Compressor packaging apparatus

Abstract

A compressor packaging apparatus including a lower plate ( 21 ) mounted on a base board ( 20 ), an intermediate plate and an upper plate ( 24 ), plural compressors ( 1 A, 1 B) each of which has a cylindrical compressor main body ( 2 A, 2 B) having dish-shaped end caps ( 3 A, 3 B, 4 A, 4 B) at both the end portions thereof being placed on the lower plate and fixedly sandwiched between the lower plate and the upper plate while each compressor main body is inserted through the intermediate plate, characterized in that when one kind of compressors are packaged, the lower plate ( 21 ) and the intermediate plate are used with being placed face up, and when another kind of compressors are packaged, the lower plate and the intermediate plate are reversed and used with being placed face down.

1 . A compressor packaging apparatus including a lower plate ( 21 ) mounted on a base board ( 20 ), an intermediate plate and an upper plate ( 24 ), plural compressors ( 1 A,  1 B) each of which has a cylindrical compressor main body ( 2 A,  2 B) having dish-shaped end caps ( 3 A,  3 B,  4 A,  4 B) at both the end portions thereof being placed on the lower plate and fixedly sandwiched between the lower plate and the upper plate while each compressor main body is inserted through the intermediate plate, characterized in that when one kind of compressors are packaged, the lower plate ( 21 ) and the intermediate plate are used with being placed face up, and when another kind of compressors are packaged, the lower plate and the intermediate plate are reversed and used with being placed face down.  
   
   
       2 . The compressor packaging apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein each of the lower plate and the intermediate plate is provided with an identifier for identifying which kind of compressors are packaged.  
   
   
       3 . The compressor packaging apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the intermediate plate comprises a first intermediate plate ( 22 ) through which the compressor main bodies are inserted, and a second intermediate plate ( 23 ) having fitting holes in which paper cores disposed on the end caps at the upper portions of the compressors are engagedly fitted.  
   
   
       4 . The compressor packaging apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the compressor main bodies and the end caps thereof are equipped with various kinds of projections extending outwards from the surfaces thereof, and the intermediate plate is equipped with main fitting holes in which the compressor main bodies are inserted and engagedly fitted, and sub fitting holes that intercommunicate with the main fitting holes so as to extend outwards from the main fitting holes and in which the projections are engagedly fitted in the corresponding sub fitting holes.  
   
   
       5 . The compressor packaging apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein sub fitting holes in which the projections should be engagedly fitted are selected in accordance with the kind of compressors to be packaged.  
   
   
       6 . The compressor packaging apparatus according to  claim 5 , wherein each of the lower plate and the upper plate comprises plural laminated cardboards that are adhesively attached to one another.