Patent ID: 8646412

Claim:
An arrangement for automatically cleaning teat cups ( 7 ) of a rotary milking platform ( 2 ) having plural milking stalls ( 3 ) provided with teat cups ( 7 ), the arrangement comprising: a control unit ( 11 ); a teat cups storing device ( 8 , 8 a ) for holding teat cups ( 7 ) of a milking stall ( 3 ) in a first storing position with the teat cups ( 7 ) available for use in milking an animal ( 1 ) in the milking stall ( 3 ); a cleaning device located at a side of the platform ( 2 ) and provided with a fluid outlet opening ( 30 a ), the cleaning device ( 10 ) adapted to clean at least one of the teat cups ( 7 ) of the milking stall ( 3 ) when the platform ( 2 ) has reached a predetermined rotational position, under control of the control unit ( 11 ) and in a second cleaning position with the teat cups storing device ( 8 , 8 a ) positioned in a cleaning relationship to the cleaning device ( 10 ) in which the cleaning device ( 10 ) is able to supply a cleaning medium from the outlet opening ( 30 a ) to the one teat cup ( 7 ); and a positioning unit arranged to, under control of the control unit ( 11 ), move one of the cleaning device ( 10 ) and teat cups storing device ( 8 , 8 a ) so that the cleaning device ( 10 ) and teat cups storing device ( 8 , 8 a ) are in the second cleaning position for cleaning the teat cups.