Template:Did you know nominations/Salad spinner

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The result was: promoted by Gatoclass (talk) 14:09, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Salad spinner

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... that a user of an early salad spinner (pictured) remarked that the new product "saves shaking my salad basket out of the kitchen window"?

ALT1:... that salad spinners (pictured) use centrifugal force to remove excess water?
ALT2:... that the first salad spinners (pictured) were branded as "kitchen junk” and viewed with hesitance by "paper towel diehards"?
Reviewed: Kingseat Hospital
Comment: I need someone to review the patent images carefully. I far as I can tell there are no copyright restrictions but I would prefer another set of eyes have a look. (They were all uploaded by me)

Created/expanded by France3470 (talk). Self nom at 21:20, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

(Note: I am not an expert) About the images, it appears that since each patent was filed in the 1970s (before 1989) and there are no copyright notices, they should be good to go. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris857 (talk • contribs) 21:36, December 15, 2011

Interesting, carefully researched article. Length, date of creation and original hook are fine. The images should be OK as "The text and illustrations of US patents are in the public domain". Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:32, 24 December 2011 (UTC)