Dairy freestall cross clamp assembly
AssigneeGEA Farm Technologies GmbH
InventorsTodd Finn, Gale Burdick, Doug Eckhoff
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Abstract
A dairy animal freestall cross clamp assembly including a first clamp portion defining a first recess, the first recess having a first axis; a second clamp portion releasably joined to the first clamp portion and defining a second recess, the second recess having a second axis that is not parallel to and intersects with the first axis; and an insert disposed between and joined to the first clamp portion and the second clamp portion, the insert defining a first pocket opposing the first recess, and a second pocket for opposing the second recess. The insert can be resilient to avoid crushing of rail members and resist impact loads.
Claims6
A dairy animal freestall cross clamp assembly comprising:
- a first clamp portion defining a first recess, the first recess having a first axis;
- a second clamp portion joined to the first clamp portion and defining a second recess, the second recess having a second axis arranged at a predetermined angle to the first axis;
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- an insert disposed between the first clamp portion and the second clamp portion, the insert defining a first pocket opposing the first recess and defining a second pocket opposing the second recess, wherein the insert is resilient and defines an indexing step extending into the first recess and engaging the first clamp portion to transfer torsional loads therebetween and to at least partially define the predetermined angle between the first axis and the second axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.