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2 unusual facts about Salad spinner


Salad spinner

Two patents by French designers, Jean Mantelet and Gilberte Fouineteau, were particularly influential in the early development of the product's design.

In 1971, Jean Mantelet filed a patent for a "Salad Dryer" a hand-operated, centrifugally-driven device along with another called the "Household Drying Machine" which could also be used for salads.



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Michel Tcherevkoff

Working as the creative eye for important clients, Tcherevkoff has created a couture dress made from toothbrushes for Johnson & Johnson, a massive “sensorium” where visitors could experience fragrance visually for Firmenich, morphed a salad spinner into an amusement park ride for Bed Bath and Beyond.