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Hugger Ceiling Fans
Industrial Ceiling Fans
As we know ceiling fans have been around quit a
while. Since
1886 Hunter being the very first manufacturer, this was before the invention
of electricity. The first ceiling fans were water powered. Emerson being the
the second manufacturer introduced their first ceiling fan in 1897, soon
ceiling fans became half of Emerson's business and line of products. When ceiling fans were
invented, ceiling fans were very heavy, and were used in the industry such
as factories, hotels, fancy restaurants. Ceiling fans from the early days
1886 - 1960's are genuine antiques and can be worth a lot of money at
collectors value. Their are plenty of sites and communities for ceiling fan
collectors for those type of ceiling fans.
Casablanca Fan Company founded in 1974. They came
out with the copy of the GE vent early day ceiling fans. By 1974 Wing Tat and
a few other Asian manufacturers were already manufacturing industrial
ceiling fans in their countries. Casablanca Fan Company became a very well
known manufacturer in the United States. This was when many people started to
buy ceiling fans for their homes. Casablanca started the new age of ceiling
fans, as they rapidly started to become popular on the market. Soon after
Asian manufacturers Wing Tat, and S.M.C. to name a few had company
locations in the United Stats to distribute ceiling fans to stores, and this
was when the imported ceiling fans filled the shelves in stores. Many Asian
factories were distributing ceiling fans under companies located in the United States
such as Gulf Coast Fans, Moss, Toastmaster to name a few, which than
distributed out to stores with their labels on the packaging, paperwork,
warranty cards, or even on the motor. Moss was one of the biggest
manufacturer for
imported ceiling fans. Many other manufacturers were getting the fans from
the same Asian manufacturer as other companies. Store brands also sold
imported ceiling fans under their names. The late 1970s, early 1980s
was the age before recycling. Asian and American made ceiling fans back then
were built very solid and heavy, of course this is why they last much longer
than most ceiling fans made today.
Casablanca, Hunter, and Emerson fan companies tend to still make some solid high
quality ceiling fans.
Ceiling fans in the early days mounted with a
hook, called a J-Hook. During the early 1980s many Asian factories were
inventing other ways to mount ceiling fans. Many variations of bracket mounting
systems were invented to mount to an electrical junction box or rafter. Ball
and socket brackets and canopy to bracket mounting systems to name a few.
Many manufacturers started to do away with J-Hook mounting when fans became
much lighter in weight. By the late 1980s all common household ceiling fans were bracket
mount.
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