NON-TWISTING INSERT AND SLEEVE FOR A TEATCUP ASSEMBLY FOR A DAIRY ANIMAL Russian patent published in 2022 - IPC A01J5/08 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to agriculture, in particular, to milking apparatuses. Insert of the sleeve of the teatcup assembly comprises a nozzle forming a nipple hole and a cylinder connected with the nozzle and forming a channel and a longitudinal axis aligned with the nipple hole. The cylinder therein comprises an upper locking ring connected with the lower part of the cylinder, extending radially outward from the cylinder. The lower part of the cylinder forms an alignment-providing recess placed at a distance in the radial direction from the longitudinal axis and configured to interact with the sleeve wedge so as to be capable of ending the interaction. The teatcup assembly comprises an insert and a sleeve, wherein the insert of the sleeve is placed in said sleeve and the sleeve forms a lower hole with an inner annular edge located below the upper locking ring in the insert of the sleeve. The sleeve therein comprises a wedge located in the alignment-providing recess.

EFFECT: efficiency of the milking process is increased.

18 cl, 7 dwg