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Un-balanced fans wobble and vibrate. For home AC fans, this can be a major problem: air circulation is greatly reduced at the vents (as wobble is lost energy), efficiency is compromised, and noise is increased. Another major problem in fans that are not balanced is longevity of the bearings (attached to the fan and shaft) is compromised.
Holmes Products was founded by Jordan Kahn in 1982. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2005, Berkshire Partners , Holmes' parent company, sold Holmes Products to Jarden Corporation for US$ 625.9 million. At the time of the sale, the brands of Holmes included Rival (acquired in 1999 [ 3 ] ), Crock-Pot , Bionaire and White Mountain.
For fully sprinkled buildings, the required rating is just one hour.) [4] The fans must be connected to an emergency power supply, and capable of both automatic activation by various fire and smoke detectors, and of manual activation by a central command post or by the actuation of a general fire alarm.
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Rival was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1932 by Henry J. Talge as the Rival Manufacturing Co., which specialized in die casting. [1] It soon began producing food preparation products under the "O-Mat" line, such as the Juice-O-Mat juicer, Can-O-Mat can opener, and Broil-O-Mat broiler. [2]