Patent ID: 7510160

Claim:
A hanger assembly for depending a ceiling fan from an overhead sloped attachment face, comprising: a hanger bracket including an attachment end and an opposing socket having opposing front and rear ends, the attachment end adapted to be secured to the sloped attachment face disposing the socket in a sloped orientation substantially parallel relative to the sloped attachment face with the front end thereof being down-angled relative to the rear end thereof; an adapter formed with a head and a down rod connector; the head having a lower face seated in the socket and an opposing upper face, and a first axis perpendicular to the upper face; the upper face of the head is substantially flat defining a plane that is perpendicular relative to the first axis; a component-receiving space formed between the upper face of the head and the attachment end of the hanger bracket; the down rod connector having an upper end attached to the head and depending downwardly from the lower face thereof to a lower end adapted to be secured to a down rod, a front face facing the front end of the socket, an opposing rear face facing the rear end of the socket, and a second axis extending parallel with respect to the down rod connector from the upper end to the lower end; and the second axis parallel with respect to the down rod connector and divergent relative to the first axis to form a salient angle of less than 180 degrees between the first axis and the second axis facing the front end of the socket reducing encroachment of the head into the component-receiving space formed between the upper face of the head and the attachment end of the hanger bracket; and a notch formed in the front face of the down rod connector to receive the front end of the socket.