Patent ID: 8056179

Claim:
A centrifugal water separator for mop, comprising: a bucket including a first chamber and a second chamber respectively defined therein, the first chamber and the second chamber separated from each other, two ears respectively extending from an upper edge of the bucket and facing to each other, each ear having a slot downward defined therein and a groove laterally defined therein; a drive device partially received in the first chamber, the drive device including a seat received and secured in the first chamber, a sunken hole defined in a bottom portion of the seat and a ring gear formed on the seat surrounding the sunken hole, a pedal pivotally mounted to the seat and reciprocally wiggle relative to the seat, a curved toothed edge formed on a lower side of the pedal relative to the pivot of the pedal, a planet gear set mounted within the ring gear, the planet gear set including a sun gear located on a center of the ring gear and multiple planet gears equally surround the sun gear, each planet gear engaged to the ring gear and the sun gear, a drive element co-axially and rotatably mounted to the planet gear set for driving the multiple planet gears and engaged to the curved toothed edge of the pedal, an axle having a first end extending through the drive element and the sun gear, the axle selectively driven by the sun gear; a separating trough longitudinally and securely mounted to a second end of the axle and rotatably received in the second chamber in the bucket; and a handle having a bow-shaped frame with two ends respectively pivotally mounted to a corresponding one of the two ears, an indentation defined in the frame and co-axially corresponding to the separating trough, the frame having two opposite ends respectively formed with an insertion portion selectively inserted into a corresponding one of the two slots, each insertion portion having a pivot outwardly and laterally extending therefrom, and extending through and moved along a corresponding one of the two grooves in each of the ears.