Sink scraper and garbage tamper for electric garbage disposal

Abstract

A device constructed in one solid piece for scraping, directing and tamping garbage to and through flexible splash guards leading into an electric garbage disposal unit in a kitchen sink includes a cylindrically shaped main tamper body, a continuous ridge extending from the external surfaces of the main tamper body and bisecting these surfaces to form three distinct ridge sections, and a cylindrically shaped handle attached to the main tamper body and of a smaller diameter. A portion of the main tamper body and the ridge taper toward the handle.

I claim: 
     
       1. A device for scraping, directing, and tamping garbage to and through flexible splash guards that rim a drain opening leading directly into an electric garbage disposal unit positioned below a kitchen sink; said device being constructed in one solid piece and comprising: a cylindrically shaped main tamper body including a flat base surface for tamping and an axially extending side surface substantially perpendicular to said base surface; an integrally formed continuous ridge extending from the base surface and side surface of the main tamper body which bisects said surfaces to form three distinct ridge sections, one of said sections bisecting the base surface and the other two sections being diametrically opposed to one another and extending axially along the side surface .Iadd.of the device .Iaddend.with a terminal portion of each of said two diametrically opposed ridge sections sloping toward the side surface .Iadd.of the device.Iaddend.; and a cylindrically shaped handle integrally connected to the main tamper body and having a diameter .[.equal to about half.]. .Iadd.less than .Iaddend.the diameter of the main tamper body.[., a terminal portion of the side surface tapering to a diameter equal to that of the handle and with a slope equal to that of the terminal portion of each of said two diametrically opposed ridge sections.]..