Johannes Leendert van Leeuwen,Pieter Hendrik Hogewerf,Albertus Hendrik Ipema,Cornelis Johannes Aloysius Marie de Koning,Josephus Gerardus Maria van den Boogaart,Marinus Cornelis van Turnhout
申请号：
US14385477
公开号：
US20150040830A1
申请日:
2013.03.15
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
Method of mechanically milking a lactating animal, such as a cow, a goat and a sheep, comprising: providing an animal having at least one teat (110), said teat comprising an elongate shaft (112) and a teat end (114) at an end of said shaft, said teat end comprising a teat canal (116) having an external orifice (118)； milking the teat (110) by repeatedly alternatingly increasing and decreasing a diameter (D) of at least a longitudinal portion of its shaft (112), while maintaining a substantially axi-symmetric shape of said portion of the shaft, and while continuously applying a milking vacuum to the teat end (114) so as to extract milk from the external orifice (118) of the teat canal (116). Also disclosed is a teat cup liner for practicing the disclosed method.
