Abstract: A bowling scoring console is disclosed having a housing and a video display monitor mounted in the housing. The console may have one or more of a video game processor, an Internet access device, and a television receiver mounted in the housing and coupled to the display monitor. Methods are also disclosed for using a video game device and an Internet access device in a bowler staging area of a bowling center.

Abstract: A bowling scoring console is disclosed having a housing and a video display monitor mounted in the housing. The console may have one or more of a video game processor, an Internet access device, and a television receiver mounted in the housing and coupled to the display monitor. Methods are also disclosed for using a video game device and an Internet access device in a bowler staging area of a bowling center.

Abstract: A loader includes a pair of rear supports projecting transversely outwardly from a longitudinally extending tractor frame. The loader further includes a pair of posts having receptacles at the bottoms thereof which are received about the rear supports when the posts are in upright dispositions, the receptacles being shaped for then retaining the posts on the supports. A weight bracket forms a bumper at the forward end of the tractor and a yoke extends forwardly from the posts and has a bight portion including a remotely operable releasable latch mechanism which releasably latches the bight portion to the weight bracket.

Abstract: A lawn and garden tractor includes an inclined steering input shaft and a vertical steering output shaft which are both journalled for oscillation in a support plate and which converge downwardly. Respectively axially shiftably keyed or splined on the input and output shafts at respective desired working positions just below the support plate are a straight bevel gear and a gear sector. The gear and gear sector are biased to their desired working positions by a pair of coil springs.