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US 2021/0239671 A1Published application
Measuring arrangement for optically measuring milk during milking
AssigneeGEA Farm Technologies GmbH
InventorsOlaf SUHR, Adib MATTY
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Abstract
An optical milk measuring arrangement operative during a milking operation, and including an optical measuring device for measuring optical properties of milk in a measuring region, in which at least part of the milk fed to the measuring arrangement collects. The measuring arrangement includes a main channel and a measuring channel, and these channels are in fluid communication with one another in a region of a common inlet and a common outlet, and the measuring channel has a lower flow velocity than a flow velocity in the main channel.
Claims17
-16. (canceled)
An optical milk measuring apparatus comprising:
- a main milk channel having an inlet and an outlet;
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- a milk measurement channel in fluid communication with the main milk channel between the inlet and the outlet, defining a measurement region, and having a milk flow rate that is less than a milk flow rate in the main milk channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.