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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