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Abstract

A claw for use in a milking system. The claw includes claw bowl member defining a sump having a claw milk line outlet; and a claw body member engageable with or engaged with the claw bowl member to define together with the sump a chamber. The claw body member has four claw milk nipples to allow in use a stream of milk ingress from each respective inlet inwardly into the chamber. The claw is characterized by the claw body member having surface defining arrangement (whether in the form of webs, vanes or otherwise and whether interrelated or otherwise) that in use provide for each stream an (at least partly) inwardly extending surface which in use provides (at least in part) for a locus (e.g. by curving) of substantially non-turbulent milk flow down into the bowl, and including at least one removable weight housed therein but not in communication with the chamber(s).

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