Patent ID: 8387312
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: A63D,E04B,E04F

Abstract:
1. A platform arrangement for covering the lanes of a bowling alley array having a plurality of longitudinally extending bowling lanes in a side by side substantially parallel alignment and each lane having a first longitudinally extending edge and a second longitudinally extending edge and a bowling ball gutter extending longitudinally adjacent each edge of said bowling lanes and the gutter adjacent the first edge of each lane is separated from the gutter of the adjacent lane by a single division capping and the gutter adjacent the second edge of each lane is separated from the gutter in the adjacent lane by a bowling ball return capping comprising, in combination: a plurality of base support members in a preselected rectilinear grid having a preselected longitudinally extending spaced array, said preselected longitudinal spaced array extending longitudinally along at least some of said bowling lanes of said bowling array, and said plurality of base support members in a substantially aligned transverse array in adjacent bowling lanes of said bowling alley array, and each of said base support members having: said front surface of each of said plurality of base support members having second walls defining a plurality of front pockets in a preselected front pocket transversely spaced array; a plurality of transversely extending support members in said grooves of said top surfaces of said base support members; a plurality of longitudinal support members having first ends in said front pockets of said base support members and second ends in said back pockets of said base support members; a plurality of lane edge support members having a front surface, a back surface, a top surface and a bottom surface and, said top surface having walls defining a pocket open at said top surface and extending a preselected distance toward said back surface, and said bottom surface positionable on the bowling surface of the lane adjacent the gutter and, a planar sheet like member on said top surface of said plurality of base support members and extending over a first preselected number of said plurality of said longitudinally extending spaced array of said base support members and a second preselected number of said substantially aligned transverse array of said base support members.