- credit
- Adolph A. Caille — Design
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Caille-Schiemer Company
- ipdb_id
- 1467
- ipdb.notable_features
- 1 ball for 5 cents. Cranking the stick handle on front of game lifted the ball to the shooter lane. Player shot the ball into play using a small "throwing device" (vertical plunger). Landing the ball into the top center hole paid a dollar prize. Of the thirteen score troughs at playfield bottom, a manufacturer advertisement stated that seven were winning pockets, paying between 10 cents and 50 cents.
The cabinet contained a magazine of 500 balls, dispensing one per play. Played balls ended up in a separate area and did not recycle. When all 500 balls had been played, the operator had to open the game and move the played balls back into the first magazine.
Advertised as measuring 22 inches long, 10 inches wide, 10 inches high at back, and 7 inches high at front.
- ipdb.notes
- This is known as the "Square Top" version and was the original one produced by Adolph Caille and Jacob Schiemer in January, 1901. It had a stick (crank) handle in the front for serving the ball, which was later changed to a dial handle for Caille Bros.'s 1901 'Log Cabin'.
Adolph and his brother Arthur soon formed The Caille Brothers Company in Detroit on July 30,1901 so this production lasted only about six months.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- year
- 1901