His son, Richard, said, "It took him nine years. The initial machine included a hydraulic cylinder from an A-20 attack plane, a chassis from an oil derrick, a Jeep engine, a wooden bin to catch the shavings, and a series of pulleys. Then, in 1949, he invented a machine that transformed the job of resurfacing an ice rink from a five-man, 90-minute task to a one-man, 15-minute job. (The rink still operates and is still owned by the Zamboni family.) He obtained a patent for that innovation in 1946. In 1940, the brothers, along with a cousin, Pete Zamboni, opened the Iceland rink, which proved very popular, in no small part because Frank had devised a way to eliminate rippling caused by the pipes that were laid down to keep the rink frozen. They decided to use their excess refrigeration equipment to open an ice rink nearby. They continued their ice business in 1939, but saw little future in that business with the advent of electrically operated refrigeration units. In 1927, he and Lawrence added an ice-making plant and entered the block ice business.
The following year he married and eventually had three children, a son and two daughters. After Frank attended a trade school in Chicago, he and his younger brother Lawrence opened an electrical supply business in 1922 in the Los Angeles suburb of Hynes (now part of Paramount). In 1920, he moved with his parents to the harbor district of Los Angeles, where his older brother George was operating an auto repair shop. His parents soon bought a farm in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho near Pocatello, Idaho, where he grew up. Zamboni was born in 1901 in Eureka, Utah, to Italian immigrants.
( / z æ m ˈ b oʊ n i/, Italian: January 16, 1901 – July 27, 1988) was an American inventor and engineer whose most famous invention is the modern ice resurfacer, with his surname being registered as a trademark for these devices. Invention of ice resurfacer and founder of Zamboni Companyįrank Joseph Zamboni Jr.
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