Patent ID: 7162970

Claim:
An automatic milking device comprising: several milking cups, each said cup including a liner; a pulsator system including flexible pulsator tubes, each connecting to a corresponding one of the milking cups; a collecting piece for collecting milk; flexible milk collecting tubes, each said milk collecting tube connected at a first end to one of the milking cups and connected at a second end to said collecting piece; a vacuum device for supplying a negative pressure to the milk collecting tubes to collect milk and the pulsator system to periodically supplying negative pressure and atmospheric pressure to the pulsation tubes; and a stimulation device comprising: a flexible fluid connecting line, the length of which is in parts variable, the flexible fluid connecting line being secured at a first end to one of the milking cups; and a controller secured to a second end of the flexible fluid connecting line providing at least one of negative and positive pressure variations to vary the length of the flexible fluid connecting line and providing a horizontal stimulation motion to the milking cup independent from said flexible pulsator tubes and said flexible milk collecting tubes, wherein the stimulation device provides stimulation at a frequency different and independent from the frequency of the pulsator system and independent of the milking process.