Structure for supporting a motor-compressor unit in a housing

Claim 1

A mechanical refrigeration system including a motorcompressor unit having a crankcase mounted thereon, a housing adapted for receiving therein said motor-compressor unit, a plurality of brackets secured on the interior of the housing in suitable spaced relation to one another, openings of a number corresponding to that of said brackets and formed at the base of said crankcase of said motor-compressor unit in correspondingly spaced relation to one another and coil springs of the number corresponding to that of said brackets, wherein the improvement comprises that the upper end portion of said each coil spring is wedged into an arm portion of the corresponding bracket, with the lower end portion of each coil spring being engaged with the corresponding opening whereby said motor-compressor unit is yieldably suspended in said housing, wherein each of said coil springs has a radially outwardly extending end extremity adjacent to said other end of said coil spring and further comprising engagement notches one for each opening formed adjacent to said openings at the base of said crank case, each of said engagement notches adapted to retain firmly in place the corresponding one of said coil springs after the latter has been engaged in said opening.