Old Bear archery memorabilia

[Rick Enos]

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.

[reddogge]

Would that be to install coins in risers?

[Rick Enos]

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.

[JavelinaHink]

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....    

[ckruse]

Maybe it's a control panel from the Razorhead press? How cool would that be?    CKruse

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

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,

[Snakeeater]

Try contacting the company that made the plate.

[Rick Enos]

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...

[bearmagtd]

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.

[Rick Enos]

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....

[TonyW]

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)

[TonyW]

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

[TonyW]

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