The device consists of a U-shaped frame anchored by its legs to the floor of the shed and forming the side of a stall, with a moveable supporting device in the form of a straight or shaped bar attached by its lower end to the crosspiece of the frame for securing the animals.

A housing structure comprises one or more units, each consisting of a stall for holding a cow and a pen at each side to accommodate at least 2 calves each. The divisions between the stalls and the pens have openings for access to the teats of the cows. This arrangement enables multiple-suckling...

The stalls have parallel side partitions and are closed behind the cows by powered gates, which are controlled from a central point and can close in a predetermined sequence to group the cows.

A system of pulleys and arms is used to confine the cows for milking in stalls and release them subsequently. The stalls are opened and closed by the cows entering them in such a way that a cow cannot enter her stall without the cow occupying the preceding stall having entered it first.

The invention relates particularly to stalls for pre-milking treatment of cows. Operations which are carried out automatically on and after the entry of the cow into the stall include securing a holding frame, provision of access to the manger, inflation of 2 diametrically opposed side cushions...

For tie-stalls the milk pipeline is adjustably attached at the height of the cow's chest to horizontal semicircular neck rails at the front of each stall from the feed area. This arrangement decreases the height which milk has to be raised during milking and also the danger of damage to the milk...

This is a circular cowshed in which the animals stand in individual stalls on a revolvable platform which rotates around a forage feed silo. The cows are milked, fed, cleaned, bedded and subjected to any other necessary operation as they are delivered to and held for a suitable length of time at...

The tubular rail system forming individual stalls in the cowshed is suitably designed to enable the operator to restrain the cows to facilitate milking. Every alternate longitudinal rail of 1 or 2 horizontal tubes separating 2 adjoining cows is arranged telescopically so that its length can be...

The installation for housing cows comprises essentially a driving mechanism and a large circular platform with many stalls, each with a manger and a container for manure, arranged radially. A feature is that both the manure containers and the mangers are mounted on horizontal axes and are emptied...

The mangers in these milking stalls are provided with railings having self-locking elements which are actuated by the cows passing their heads through into the mangers. As the element pushed by the cow engages her by the neck, this action automatically opens the next element and admits the next cow ...