Patent ID: 9295903
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: A63D

Claim Text:
1. In a lane maintenance machine that is operable to travel up and down successive generally parallel, elongated bowling lanes performing a maintenance operation on each lane, the improvement comprising: a plurality of separate conditioning component reservoirs carried on the machine for separately storing constituent conditioning components; at least one conditioner dispensing head for receiving and the dispensing the constituent conditioning components; at least one pump associated with the separate conditioning component reservoirs and operable to pump the constituent conditioning components from the separate conditioning components reservoirs to the at least one conditioner dispensing head; a buffer for receiving the constituent conditioning components dispensed from the at least one conditioner dispensing head and applying the constituent conditioning components to a bowling lane in a preselected pattern; a cleaning liquid component reservoir carried on the machine for storing a cleaning liquid; at least one cleaning liquid dispensing head for receiving and then dispensing the cleaning liquid; a control system operably coupled with the at least one pump to cause the pump to concurrently pump the constituent conditioning components to the at least one conditioner dispensing head to allow concurrent dispensing of each of the constituent conditioning components onto the buffer; and a first mixing junction fluidically coupled with the separate conditioning component reservoirs for mixing together the constituent conditioning components and delivering the mixed constituent conditioning components to the at least one conditioner dispensing head.