Patent ID: 8408876
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: F04D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A ceiling fan, comprising: a ceiling fan motor; a plurality of ceiling fan blades, each blade having an outer end and a connecting end; a plurality of mounting arms, each mounting arm having an interior end, a mid-portion, and an outer end, the interior end being attached to the motor; a plurality of fasteners, each of the fasteners including a narrow stem portion with an enlarged head portion; and a plurality of longitudinal slots, each of the slots having a narrow width portion and an enlarged width portion that is larger in width than the narrow width portion, so that the connecting ends of the blades are attached to the outer end of the mounting arms, by passing the enlarged head of the fasteners into the enlarged width portions and sliding the blades and the arms relative to one another so that side portions of the enlarged head portions extend over edge portions of the narrow width portion of the longitudinal slots.