Apparatus for combined game of bowling and billiards

An apparatus for a billiard bowling game comprising:

• a bowling pin collection section:
• a conveyor to forward only knocked down bowling pins to the bowling pin collection section;
• a bowling pin distribution section in communication with the bowling pin collection section, the bowling pin distributing section including:
• a bowling pin distributing means for sequentially setting and distributing bowling pins;
• a driving means for driving the bowling pin distributing means to transfer respective bowling pins from the bowling pin collecting section, the driving means including a chain wound on a driving sprocket coupled to a first driving motor and a plurality of driven sprockets, ten intermittently spaced-apart projections extending from the chain to interrupt operation of the first driving motor when a projection of the plurality of the projections is brought into contact with a limit switch operably connected to the first driving motor, a first frame rotating leftward or rightward by the chain, a second frame extending forward or retracting backward on guide rolls, a pair of bowling pin delivering belts driven by a second driving motor to deliver respective bowling pins transferred from the bowling pin collecting means, a pair of bowling pin distributing arms elastically pivoted with a pivoting plate to sequentially set and distribute the respective bowling pins in the bowling pin setting holes defined in the bowling pin setting plate, wherein the arrangement of the driving sprocket and the plurality of driven sprockets corresponds to the arrangement of 10 bowling pin setting holes to sequentially load the holes with a respective bowling pin;
• a base section having bowling pin setting holes defined in a bowling pin setting plate for sequentially receiving bowling pins in respective bowling pin setting holes;
• and
• a bowling ball returning section intermediate the base section and the bowling pin collection section, the bowling ball returning section including:
• a sloped plate having an inclined guide surface, the sloped plate having a guide groove disposed below a fixed plate defining the base section and positioned above the conveyor;
• a pair of side plates fastened to the fixed plate and adjacent to a rear lower end of the base section;
• a pair of returning rails extending from an opening in one of the side plates;
• a bowling ball-guiding curved plate installed between the pair of side plates;
• a driving motor fixedly mounted to one of the side plates;
• and
• a driving shaft of the driving motor installed to pass through a center axis of the bowling ball-guiding curved plate having a semi-circular configuration,
• wherein when a bowling ball is struck and driven by a billiard cue and knocks down at least one of the plurality of bowling pins erected at an end of a bowling lane, the bowling ball is returned to its ready-for-use position through the returning rails and the at least one bowling pin is collected through the bowling pin collecting means.