Sound insulation assembly for waste disposer
AssigneeInsinkerator LLC
InventorsLiPing Wang, Walter A. Bennage, Kelly T. Gamble
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Abstract
Sound insulation assemblies for use with waste disposers, waste disposer systems having such sound insulation assemblies, and methods of installing such sound insulation assemblies onto waste disposers are provided. The sound insulation assemblies include a sound insulation layer that wraps around an upper portion of the waste disposer housing encompassing at least a grinding section and a food inlet section of the waste disposer, and a sound insulation trim shell layer that attaches to the sound insulation layer and surrounds at least a portion of the sound insulation layer.
Claims20
A sound insulation assembly for use with a waste disposer having a waste disposer housing, the sound insulation assembly comprising:
- a sound insulation layer that wraps around an upper portion of a waste disposer housing encompassing at least a grinding section and a food inlet section of the waste disposer;
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- a sound insulation trim shell layer that attaches to the sound insulation layer and surrounds at least a portion of the sound insulation layer.
A waste disposer system comprising:
- a disposer assembly that includes:
- a waste disposer having a food inlet section, a motor section, a grinding section disposed between the food inlet section and the motor section, and a waste disposer housing that encompasses the food inlet section, the motor section, and the grinding section;
- a mounting assembly connected to the waste disposer and configured to connect the waste disposer to a sink;
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- a sound insulation assembly that includes:
- a sound insulation layer that wraps around an upper portion of a the waste disposer housing encompassing at least the grinding section and the food inlet section of the waste disposer;
- and
- a sound insulation trim shell layer that attaches to the sound insulation layer and surrounds at least a portion of the sound insulation layer.
A method of installing a sound insultation assembly on a waste disposer, the method comprising:
- attaching a sound insulation layer to an upper portion of a waste disposer housing encompassing at least a grinding section and a food inlet section of the waste disposer;
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- attaching a sound insulation trim shell layer to the sound insulation layer, wherein the sound insulation trim shell layer surrounds at least a portion of the sound insulation layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.