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A 5-pin bowling pinsetter in use at a bowling alley in Toronto Pinsetters in operation at a bowling alley as seen from behind the lanes. In bowling, a pinsetter or pinspotter is an automated mechanical device that sets bowling pins back in their original positions, returns bowling balls to the front of the alley, and clears fallen pins on the pin deck.
Automatic string Pinspotter (Pinsetter) QubicaAMF only string pinsetter EDGE Free fall Automatic Pinspotter (Pinsetter) Similar to EDGE string but uses the sweepbar found on AMF 82-70 (SOME) and AMF 82-90 and is labeled QubicaAMF Fly n ducks Duckpin pins some allies may use Duckpin Bowling the only duckpin bowling that QubicaAMF has.
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term bowling usually refers to pin bowling, most commonly ten-pin bowling , though in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, bowling may also refer to target bowling, such as lawn bowls .
A typical US AMF-branded bowling center that uses AMF pinsetters. At the formation of AMF Bowling in 1986, Commonwealth Ventures acquired the 110 AMF-owned bowling centers in the United States and abroad, as well as the 22 centers owned by one of the partners in Commonwealth Ventures, Major League Bowling Corp. Commonwealth then spent nearly $500 million revitalizing the bowling center ...
USBC lab data indicated strike percentage on string pin bowling is 7.1% lower, causing the USBC to plan additional testing to determine whether a scoring conversion should be created between the categories. [34] String pinsetters are less expensive and easier to maintain, motivating bowling centers to phase them in. [35]
Nine-pins was the most popular form of bowling in much of the United States from colonial times until the 1830s, when several cities in the United States banned nine-pin bowling out of moral panic over the supposed destruction of the work ethic, gambling, and organized crime. Ten-pin bowling is said to have been invented in order to meet the ...
Inside 1970s computer console apparatus. Automatic equipment is considered a cornerstone of the modern bowling center. The traditional bowling center of the early 20th century was advanced in automation when the pinsetter person ("pin boy"), who set back up by hand the bowled down pins, [1] was replaced by a machine that automatically replaced the pins in their proper play positions.
A ten-pin bowling score sheet showing how a strike is scored The number of sanctioned perfect (300) games per league bowler has increased substantially since the 1990s. . Freeman and Hatfield posit that the increase in perfect games is due to factors such as the introduction of reactive resin coverstocks, asymmetric ball cores, synthetic lane surfaces, and precision lane oiling mach