Device for and a method of milking a dairy animal

摘要

A milking device for milking a dairy animal, including at least one teat cup including a flexible cup liner around a teat space, and a single pulsation space and a milk line, a milking vacuum pump connected to the milk line, for providing a milking vacuum, a pulsator connected to the pulsation space, for providing a controllable air pressure therein, and a control device for controlling at least the pulsator during at least a milking action. The control device is configured to cause the pulsator and/or the milking vacuum pump to provide, in a period of time consecutive to a milking action wherein a dairy animal is milked and a teat is located in the teat space, such a substantially stable, non-pulsating pressure difference between the pulsation space and the teat space, that the cup liner shuts off the teat space from the milk line.

主权项

1. A milking device, comprising
at least one teat cup, wherein the teat cup comprises a cup casing with a flexible cup liner around a teat space, and a single pulsation space and a milk line, a milking vacuum pump connected to the milk line, for providing a milking vacuum, a pulsator connected to the pulsation space, for providing a controllable air pressure in the pulsation space, and a control device which is configured to control at least the pulsator during at least a milking action, wherein the control device is configured to cause the at least one of the pulsator and the milking vacuum pump to provide, in a period of time during a connection of the at least one teat cup to a teat, or in a period of time during a disconnection of the at least one teat cup from a teat, and when a teat is no longer in the teat space, consecutive a milking action wherein a dairy animal is milked, a substantially stable, non-pulsating pressure difference between the pulsation space and the teat space such that the cup liner shuts off the teat space from the milk line.