Patent ID: 7500540
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: B29C,F04B

Abstract:
1. A system for closing a suction muffler of a hermetic compressor, said suction muffler comprising: a hollow base; a cover to be coupled to the hollow base, said parts defined by the hollow base and the cover including mutually seatable peripheral flanges; and a retaining means affixing the hollow base to the cover in the joining region where said peripheral flanges are mutually seated, wherein said peripheral flanges are shaped to define, jointly, an internal channel extended along at least part of the circumferential extension of said peripheral flanges and which is opened to the opposite external faces of the latter by means of throughbores axially aligned to each other in pairs, wherein each pair of throughbores maintaining a circumferential distance in relation to an adjacent pair of throughbores, wherein the throughbores of each pair and the internal channel being filled with a gasket of injected material, which projects outwardly from the throughbores so as to define an axial lock portion to be seated on each of the adjacent opposite external faces of said peripheral flanges.