Refrigeration motor-compressor

Claim 1

IN A REFRIGERATION MOTOR-COMPRESSER ASSEMBLY INCLUDING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR-DRIVEN COMPRESSOR, MEANS FOR INHIBITING THE ENTRY OF THE HEAVIER COMPONENTS OF A NONHOMOGENEOUS FLUID INTO THE INLET OF THE COMPRESSOR WITHOUT UNDULY RESTRICTING THE ENTRY OF LIGHTER COMPONENTS, COMPRISING STATIONARY WALL PORTIONS DEFINING A GENERALLY CLOSED STATIONARY INLET CHAMBER ADAPTED TO BE INTERPOSED BETWEEN A COMPRESSOR INLET AND THE SOURCE OF FLUID THEREFOR, SAID WELL PORTIONS DEFINING A STATIONARY AXIALLY DIRECTED ANNULAR INLET ORIFICE, A DEFLECTOR DRIVEN BY THE MOTOR AND ROTATABLE UPON A VERTICAL AXIS SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE PLANE OF AND CONCENTRIC WITH SAID ORIFICE, SAID DEFLECTOR INCLUDING AN ANNULAR MEMBER OF GREATER DIAMETER THAN AND DIVERGING OUTWARDLY TOWARD AND SUBSTANTIALLY COVERING SAID ORIFICE AND HAVING A RADIALLY OUTWARDLY EXTENDING RIM PORTION BELOW AND PROXIMATE TO BUT SPACED FROM SAID WALL PORTIONS AND COOPERATING THEREWITH TO DEFINE AN ANNULAR RADIALLY DIRECTED SUBSTANTIALLY UNOBSTRUCTED INLET AREA TO SAID AFOREMENTIONED ANNULAR ORIFICE, SAID INLET AREA BEING LOCATED RADIALLY OUTWARDLY OF SAID ORIFICE AND BONDED ON ONE SIDE BY SAID STATIONARY WALL PORTIONS AND ON THE OTHER SIDE BY SAID ROTATABLE