Quick mount lighting assembly for ceiling fans

• US 6,648,488 B1
• Filed: 06/14/2002
• Issued: 11/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
• Original Assignee: Hunter Fan Company
• Inventors: Pearce, Richard A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Laura K.
• Application Number:
  US10/173,232
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 362/96, 362/147, 362/226, 362/404, 362/234, 362/249, 362/457, 416/5
• US Class Current: 362/96
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/088 Ceiling fans
• CPC Class Codes: F21V 33/0096 Fans, e.g. ceiling fans forced cooling of lighting devices characterised by the arrangement of fans F21V29/67

Abstract

A ceiling fan having a set of fan blades rotatably coupled with an electric motor housed within a motor housing, a switch housing mounted below said set of fan blades, a plurality of spring clips of an electric socket in an array about a threaded mounting channel, a light kit having an electric plug with a plurality of terminal blades sized and arranged about a central plug passageway to be plugged into said switch housing socket spring clips, and a bolt sized to be passed through said light kit electric plug passageway and threaded into said switch housing threaded channel in mounting the light kit beneath the switch housing.

Claims

1. A quick mount lighting assembly for a ceiling fan that has a switch housing that houses an electrical connector electrically connectable to a municipal power source and a threaded mechanical connector, and with said quick mount lighting assembly comprising a light kit housing with a bottom opening that may be positioned adjacent the ceiling fan switch housing with said housing opening providing external access to the switch housing mechanical connector, an electric connector mounted in said light kit housing electrically connected to at least one lamp socket, and a knob with a threaded shank sized to be passed through said light kit housing opening and threaded onto the switch housing threaded mechanical connector, whereby the lighting assembly may be quickly mounted to the ceiling fan by placing the light kit housing adjacent the fan switch housing with the light kit electrical connector connected with the switch housing electrical connector and with the knob shank passed through the light kit housing opening and threaded into the light switch mechanical connector.

2. The lighting assembly of claim 1 wherein said light kit housing is generally dish shaped.

3. The lighting assembly of claim 1 wherein the fan switch housing electrical connector is an electric socket and wherein said light kit electrical connector is an electric plug.

4. The lighting assembly of claim 1 wherein the fan switch housing threaded mechanical connector has internal screws threads and wherein said threaded knob has external screw threads.

5. The lighting assembly of claim 1 wherein the fan switch housing electric connector is an electric socket having an array of electric connectors located about said switch housing mechanical connector, and wherein said light kit electric connector is an electric plug having an array of blade terminals located about said light kit mechanical connector.

6. A ceiling fan having a set of fan blades rotatably coupled with an electric motor housed within a motor housing, a switch housing mounted below said set of fan blades, a plurality of spring clips of an electric socket in an array about a threaded mounting channel, a light kit having an electric plug with a plurality of terminal blades sized and arranged about a central plug passageway to be plugged into said switch housing socket spring clips, and a bolt sized to be passed through said light kit electric plug passageway and threaded into said switch housing threaded channel in mounting the light kit beneath the switch housing.