Frank Zamboni
Frank Joseph Zamboni, Jr. ( born January 16, 1901 in Eureka, Utah; † 27 July 1988) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. He is considered the inventor of the resurfacer and founded the company Frank J. Zamboni & Co., Inc.
Youth
His parents, who were Italian immigrants, bought a farm in Pocatello, Idaho, where he grew up. In 1920 he moved with his parents to Los Angeles, where his older brother George ran a car repair shop.
Career
After he finished business school in Chicago, he opened in 1922 with his younger brother Lawrence an electronics store in Los Angeles, Paramount. In 1927 he took add a plant for the production of ice blocks. When electric refrigerators came up, he sold 1939 the ice block business.
Together with his brother and a cousin he built in Paramount, Southern California, near his factory the rink " Iceland Skating Rink ". The following year, the plant, which could accommodate 800 runners, was reconsidered. The huge ice had to be prepared several times a day. A scratch was towed behind a tractor and three to four workers had to wipe away the scraped ice and water the area again. 90 minutes were required for it.
From 1947-1952 Zamboni constructed in numerous tests a water tank on a jeep body and developed a modern, controlled by a driver resurfacer, which was a bestseller and a Zamboni to the generic name for this type of machine.
Private life
Zamboni married in 1923. The marriage produced three children.
Honor
2009 Zamboni was added posthumously inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame by the American Hockey Association.
In the computer game Plants vs. Zombies ( Plants Vs. Zombies ), there is a character, the Zomboni, a zombie who drives a resurfacer with a big Z on the hood. In plant and zombie lexicon in the game is drawn to the approval by the company Zamboni and on their website.
2013 were to 112th Birthday Zamboni Google created an interactive doodle, where you have the ice, which is frequented by skaters, hockey players and figure skaters, smooth, with an ice cream maker.