Milk claw
AssigneeThe De Laval Separator Company
InventorDenis C. Yang
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Abstract
A milk claw includes upper and lower body portions forming a milk collecting chamber having a central vertical axis. Four inlet nozzles slant downwardly to said upper body portion while extending tangentially in one direction relative to said axis, whereby milk from these nozzles is caused to spin in said one direction about said axis as the milk descends in a spiral path in said chamber. A discharge nozzle opens into the lower part of the chamber at a region located in the spiral path of the spinning milk and discharges the milk tangentially from the chamber in the direction of said spin.
Claims5
A milk claw comprising a hollow body forming a milk collecting chamber having a central vertical axis, said body having upper and lower portions, four inlet nozzles protruding from said hollow body and opening into said chamber at regions spaced around said axis, the nozzles slanting downwardly toward said body at an acute angle to the horizontal while extending tangentially in one and the same direction relative to said axis, said nozzles being positioned to cause milk entering the chamber from the nozzles to spin in said one direction about said axis as the milk descends in a spiral path in the chamber, and a discharge nozzle protruding from the lower portion of said body and opening into said chamber at a region located in the spiral path of the spinning milk, the discharge nozzle extending from said chamber tangentially in said one direction relative to said axis, whereby the discharge nozzle discharges the milk tangentially from said chamber in the direction of said spin.
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