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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 Wingtat and
a few other Asian manufacturers were already manufacturing industrial
ceiling fans in there countries. Casablanca Fan Company became a very well
know 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 Wingtat, and S.M.C. to name a few started to
market ceiling fans under their name to the united states, and this was when
the imported ceiling fans filled more shelves at the store chains, many
Asian marketed ceiling fans to the united states and a manufacturers name in
the United States. Moss was one of the biggest manufacturer for relabeled
imported ceiling fans. Many other manufacturers were getting the fans from
the same Asian manufacturer as other Companies. JC Penny sold relabeled Moss
ceiling fans under their name. Other companies and store chains also sold
relabeled ceiling fans under their name. During the late 1970s early 1980s
was the age before recycling, many Asian manufactured ceiling fans were
built very solid, and of course to last longer than anything made today.
Casablanca, Hunter and Emerson fan companies tend to still make solid high
quality ceiling fans.
Wingtat and S.M.C once had offices in the
United States during the 1970s and 1980s. S.M.C. still markets
ceiling fans to the united states under store names etc.
Ceiling fans in the early days mounted with a
hook, called the J-hook. During the early 1980s many manufacturers were
using 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 hook mounting. Is much easier to
mount with bracket systems. By the late 1980s all ceiling fans were bracket
mount.
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