Abstract: An automatic bowling pin setting machine includes a sorting section receiving knocked down pins and bowling balls, an elevator conveying pins to a receiving reel, and a setting reel to which pins drop downwardly from the setting reel. Gripper arms accompanying the setting reel pick up any standing pins to ready the alley for a second throw. After a second throw, the alley is swept clean of pins, and the setting reel places a new set of pins in the alley. The setting machine is designed with reduced maintenance in mind and for sureness of operation.

Abstract: An automatic bowling pin setting machine includes a sorting section receiving knocked down pins and bowling balls, an elevator conveying pins to a receiving reel, and a setting reel to which pins drop downwardly from the setting reel. Gripper arms accompanying the setting reel pick up any standing pins to ready the alley for a second throw. After a second throw, the alley is swept clean of pins, and the setting reel places a new set of pins in the alley. The setting machine is designed with reduced maintenance in mind and for sureness of operation.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for plastic foam solids or the like which comprises a cutting wire system having a plurality of cutting wires attached substantially perpendicularly between two substantially parallel supporting rods spaced from each other so that a piece of plastic foam solid to be cut can be passed through the cutting wires between the supporting rods, and an oscillating drive engaged with the supporting rods so as to oscillate rotatably the supporting rods in opposing rotational directions and therefore to oscillate the wires to and fro lengthwise. The cutting wires are spaced from each other in either of two cutting wire positions lengthwise along the supporting rods. The cutting wires are attached eccentrically to the outer periphery of the supporting rods, each of the cutting wires which are each in a different one of the cutting wire positions lying in planes parallel to the supporting rods and each of the cutting wires in the same cutting wire position lying in the same plane.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for plastic foam solids or the like comprises a cutting wire system having a plurality of substantially parallel cutting wires attached eccentrically to at least two parallel supporting rods, the supporting rods being substantially perpendicular to the cutting wires and spaced from each other with clearance so that the plastic foam solid can be passed therebetween, the ends of the supporting rods being held rotatably pivotable in a rod frame, and also comprises an oscillating drive associated with and engaged to the supporting rods so as to rotatably oscillate the supporting rods about their longitudinal axes wherein the rod frame with the upper end of the frame pivotable around an axis parallel to the cutting wires is supported in a suspension recess of a frame support and is held with the aid of an adjustable strut adjacent the lower end of the rod frame against a supporting abutment projecting from the frame support, and that the rotatable lower end of at least one supporting rod is con