DE4131860A1 - Easily operated milking stall - has carousel with access exit point on one side - Google Patents

Abstract

The milking stand has a rotating platform with four milking stalls requiring only a space of 16 square metres. The milking stalls are mounted on four sides round the milking trough and turn like a carousel around an open slide bearing in the centre. The carousel can be driven by a gearbox motor. The arrangement allows short milking lines to be used.The cows can be viewed easily when in the milking stall. ADVANTAGE - Easier operation by the milkman using extremely short milking pipes. The animals enter and leave the milking stand from the same side.

Description

The invention relates to a method for Milk production in agriculture.

Information on the genus:

Milking parlors make work easier pro quality assurance ducted milk.

Focus here: small and medium Dairy herds.

State of the art:

There are currently several fixed and rotating milking standards.

The advantages of rotating milking parlors are also to be used for the new process small to medium-sized stocks are used the.

Critique of the state of the art:

The milking parlor systems that still exist today me have some serious disadvantages on:

The fixed milking parlor forms bean speak a lot of building volume and are therefore very difficult in existing ones Integrate buildings sensibly. Furthermore the throughputs are not as to describe optimally.  

The cost of building and Milking parlor scaffolds are in relation to Milking performance too high.

The rotating milking parlors are so far only economically for large stocks clog. They require an enormous in investment in buildings and technology. Furthermore the chassis and drive are very worn susceptible.

The biggest disadvantage is that Milking carousels only installed in new buildings can be (space requirement).

Task:

The invention is based on the object milking also in small to medium ler dairy cows in the business economist economically advantageous milking parlor too without excessive investments (read: in existing buildings).

Solution:

This object is achieved in that the standing platform for four dairy cows and milking pit are kept as compact as possible. This results in a space requirement of 4 · 4 m = 16 m ² .

This requires the following prerequisites:

The platform with the milking pit is ro designed and has a minimum diameter of 4 m.

The milking boxes are around on the four sides arranged and rotate the milking pit carousel-like around an open glide center bearing (⌀ 6 cm to accommodate the milk line, vacuum supply from above).  

Process as follows: Enter the first animal the platform; the milker operates the Carousel drive; then he sets the milking stuff. The carousel now has one 1/4 turn made and the second milking box can be occupied after stopping the carousel will.

This process is repeated until the four te milking box is occupied. Now he stands there most animal again in the starting position; it now leaves the platform and makes room for the next animal. Hard milking animals drive two turns.

The carousel is driven by a geared motor (power: 1.5-2 kw). The milk is fed from the milking cluster pieces through hoses to the fulcrum, collected there in a V ₂ A line and led to the milk tank under the milking pit.

A vacuum-proof le serves as the rotary valve food-safe rubber sleeve that over the interrupted pipeline is put over. The vacuum supply also takes place with from above using a standard PVC screw connection as a rotary coupling.

The entrance and exit door will be operated via hand-controlled vacuum cylinders.

The concentrate feeder is operated by a cable serves.  

Achievable advantages:

- In the first place is the small one To mention space requirements, especially in old buildings.

•   - Significant savings in the milking parlor scaffolding: only one entrance / exit door or use the advantages of the tandem or carousel milking parlor, only one force automatic feeder.
• - Any existing milking system can be installed the.
• - Extremely short milk line; consequently ver easy keeping of the milk guides the parts.
• - Better monitoring of the milking animals, very short distances for the milker.
• - Little effort for the milking parlor supply (only parking space, no drifts).
• - Animals enter and leave the milking stood on one side.

Design example:

To achieve the many advantages and the safe functioning of the milking The construction must be guaranteed tion according to the attached drawing consequences.

The arrangement of the individual components is must be adhered to in accordance with the drawing.

1 milking platform with 4 milking boxes
2 concentrate trough
3 milking pit
4 fulcrum
5 outer partition
6 wicket door for milker
7 outlet door
8 inlet door
9 partition between the milking boxes

Claims (1)

This milking parlor is characterized in that the rotating milking platform offers space for four cows in four milking boxes.