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US 11,692,554 B2Granted
Ceiling fan with multiple blades
AssigneeHunter Fan Company
InventorsCharles William Botkin, Bobby Neal Norwood
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Abstract
A ceiling fan assembly having a motor with a rotor with multiple blade mounts, multiple blades having a removable blade tip, a balancing weight mount carried by the multiple blades and covered by the removable tip, and where each of the multiple blades are pre-balanced and indexed to a corresponding one of the multiple blade mounts.
Claims23
A ceiling fan assembly comprising:
- a motor having a rotor;
- a set of blades coupled to the rotor, with each blade of the set of blades including a removable blade tip;
- and
- a balancing weight provided within at least one removable blade tip from the set of blades, wherein the balancing weight is carried by the at least one removable blade tip.
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A ceiling fan kit comprising:
- a motor having a rotor with a set of blade mounts;
- a set of blades configured to mount to the motor at the set of blade mounts, with each blade including a removable blade tip;
- and
- a set of balancing weights configured to mount to the set of blades at the removable blade tip wherein the set of balancing weights are pre-balanced to the set of blades and the set of balancing weights are arranged with indicia to indicate a corresponding ceiling fan blade.
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A method of balancing a ceiling fan comprising:
- mounting a balancing weight to a blade on the ceiling fan by securing the balancing weight to the blade within a removable blade tip;
- and
- attaching the balancing weight to a boss provided on the removable blade tip.
A ceiling fan assembly comprising:
- a motor having a rotor;
- a set of blades coupled to the rotor, with each blade of the set of blades including a removable blade tip;
- a balancing weight provided within at least one removable blade tip from the set of blades;
- and
- a balancing weight mount provided within the at least one removable blade tip.
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A ceiling fan assembly comprising:
- a motor having a rotor;
- a set of blades coupled to the rotor, with each blade of the set of blades including a removable blade tip;
- and
- a balancing weight provided within at least one removable blade tip from the set of blades;
- wherein the at least one removable blade tip comprises a cap from which extends a stem, which is received within a corresponding blade of the set of blades to mount the at least one removable blade tip to its corresponding blade of the set of blades.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.