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US 7,611,583 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for conditioning a bowling lane using precision delivery injectors
AssigneeBrunswick Bowling & Billiards Corporation
InventorsGeorge W. Buckley, Roy A. Burkholder, Richard A. Davis, Steven J. Gonring, Mark H. Meade, Patrick J. Mitchell, Troy A. Recknagel
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Abstract
The invention relates generally to the conditioning of bowling lanes, and, more particularly to an apparatus and method for automatically applying a predetermined pattern of dressing fluid along the transverse and longitudinal dimensions of a bowling lane.
Claims35
A bowling lane conditioning system comprising:
- a housing;
- at least one injector carried by the housing and comprising:
- at least one opening;
- and
- a valve;
- wherein the at least one injector is positioned to output lane dressing fluid directly onto a bowling lane as the bowling lane conditioning system moves along the bowling lane;
- and
- a cleaning fluid delivery and removal system carried by the housing, wherein the cleaning fluid delivery and removal system comprises:
- a cleaning fluid reservoir;
- at least one cleaning fluid delivery nozzle in communication with the cleaning fluid reservoir;
- and
- a vacuum.
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A bowling lane conditioning system comprising:
- a housing;
- a dressing application system carried by the housing, wherein the dressing application system is configured to output lane dressing fluid directly onto a bowling lane as the bowling lane conditioning system moves along the bowling lane;
- a user interface carried by the housing and operative to allow a user to specify how much lane dressing fluid the dressing application system will apply to each board of the bowling lane within a resolution of a single board;
- and
- a cleaning fluid delivery and removal system carried by the housing, wherein the cleaning fluid delivery and removal system comprises:
- a cleaning fluid reservoir;
- at least one cleaning fluid delivery nozzle in communication with the cleaning fluid reservoir;
- and
- a vacuum.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.