591698 Safety-switching device for a milking carousel is disclosed. The carousel is of the type that has a rotatably driven milking platform (2) with a plurality of milking stations (3) in which milking clusters (4) are arranged, preferably one at each milking station. At least one stationary, non-rotating animal passage way (5) leads to the platform with a gap (8) formed between the rotatable milking platform and the animal passageway. The safety-switching device has a movable switching paddle (9) and a signalling means (10, 13) which is arranged or formed on the switching paddle and is intended for triggering an alarm if anything becomes trapped between the platform and the animal passage way. When mounted the distance to the platform increases towards the free end of the paddle.
