Frank J. Zamboni & Company is an American manufacturer of ice resurfacing equipment based in Paramount, California.
Zamboni created a plant for making ice blocks that could be used in refrigeration techniques.
To resurface the skating rink, three or four workers scraped, washed, and squeegeed the ice.
This process was extremely time consuming, and Zamboni wanted to find a more efficient method.
A journalist from the Brantford Expositor observed that "[t]he original [Model A] looks like the offspring of a field tractor and a warehouse crate.
Zamboni raised the driver's position for better visibility, and increased snow-holding tank capacity.
Instead of a conveyor belt moving ice shavings into the snow-holding tank, a vertical auger system did the task.
789,009) is for the mark "Zamboni" used in connection with "ice resurfacing machines and dump attachments therefor."
[8] Another band, Two Man Advantage, was sent a cease-and-desist letter in 2004 involving its song, "Zamboni Driving Maniac", with the company claiming it "implies an unsafe activity.
A 1989 episode of Cheers, entitled "Death Takes a Holiday on Ice", features the off-screen death of Carla Tortelli's ice show performing husband, Eddie LeBec, who is said to have been run-over by a Zamboni.
In the 2014 film Dumb and Dumber To, Harry (Jeff Daniels) and Lloyd (Jim Carrey) steal a modified Zamboni-brand ice resurfacer.
In the 2019 film ”Wine Country”, while playing a different paths game Catherine wishes she was a Zamboni driver as it would always be cool and she would get to have 2 hour long breaks.