Compressor having a lubricant pick-up tube guard
AssigneeTecumseh Products Company
InventorDavid C. Hurley
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Abstract
A compressor assembly including a housing having an oil sump containing a liquid lubricant, a compressor mechanism disposed within the housing, a vertical, rotatable shaft associated with the compressor mechanism and provided with a conduit having a downwardly directed open end extending beneath the surface level of the lubricant and through which oil is conveyed to the compressor mechanism, whereby the lubricant is drawn into the conduit open end, and a guard in surrounding relationship with, and having an aperture disposed beneath and proximate to, the conduit open end, the guard fixed relative to the housing, the sump in fluid communication with the conduit through the aperture.
Claims7
A compressor assembly, comprising:
- a housing having an oil sump, said sump containing a liquid lubricant;
- a compressor mechanism disposed within said housing;
- a vertical, rotatable shaft associated with said compressor mechanism and provided with a conduit having an open end through which oil is conveyed to said compressor mechanism, wherein said conduit open end is downwardly directed, said conduit open end extending beneath the surface level of said liquid lubricant, whereby said lubricant is drawn into said conduit open end;
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- a guard in surrounding relationship with said conduit open end and having an aperture disposed beneath and proximal said conduit open end, said guard fixed relative to said housing, said sump in fluid communication with said conduit through said aperture, said guard provided with a vent, said vent fluidly communicating the interior of said sump;
- a portion of the liquid lubricant in said sump being received into said guard, a portion of said liquid lubricant received into said guard being expelled from said interior of said guard through said vent during compressor operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.