FOREIGN-MATTER INFLOW PREVENTION DEVICE OF LONG SINK

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a foreign-matter inflow prevention device which prevents the inflow of foreign matter such as chopsticks and a spoon into an outlet in a long sink equipped with a wide raw garbage dropping base and having the outlet provided at one end. SOLUTION: The long sink 1 comprises the wide raw garbage dropping base 2, and a discharge groove 5 which has a bottom surface inclined in a longitudinal direction so as to discharge raw garbage with water from above. The long sink 1, the outlet 6 of which is provided at the downstream end of the discharge groove 5 so as to dispose of the raw garbage dropped thereinto, is concurrently used by a large number of persons in a company cafeteria etc. In the long sink 1, a space 7 near the outlet 6 is widely provided; a partition plate 10 equipped with an opening 11 for the passage of the raw garbage is provided in the space 7 in such a manner as to obliquely come across the sink 1 at a proper interval from an end of the dropping base 2; and a protector plate 12 for receiving a leading end of the foreign matter flowing into the opening 11 is provided in such a manner as to face the opening 11 of the partition plate 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT