Salad spinner

[0028]A preferred salad spinner is shown in the accompanying figures, including the exploded view of FIG. 1 illustrating the manner in which the salad spinner is assembled. In the illustrated version, a salad spinner 10 includes an upper lid 20, an inner basket 30, a lower bowl 40, and a bottom lid or tray 50.

[0029]The lid 20 preferably includes a hand powered motor providing a mechanism for causing the basket to spin. The motor may take any of a variety of forms, and in the illustrated version a handle 21a is pivotally attached to a post 75 extending upwardly from a perimeter of a disk 21b positioned on the upper side of the lid on a hub 22. Most preferably, the disk 21b rotates on an axle 72 carried on the center 22a of the hub 22, with the axle extending through the hub to the lower side of the lid 20.

[0030]The hub optionally includes internal components such as one or more gears to convey the circular motion of the handle and disk to spinning motion of a lower cage 23 attached to t