Patent ID: 9581380
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: F25D

Claim:
1. A refrigeration system comprising a hermetically sealed refrigerant system, separated refrigeration component platforms, flexible and hermetically sealed refrigeration lines connected to the platforms, refrigerant components separately mounted on the platforms and connected and hermetically sealed to ends of the refrigerant lines on the platforms, the platforms being radially repositionable, the refrigerant lines being hermetically sealed to the refrigeration components, and when repositioning the platforms radially with respect to other platforms the refrigeration components or their connections are not stressed, wherein the hermetically sealed refrigerant lines comprise rectangular U-shaped lines having middle portions and parallel leg portions, the middle portions extending between the platforms and the leg portions extending freely rotatably through guide openings near sides of the platforms, the leg portions further extending from the guide openings across the platforms and terminating in fixed end portions on the platforms, the fixed end portions being hermetically connected to the refrigeration components on the platforms, wherein the leg portions of the hermetically sealed refrigerant lines are twistable between the fixed end portions and guide openings about longitudinal axes as the platforms are moved radially relative to each other.