Ceiling fan motor adapter
AssigneeHunter Fan Company
InventorsWilliam Walter Walker, Jr., Douglas Troy Mason, Matthew McPherson, Charles William Botkin, Rickey Thomas Jones
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Abstract
A motor adapter assembly can couple a motor shaft for a ceiling fan motor to a downrod. The motor adapter assembly can include a base plate, a cradle with arms extending through the base plate, and a threaded bushing secured between the arms of the cradle. Threading a cap to the threaded bushing can be used to pivot the downrod between an upright position and a pivoted position.
Claims18
A motor adapter assembly for a ceiling fan for coupling a downrod to a motor shaft, the motor adapter assembly comprising:
- a base plate coupled to the motor shaft at a central aperture and including two slots on opposite sides of the central aperture;
- a cradle including two arms with an arm aperture in each arm, with the two arms extending through the two slots on the base plate;
- a bushing having a body with an exterior sidewall, with two opposing channels formed into the body at the sidewall and the two arms of the cradle arranged in the two opposing channels, and a first thread provided on the remainder of the sidewall unoccupied by the channels;
- a pin extending through the arm apertures in each arm and through the downrod to couple the downrod to the cradle;
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- a cap provided around the downrod and including a sidewall having an interior surface with a second thread with the second thread of the cap threadable to the first thread of the bushing;
- wherein the downrod can pivot about the pin between an upright position when the cap is threaded to the bushing and a pivoted position when the cap is not threaded to the bushing.
A motor adapter assembly for coupling a motor shaft of a ceiling fan to a downrod and adapted to pivot between an upright position and a pivoted position, the motor adapter assembly comprising:
- a base plate including a central aperture two slots on opposite sides of the central aperture;
- a cradle including two arms with an arm aperture in each arm, with the two arms extending through the two slots on the base plate;
- a bushing having a body with an exterior sidewall, with two opposing channels formed into the body at the sidewall and the two arms of the cradle arranged in the two opposing channels, and a first thread provided on the remainder of the sidewall unoccupied by the channels;
- a pin extending through the arm apertures in each arm;
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- a cap including a sidewall having an interior surface with a second thread with the second thread of the cap threadable to the first thread of the bushing to secure the pin within the arms of the cradle;
- wherein the motor adapter assembly can pivot about the pin between the upright position when the cap is threaded to the bushing and the pivoted position when the cap is not threaded to the bushing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.