BRUNSWICK GSX PINSETTER SWEEP MANUAL
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Above-lane ball returns remain in use today as a low-cost alternative for miniature arcade bowling lanes, which use scaled-down balls and pins.

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The track is normally below the lane, although earlier pinsetters (both mechanical and automatic) have above-lane tracks similar to those of older manual lanes. The ball lift is designed to separate the ball from the fallen pins in the pit, and does not send pins into the ball return track.

Ball return вЂ“ removes the bowler's ball from the lane's pit and returns it to the bowler via the ball return track, located between paired lane beds, back to the ball return unit at the heads of the lanes.

It may be within or part of the table, or above and/or behind the table.

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A pin storage system that receives fallen pins from the pin elevator system, and stores them to be used as the next full rack of pins.

In ten-pin units, it is usually in the form of a vertically-oriented toroid-shaped system at the extreme rear of the pinspotter.

Pin elevator вЂ“ brings pins upwards out of the lane's pit to the top of the unit for re-setting for subsequent frames to deliver pins upwards from the pit into the pin storage system.

Pit вЂ“ a collection area behind the lane where balls and struck pins collect for sorting.

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Deck (Brunswick A series only) вЂ“ a fixed sheet-metal enclosure, usually fastened to the spotting table's framework and diagonal forward frame edges, that provides secondary protection (in addition to the sweep bar) for the spotting table system from improperly thrown balls and flying pins, and covers the pin chutes used to transfer the pins from the characteristic, cage-like Brunswick-design rotating pin storage turret above the table downwards into the deck for transfer onto the pin deck.

Table (also used in pre-automated manual units, often as their sole mechanical device) вЂ“ places the pins onto the lane for the next frame, then lifts the remaining pins for the sweep bar to remove fallen pins for the bowler's next roll.

In most pinsetters, the sweep bar is triggered as soon as the ball enters the pit, usually via an optical sensor that detects the ball motion. It may also stay lowered throughout the pinsetter operating cycle, to act as the primary physical protective barrier against improperly thrown balls. Sweep bar вЂ“ removes fallen and leftover pins from the pin deck.Part descriptions common to nearly all pinspotting units include: For example, bowling-game variants may use different sizes, shapes, and weights of pins and balls, and require equipment specifically made to handle them.

The designs of automatic pinsetters vary, depending on each company's hardware implementations, and on a particular bowling sport's playing rules and specifications. While many pinsetters have a manual reset button in case the pinsetter does not automatically activate at the correct time, other types have no automatic tracking of the state of the game вЂ“ especially in candlepin and duckpin bowling sports, which use smaller balls вЂ“ and are manually activated.Д¬ommon terms and design features While humans usually no longer set the pins, a pinchaser, or in slang 'pin monkey', is often stationed near the equipment to ensure it is clean and working properly, and to clear minor jams.Д«eginning in the 1970s, modern pinsetters were integrated with electronic scoring systems of varying sophistication. Pinsetting machines have largely done away with pinsetting as a manual profession, although a small number of bowling alleys still use human pinsetters. The first mechanical pinsetter was invented by Gottfried (Fred) Schmidt, who sold the patent in 1941 to AMF. Prior to the machine's invention, pinsetters were originally boys or young men ( pin boys) stationed at bowling alleys to manually reset pins and return the ball. 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. The stated objects of the Brunswick pinsetter included controlling the rake (pin sweeper) when an off-spot pin was encountered-inhibiting sweeping unless a first-ball foul was detected.

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