Gea Farm Technologies Gmbh

Westfalia Separator Ag

Bernhard Schulze Wartenhorst

Otto Krone

Thomas Mader

Olaf Suhr

Reinhard Frenser

Peter Kaever

Erich Schneider

Heinz Francke

Ralf Wohlbruck

Andreas Forster

Peter Maguire

Uwe Osthues

Methods and apparatus for milking animals wherein a negative pressure is periodically built up in a teat cup gap in an evacuation phase (a), maintained over a predetermined suction phase (b), and relieved in a ventilation phase (c), and a ventilation is maintained over a predetermined rest phase (d). The ratio between the suction phase (b) and the rest phase (d) changes at least once during the milking operation.

Method and apparatus for milking animals

The present invention relates to a method for milking animals wherein a negative pressure is periodically built up and relieved in a teat cup gap at a predetermined rate. The negative pressure is maintained over a predetermined suction phase (b) and relieved over a predetermined rest phase (d). The ratio between the suction phase (b) and the rest phase (d) changes at least once during the milking operation. In a preferred embodiment the first duration does not exceed a predetermined, first limit value and the second duration does not fall beneath a predetermined, second limit value.

Method and device for milking animals

Methods and apparatus for machine-milking an animal using a pulsed vacuum with sequential evacuation and ventilation phases in a teat cup pulse chamber by creating an improved pressure curve during the evacuation phase, the ventilation phase, or both pressure changing phases by controlling a pressure change phase using at least two pressure changing speed rates.

Method and device for milking an animal

For the milking of animals, in particular cows, in a milking installation comprising a plurality of milking places, a method and a device are proposed wherein the milk yields extracted during a milking session at some milking places or the characteristics corresponding to the milk yields are determined and evaluated and in particular compared with prognoses as to milk yield or characteristics. These measures allow on the one hand that sufficiently accurate data are provided for herd management while on the other hand the investment cost for a milking installation are reduced.

Method for extracting milk and determining a group milk yield based upon a subgroup milk yield

A milking cup for milking animals, the milking cup having a liner arranged inside a housing to define a pulsation chamber therebetween. The pulsation chamber is divided into multiple compartments so that vacuum pulsation applied to the pulsation chamber compartments causes controlled collapse of the liner on an animal teat inserted therein.

Milking cup and milking method

System for controlling and operating a cow-milking carousel

A method of mechanical milking consists of a main milking phase and of a preceding stimulation phase involving mechanical stimulation of the teats of the animal to be milked. To obtain optimal milking readiness individual-specific stimulation is proposed, taking the different stimulation needs of each individual animal into account.

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Warendorf, Germany

Bernhard Schulze Wartenhorst