Post by organist89 on Feb 28, 2004 0:30:53 GMT -5
I've been meaning to contact the new owners of my old house, but I haven't yet, so I need you help in figuring out the manufacturer and model of a ceiling fan from the description. (If you want to see it, knock on the door of the folks at 5169 Tennis Lane, in the Contry Lake gated community in Delray Beach, FL).
There were three examples of this fan in that house. My father bought the house, new, in 1984 and had these fans installed when he moved in. There were also 3 other fans---all 42" white Murray Feiss/Toastmaster spinners.
The fans were 52" (possibly 54" or 56", I can't remember). They had 4 wood blades. The blades had no designs...no stencil or cane. They were regular size, with the ends that look like this: { The blades were not wood grain...they were painted (not by my father...they came from the factory painted). The color was a light grey-cream. Hard to describe. The motor and hardware was bright brass. The motor had no vent holes on the bottom (I don't know about the top). The blade brackets were really weird...I don't remember what they looked like on the blade end, but on the motor end, they were really large. Instead of mounting around the switch houding, they mounted nearer to the outside of the bottom of the motor. The bottom was like one piece of brass--no vent holes. The switch housing was nothing unusual. Regular length, no tapering or stepping. These fans were non-reversible. They had 3 speeds (not including off). The canopies were long and tapered and stepped...kind of like upside-down Hunter Original switch housings (only, with more steps). These fans mounted using a j-hook. The pull chains were cloth cord---right out of the switch housing! No metal chain! (really weird!). The chains were about 15 inches long, orange colored, and ended in an orange fabric tassle. These fans went very slow. On the highest speed, they went about as fast as a run-of-the-mill 52" ceiling fan on low. On low, these fans crawled along like a variable-speed ceiling fan with the speed control turned all the way down. The blades had a large pitch, however, so these fans moved a TON of air. One other thing...these were not spinner fans. They may have had (and probably did) spinner motors, but the motor was unseen, inside of the non-moving outer housing. The motor housing on these fans was not small---maybe as large in diameter as a Hunter Original (about 12 inches).
I've told you all I can. I will try to contact the new owners of the house, and see if they can send me some pics. Until then, could you guys please try to think of who made this fan? Feel free to ask any questions you want.
Pierce Phillips, organist892003@yahoo.com
There were three examples of this fan in that house. My father bought the house, new, in 1984 and had these fans installed when he moved in. There were also 3 other fans---all 42" white Murray Feiss/Toastmaster spinners.
The fans were 52" (possibly 54" or 56", I can't remember). They had 4 wood blades. The blades had no designs...no stencil or cane. They were regular size, with the ends that look like this: { The blades were not wood grain...they were painted (not by my father...they came from the factory painted). The color was a light grey-cream. Hard to describe. The motor and hardware was bright brass. The motor had no vent holes on the bottom (I don't know about the top). The blade brackets were really weird...I don't remember what they looked like on the blade end, but on the motor end, they were really large. Instead of mounting around the switch houding, they mounted nearer to the outside of the bottom of the motor. The bottom was like one piece of brass--no vent holes. The switch housing was nothing unusual. Regular length, no tapering or stepping. These fans were non-reversible. They had 3 speeds (not including off). The canopies were long and tapered and stepped...kind of like upside-down Hunter Original switch housings (only, with more steps). These fans mounted using a j-hook. The pull chains were cloth cord---right out of the switch housing! No metal chain! (really weird!). The chains were about 15 inches long, orange colored, and ended in an orange fabric tassle. These fans went very slow. On the highest speed, they went about as fast as a run-of-the-mill 52" ceiling fan on low. On low, these fans crawled along like a variable-speed ceiling fan with the speed control turned all the way down. The blades had a large pitch, however, so these fans moved a TON of air. One other thing...these were not spinner fans. They may have had (and probably did) spinner motors, but the motor was unseen, inside of the non-moving outer housing. The motor housing on these fans was not small---maybe as large in diameter as a Hunter Original (about 12 inches).
I've told you all I can. I will try to contact the new owners of the house, and see if they can send me some pics. Until then, could you guys please try to think of who made this fan? Feel free to ask any questions you want.
Pierce Phillips, organist892003@yahoo.com