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US 12,329,122 B2Granted
Automated teat dip fluid manifold
AssigneeGEA Farm Technologies GmbH
InventorsMatthew J. Stuessel, Wolfgang Schulze-Wilmert, Thomas Orban
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Abstract
A teat dip fluid manifold and methods for distributing teat dip fluids, and including redundant valve sets and pressure monitoring between valve pairs to determine valve condition.
Claims7
A method of operating an automated milking stall unit comprising teat dip delivery system, which comprises a teat dip fluid galley in fluid communication with an upstream and downstream valve, the method comprising:
- actuating, by a controller, the upstream and downstream valves from an open position to a closed position;
- filling the galley with fluid after the upstream and downstream valves are actuated to the closed position;
- sensing, by a pressure monitor in communication with the galley, a galley pressure while the upstream and downstream valves are in the closed position, wherein the fluid is in the galley during the sensing of the galley pressure;
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- receiving, by the controller from the pressure monitor, a signal indicating that the sensed galley pressure is outside a predetermined range of galley pressures.
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