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80/90 CFM bath fan with telescoping side extension brackets and side by side motor and blower wheel

  • US 9,816,717 B1
  • Filed: 08/15/2016
  • Issued: 11/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An exhaust fan, comprising:

  • a main housing having side walls, top and open bottom, and an exhaust outlet extending from the main housing;

    a blower wheel with a blower housing, the blower housing having a support base, with an outlet coupled to the main housing exhaust outlet; and

    an electrical motor for rotating the blower wheel, the motor and the blower housing form an assembled blower mounted by a vertically oriented plate inside of the main housing, the vertically oriented plate consisting of a rounded top with a vertical tab extending therefrom, and a flat straight base and straight sides extending from the flat straight base, with one of the straight sides being bent into a trapezoidal section with a non-parallel angled side, relative to the vertically oriented plate, first and second side flanges extending perpendicular from the flat straight base of the vertically oriented plate, the first side flange extending perpendicular from a bottom of the bent trapezoidal section, the second side flange being oriented perpendicular to the first side flange, the flat straight base of the vertically oriented plate being attached to the closed top inside of the main housing by the first and the second side extending perpendicular flanges, the vertically oriented plate spaced from one of the side walls of the main housing, the vertically oriented plate having additional flanges extending perpendicular from a side wall of the vertically oriented plate above the base of the vertically oriented plate which attaches the vertically oriented plate to opposite facing perpendicular extending members on an interior surface of the side walls of the main housing, the additional side flanges spaced between the top and the base of the vertically oriented plate, the vertically oriented plate having an opening with equally spaced apart tabs extending into the plate opening for attaching to complementary tabs on the motor.

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