MILKING MANIPULATOR Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: agricultural engineering. SUBSTANCE: manipulator comprises a guide, a pneumatic cylinder whose piston is flexibly connected with automatic milking control unit. Manipulator has vacuumized pipelines equipped with a fixed half-coupling. With the manipulator in working position, the pneumatic cylinder is disposed on the guide, the milking apparatus, on the udder of the animal while the automatic milking control unit with the movable half-coupling is joined with the fixed half-coupling of vacuumized pipelines. With the manipulator in the transport position, the pneumatic cylinder is disposed on additional guide and has suspended milking apparatus with the automatic milking control unit. Then the pneumatic cylinder moves over the additional guide along the cowhouse from the milked animal to the yet unmilked one. EFFECT: improved design. 6 dwg