Patent ID: 7954739

Claim:
A garbage disposal apparatus comprising: a shredding device configured to communicate with a drain opening of a sink via a connecting member, and being configured to shred garbage put in through the drain opening of the sink and the connecting member; a transverse conveying device disposed under the shredding device, and being configured to convey the shredded garbage in a transverse direction; a dehydrating device disposed adjacent to the transverse conveying device and into which the shredded garbage conveyed through the transverse conveying device is introduced, and being configured to dehydrate the shredded garbage while conveying the shredded garbage upward; a drying device disposed adjacent to the dehydrating device and into which the shredded garbage discharged through the dehydrating device is supplied via a chute, and being configured to dry the shredded garbage while rotating so as to reduce the volume of the shredded cabbage; a garbage receptacle disposed under the drying device so as to be able to be pulled out, and into which the shredded garbage dried and reduced in volume by the drying device is configured to be dropped from the drying device and collected; and a garbage strainer that is detachably disposed in the connecting member and doubles as a starting switch through the drain opening of the sink, wherein the dehydrating device, the drying device, and the garbage receptacle are disposed in a main body casing, the shredding device and the transverse conveying device are disposed in a side casing fixed to the main body casing, and the connecting member is coupled to the side casing, wherein the shredding device comprises a shredder and a retaining blade, the shredder having two parallel rotating shafts which are configured to rotate in opposite directions to each other and which are axially supported by the casing in a rotatable manner, and each of the rotating shafts has a plurality of shredding blades, and the retaining blade is disposed above the shredder, has a rotating shaft which is axially supported by the side casing in a rotatable manner, and is configured to press down garbage from above, wherein the transverse conveying device comprises an approximately semi-cylindrical conveying trough having a plurality of drainage holes formed in a peripheral wall thereof, transverse conveying screw disposed in the conveying trough, and a rotating shaft which is axially supported by the side casing in a rotatable manner, wherein the rotating shaft of the transverse conveying device, the rotating shafts of the shredder, and the rotating shaft of the retaining blade are configured to be rotated in this order in set directions by a single shredding motor in conjunction with one another, at a reduced speed with respect to the number of revolutions of the shredding motor, and wherein the retaining blade is configured to be driven at a reduced speed while the shredding motor is driven so as to be able to feed garbage into the shredder continuously.