Patent ID: 8646707

Claim:
A uni-directional food waste disposer comprising: a food conveying section that receives food waste and water; a grind section including a grind mechanism, the grind mechanism including a grind ring and a rotating shredder plate assembly that rotates in the grind ring to grind food waste to form ground matter that combines with the water to form a slurry that passes through gaps between the grind ring and a shredder plate of the shredder plate assembly to a discharge area in an upper end bell below the shredder plate; the upper end bell including a circular discharge channel through which the slurry flows to a discharge opening of the upper end bell, a floor of the upper end bell having a circumferential downward slope from a first side of the discharge opening to a second side of the discharge opening so that the discharge channel deepens along the circumferential downward slope of the floor of the upper end bell; a motor section including a motor that rotates the rotating shredder plate assembly when grinding food waste in a direction that is a direction of the circumferential downward slope of the floor of the upper end bell; and the upper end bell including a turbulence imparting feature that imparts turbulence in the slurry as it flows through the discharge channel prior to it being discharged through the discharge opening wherein the turbulence imparting feature also includes the floor being bi-directionally sloped and having a radial downward slope from an outer circumferential wall of the end bell to an inner circumferential wall of the upper end bell surrounding a bore in addition to the circumferential downward slope.