Patent ID: 6810776
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: B25B

Abstract:
A method for freeing a jammed garbage disposal unit, said unit of the general type having a waste compartment suspended beneath a narrow drain opening on a floor of a sink, a rotor plate on the bottom of said waste compartment with two or more detente pulverize waste that is washed into said waste compartment through the drain opening, said method comprising;a. providing a device having a horizontal handle secured at a proximal end of a vertical shaft and, immediately adjacent to a distal end of said shaft, a horizontal toolbar slidably secured to said shaft through a transverse passage, said toolbar being a single straight bar with two ends that are only slightly flared to prevent said toolbar from slipping out of said shaft, b. sliding said toolbar entirely to one side of said shaft so that one of said ends of said toolbar is proximate to said shaft and said shaft and toolbar are adapted to angle into the narrow sink drain opening of said disposal unit, c. angling said shaft and toolbar through said sink drain opening into said waste ,compartment d. tapping said toolbar against a side of said waste compartment or otherwise moving said toolbar to a centered position on said shaft, and e. engaging said detente cutters with said toolbar and turning the handle of said device to rotate and unjam said rotor plate.