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1. A docking device of a milking parlour in the form of a rotatable, rotary platform (2) with a plurality of milking stalls (3) and a common circular milk line (20) that receives milk from animals milked in the milking stalls (3), the docking device comprising:
a first milk line (30-34), connected to the rotatable platform (2) configured to receive a milk sample from an animal (1) milked in a milking stall (3), the milk sample received by the first milk line being separate from the milk received by the common circular milk line (20); a second milk line (35,37) separate from the rotatable platform (2) and configured to feed the milk sample to a milk sampling apparatus that is also separate from the rotatable platform (2); a first docking unit (34) comprising an outlet opening (34a) of the first milk line (30-34); and a second docking unit (35) comprising an inlet opening (35a) of the second milk line (35, 37), one of the first and second docking units (34, 35) is moveable towards the other of the first and second docking units (34, 35) to reach a docking position when the milking stall (3) on the rotatable platform (2) operationally moves along with the rotatable platform to a predetermined rotary position (pn), wherein the one of the first and second docking units (34, 35) comprises an adjusting mechanism (38) that adjusts a position of the one of said first and second docking units (34, 35) in relation to the other of said first and second docking units (34, 35), at least one of the first and second docking units (34, 35) being associated with a guiding surface (34b) configured to guide the other of the first and second docking units (34, 35) during movement of the first and second docking units (34, 35) relative to each other in order to reach the docking position in which a closed connection is accomplished between the outlet opening (34a) of the first docking unit (34) and the inlet opening (35a) of the second docking unit (35). |
