Patent · US Expired

System for controlling and operating a cow-milking carousel

US5784993A · kind A · utility

17Cited by

3References

12Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Westfalia Separator GmbH · DE

Inventors

Uwe Osthues · Menden, DE
Ralf Wohlbruck · Oelde, DE
Bernhard Schulze Wartenhorst · Warendorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 25, 1996
Grant date	Jul 28, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 25, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA01K1/126
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A system for controlling and operating a cow-milking carousel which is rotatable at different speeds and has an entrance, an exit and a plurality of milking stations wherein teat cups are applied to an animal and are automatically removed when the animal has been milked. The system has at least two checkpoints along a direction of rotation for monitoring a position of the teat cups of milking stations passing thereby and for effecting an automatic adjustment of the speed of the carousel such that the number of teat cups which have not yet been removed at a first of the at least two checkpoint, but have been removed at a second of the at least tow checkpoints, is maximized.

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