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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1990
Donald E Ingermann, Arvada, CO (US);
Ronald L Smith, Boulder, CO (US);
Stephen F Caffrey, Arvada, CO (US);
Lonney J Steinhoff, Evergreen, CO (US);
Century International Corporation, Golden, CO (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present invention, a combination apparatus is provided wherein cleaner is applied to all or a portion of the lane and the cleaner, dressing and other residue is picked up by a vacuum head trailing the cleaner applicator followed by a buffer roller to apply new dressing to the lane. If desired, the cleaning operation can be limited to the last forty-five feet or so, since it is generally desirable to clean this portion of the lane more often than the front portion. On the return or reverse movement of the stripper, no cleaning operations are undertaken but cleaner may be permitted to flow from the cleaner storage tank to the applicator so that the applicator will have sufficient cleaner in it for the beginning of application on the next lane. In an alternative embodiment, the applicator may be in the form of a spray nozzle to spray cleaner onto the lane. A distance wheel is provided which supplies digital signals to a control apparatus which sequences each operation at the appropriate position of the carriage along the bowling alley.