Purifans

[Adam D.]

I've never seen these before, but it converts ceiling fans into smoke eaters.. Personally I see no difference in one of these than a regular air purifier.. Put one of these things on a motor that goes much higher RPM than a ceiling fan and I could see these things being real neat and really taking in effect, especially in a bars that still allow smoking... They also have a website: www.purifan.com/ there's pics listed somewhere of one being installed on a Golden Fan or New Fan..

treasure.craigslist.org/for/5831169383.html

[andy]

This almost reminds me of those "Healthy Fans," except those are still a ceiling fan.

[fancollector12]

These are junk... they totally defeat the purpose of a fan... a company called Clarion (out of business) made a Casablanca Mercury/Meridian copy with rounded-tipped blades that have air filters in them and sold them for nearly $300... those were still fans though... this just turns a fan into a dust catcher.

[Drew K.]

[fancollector12]

That's it! I kinda want one... very short-lived yet very cool.

[Jean Lemieux]

Ah yes Clairion. Those were cool fans. They also had nice portable fans in the 2000's. Their headquarters was based only about 8 kms from where I live. I remember seeing the early ones sold at Réno-Dépôt and I belive Sears had them for a short amount of time in their catalog around 1997-1998. They were two generations. These above were the older generations from the mid to late 1990's and later around 2002-2004 they had other versions with wider blades, lights on them and available in the new size of 116 cm as well as the regular 132 cm size.

[fancollector12]

Yeah I don't remember much about the portable ones. What did they look like? That's cool you live close to where their HQ used to be! Do you know why they shuttered? Bankruptcy perhaps?

[Jordan U]

Interesting concept,, but I question how effective one of these things would really be.. A good quality air filter takes quite a bit of force to get any volume of air through it,, and I find it hard to believe something going only a few hundred RPMs would do much.. For one of those things to retail for over $400 is crazy,, its just a big mold of plastic!

[fancollector12]

My grandma had a Hunter air purifier that we donated to Goodwill when she moved into a nursing home... she smoked and it was powerful enough to keep the smoke at bay. I have a little Sharper Image Ionic Breeze (not the Quadra, but the one that stands a little under a foot tall) that I got at Goodwill about 7 years ago for $10 and it also works well for what it is.

[Jean Lemieux]

Oct 27, 2016 0:31:33 GMT -5 fancollector12 said:

Yeah I don't remember much about the portable ones. What did they look like? That's cool you live close to where their HQ used to be! Do you know why they shuttered? Bankruptcy perhaps?

Their portable fans were silver with transparent blades like Calor fans from the 2002-2004 period. Here's a Calor 40 cm desk fan I posted in my sightings thread.
ada19851985.proboards.com/thread/4319/jeans-portable-fans-sightings?page=6

I don't know why they stopped making fans. I was thinking they might have been still around considering recently I saw a newer generation of their portable fans and till recently I think they were offering heaters. We can still find results online when we search about their products.

[Cullen D.]

I would imagine the Clairion fan doesn't move much air, if any.

[fancollector12]

Eh it may, as long as the inserts don't go all the way through the blades.

[Deleted]

i like them only if they were on belt drive type blower fan motors...etc,not on ceiling fans IMO

[Max C.]

I am curious as to who actually manufactured theses.

Oct 29, 2016 1:45:33 GMT -5 fancollector12 said:

Eh it may, as long as the inserts don't go all the way through the blades.

As clearly depicted in picture one, the inserts go through each blade...