Kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus
View Patent ↗The present invention relates to an apparatus for facilitating the corralling of food debris solids and liquids within the in sink space, and prevents dish ware from crowding the sink drain for enabling such debris to be deposited immediately to the garbage disposal. This is due to the fact that the apparatus creates a physical barrier by having a vertical structure height, which overcomes the height of multiple levels of dish ware to be held back from the sink drain hole preventing glass ware to tip over when jammed together in a sink thereby preventing its breakage.
1. A kitchen sink debris corralling and transfer apparatus comprising:
an angular, walled structure, having an inner wall and an outer wall, the structure having an inverted conical frustum shape for inserting within a kitchen sink flange opening;
wherein the structure forms:
an in-sink orifice having a top portion having a circumference of a first diameter and a pair of handholds positioned opposite each other proximate to the circumference; and
a sink flange orifice of a second diameter, the second diameter smaller than the first diameter of the top portion, the sink flange orifice positioned in the sink flange opening, the interior of the walled structure being open and unobstructed from the in-sink orifice to the said sink flange orifice and located in vertical arrangement in proximity to the sink flange orifice with at least one aperture, the at least one aperture covered by an arched top flap covering, wherein, when inserted into the sink flange opening, the vertical length of a first portion of the apparatus protruding from the top of the kitchen sink floor is greater than the vertical length of a second portion of the apparatus extending below the sink floor.
2. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the ratio of the vertical length of the first portion of the apparatus protruding from the top of the kitchen sink floor and the vertical length of the second portion of the apparatus extending below the sink floor is approximately 3:1.
3. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the sink flange has a top surface and wherein a first portion of the at least one aperture is positioned above the top of the sink flange and a second portion of the at least one aperture is positioned below the top surface of sink flange.
4. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the minimum distance from a distal point of the at least one aperture to a terminal end of the apparatus is approximately ⅝ of an inch.
5. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one aperture has a minimum width of approximately 0.25 inches and the minimum height of the at least one aperture is approximately 0.50 inches.
6. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the arch flap covering the at least one aperture has a minimum height of approximately 0.25 inches and a minimum width of approximately 0.25 inches.
7. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein at least one arch flap covers each of the at least one aperture.
8. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a single arch flap covers all of the at least one aperture.
9. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the arch flap is an extension of an inner wall of the apparatus.
10. The kitchen sink corralling and transfer apparatus of claim 1 , wherein each of the pair of hand holds has a minimum height of approximately ⅜ of an inch.