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    In bowling, a pinsetter or pinspotter is an automated mechanical device that sets bowling pins back in their original positions, returns bowling balls...
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    Lionel Barrow overcame the need for human pinsetters by inventing the first automatic candlepin pinsetter, called the "Bowl-Mor", the two inventors receiving...
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  • manufacture and sell its GS pinsetter. The GS is Brunswick's current pinsetter series. The mechanical portion of the pinsetter was originally manufactured...
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    needed to manufacture large numbers of duckpin pinsetters. Further, no parts for the Sherman pinsetter have been manufactured since 1973, so that anyone...
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    with the axis of the lane. In modern systems the pins are reset by a pinsetter which lifts up the pins, each connected by a string on top, and lowers...
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  • on May 25, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014. "Development of the Automatic Pinsetter". Old Bowling. Retrieved May 29, 2018. "Storm Announces Global Investment...
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  • participative, competitive sport. AMF became a major manufacturer of pinsetters, bowling pins, bowling balls, and other bowling equipment, and owned and...
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  • line of school furniture. In 1949, the Brunswick "Model A" Mechanical Pinsetter fully automated unit premiered, for the purpose of handling bowling pins...
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    proprietors worldwide." In 2003 Qubica acquired the Mendes company, a maker of pinsetters, ball returns, and automated scoring systems. QubicaAMF Worldwide was...
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  • move out of the way of the ball, and one elf can be decapitated by the pinsetter. The game was originally created as promotional marketing content by Dan...
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    In September 2020, Valastro had his right (dominant) hand impaled by a pinsetter at his home bowling alley. His sons and other family members rescued him...
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    string pinsetters and string pin bowling as an independent category of equipment and competition separate from conventional free-fall pinsetters. USBC...
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  • Gennaro, in 1896. After the seventh grade, he quit school and worked as a pinsetter, factory worker, and barber. Al Capone's family lived nearby, and Nitti...
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    References 180: A pinsetter malfunction in which the sweep bar is stuck at the back of the lane, halfway through a pinsetter cycle. 270: A pinsetter malfunction...
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    string pinsetters and string pin bowling as an independent category of equipment and competition separate from conventional free-fall pinsetters. USBC...
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    provide for his family at just eight years old. He worked as a golf-caddy, pinsetter at a bowling alley, and janitor at a bakery. After graduating high school...
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  • Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine and directed by Sidney Miller. Artie Pinsetter is a junk collector and amateur inventor who lives in the desert town...
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    armed forces. In 1931, Gottfried (Fred) Schmidt invented the automatic pinsetter. Brunswick was not interested in an automatic machine at the time. In...
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    certified for five-pin. On most string type pinsetters, automatic scoring equipment is connected directly to the pinsetter circuitry. Scoring cameras can be used...
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    en masse in bowling alleys in the 1970s and combined with mechanical pinsetters to detect overturned pins. By eliminating the need for manual score-keeping...
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    the end of that century. After the development of automated mechanical pinsetters, the sport enjoyed a "golden age" in the mid twentieth century. Following...
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    remember being pin boys for the bowl until some of the first automatic pinsetters made by Brunswick were installed. The Thompson and White family partnership...
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    almost bowls a perfect game, but Malcolm accidentally gets caught in the pinsetter and is dropped onto the pins on the 12th roll. Although the computer claims...
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    Louis, Missouri, he learned the game while working a childhood job as a pinsetter, and went on to become one of the legends of ten-pin bowling and a founding...
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  • John Leveque, sound editor Leslie L. LeVeque, inventor of the automatic pinsetter, after whom the LeVeque Tower was named Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French...
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  • eight bowling lanes were refurbished, with new chandeliers made from old pinsetter parts. The business was renamed "Highland Park Bowl" and bands perform...
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    1925, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. During his teens, King worked as a pinsetter in a Revere Beach bowling alley to help pay for his schooling. In World...
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    lanes. Human pinsetters were used at bowling alleys to set up the pins, but modern ten-pin bowling alleys have automatic mechanical pinsetters. Each lane...
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    Dance with Me, Henry Lou Henry 1959 The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock Artie Pinsetter Only starring film without Abbott 1965 The World of Abbott and Costello...
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  • the strike. Malcolm leads Beth behind the pinsetter machines to make out, but his shirt catches in a pinsetter. He tumbles into Hal's lane, ruining the...
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