Richard Zamboni walks around the first ice-surfacing machine his father built seven decades ago. The 88-year-old is taking his time to remember. “We’re using the same framework today ...

A Zamboni machine was first used in an NHL game in 1954, and one scraped the ice at the Olympics for the first time at Squaw Valley in 1960. Growth was slow at first; only 32 machines were built ...

Zamboni’s creation revolutionized the ice resurfacing business. On June 23, 1953, the United States Patent Office awarded the company Patent 2,642,679 for its ice rink resurfacing machine.

The darling of ice sports fans everywhere, the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine. Image courtesy Zamboni Company. This past January 16, a one of my LinkedIn pals named Jesse Cooke, a Buffalo ...

My lesson began with a video covering the basic mechanics of the ice-resurfacing machine, which is generically referred to by the dominant brand, Zamboni. Before California ice-rink owner Frank ...

But the mundane work of the ice-resurfacing machine can be just as mesmerizing. There’s a nostalgic magic to the way the Zamboni slowly circles the rink, with a glistening sheen in its wake.

Finally, the machine dispenses 140-degree de-ionized water from a 150-gallon tank — the capacity of a Zamboni's ice-making water tank can vary, Arthur said, from roughly 90 gallons to 220 ...

This is truer than ever for the new Zamboni ZX5, the company’s latest model of the ice-cleaning machine. This version was designed by Pininfarina, the famed Italian design … ...

The Zamboni descendants said they also are excited to be carrying on a family tradition. They grew up as “rink rats” in Paramount, Calif., where grandfather Frank Zamboni built his first ice ...

Zamboni drivers everywhere should be shaking in their boots. ... "The biggest challenge to the Ice Jet is the tradition of the ice resurfacing machine," Van Eijl wrote in his business plan.

KEYSTONE – A Zamboni slipped through the cracks at the Keystone Lake Tuesday night. Crews were smoothing the surface of the popular skating spot around 6 p.m., when the machine fell part-way through ...