Teat Cleaning Device With Mechanical Compression
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices for cleaning drinking buckets with teats, such as those used in automatic calf drinking machines, fail to effectively remove milk residues, milk powder residues, and chemical residues, which can lead to health issues in calves due to potential cheese formation or mold growth.
Innovation Solution
A device with a rotatably mounted camshaft and cams or rollers that mechanically compress the teat to expel cleaning and rinsing liquids, ensuring complete removal of residues, along with a pivoting mechanism for multiple buckets and a control unit for alternating cleaning agents, ensures thorough and hygienic cleaning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If rinsing liquid is used to clean the teats, then cleaning of the teat surface is improved, but residues of cleaning agents or rinsing liquids containing chemicals remain in the teats
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and removes the harmful residues (milk residues, cleaning agent residues, and chemical residues) from the teat by using a mechanical compression device that forces all liquid out of the teat through controlled squeezing and rotation, ensuring no contaminants remain
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the physical state and movement of the teat by applying mechanical compression forces through rotation and squeezing, transforming the teat from a relaxed state to a compressed state that expels all residues, then returning it to its original shape through elastic recovery
2Device complexity
If milk residues remain in the teats, then cleaning process is simpler, but cheese formation or mold formation occurs in the teat
Solution Approach 1:
The invention performs preliminary mechanical compression and expulsion of milk residues before they can undergo fermentation or mold growth, using a cam mechanism that systematically squeezes and rotates the teat to remove all organic contaminants in advance
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses the elastic properties of the teat material itself to benefit the cleaning process - the teat's natural elasticity works together with the mechanical compression to force residues outward, converting the material's physical properties into a cleaning advantage
3Manufacturing precision
If multiple drinking buckets are cleaned sequentially, then cleaning thoroughness is maintained, but cleaning time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges multiple cleaning functions into a single integrated device that can hold and clean multiple drinking buckets simultaneously, combining rinsing, mechanical compression, and drying functions in one system to improve throughput
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses periodic rotation and intermittent compression cycles to clean multiple teats systematically, with the cam mechanism creating rhythmic squeezing and releasing actions that efficiently remove residues from each teat in sequence while maintaining continuous operation
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides a comprehensive and efficient cleaning process that effectively removes all residues from the teats, ensuring the health and hygiene of the calves by using mechanical compression and alternating cleaning agents, allowing for parallel cleaning of multiple buckets and reducing the risk of cheese formation or mold growth.
Implementation Method 1
a device for cleaning drinking buckets provided with a teat (42), by means of which improved cleaning of the drinking buckets and in particular also the suction cups is possible in a simple manner This object is solved by the subject matter of claim 1. Advantageous refinements of the invention are specified in the dependent claims. According to the invention, a device for cleaning drinking buckets is provided, which has an additional device for a temporary mechanical compression of the teat in order to press cleaning and/or rinsing liquid in the teat in the direction of the teat opening out of the teat.
Implementation Method 2
The at least one holder for fixing the watering bucket is preferably arranged on a pivoting device which is pivotably mounted in the housing and by means of which the at least one watering bucket can be pivoted from a first position into at least a second position.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a device (10) for cleaning drinking buckets (40), comprising a housing (14) with at least one holder (17; 17A) for holding at least one drinking bucket (40) equipped with a suction cup (42) and with at least one nozzle (70; 72) for injecting a cleaning and/or rinsing fluid into the housing (14). For improved cleaning of the drinking bucket and, in particular, also of the suction cup (42), the invention provides at least one additional device (30) for at least temporarily compressing the suction cup (42).