Patent ID: 7927076

Claim:
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 extending upward from the outer end of the mounting arms, each of the fasteners including a narrow stem portion with an enlarged head; and a plurality of horizontally oriented longitudinal slots through the connecting end of each of the fan blades, each of the longitudinal slots having a base end and an opposite end, the base end being wider in diameter than the opposite end, wherein each fastener is inserted into each longitudinal slot, so that the narrow stem extends into the longitudinal slot, and the enlarged head has side edge portions which extend over edge portions of the longitudinal slots, so that the blades are fastened to the mounting arms by each fastener and each slot.