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US 2011/0031368 A1Published application
Hanger assembly for ceiling fan
AssigneeAir Cool Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorCliff Wang
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Abstract
A hanger assembly for depending a ceiling fan from an overhead includes a hanger bracket securable to an overhead support. A down rod suspended from the hanger bracket has a lower end adapted for engagement with the ceiling fan. A canopy has a central opening through which the down rod is received and an upper rim which receives the hanger bracket. The upper rim of the canopy is secured to the hanger bracket by a plurality of screws having heads exposed on the outside of the upper rim of the canopy. A rim cover which fits over and encapsulates the screw heads is engagable with upper rim of the canopy.
Claims24
A hanger assembly for depending a fan from an overhead support, said hanger assembly comprising:
- a mounting bracket securable to the overhead support;
- a down rod to be suspended from the mounting bracket and having a lower end engagable with the fan;
- a canopy having a central opening for receiving the down rod there through and having an upper rim;
- mounting screws each extending through the rim of the canopy and engaged to the hanger bracket and having a head residing external of the rim of the canopy;
- a rim cover for encapsulating the heads of the screws and securable with respect to the rim of the canopy;
- a finger having a lower end affixed to the rim cover and an opposing upper end, a front face and an opposing rear face;
- a gap between the rear face of the finger and the rim cover;
- the finger flexurally resilient in reciprocal directions relative to the rim cover;
- a first element of an engagement pair is carried by the rim of the canopy;
- a second element of the engagement pair is carried by the front face of the finger for detachable engagement with the element of the engagement pair;
- one of the first and second elements comprising an indentation bound on either side by opposed, substantially parallel sidewalls, and bound on either end by opposed, substantially parallel top and bottom walls extending between the opposed sidewalls;
- the other of the first and second elements comprising a protrusion receivable within the indentation;
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- the opposed sidewalls and the opposed top and bottom walls to interact with the protrusion received within the indentation to constrain the rim cover from horizontal and vertical displacement with respect to the canopy.
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A hanger assembly for depending a fan from an overhead support, said hanger assembly comprising:
- a mounting bracket securable to the overhead support;
- a down rod to be suspended from the mounting bracket and having a lower end engagable with the fan;
- a canopy having a central opening for receiving the down rod there through and having an upper rim;
- a continuous groove formed in the upper rim of the canopy;
- mounting screws each extending through the rim of the canopy and engaged to the hanger bracket and having a head residing external of the rim of the canopy in the continuous groove;
- a rim cover for encapsulating the heads of the screws in the continuous groove and securable with respect to the rim of the canopy;
- a finger having a lower end affixed to the rim cover and an opposing upper end, a front face and an opposing rear face;
- a gap between the rear face of the finger and the rim cover;
- the finger flexurally resilient in reciprocal directions relative to the rim cover;
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- a protrusion carried by the front face of the finger matingly receivable with the continuous groove to detachably engage the rim cover to the canopy.
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A hanger assembly for depending a fan from an overhead support, said hanger assembly comprising:
- a mounting bracket securable to the overhead support;
- a down rod to be suspended from the mounting bracket and having a lower end engagable with the fan;
- a canopy having a central opening for receiving the down rod there through and having an upper rim;
- mounting screws each extending through the rim of the canopy and engaged to the hanger bracket and having a head residing external of the rim of the canopy;
- a rim cover for encapsulating the heads of the screws in the continuous groove and securable with respect to the rim of the canopy;
- a finger having a lower end affixed to the rim cover and an opposing upper end, a front face and an opposing rear face;
- a gap between the rear face of the finger and the rim cover;
- the finger flexurally resilient in reciprocal directions relative to the rim cover;
- a first element of an engagement pair is carried by the rim of the canopy;
- a second element of the engagement pair is carried by the front face of the finger for detachable engagement with the element of the engagement pair;
- one of the first and second elements includes a circumferentially elongate slot;
- the other of the first and second elements includes a protrusion receivable into and through the slot to detachably engage the rim cover to the canopy.
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A hanger assembly for depending a fan from an overhead support, said hanger assembly comprising:
- a mounting bracket securable to the overhead support;
- a down rod to be suspended from the mounting bracket and having a lower end engagable with the fan;
- a canopy having a central opening for receiving the down rod there through and including an upper rim terminating with an upper marginal edge receivable in juxtaposition with the ceiling;
- mounting screws each extending through the rim of the canopy and engaged to the hanger bracket and having a head residing external of the rim of the canopy;
- a circumferentially elongate notch formed in the upper rim of the canopy, the notch extending downwardly into the upper rim of the canopy from the upper marginal edge terminating with a lower edge extending between opposed side edges formed in the canopy;
- a rim cover for encapsulating the heads of the screws in the continuous groove and securable with respect to the rim of the canopy;
- a finger having a lower end affixed to the rim cover and an opposing upper end, a front face and an opposing rear face;
- a gap between the rear face of the finger and the rim cover;
- the finger flexurally resilient in reciprocal directions relative to the rim cover;
- a protrusion carried by the front face of the finger matingly receivable in the notch formed in the canopy and detachably receivable against the lower edge of the notch between the opposed side edges to suspend the rim cover from the canopy.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.