# John W Hammes — Patents explained on PatentBrief

John W Hammes has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How the First Modern Kitchen Garbage Disposal Was Invented](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/2012680/garbage-disposal-hammes) — granted 1935
  John W. Hammes' 1933 invention of a motorized grinding device that mounts under a kitchen sink to pulverize food waste into small particles for disposal through plumbing.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/john-w-hammes

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