Gea Farm Technologies Gmbh

Westfaliasurge Gmbh

Babson Bros. Co.

Orion-babson Co., Ltd.

Kevin L Torgerson

Matthew J Stuessel

Nathan Hedlund

Duane F Sellner

Robert L Buck

Jeffrey S Hanson

Reinhard Balkenhol

Randal D Stevenson

Alejandro O Dee

Charles D Gradle

Sue Mendell

Glenn Gingrich

Jake Kallenbach

Reinhard Frenser

David A Schultz

Christelle Theis

Minoru Matsuzawa

Michael Austermann

Ralph A Rottier

Kevin M Keefe

Wolfgang Schulze Wilmert

Sue M Mendell

A system for cleaning a dairy animal milker unit and applying dip to a dairy animal, the system includes a main control, an air supply, a water supply, a backflush fluid supply, a dip supply, a stall control for receiving the air, water, backflush fluid and dip supplies, and a safety valve that is adjacent to a downstream portion of the milker unit to control backflush and dip fluids being fed to the milker unit.

Safety valve for a dairy system component

Safety valve for an automated milker unit backflushing and teat dip applicator system

The present invention relates to preparing dairy animal teats for being milked, and more particularly to teat preparation, rinsing, and milking that all take place in a milking machine teat cup liner. Such a method includes: applying a teat sanitizer to the teat; injecting air into the liner to force the teat sanitizer toward a waste milk line connected to the liner; pulsating the liner at a first pulsation rate; drawing a rinsing milk from the teat; directing the teat sanitizer, the air, and the rinsing fluid to the waste milk line; pulsating the liner at a second pulsation rate to draw additional milk from the teat; and directing the additional milk to a good milk line.

Dairy animal milking preparation system and methods

A milk pump that is connected to, but electrically isolated from dairy lines, pipes, and other electrically conductive components using insulators in the milk pump between a motor and a pump.

Electrically isolated milk pump

A milker unit liner dome having an inner surface and flow diverters joined to the inner surface to redirect teat dip from an inlet to provide more uniform coverage of dip on a teat. The liner dome can also include more than one flow diverter for redirecting teat dip flow.

Milk tube dome with flow controller

A safety valve device for a milking installation for milking milk-producing animals having a first valve with a first port and with a first port connector, a second valve with a second port and with a second port connector, a third valve with a third port and a third port connector, a drive, a common actuator, and at least one valve spring, and arranged so that the first port connector of the first valve is in fluid communication with the second port connector of the second valve, and the safety valve device can be moved between a first switching position, in which the first valve and the second valve are closed in order to block the first port and the second port and the third valve, is open a transition position, in which the first valve, the second valve and the third valve are closed, and a second switching position, in which the first valve and the second valve are open to connect the first port to the second port and the third valve is closed to block the third port.

Safety valve device

Safety valve for a backflushing and teat dip applicator system

Apparatus and methods for a dairy harvesting facility including valves and valve assemblies that prevent contaminants from reaching a central milk collection system.

Dairy harvesting facility with milk line protection system and methods

Methods for preparing a dairy animal for milking

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Holmen, WI, United States of America

Kevin L Torgerson