Hermetic motor-compressor unit for refrigeration circuits

Claim 1

Hermetic motor-compressor unit for refrigeration circuits and the like, of the type in which a sealed casing (10) is formed by upper and lower half-shells joined in a horizontal plane and encloses a volumetric motor-compressor (18) for the refrigerant fluid in which the motor-compressor rests on the bottom of the lower half-shell by means of suspension springs, and in which a pair of pipes terminate at the outside of the casing, one of which is a fluid intake pipe (58) opening into the casing (10) through a wall (120) of the lower half-shell and communicating with an intake opening (94) of the motor-compressor, characterized in that the outlet of the intake pipe (58) into the lower half-shell is an orifice (124) in the wall (120) of the lower half-shell, and the intake opening (94) of the motor-compressor (1) is provided with a connector duct (56) which has an inlet aperture (86) facing the outlet orifice (124) of the intake pipe (58) and which carries a suction cup (62) having a peripheral bellows-like skirt that is resiliently deformable in an axial sense, the bottom (128) of which communicates with the interior of the intake duct (56) and the edge (132) of which is pressed into resilient engagement with the inner surface of the wall (120) of the lower half-shell around the outlet orifice (124) whereby the bellows-like suction cup may be resiliently deformed in an axial sense under impact of inducted liquid to allow the liquid to drain into the lower half-shell.