A63D 5/023
Separate devices for returning the balls
Official title: {Separate devices for returning the balls}
A63D5/023 (Separate devices for returning the balls) appears on 9 US grants and 13 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63D- Granted patents
- 9
- Published applications
- 13
- Assignees
- 7
- Inventors
- 29
- Latest grant
- 3 Jan 2023
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| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus and method for preventing ball return stops in bowling pinsetter machines3 Jan 2023US 11,541,300 B2
- Bowling ball and pin separator24 Nov 2015US 9,192,851 B2
- Offset motor mount adaptor device12 Sep 2006US 7,104,896 B2WWM Enterprises, Inc.
- Apparatus for combined game of bowling and billiards15 Aug 2006US 7,090,587 B2
- Cover for the rails of a bowling ball return9 Apr 2002US 6,368,228 B1
- A Modular Bowl In One Game6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224971 A1
- Ball Accelerator Device for use with a Ball Lift Assembly12 Feb 2026US 2026/0041990 A1
- Apparatus and Method For Preventing Ball Return Stops In Bowling Pinsetter Machines16 Sep 2021US 2021/0283492 A1
- Method and system for controlling bowling ball return device15 Oct 2020US 2020/0324190 A1Finems Oy
- Bowling Ball Return Assembly24 Oct 2019US 2019/0321714 A1Brunswick Bowling Products LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Offset motor mount adaptor device8US 7,104,896 B2WWM Enterprises, Inc. · 2006
- Bowling alley bowling ball shock absorber mechanism3US 4,026,552 APatentverwertungs-und Finanzierungsgesellschaft Serania AG · 1977
- Horizontal ball-return mechanism2US 5,649,868 AAMF Bpwling, Inc. · 1997
- Air-operated rudder assembly for a bowling pin setter2US 5,709,608 A1998
- Bowling ball return gate apparatus and method1US 5,653,641 A1997