Patent Application
20180318656
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
Not Applicable
The disclosure and prior art relates to bowling devices and more particularly pertains to a new bowling device for emitting fog from a bowling ball.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a bowling that is manipulated during game play of bowling. A fog unit is positioned within the bowling ball. The fog unit emits fog outwardly from the bowling ball when the bowling ball reaches a trigger velocity. In this way the fog unit enhances an appearance of the bowling ball.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
The fog unit 20 comprises a fog generator 24 that is positioned within the bowling ball 12. The fog generator 24 contains a liquid 26 and the fog generator 24 converting the liquid 26 into the fog 22. The fog generator 24 may be an electronic fog generator 24 of any conventional design. Moreover, and the liquid 26 may be fog machine liquid of any conventional design.
A plurality of tubes 28 is provided and each of the tubes 28 is fluidly coupled to the fog generator 24 such that each of the tubes 28 emits the fog 22 when the fog generator 24 is turned on. Each of the tubes 28 is aligned with an associated one of the finger wells 16 such that each of the finger wells 16 emits the fog 22. The plurality of tubes 28 includes a fill tube 30 and the liquid 26 is selectively poured into the fill tube 30 to fill the fog generator 24.
An accelerometer 32 is positioned within the bowling ball 12 to detect a velocity of the bowling ball 12. The accelerometer 32 is electrically coupled to the fog generator 24. Moreover, the accelerometer 32 turns the fog generator 24 on when the accelerometer 32 detects the velocity of the bowling ball 12 exceeds a trigger velocity. The accelerometer 32 may be an electronic accelerometer 32 and the trigger velocity may be a velocity ranging between approximately 25.0 kph and 30.0 kph. A power supply 34 is positioned within the bowling ball 12 and the power supply 34 is electrically coupled to the fog generator 24. The power supply 34 comprises at least one battery 36.
In use, the liquid 26 is poured into the fill tube to fill the fog generator 24 and the bowling ball 12 is manipulated in the convention of bowling. The accelerometer 32 turns the fog generator 24 on when the accelerometer 32 detects the bowling ball 12 exceeds the trigger velocity. In this way the fog 22 is emitted through the finger wells 16 when the bowling ball 12 is thrown down a bowling lane. Thus, the appearance of the bowling ball 12 is enhanced while the bowling ball 12 is travelling down the bowling lane.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, system and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
