Milking system with sensor device
AssigneeLely Patent N.V.
InventorsBas Schoutens, Mattheus Jacob De Hullu
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Abstract
A milking system for milking a milking animal includes a teatcup for fitting on a teat of the milking animal, and a measuring chamber connected directly and rigidly thereto. The teatcup has a longitudinal direction, and a first milk outflow orifice for milk outflow parallel to the longitudinal direction. The measuring chamber has a peripheral wall, a milk inlet in fluid communication therewith, a second milk outflow orifice to a milk tube, a vacuum outlet, and a sensor device for determining a property of the milk in the measuring chamber. In a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the measuring chamber has a first inside diameter in a first direction, and a smaller second diameter in a perpendicular second direction.
Claims17
A milking system for milking a milking animal with teats, comprising:
- at least one teatcup for fitting on a teat of the milking animal, said teatcup having a longitudinal direction and being provided with a first milk outflow orifice that is configured for milk outflow parallel to the longitudinal direction, and
- a measuring chamber with a peripheral wall, connected directly and rigidly to the teatcup, a milk inlet in fluid communication with the first milk outflow orifice, with a second milk outflow orifice to a milk tube, and with a vacuum outlet, the teatcup and the measuring chamber forming one rigid whole,
- wherein the measuring chamber further comprises a sensor device that is configured for determining a property of the milk in the measuring chamber,
- wherein the measuring chamber has, in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, a first inside diameter in a first direction, and a smaller second diameter in a mutually perpendicular second direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.