NZ757157B2

NZ757157B2 - An animal rear leg position control device, a milking stable provided therewith, and a rotary parlour

Info

Publication number: NZ757157B2
Application number: NZ757157A
Authority: NZ
Inventors: Michal Gnutek; Tomasz Zawislanski
Original assignee: Delaval Holding Ab
Filing date: 2018-06-07
Publication date: 2025-09-02

Abstract

animal rear leg position control device, comprising a body (1) having a lower side (2) that is configured to rest in an operative position on a floor (14) of a milking stable, a first lateral side (3) and a second lateral side (4) that is opposite to the first lateral side (3), and a front end (5) and a rear side (6) that is opposite to the front end (5), wherein a longitudinal direction of the body (1) is defined by a line (x) extending from the front end (5) to the rear side (6), wherein a first transition area where the first lateral side (3) turns into the rear side (6) defines a first rear corner (7) of said body (1), and a second transition area where the second lateral side (4) turns into the rear side (6) defines a second rear corner (8) of said body (1), wherein the front end (5) is configured to be turned towards a front part of a milking stable when said body (1,101, 201) is in an operative position in the milking stable, and the rear side (6) is configured to be turned towards a rear part of a milking stable when said body (1) is in an operative position in the milking stable. The first rear corner (7) and the second rear corner (8) are positioned at different longitudinal positions in the longitudinal direction of the body (1). A rectilinear line that extends from the first rear corner to the second rear corner has an angle a in the range of 5°-45° relative to a line which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the body.

Claims

patent claims

1. An animal rear leg position control device, comprising a body having - a lower side that is configured to rest in an operative position on a floor of a milking stable, 5 - a first lateral side and a second lateral side that is opposite to the first lateral side, and - a front end and a rear side that is opposite to the front end, wherein a udinal direction of the body is defined by a line extending from the front end to the rear side, - wherein a first tion area where the first lateral side turns into the rear side defines a first rear corner of said body, and 10 - a second transition area where the second lateral side turns into the rear side defines a second rear corner of said body, - wherein the front end is configured to be turned towards a front part of a milking stable when said body is in an operative position in the milking stable, and the rear side is configured to be turned towards a rear part of a milking stable when said body is in an 15 operative position in the milking stable, wherein the first rear corner, and the second rear corner are positioned at different longitudinal positions in the udinal direction of the body and wherein a rectilinear line that extends from the first rear corner to the second rear corner has an angle a in the range of 5°-45°relative to a line which is dicular to the longitudinal direction of said body. 20

2. An animal rear leg position l device according to claim 1, n a rectilinear line that extends from the first rear corner to the second rear corner has an angle a in the range of 20°-45°relative a line that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of said body.

3. An animal rear leg position l device according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the first 25 lateral side is parallel to the second l side.

4. An animal rear leg position control device according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the first lateral side has the same length as the second lateral side.

5. An animal rear leg position control device according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein the overall shape of said body, as seen from above, is the shape of a parallelogram.

6. An animal rear leg position control device ing to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the first and second lateral sides have different lengths and that the overall shape of said body, as seen from above, is an les trapezoidal shape.

7. An animal rear leg on control device according to any one of claims 1-6, wherein a 5 line that defines the longitudinal ion of the body is a centre line extending between the first and second lateral sides from a int of the front end to a mid-point of the rear side.

8. An animal rear leg position l device according to any one of claims 1-7, wherein it comprises two or more te sub-bodies that together form said body. 10

9. An animal rear leg position control device according to claim 8, wherein the body comprises two sub-bodies, wherein a first sub-body has first and second rear corners that are positioned at the same longitudinal positions in the longitudinal direction of the body, and a second sub-body that has a wedge shape as seen from above and that is configured to be arranged along a rear side of the first sub-body. 15

10. An animal rear leg position control device according to any one of claims 1-9, wherein the body has a maximum height of at least 5 cm.

11. An animal rear leg on control device according to any one of claims 1-10, wherein the distance between the first lateral side and the second lateral side at the first and second transition areas is at least 20 cm. 20

12. An animal rear leg position control device according to any one of claims 1-11, wherein the length of the body, as seen along the longitudinal direction from a mid-point of the rear side to a mid-point of the front end, is at least 25 cm.

13. A milking stable, comprising - a front part, 25 - a rear part, - a milking apparatus arranged in the region of the rear part, - a floor that, in the rear part of the milking stable, has a rear edge, wherein the rear edge extends along a line that in relation to a line that is perpendicular in relation to a longitudinal direction of the milking stable has angle ß in the range of 5°-45°, - wherein the milking stable is configured to house an animal standing with its head turned towards the front part of the milking stable during milking of the animal by means of said milking apparatus and with its rear legs in the rear part of the milking stable, said g stable being comprising an animal rear leg position control device according to any one of 5 claims 1-12 positioned in the rear part of the milking stable with its rear side turned towards the rear edge of the floor of the milking stable.

14. A milking stable according to claim 13, wherein a rectilinear line extending from the first rear corner to the second rear corner of the animal rear leg position control device has an angle of not more than 10° to the rear edge of the floor of the milking stable. 10

15. A milking stable according to claim 13, wherein a inear line extending from the first rear corner to the second rear corner of the animal rear leg position control device is lly parallel with the rear edge of the floor of the milking stable.

16. A milking stable according to any one of claims 13-15, wherein the distance between the rear side of the animal rear leg position l device and the rear edge of the floor of 15 the milking stable is in the range of 5-15 cm.

17. A milking stable according to any one of claims 13-16, wherein the longitudinal ion of the animal rear leg position control device is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the g stable.

18. A milking stable according to any one of claims 13-17, wherein it is a milking stable 20 arranged on a rotary parlour.

19. A rotary parlour comprising a rotary platform on which there is arranged a plurality of milking stables, each stable having a longitudinal direction which has an angle (d) of 5°- 45° in relationto a radius ing from the onal axis of the rotating platform, wherein the milking s arranged on the rotating platform are milking stables 25 according to any one of claims 13-18.

20. An animal rear leg positioning control device according to claim 1, substantially as herein described with reference to, and as shown in, the accompanying drawings.

21. A milking stable according to claim 13, substantially as herein described with reference to, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

22. A rotary parlour ing to claim 19, substantially as herein described with reference to, and shown in the accompanying drawings.