70 CFM bath ventilation fans with flush mount lights and motor beneath blower wheel

A method of ventilating air from a space through a ceiling mounted fan with light, comprising the steps of:

• providing a housing having a top wall, side walls and an open bottom, and a side exhaust opening;
• providing an outlet duct extending sideways from one of the side walls of the housing;
• providing a motor having an upper horizontal end and a bottom horizontal end and generally vertical sides;
• providing a plurality of spaced apart brackets, each bracket consisting of a single upper L-shaped flange with a single horizontal leg and a single vertical leg, and a single lower L-shaped flange consisting of a single horizontal leg and a single vertical leg wherein upper and lower L-shape flanges forming a C shape;
• mounting only the upper horizontal end of the motor directly by each of the brackets directly to the top wall inside of the housing;
• mounting a blower wheel to the bottom horizontal end of the motor, with the motor wheel substantially about the motor so that the blower wheel rotates in a horizontal plane parallel to the single upper wall, with the motor mounted substantially inside of the blower wheel and part of the motor located outside of the blower wheel;
• providing a scroll consisting of generally cylindrical sides and a side opening, an open end and an opposite closed with end with a generally flat base plate forming the top wall of the housing;
• surrounding perimeter sides of the blower wheel within the generally cylindrical sides of the scroll;
• mounting the housing within a ceiling, so that the top wall of the housing is parallel to the ceiling;
• mounting a light shade with an inside light source with only a single exterior rim with at least one opening therethrough, to the open bottom of the housing, with the rim and light shade below the ceiling;
• passing incoming air through the at least one opening of the rim, behind the light source and into the middle of the blower wheel with the scroll directing air from the blower wheel into the housing and out through the outlet duct that extends sideways from one of the side walls of the housing, so that the incoming air does not pass into the light shade nor around the light source.

A ventilation exhaust fan, comprising:

• a housing having a top wall, side walls, an outlet and an open bottom mounted above an opening in ceiling, the top wall being parallel to the ceiling;
• a motor having an upper horizontal end and a bottom horizontal end and generally vertical sides, the upper horizontal end of the motor only being mounted directly by a plurality of spaced apart brackets to the top wall of the housing, each of the brackets consisting of a single upper L-shaped flange and a single lower L-shaped flange forming a C shape, each single upper L-shaped flange consisting of a single horizontal leg and a single vertical leg, and each single lower L-shaped flange consisting of a single horizontal leg and a single vertical leg;
• a blower wheel with a central opening mounted inside of the housing, with the motor mounted by brackets to the top wall, so that the motor is substantially inside of and partially outside of the blower wheel, wherein the motor runs the blower wheel to rotate in a plane parallel to the closed top wall;
• a scroll consisting of generally cylindrical sides and a side opening, an open end and an opposite closed end with a generally flat base plate forming the top wall of the housing, with the cylindrical sides of the scroll surrounding perimeter sides of the blower wheel, the scroll for directing air from the blower wheel through the outlet of the housing;
• a light shade outside of the housing having an interior light source mounted inside the shade, the shade attached to the bottom of the housing, and extending below the opening in the ceiling;
• and
• a single pan rim having vents therethrough with the rim attached about a open base of the shade, wherein air enters through the vents of the rim behind the light source, and into the open bottom of the exhaust fan and is exhausted therefrom by the motor run blower, wherein the air does not pass into the shade nor around the light source.