Patent ID: 8177605

Claim:
A bowling ball surface treatment device for abrading, polishing or cleansing a bowling ball, said device comprising: a housing; a ball displacing means movably mounted to the housing for holding the bowling ball in a rotatable manner and for reciprocatingly displacing the bowling ball between a temporary waiting region and a surface treatment region in which the bowling ball is subject to a surface treatment; a surface treatment disc means in the surface treatment region for supporting and spinning the bowling ball, the surface treatment disc means arranged such that the bowling ball makes rolling contact with different polishing portions of the surface treatment disc means as the bowling ball is displaced between the temporary waiting region and the surface treatment region, the surface treatment disc means having a surface treatment element for making frictional contact with the bowling ball to abrade, polish or cleanse the bowling ball; a temporary support means arranged in the temporary waiting region for temporarily supporting a lower surface of the bowling ball when the bowling ball is moved out of the surface treatment region; and a disc drive means for rotating the surface treatment disc means.