Patent ID: 9062425
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: E01H

Abstract:
1. A support mount on an ice resurfacing machine for maintaining an ice surface level with a desired horizontal plane, the ice resurfacing machine moveable across the ice surface and comprising: a receiver for detecting a light beam emitted along a plane parallel to the desired horizontal plane and for determining a substantially vertical position along the receiver where the light beam impinges it; and an adjustable scraper blade for removing a depth of ice from the ice surface; and a processor operatively coupled to the receiver and the scraper blade, for determining the depth of ice to be removed, based on the position along the receiver where the light beam impinges it and the level of the desired horizontal plane and for adjusting the scraper blade to remove ice to the depth determined; and the support mount comprising a mast pole having a top end for supporting the receiver and a bottom end connected to the scraper blade wherein the mast pole is retractable within the support mount to move the receiver from an operative position, when the receiver is maintained at a constant height above the ice surface during ice resurfacing operations, to a transport position, when no ice resurfacing operations are being performed, and extendable from the transport position to the operative position; and wherein the ice scraper is part of a conditioner and the height of the receiver above the top of the conditioner is maintained constant while in the operative position.