US 12,329,122 B2
Automated teat dip fluid manifold
Matthew J. Stuessel, Alma Center, WI (US); Wolfgang Schulze-Wilmert, Gronau (DE); and Thomas Orban, Dortmund (DE)
Assigned to GEA Farm Technologies GmbH, Bönen (DE)
Filed by GEA FARM TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, Bönen (DE)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/115,848.
Application 18/115,848 is a continuation of application No. 16/178,996, filed on Nov. 2, 2018, granted, now 11,617,343.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/581,514, filed on Nov. 3, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/581,526, filed on Nov. 3, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0200345 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. A01J 7/04 (2006.01); A01J 5/007 (2006.01); A01J 5/04 (2006.01); A01J 7/02 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01); F16L 55/07 (2006.01)
CPC A01J 7/04 (2013.01) [A01J 5/007 (2013.01); A01J 5/044 (2013.01); A01J 7/022 (2013.01); A61K 9/0041 (2013.01); F16L 55/07 (2013.01); F16L 2201/20 (2013.01); F16L 2201/30 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. 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; and
receiving, by the controller from the pressure monitor, a signal indicating that the sensed galley pressure is outside a predetermined range of galley pressures.