Milk parlour cattle guidance device - automatically ensures positioning of cows in pens closed by flap doors

摘要

Cattle guidance device for milk parlour, incorporates an automatic arrangement for a number of adjacent positioned cattle pens, into which the cows are lured by token fodder. The first cow entering the milk parlour finds all pens closed by flap doors (12) except the one door nearest the exit. Any of the following cows will find the flap door adjacent to the last one open. In each pen is an opening component (17) to pivot actuate the vertical hinged flap door which is spring biased, and kepr shut by a bolt arrangement. A pivoting lever type door opening component is hinge fixed just above the head of each cow. The arrangement eliminates the necessary of extra milking parlour staff.