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US 10,874,084 B2Granted
Safety valve for a dairy system component
AssigneeGEA Farm Technologies GmbH
InventorsKevin L. Torgerson, Nathan Hedlund, Matthew J. Stuessel
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Abstract
A system for cleaning a dairy animal milker unit and applying dip to a dairy animal, the system includes a main control, an air supply, a water supply, a backflush fluid supply, a dip supply, a stall control for receiving the air, water, backflush fluid and dip supplies, and a safety valve that is adjacent to a downstream portion of the milker unit to control backflush and dip fluids being fed to the milker unit.
Claims9
A safety valve for a dairy system component, the safety valve comprising:
- a first valve;
- a second valve;
- a third valve;
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- a valve piston that moves the safety valve between:
- a closed and milking position, in which the first valve and the second valve are closed, and the third valve is open to a vent;
- and an open and sanitizing position in which the first valve and the second valve are open to a sanitizing fluid flow channel between the first valve and the second valve, and the third valve is closed to the vent.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.