Automatic bowling pinsetting machines

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IN A MACHINE FOR SETTING BOWLING PINS ON THE PIN SPOTS OF A BOWLING ALLEY, A VERTICALLY RECIPROCABLE PINSETTING AND RESETTING MEANS, SAID PINSERTTING MEANS HAVING IN COMBINATION VERTICALLY SPACED PARALLEL PLATFORMS, EACH SAID PLATFORM HAVING PORTS REGISTERING WITH THE PINS SPOTS ON SAID ALLEY AND WITH THE CORRESPONDING PORTS ON THE OTHER SAID PLATFORM; MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER SAID PLATFORM FOR RETRIEVING STANDING PINS FROM SAID ALLEYS RELEASABLY RETAINING SAID PINS WITHIN THE PORTS IN SAID LOWER PLATFORM; HAVING ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER SAID PLATFORM FOR OPTIONALLY CLOSING THE PORTS IN SAID PORT, FOR RETAINING PINS THEREON WHEN CLOSED; MEANS INCLUDING A PAIR OF YOKES ASSOCIATED WITH EACH PORTS SAID YOKES PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON SAID UPPER SAID PLATFORM, SAID LOST RETAINING MEANS ADAPTED TO ARREST SAID PINS AND TO SUPPEN EACH SAID PIN BY THE NECK THEREOF WHEN SAID PIN ARE RELEASE THROUGH THE PORTS ON SAID UPPER PLATFORM IN SUCH POSITION THAT THE BASE OF EACH SAID PIN EXTENDS THROUGH THE ASSOCIATED PORT IN SAID LOWER PLATFORM; MEANS FOR FEEDING PINS TO THE PORTS ON SAID UPPER PLATFORM; AND MEANS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING SAID PINSETTING AND RESETTING MEANS.