Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Measuring Devices (hierarchy name)
5. measuring devices (instruments)
6. [measuring devices for extent]
7. quantity measuring devices
8. [quantity measuring devices for substances]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Tools and Equipment
5. equipment
6. equipment by context
7. culinary equipment
8. food processing equipment
9. dairy tools
10. milk testers

Anotations

Scope note:

Instruments for estimating the percentage of butter fat in milk. The instrument comprises a cylindrical bottle that tapers off at one end to a graduated tube with a conical bulb termination. It is often used with instruments gauging the purity of milk, "lactometers."