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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1995
Roberto Vaioli, Bologna, IT;
Emanuele Govoni, San Matteo della Decima, IT;
Luca Drusiani, Anzola dell 'Emilia, IT;
Qubica S.r.l., San Matteo della Decima, IT;
Abstract
Bowling lanes are equipped typically with first monitoring devices serving to verify the position of the pins and second monitoring devices designed to detect the passage of the balls, also a first control station connected both to the first and second monitoring devices and to the actuator of a machine for recovering and setting up the pins, in such a way that the game can be run and supervised according to a selected program and on the basis of the information received in signals returned by the two sets of monitoring devices; in the equipment disclosed, the first and second monitoring devices are incorporated into a single assembly together with a second control station interfaced with the program and connected to a communications network of which the first control station forms a part.