- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Mills Novelty Company
- ipdb_id
- 3268
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/3268/image-22.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- 10 balls for 5 cents.
- ipdb.notes
- An engraved plaque on the playfield contains these patents:
Patent 1,694,691 [GOLF GAME APPARATUS] filed November 28, 1927. Granted December 11, 1928 to Frank Rentz.
Patent 1,730,523 [GAME] filed March 16, 1928. Granted October 8, 1929 to James S. Nicholas.
Patent Reissue RE17,961 [GAME APPARATUS] original filed August 24, 1917. Granted February 10, 1931 to Frank H. Ellison.
Patent 1,938,495 [GAME APPARATUS] filed January 19, 1932. Granted December 5, 1933 to Arthur L. Paulin and Earl W. Froom.
These patents were acquired by Mills via license and/or litigation. For more information, read the chapter 'Patent Wars' in Bueschel's Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 2.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1936