Salad spinner with improved drive assembly
AssigneeLifetime Brands, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey Siegel, William J. Lazaroff
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Abstract
A salad spinner for drying food articles and household items includes a transparent bowl and a perforated basket disposed in the bowl. The basket further includes a cylindrical wall connected to a bottom wall of the basket and disposed at its center. The salad spinner further includes a drive assembly attachable to the cylindrical wall of the basket for spinning the basket relative to the bowl whereby water on the food articles is passed through the perforated wall of the basket and displaced to the bowl.
Claims23
A device for drying food comprising:
- a bowl having an open top and a closed bottom;
- a basket disposed in said bowl, said basket having a side wall and a central cylindrical wall integrally connected to a bottom portion of said basket;
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- a drive assembly attachable to said central cylindrical wall of said basket for spinning said basket relative to said bowl, the drive assembly comprising a cylindrical plunger housing having spiral threads to engage with spiral grooves of said central cylindrical wall of said basket.
A device for drying food comprising:
- a bowl having an open top and a closed bottom;
- a basket disposed in said bowl, said basket having a side wall and a central cylindrical wall integrally connected to a bottom portion of said basket, wherein said basket further includes a plurality of spacer walls radially extending from the cylindrical wall to the side wall of the basket to separate an interior volume of said basket into a plurality of regions;
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- a drive assembly attachable to said central cylindrical wall of said basket for spinning said basket relative to said bowl.
A device for drying food comprising:
- a bowl having an open top and a closed bottom;
- a basket disposed in said bowl, said basket having a side wall and a central cylindrical wall integrally connected to a bottom portion of said basket;
- a drive assembly attachable to said central cylindrical wall of said basket for spinning said basket relative to said bowl comprising:
- a linearly reciprocating plunger structure moveable between an unlocked and a locked position;
- a housing within which the plunger reciprocates;
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- a conversion mechanism for converting reciprocating movement of said plunger to a rotary motion of said housing.
A device for drying food comprising:
- a bowl having an open top and a closed bottom;
- a perforated basket disposed in said bowl, said basket having a side wall and a central cylindrical wall integrally connected to a bottom portion of said basket;
- a drive assembly attachable to said central cylindrical wall of said basket for rotating said basket relative to said bowl;
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- a removable lid connectable to a top edge of said bowl and having a central opening therein through which said drive assembly passes without being mounted to said lid.
A device for drying food comprising:
- a bowl having an open top and a closed bottom;
- a basket disposed in said bowl, said basket having an open top, a base, an outside cylindrical wall extending from the base and an inside cylindrical wall extending from the base;
- a drive assembly attachable to said inside cylindrical wall of said basket for spinning said basket relative to said bowl comprising:
- a linearly reciprocating plunger structure moveable;
- a housing within which the plunger reciprocates, the housing including means for coupling the housing to the inside cylindrical wall of the basket;
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- a conversion mechanism for converting reciprocating movement of said plunger to a rotary motion of said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.