Abstract: The present invention refers to a new construction for the evaporation tray for the defrost water in refrigeration systems of refrigerators and freezers and, more especifically, to a new construction for the evaporation tray of the type which is affixed onto the shell of the hermetic compressor of said refrigeration systems.

Abstract: Suction muffler assembly for hermetic compressors of the type including a cylinder block (4) mounted in the upper part of a hermetic case (3) and provided with a cylinder (10) lodging a reciprocating piston (15); a valve plate (11) attached to an open end of the cylinder (10) and having a suction orifice (11a); a suction muffler assembly attached to the cylinder block (4) and including a hollow muffler body (100) provided with a gas inlet opening (101, 130a) and a gas outlet opening (121); and a suction duct (140) having one inlet end (141) connected to the gas outlet opening (121) and an opposite outlet end (142) in communication with the suction orifice (11a) of the valve plate (11), said hollow muffler body (100) being formed of a lower part (110), presenting an end peripheral edge (117), and a cover upper part (120) carrying the gas outlet opening (121) of the muffler body (100) and including a peripheral lower seating surface portion (127) to be seated onto the end peripheral edge (117) of the lower part