Construction for automatically milking animals

摘要

An apparatus for automatically milking animals, such as cows, which comprises a milking compartment with a milking robot provided with a robot arm for connecting teat cups to the teats of an animal to be milked in the milking compartment. The teat cups are movable to immediately under and away from the udder of the animal being milked in the milking compartment by the robot arm. At the front of the milking compartment a feeding trough is pivotably connected to the milking compartment so that it is movable between a first position beyond the reach of an animal to be milked in the milking compartment and a second position within the reach of such animal. Linkage is provided by a single piston and cylinder member to couple movements of the feeding trough with movements of the robot arm so that a clear relationship is provided between feeding and milking an animal to be milked in the milking compartment and the mechanism for doing so is direct and efficient.