The invention relates to a method and a device for milking an animal, which includes at least a pair of teatcups (2). A pulsator (12) is arranged, via a pulsation chamber (4) of each teatcup (2), to subject its liners (3) for a cyclically pulsating pressure from the outside, which pressure has a cycle with a time period T. The cycle includes a first opening phase (a), a second open phase (b), a third closing phase (c) and a fourth closed phase (d). When both the time periods of the second open p...

Post-milking and pre-milking udder care to assure udder disinfection, including coloring the udder after milking and decolorizing the udder before milking. The post-milking step includes applying thereto an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hypochlorite and an alkali metal permanganate, whereas the pre-milking step includes applying thereto an aqueous solution of a peroxide and an organic acid. Preferred component compositions include sodium hypochlorite, potassium permanganate, hydrogen perox...

A milking apparatus comprises a teat cup (2) with a liner (3), means (6-8, 9-11, 13-15) for subjecting the interior of the liner to a pressure which is lower than atmospheric pressure, and for subjecting the pulsation chamber (5) formed between the teat cup and the liner to a pulsating pressure varying between a low pressure and a high pressure, which high pressure is higher than the pressure in the interior of the liner. Means are provided (12, 16, 18) for controlling the respective pressures i...

A method of milking an animal, in which method a movable milking platform is used. The method comprises the following steps: setting the movable milking platform in motion, allowing an animal access to the milking platform, supplying a sort of feed to an animal on the milking platform, subsequently allowing the animal exit from the milking platform, and milking the animal on the milking platform during a milking period. The method further comprises the step of providing the animal a span of time...

In a milking machine having a teatcup (3) with a teatcup liner (6) and a pulsation chamber (7), the abrupt movement of the teatcup liner (6) when the teatcup liner moves to an open or closed position is sensed. If the sensed movement does not fulfill a predetermined condition, a malfunction is signaled.

Milking cups are attached to the teats of the female animal by positioning the milking cups relative to at least one teat by means of a control system responsive to a first sensor. The relative position of the teats in a substantially horizontal plane is determined by a second sensor and the milking cups are attached one after another while the at least one teat is continually sensed by the first sensor.

A facility for use in handling dairy animals is provided which includes a service alley which is located below a platform on which the cow or other dairy animal stands during milking. A floor is located adjacent the platform and the service alley and defines an operator area where the herdsman can tend the milking equipment to be attached to the animal. Advantageously, the bulk of the electronic equipment and other milking apparatus is located in the service alley and thus environmentally isolat...

The invention refers to a method and a device for milking an animal. The device comprises a milking machine arranged to permit milking of the animal according to a milking process being determined by a number of adjustable parameters defining the intensity of the milking process. The value of a variable related to the time period from at least one first milking operation to a following second milking operation is determined for the animal by determining means (31, 32). The animal is milked durin...

The present invention provides an apparatus for use in conjunction with a milking machine for reducing the incidence of milking claw or cluster contamination following uncoupling and retraction of the milking claw or cluster from an animal. The milking claw is retracted from the animal by the application of negative pressure and is retained in a retracted position by a retaining device which retains the milking claw in a predetermined position, even when the milking machine is turned off or, in ...

A device for cleaning a milking system, with an air separator, a rinse reservoir, a suction line that leads from the rinse reservoir to the air separator through a milking station, and a pressure line that leads from the air separator to the rinse reservoir. The top of the air separator communicates with a vacuum line and the bottom communicates with the pressure line through a conveyor pump and with a shut-off valve in the section of the suction line between the rinse reservoir and the milking ...