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Post by organistjx on Sept 13, 2015 17:34:04 GMT -5
Richard Holbrook is now designing furniture If I remember, he has his website What is it called? Do you have the URL?
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Post by organistjx on Sept 13, 2015 17:40:07 GMT -5
Do you know which are RF and which are IR? How do you know when CT was developed? Dimango mood setter patent : patents.google.com/patent/US4538973A/enUsed RF and patent issued 1985. Comfort-Touch patent: patents.google.com/patent/US5187472A/en?q=ceiling+fan&inventor=Edward+F.+HartPatent issued 1993. Hart also invented Inteli-Touch a decade earlier and Homestead Homestar system. Also, the first page of the 1990 Casablanca catalog is all about Comfort-Touch, and it's described as a brand new system. However none of the fans list CT as an option, and it says "contact the factory for details" which makes me think it was a special order item at first. Next year the Stealth came out which was the flagship CT "launch" fan. That is interesting to know that Mr. Hart designed both Inteli-Touch and Homestar. Do you know if he's still active at Casablanca?
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Post by Brian L. on Sept 13, 2015 22:04:11 GMT -5
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Post by Sam S on Sept 14, 2015 14:42:27 GMT -5
Dimango mood setter patent : patents.google.com/patent/US4538973A/enUsed RF and patent issued 1985. Comfort-Touch patent: patents.google.com/patent/US5187472A/en?q=ceiling+fan&inventor=Edward+F.+HartPatent issued 1993. Hart also invented Inteli-Touch a decade earlier and Homestead Homestar system. Also, the first page of the 1990 Casablanca catalog is all about Comfort-Touch, and it's described as a brand new system. However none of the fans list CT as an option, and it says "contact the factory for details" which makes me think it was a special order item at first. Next year the Stealth came out which was the flagship CT "launch" fan. That is interesting to know that Mr. Hart designed both Inteli-Touch and Homestar. Do you know if he's still active at Casablanca? Not according to his LinkedIn page, he isn't: www.linkedin.com/pub/edward-hart/46/a51/515Homestar is much easier to use than IT, because it has 6 buttons instead of 2 (3 on the W-32 controller), so you could back off on the speed/light level without turning off first, and it had a dedicated button for running the special programs instead of having to cycle the power and press a hard-to-remember key sequence. But supposedly it had a higher failure rate due to using cheap components on the board.
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Post by organistjx on Sept 14, 2015 18:35:30 GMT -5
That is interesting to know that Mr. Hart designed both Inteli-Touch and Homestar. Do you know if he's still active at Casablanca? Not according to his LinkedIn page, he isn't: www.linkedin.com/pub/edward-hart/46/a51/515Homestar is much easier to use than IT, because it has 6 buttons instead of 2 (3 on the W-32 controller), so you could back off on the speed/light level without turning off first, and it had a dedicated button for running the special programs instead of having to cycle the power and press a hard-to-remember key sequence. But supposedly it had a higher failure rate due to using cheap components on the board. That's nice. I actually have a thread going on the Homestar control right now: ada19851985.proboards.com/thread/9698/nutone-selectouch-microtouch-homestead-homestar , and I'm personally curious as to how the Homestar actually works...
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Post by edhart on Oct 30, 2015 22:22:30 GMT -5
Hi, Folks. I was looking for Jean Clyde Mason today - just out of curiosity - and ran across this page. I can add a bit of clarity to the overall discussion. 1. Jean Clyde Mason is a lady, a renown art deco stylist with many good designs to her credit. She was hired by Casablanca's founder to create more contemporary fan designs. The Saturn was the singular hit from this combine, and it added significantly to the company's profits for many years. I think it was introduced int he 1986 model year. 2.Richard Holbrook is very much alive, well and actively designing new products. As someone pointed out, he is doing a great deal of furniture design, and is working to reinvent the office around modern technology and work patterns. He was hired by Casablanca in 1987 to modernize the overall product line. The Stealth was his best-known and longest-lasting design, but others were very popular, too. 3. The Comfort-Touch was released in 1991. The first patent on the system was filed in 1989. One writer is correct that there were other attempts at RP and IR remote controls for fans in the years just before the Comfort-Touch. Comfort-Touch was unique in having a temperature sensitive fan speed capability, aimed at keeping occupants comfortable in rooms where temperatures could vary during the day. Uncooled bedrooms were ideal applications. 4. HomeStar followed InteliTouch, and was designed to improve upon the InteliTouch. It was a very good concept, but hard to manufacture reliably in those early days of microprocessors. 5. Ed Hart is still alive, but he has not been in the fan industry for many years. Regards, Ed Hart
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Post by Brian L. on Oct 30, 2015 22:43:30 GMT -5
Wow Ed Hart! that is quite some amazing information you have there, I am happy to learn more about companies and what they have done in the past.
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Post by organistjx on Oct 30, 2015 23:57:22 GMT -5
Hi, Folks. I was looking for Jean Clyde Mason today - just out of curiosity - and ran across this page. I can add a bit of clarity to the overall discussion. 1. Jean Clyde Mason is a lady, a renown art deco stylist with many good designs to her credit. She was hired by Casablanca's founder to create more contemporary fan designs. The Saturn was the singular hit from this combine, and it added significantly to the company's profits for many years. I think it was introduced int he 1986 model year. 2.Richard Holbrook is very much alive, well and actively designing new products. As someone pointed out, he is doing a great deal of furniture design, and is working to reinvent the office around modern technology and work patterns. He was hired by Casablanca in 1987 to modernize the overall product line. The Stealth was his best-known and longest-lasting design, but others were very popular, too. 3. The Comfort-Touch was released in 1991. The first patent on the system was filed in 1989. One writer is correct that there were other attempts at RP and IR remote controls for fans in the years just before the Comfort-Touch. Comfort-Touch was unique in having a temperature sensitive fan speed capability, aimed at keeping occupants comfortable in rooms where temperatures could vary during the day. Uncooled bedrooms were ideal applications. 4. HomeStar followed InteliTouch, and was designed to improve upon the InteliTouch. It was a very good concept, but hard to manufacture reliably in those early days of microprocessors. 5. Ed Hart is still alive, but he has not been in the fan industry for many years. Regards, Ed Hart So... are you the real Ed Hart?
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Post by edhart on Oct 31, 2015 0:08:23 GMT -5
Gosh....how many Ed Harts are there?!
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