Patent ID: 7090587

Claim:
An apparatus for a billiard bowling game comprising: a bowling pin collection section; a conveyor to forward knocked down bowling pins to the bowling pin collection section; a bowling pin distributing section in communication with the bowling pin collection section, the bowling pin distributing section including: a bowling pin distributing means for sequentially setting and distributing bowling pins; a driving means for driving the bowling pin distributing mean to transfer respective bowling pins from the bowling pin collecting means; a base section having bowling pin setting holes defined in a bowling pin setting plate for sequentially receiving bowling pins in respective bowling pin setting holes; and a bowling ball returning section intermediate the base section and the bowling pin collection section, the bowling ball returning section including; a sloped plate having an inclined guide surface, the sloped plate having a guide groove disposed below a fixed plate defining the base section and positioned above the conveyor and between a pair of side plates fastened to the fixed plate and adjacent to a rear lower end of the base section; a pair of returning rails extending from an opening in one of the side plates; a bowling ball-guiding curved plate installed between the pair of side plates; a driving motor fixedly mounted to one of the side plates; and a driving shaft of the driving motor installed to pass through a center axis of the bowling ball-guiding curved plate having a semi-circular configuration, wherein when a bowling ball is struck and driven by a billiard cue knocks down at least one of the plurality of bowling pins erected at an end of a bowling lane, the bowling ball is returned to its ready-for-use position through the returning rails and the at least one bowling pin is collected through the bowling pin collecting means.