Patents by Inventor Arthur Leonard Wilkin

Arthur Leonard Wilkin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Automatic milking apparatus
    Patent number: 5967081
    Abstract: An arrangement for the automatic application of milking apparatus to a milk animal including a milking apparatus store, a milking apparatus handling device including a milking apparatus carrier movable on the device and a teat sensor on the handling device together with at least one animal position sensor and a control unit responsive to the animal and teat sensors to operate the handling device, the arrangement being such that when an animal is sensed to be in milking position the control unit operates the handling device to take milking apparatus for a teat of the animal from the store in the carrier to a specific teat with the carrier moved to a sideways offset at a selected angle to the device and the teat sensor in range of the teat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: BTG International Limited
    Inventors: Michael John Street, Toby Trevor Fury Mottram, Arthur Leonard Wilkin, Robert Christopher Hall
  • Automatic milking
    Patent number: 5706758
    Abstract: An arrangement for the automatic application of milking apparatus to a milk animal including a milking apparatus store, a milking apparatus handling device including a milking apparatus carrier movable on the device and a teat sensor on the handling device together with at least one animal position sensor and a control unit responsive to the animal and teat sensors to operate the handling device, the arrangement being such that when an animal is sensed to be in milking position the control unit operates the handling device to take milking apparatus for a teat of the animal from the store in the carrier to a specific teat with the carrier moved to a sideways offset at a selected angle to the device and the teat sensor in range of the teat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: British Technology Group, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael John Street, Toby Trevor Fury Mottram, Arthur Leonard Wilkin, Robert Christopher Hall
  • Examination of ruminant animals
    Patent number: 5697326
    Abstract: A method for the examination of the condition of a ruminant animal including sampling odours from at least one part of the animal with an olfactory sensor thereby to identify specific aspects of the animal condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: British Technology Group Limited
    Inventors: Toby Trevor Fury Mottram, Arthur Leonard Wilkin
  • Cleaning of milking animal teats
    Patent number: 5673650
    Abstract: A method of cleaning the teats of a milking animal including providing a cleaning arrangement having a teat receiving aperture, causing or permitting the arrangement to receive a teat and engage the teat locally and causing or permitting relative movement of the teat and cleaning arrangement, releasing from the teat surface unwanted material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: British Technology Group Limited
    Inventors: Toby Trevor Fury Mottram, Arthur Leonard Wilkin, Clive John Allen, Stephen Lindsay Crook