US1040934A - Casing for electric fans. - Google Patents

Description

A. GREGORY.

CASING FOR ELECTRIC FANS.

APPLICATION mum JULY 19,1911.

1,040,934. Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

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AIPLIOATION FILED JULY 19, 1911.

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ARTHUR GREGORY, 0F WYTHEVILLE, VIRGINIA.

CASING FOB ELE CTRIG FANS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed m 19, 1911. Serial No. 639,848.

Patented Oct. 8, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR GREGORY,

I a citizen of the United States, residing at Wytheville, in the county of Wythe and State of Virginia, have invented new and eyes, the nose, the mouth and the ears of the representation being provided with openings to permit of the discharge of the air blast created by the fan.

Another object ofthe invention is to provide the casing with deflecting means whereby the ourrents of air will be deflected upwardly and downwardly and laterally so as to efiect a thorough distribution of the air.

Another object of the invention is to provide a casing that can be conveniently at tached to any well known form of fan motor frame or support.

In the drawings, forming a portion of this specification and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views :,Figure 1 is a perspective view of the casing showing the application of the same to the oscillating fan motor. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section therethrough. Fig. 3 is a vertical section therethrough. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing a slightly modified form of fan easing, the same being adapted for usein connection with a fan having a fixedly supported motor, the easing havin a figure thereon representin a lions hea Fig. 5 is a view similar to lg. 4. showing the casing rovided with a miniaturerepresentation o an elephants head.

In the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, of the drawings, I provide a fan casin l that can be constructed of celluloid, car board, papier-mach, or

suitable flexible material or stiff material,

the latter being preferable. This casing is adapted to embraeethe fan A shown in connection with the oscillating motor B, and as illustrated,the casing is formed of bin ed sections 2 and 3, one section being provi edwith means 4, whereby it may be secured to the adjacent section and to hold the sections in their adjusted positions on the fan. De- VICGS 5 are employed .for holding the fan against accidental displacement under the force of'the air blast created by the fan, and as shown, these devices are carried by the casing and are detachably engaged with the portion C of the fan structure. The casing is provided with the grotesque portions 7 which, in this instance, represent faces of human beings each being provided with a nose 8, the eyes 9, the mouth 10, and the ears 11, and as shown, they are provided with openings 12 through which the air agitated by the fan may be discharged.- I preferably provide the casing at points adjacent to the ears of the fi lres herein represented withv deflectors 13 or deflecting the air currents laterally. Similar deflectors 1 1 are also mounted inthe casing and arranged with respect to the nose portions of the figures so that the air when discharged in the easing will be deflected downwardly. as described and shown herein, the figures of the casing represent human faces, figures representing animal faces or the like may be substituted therefor without departing from the spirit of the invention.

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In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 4, the casing 15 comprises the sections 16 and 17 which are either singly or in their entirety formed to provide the figure 18. This figure represents the head'ofa lion or like animal and itis provided with the eyes 19, the nostrils 20, the mouth 21, and the ears 22. The cars of the animal figure shown form deflectors for directing the air similar manner to the previously describedforms of the invention, but, as shown, they are hinged, at 29, and are constructed of light materialso that on the displacement or dischar e of the air fron'rthe casing the ears will fla occasionally which will add desirably to thedevice and furnish considerable amusement. The ears willbe disposed slightly at an upward angle under the force of the air when the fan is inoperationso that the currents of air'will be discharged laterally as'in the preferred. form of the invention. In this form of the invention the air discharged from the trunk of the animal herein. illustrated will be distributed in a plane below the airdischarged from the ears and the eyes; The latter feature of this form of the invention is most desirable asit is very necessary for aperfect ventilation or coolin of a room that the, air be distributed at different planes.

1, The combination with an electric fan and a motor therefor, said fan discharging axially, of a casing inclosing said fan and motor and comprising a rear Wall, a side wall and a front Wall, one of said Walls having a vertical series of relatively spaced together at the top thereof and means carried by each section and disposed on the bot tom of the section, thereby preventing any accidental displacement of the sections from their operative position, said means being detachably secured and embracing a portion of the fan structure below the plane of the bottom of said rear section.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses;

4 ARTHUR GREGORY. Witnesses:

GEORGIE Broom,

C. M. HINK E.

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