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US 2012/0234950 A1Published application
Food waste disposer with self-compensating bearing assembly
AssigneeEmerson Electric Co.
InventorsRandall E. Hammer, James Hansche
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Abstract
A food waste disposer system, including a food conveying section and a motor section. A grinding section is coupled between the food conveying section and the motor section. The motor section includes an electric motor having a rotor. The rotor has a rotor shaft entrained in at least one self-compensating bearing assembly. In an aspect, the self-compensating bearing assembly has a split spherical bearing and a compressive bearing pocket.
Claims16
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;
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- the motor having a stator and a rotor, the rotor having a rotor shaft entrained in at least one self-compensating bearing assembly.
2 more elements
An electric motor, comprising:
- a stator and a rotor, the rotor having a rotor shaft;
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- at least one self-compensating bearing assembly in which the rotor shaft is entrained.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.