Patent ID: 8579218

Claim:
A food waste disposer comprising: a food conveying section, a motor section and a grind and discharge section, the grind and discharge section disposed between the food conveying section and the motor section, the food conveying section conveying food waste to a grind section of the grind and discharge section; the grind section including a grind mechanism, the grind mechanism including a stationary grind ring and a rotating shredder plate assembly rotated by an electric motor of the motor section that rotates within the stationary grind ring to grind food waste; the rotating shredder plate assembly including a shredder plate with one or more lugs; and the motor having a stator and a rotor, the rotor having a rotor shaft entrained in at least one self-compensating bearing assembly, the self-compensating bearing assembly having a compressible bearing having an inside diameter that is reduced when the bearing is compressed to conform the inside diameter to an outside diameter of the rotor shaft.