exchange of gas and dirt with the environment can take place for longer life and better reliability of the cylinder.
摘要:
The invention provides a milking device comprising at least one milking cup with a teat space and a pulsation space, a pulsator connected by means of a pulsation line to the pulsation space of the milking cup and provided with a vacuum source, a vacuum line provided with a first controllable valve between the vacuum source and the pulsation line, an aeration line provided with a second controllable valve between the pulsation line and a source of higher pressure, and a pulsator control system for the first and second valves, wherein the pulsator control system comprises a flushing mode for opening and holding open the first and second valves during at least a predefined flushing time which is at least as long as and preferably longer than the pulsation period. In this way it is possible to have both valves open simultaneously and the pulsator will draw in air from the environment in an initially unhindered flow. This flow may be used for example to flush the system with air (“blow through”) but also for example to measure the air flow and/or pressure drops in the system, and on the basis thereof to determine the degree of soiling of the system.
摘要:
In certain embodiments, a system includes a front wall, a rear wall positioned substantially parallel to the front wall, and first and second side walls each extending between the front wall and the rear wall. The first side wall includes a gate, and the second side wall is spaced apart from the first side wall such that the front wall, the rear wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall define a milking box stall of a size sufficient to accommodate a dairy livestock. The system includes an equipment portion located adjacent to the rear wall. The equipment portion houses a robotic attacher configured to extend between the rear legs of a dairy livestock located within the milking box stall in order to attach milking equipment to the dairy livestock.
摘要:
A dairy inflation (10) for use in a milking device, including a flexible sleeve (24) adapted to surround a teat, wherein the flexible sleeve (24) includes a clear polyurethane composition. The clear polyurethane composition can be derived from a polyol mixture including a glycerine-based polyol having an average molecular weight in a range from about 200 g/mol to about 300 g/mol, and a first hydroxyl value; and a glycol-based polyol having an average molecular weight in a range from about 600 g/mol to about 700 g/mol, and a second hydroxyl value; and about 0.65 to about 1.05 stoichiometric equivalents of a cross-linking agent comprising a plurality of isocyanate groups, wherein the stoichiometric equivalents is based on a sum of the first and second hydroxyl values.
摘要:
There is provided a milking cluster comprising a plurality of teat cups (1), in which each teat cup comprises a flexible liner (3) for engaging about a teat of an animal to be milked, and has a head portion (6) provided with a mouth (7) through which the teat is engageable with the liner, and a nozzle means (13) for discharging treatment fluid into the head portion (6) of the liner. A distributor (111) for distributing treatment fluid to the nozzle means of the liners comprises an inlet (114) for treatment fluid and outlets (115) connected to the nozzle means (13) of the teat cups. The milking cluster is characterised by a safety valve (123) connected to the distributor inlet (114), said safety valve being actuable during a milking cycle to open a drain port through which the treatment fluid may flow to waste.
摘要:
The lid (20) closes a pail (10) for collecting milk in milking plants of "pail type", and comprises a part (22) for closing the mouth of the pail (10), a milk entry tube (52), means (48) for applying a pneumatic pulsator (46) to the lid (20), means (44) for hanging a milking unit on the lid (20), means for providing a seal between the lid (20) and the mouth of the pail (10) during milking, and a handgrip (30) for facilitating the application of the lid (20) to the mouth of the pail (10) or its removal. The handgrip (30) of the lid (20) comprises a grippable portion (32) lying substantially within the plane in which the rotatable handle (12) of the pail (10) lies when the handle (12) is vertical. The grippable portion (32) laterally presents a groove (34) to receive the central part of the pail handle (12) when the handle (12) is vertical, the downward facing side of the groove (34) being in contact with the central part of the pail handle (12).
摘要:
Melkvorrichtung für Kühe, insbesondere ein Melkmaschine, mit mehreren Zitzenbechern und einem Milchsammeistück, das über kurze Milchschläuche mit den Zitzenbechem und über einen langen Milchschlauch mit einem Milchabscheider verbunden ist, wobei der lange Milchschlauch in einem von dem Milchabscheider entfernt liegenden Abschnitt mit einem Lufteinlaß versehen ist.