Abstract: A reciprocatory piston type compressor having a cylinder block in which a plurality of compression chambers permit a plurality of reciprocatory pistons to be reciprocated so as to compress a refrigerant gas drawn from a suction chamber formed in an end housing into the compression chambers through suction ports of a valve plate, opened and closed by a suction valve mechanism with a plurality of resilient radial suction valves having a free end thereof, respectively, and surrounded by cutoff slots formed in a suction valve sheet, and to discharge the compressed refrigerant gas from the compression chambers into a discharge chamber formed in the end housing through discharge ports of the valve plate, opened and closed by resilient discharge valves.