Just picked these arrows up.They were purchased ar Bear archery plant in Grayling at the big sale just before the move to Gainsville.The Bear-matic steel plate looks like maybe it went on a machine at the Bear plant.If anyone has pictures of the machinery at the Bear plant & can ID this Bear-matic plate I would appreciate it.It looks like maybe push buttons went in the larger holes to operate machinery.
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Would that be to install coins in risers?
Red dog I have no idea what it is.I thought it may be a plate for a pushbutton system on one of Bears machines.
Rick, I have some pictures of workers on different machines when Bear went to Grayling and I believe there from an early time frame then the one you have a cover plate for. It would be nice to see if someone else has some pictures from 1956 and later , Bear Matic rings a bell...but not a loud one.
Thanks for the post.... :archer:
Maybe it's a control panel from the Razorhead press? How cool would that be? :saywhat: CKruse
I'm with Cam.. It looks like a control panel that was once loaded with push buttons or light.. Now if we just new what for,
Try contacting the company that made the plate.
I've tried that,With no luck.I was just hoping some of the wizards of Tradgang had maybe seen a picture or something.Rick...
Rick I think it is a push button plate for a arrowmatic target return machine. From back in the day when there was a lot of indoor target ranges. Arrowmatic was from Wisconsin and made machines for indor target type systems. I would have guessed that Bear had some systems with there name on them for sale to the Pro shops.I worked in a Bear service center as a kid and we had a number of things with Bear Archery on them in the shop.
OK,I haven't heard of arrowmatic arrow return system.I'm guessing that this came out of a archery range rather than Bear archery from Grayling.By any chance would you have a Picture of one of these systems.Do you now if the Company still exists.Thanks....
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3770914.html
More than you will ever want to know aboutREMOTE CONTROL TARGET APPARATUS Document Type and Number:United States Patent 3770914 Arrowmatic, Inc. (Manitowish Waters, WI)
These are the drawings for the Arrow-matic, or your "Bear-matic" from Wisconsin
http://www.google.com/patents?id=mrc0AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=arrowmatic+archery&source=bl&ots=0kK4nyuhGw&sig=ifJYttKsRm5cCyd04EHcJkgL0iE&hl=en&ei=AwgaSrKwK4GNtgfp8azqDA&sa=X&oi= book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#PPA13,M1 (http://www.google.com/patents?id=mrc0AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=arrowmatic+archery&source=bl&ots=0kK4nyuhGw&sig=ifJYttKsRm5cCyd04EHcJkgL0iE&hl=en&ei=AwgaSrKwK4GNtgfp8azqDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9#PPA13,M1)
United States Patent 1191
Larsen
[in 3,770,914
[45] Nov. 6, 1973
[54] REMOTE CONTROL TARGET APPARATUS
[75] Inventor: Henry A. Larsen, Manitowish Waters, Wis.
[73] Assignee: Arrowmatic, Inc., Manitowish Waters, Wis.
[22] Filed: Aug. 31, 1970