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Abstract

A salad spinner dryer attachment is provided for a food processor having a base housing containing an electrical motor drive with a deck located on top of the base housing for removably mounting a working bowl thereon in predetermined engaged fixed position and having a tool drive shaft projecting vertically above the deck which drive shaft is rotatable by the motor drive at a first rotational speed around a main vertical axis of rotation. The attachement has an upstanding auxiliary bowl removably mountable upon the deck in place of the working bowl in the predetermined engaged fixed position. This auxiliary bowl has an uninterrupted side wall and a bottom trough for catching and holding any water which drains down its inside surface. A slotted basket is rotatably mountable in the auxiliary bowl to rotate around the main vertical axis at a second rotational speed substantially less than the first rotational speed of the tool drive shaft. A removable coupling sleeve is engageable with the tool drive shaft for rotating thereby about the main axis and has an exterior friction drive surface concentric with the main vertical axis with a radius 'r' from this vertical axis. The auxiliary bowl carries a plurality of rotatable wheels whose perimeters roll against said exterior frictional drive surface. A driven rotor member is rotatable about the main axis and has an interior friction drive surface concentric with the main axis with a radius 'R' larger than radius 'r' of the exterior drive surface on the coupling sleeve. The perimeter of the wheels rolling against the interior friction drive surface of radius R turns the driven rotor member at a reduced second rotational speed which is considerably less than the first rotational speed as a function of radius r divided by radius R. Accordingly, components of salads such as lettuce, spinach and other greens, deposited in the rotatably basket are spun by the basket with water therefrom being thrown against the side wall of the auxiliary bowl to be deposited in the trough thereion for drying the salad.

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