Overload protector mounting apparatus
AssigneeTecumseh Products Company (Compressor)
InventorTara Kandpal
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Abstract
Apparatus for mounting a thermal overload protector to the compressor motor of a hermetically sealed compressor unit. The apparatus includes an arcuate bracket which follows the radial curvature of the stator laminations and which is mounted to the stator end face by bolts simultaneously used to secure the laminations in place. A hollow protector holder made of insulating material is received by a sliding snap-fit on an upstanding plateau in the bracket and is held against rotation therein, the inside of the holder being specifically contoured to receive and hold an overload protector of preselected shell geometry.
Claims13
The combination comprising a compressor motor, a thermal overload protector adapted for electrical connection to said motor and means mounting said protector in thermal proximity to said motor, said means comprising a bracket mounted on a surface of said motor and including a raised platform spaced in assembly from said motor surface, said platform having a hole formed centrally therein, and a hollow protector holder having an opening to receive said protection means and a resilient outer wall, said holder further having a stud and a pair of spaced longitudinally extending ribs formed on said wall, said ribs having respective opposed longitudinally extending grooves formed therein, said holder being slidably received onto said platform with corresponding edges of said platform being received by resilient snap-fit into said hold, said holder being specifically contoured to internally receive and retain said protector.
Apparatus for mounting protection means to a dynamoelectric machine comprising a bracket adapted to be mounted to a surface of said machine and including a raised platform spaced in assembly from said machine surface, and a hollow holder carried by said platform and having an opening contoured to internally receive said protection means, said holder further including means to retain said protection means within said holder and a pair of spaced ribs longitudinally extending along a wall thereof, said ribs having respective opposed longitudinally extending grooves formed therein, said holder being slidably received onto said platform with corresponding edges of said platform being individually received in said grooves.
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