ball returns

Bowling alley troughs

Ball returns are mechanisms that collect and channel balls back to players after use.

The term appears most often in bowling, where the ball return is the track system that sends balls from the pin area back to bowlers: She waited at the ball return for her ball to come back.

Pool tables, pinball machines, and other games have similar systems.

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roll · roll back · bowling · carousel · ramps · strike · conveyor belts · kicker · thud · pins · track · gravity feed · automatic · mechanisms · clatter · spare parts · tunnel · drop

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bowling lane features - ball destination

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Rooftop water channels

gutter balls · pit · dead ends · pin setters

mechanical function - retrieval vs. loss

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