He served as chairman and president of Milwaukee-based Diana Corp. (formerly Farm House Foods), which previously acquired a 47% stake in Casablanca.

In 1996, Casablanca was purchased by Hunter Fan Company, and production was subsequently moved completely overseas to Taiwan by 1997.

The Silent-Flex flywheel was a double-torus made of soft rubber with die-cast zinc reinforcements that acted as a shock absorber to virtually eliminate the transmission of vibration and noise from the fan's motor to the blades.

Uncommon version is being added by fan collectors Also in 1981, Casablanca introduced their Hang-Tru mounting system, which utilized a self-supporting ceiling canopy fastened to the junction box by four long, heavy-duty screws.

The Inteli•Touch system was marketed as being easy to install, as the fan easily replaced a standard two-wire ceiling-mounted lighting fixture, and the wall control unit replaced a standard two-wire wall toggle switch.

The Inteli•Touch control included a PC board mounted inside the fan's housing with a small piezo buzzer to emit electronic beeps to verify fan functions, and a wall control, which fed the PC board commands via coded electrical signals through home's wiring.

It was also the first ceiling fan control system to integrate an LCD display into the user interface (transmitter).

Comfort•Touch retained all of the settings and programs included with Inteli•Touch, with the exception of Fan-Minder, which was replaced with thermostatic control, allowing for the fan speed to be adjusted automatically corresponding to room temperature, and a "winter mode" was added, which operates the fan at its lowest speed in updraft mode, but with ten-second "bursts" of a higher speed every ten minutes in order to more effectively break up heat stratification at the ceiling with the ceiling fan.

The motor housing uses the microcomputer with piezoelectric buzzer to indicates command In 2002, Casablanca introduced its third computerized ceiling fan control, called Advan-Touch.

Advan-Touch retained all of the fan speed and light settings offered in Inteli•Touch and Comfort•Touch, as well as the Safe-Exit and Home-Safe programs.

It used radio frequency as its main reception to the fan, unlike the original Inteli•Touch, which communicated by sending pulsed electrical signals through the home or building's wiring.

Hunter urged customers to contact the company for a free in-home inspection and repair following the recall.