also be by way of example and not of limitation stamped or cast metal parts molded plastic parts or metal reinforced molded plastic parts in an aspect the food waste deflecting band may be discontinuous with the diverters 220 being provided by discontinuities in the food waste deflecting band fig4 is a cross sectional perspective view of a food conveying section 400 having a discontinuous food deflecting band 402 and fig5 is a bottom view of food conveying section 400 but without dishwasher inlet 144 being shown food conveying section 400 is the same as food conveying section 102 u2032 other than discontinuous food deflecting band 402 discontinuous food waste deflecting band 402 has a plurality of discontinuities 404 therein spaced around food deflecting band 402 only one of which is shown in fig4 in the aspect shown in fig4 and 5 each discontinuity 400 is a flattened section 408 of the food waste deflecting band 402 that in an aspect is formed by an indentation 410 in upper wall 210 and a corresponding inwardly extending horizontal projection 412 in lower sloped wall 208 immediately beneath indentation 410 the term u201c horizontal u201d is used in this context with reference to the orientation of projection 412 when food waste disposer 200 is mounted to a sink in this regard horizontal projection 412 may in effect be an inward extension.