Patents Assigned to QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC.
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Patent number: 8602906Abstract: A bowling pin including a body having a head, a neck, a ball line portion, and a base all integrally formed of a synthetic material. The body includes a hollow area and a longitudinal axis of the hollow area extends generally perpendicularly to a substantially planar bottom surface of the base. A method of manufacturing a bowling pin includes providing a mold shell having a mold cavity shaped substantially as a bowling pin, disposing a mandrel inside a mold cavity, introducing material into the mold cavity, cooling the material inside the mold cavity, removing the mandrel from the mold cavity, removing the material from the mold cavity, and cooling the material outside the mold cavity.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Qubicaamf Worldwide LLCInventors: Wayne White, Joe Infantino, Rodney C. Mallette, Ron Mizzi
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Patent number: 8500567Abstract: An elevator assembly having a looped track assembly and a chain assembly having rollers which roll on the looped track assembly. The chain assembly includes spaced apart pin holders extending from the chain. A sprocket drive assembly engages the chain assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLCInventors: Samuel R. Namala, LeRoy T. Warren, Jr., Charles A. Lee, Mark D. Kilpatrick
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Patent number: 8375557Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of beveling gripping holes of bowling balls. A method includes creating a bevel at an edge of a hole of the bowling ball by removing material from the bowling ball using a rotary tool equipped with a shaping bit that extends into the hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Qubicaamf Worldwide LLCInventors: Clifton E. Adair, Jody R. Bullis
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Patent number: 8083603Abstract: A bowling bumper system is provided. The bowling bumper system and more particularly an actuator or actuator assembly is decoupled from the bumpers, themselves, and configured to move the bumpers into an extended or retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLCInventors: Samuel R. Namala, David A. McCall, Charles Anton Lee, Patrick J. Reitelbach
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Publication number: 20110272256Abstract: Components (anti-idling system) for use with a pinspotter system and method of installation is described herein. The anti-idling system includes an anti-idling channel provided underneath a pit conveyor belt adjacent a rear roller of the pit conveyor belt and an elevator system of a pinspotter assembly. The anti-idling channel has a fastening mechanism structured to attach the anti-idling channel to a sidewall of the pinspotter assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: QUBICAAMF WORLDWIDE LLCInventors: LeRoy T. WARREN, JR., Charles A. LEE
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Publication number: 20110244974Abstract: A bowling pin including a body having a head, a neck, a ball line portion, and a base all integrally formed of a synthetic material. The body includes a hollow area and a longitudinal axis of the hollow area extends generally perpendicularly to a substantially planar bottom surface of the base. A method of manufacturing a bowling pin includes providing a mold shell having a mold cavity shaped substantially as a bowling pin, disposing a mandrel inside a mold cavity, introducing material into the mold cavity, cooling the material inside the mold cavity, removing the mandrel from the mold cavity, removing the material from the mold cavity, and cooling the material outside the mold cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: QUBICAAMF WORLDWIDE, LLCInventors: Wayne WHITE, Joe INFANTINO, Rodney C. MALLETTE, Ron MIZZI
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Patent number: 7988898Abstract: A bowling pin including a body having a head, a neck, a ball line portion, and a base all integrally formed of a synthetic material. The body includes a hollow area and a longitudinal axis of the hollow area extends generally perpendicularly to a substantially planar bottom surface of the base. A method of manufacturing a bowling pin includes providing a mold shell having a mold cavity shaped substantially as a bowling pin, disposing a mandrel inside a mold cavity, introducing material into the mold cavity, cooling the material inside the mold cavity, removing the mandrel from the mold cavity, removing the material from the mold cavity, and cooling the material outside the mold cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLC.Inventors: Wayne White, Joe Infantino, Rodney C. Mallette, Ron Mizzi
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Publication number: 20100285895Abstract: An elevator assembly having a looped track assembly and a chain assembly having rollers which roll on the looped track assembly. The chain assembly includes spaced apart pin holders extending from the chain. A sprocket drive assembly engages the chain assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: QUBICAAMF WORLDWIDE, LLCInventors: Samuel R. NAMALA, LeRoy T. WARREN, JR., Charles A. LEE, Mark D. KILPATRICK
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Patent number: 7686698Abstract: A bowling pin storage bin assembly for use as part of a bowling pin delivery system of a pinspotter apparatus, as well as a method of manufacturing such bin. The storage bin is molded as a one-piece article having a plurality of cavities or pockets for storing bowling pins in an essentially horizontal plane above a pin spotter and for delivering the pins to a plurality of pin cups or a pin spotter for spotting on a pin deck.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLCInventors: Samuel R. Namala, LeRoy T. Warren, Jr., Charles A. Lee, Paul Becker
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Publication number: 20090279967Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods of beveling gripping holes of bowling balls. A method includes creating a bevel at an edge of a hole of the bowling ball by removing material from the bowling ball using a rotary tool equipped with a shaping bit that extends into the hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: QUBICAAMF WORLDWIDE LLCInventors: Clifton E. Adair, Jody R. Bullis
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Publication number: 20080004125Abstract: A bowling pin storage bin assembly for use as part of a bowling pin delivery system of a pinspotter apparatus, as well as a method of manufacturing such bin. The storage bin is molded as a one-piece article having a plurality of cavities or pockets for storing bowling pins in an essentially horizontal plane above a pin spotter and for delivering the pins to a plurality of pin cups or a pin spotter for spotting on a pin deck.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2007Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: QUBICAAMF WORLDWIDE LLCInventors: Samuel R. NAMALA, LeRoy T. WARREN, Charles A. LEE, Paul BECKER
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Patent number: 7175881Abstract: A bowling lane maintenance apparatus includes a transfer roller and a dressing oil tank configured to contain dressing oil. A wick is configured to pass dressing oil from the tank to the transfer roller. A buffer brush is configured to receive dressing oil from the transfer roller and spread the dressing oil on a bowling lane. The wick may comprise a foam material having a first region having a first capillarity and a second region having a second capillarity differing from the first capillarity. The wick may also be maintained in contact with the transfer roller.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2005Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLCInventors: Adam P. Baker, Gary J. Ford, Mark D. Kilpatrick, Matthew E Popielarz, G. Joe Burroughs
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Patent number: 7077464Abstract: A furniture unit that includes a substantially triangular table and a first and second plurality of seats fixedly attached along two sides of the table. A directional view of the third side of the table is unobstructed as viewed from any of the first and second plurality of seats. A support structure is provided that maintains the table and the first and second plurality of seats at a certain distance and provides for unobstructed leg-area. A third set of seats may be provided along each of the three sides of the substantially triangular table and may be interconnected by a support structure that provides a substantially unobstructed ingress and egress to each seat.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2004Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC.Inventors: Gary J. Ford, William Bredlow, Brian Williamson
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Patent number: D548471Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLC.Inventors: Gary J Ford, William Bredlow, Brian Williamson
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Patent number: D703971Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2013Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: QubicaAMF Worldwide, LLCInventors: Tommaso Parisi, Gian Luca Ferrari