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22-592: Skee-Ball was invented and patented in 1908 by Joseph Fourestier Simpson, a resident of Vineland, New Jersey . On December 8, 1908, Simpson was granted U.S. patent 905,941 for his "Game". Simpson licensed the game to John W. Harper and William Nice Jr. who created the Skee-Ball Alley Company and began marketing the thirty-two-foot games in early 1909. The first advertisement for Skee-Ball appeared on April 17, 1909, in Billboard magazine . About two months later

44-603: A pricing game on the American game show The Price Is Right from 1981 to 1998. Skee-Ball is now a social sport played in bars in North America, with leagues forming under various banners. In recent years, it has inspired the development of professional Woodball , a sport version of the game known for its unique blend of skill and strategy. A beach version of Skee-Ball played in the Carolinas , with scoring resembling cornhole ,

66-637: A supplier of facings. In 2001, the Masonite Corporation was purchased by Premdor Corporation, a door maker, from its former parent International Paper . It no longer supplies generic hardboard. Masonite is formed using the Mason method, in which wood chips are disintegrated by saturating them with 100-pound-per-square-inch (690 kPa) steam, then increasing the steam or air pressure to 400 pounds per square inch (2,800 kPa) and suddenly releasing them through an orifice to atmospheric pressure. Forming

88-507: Is a type of hardboard (a kind of engineered wood ) made of steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood fibers in a process patented by William H. Mason . In 1898, a product resembling Masonite ( hardboard ) was first made in England by hot-pressing waste paper. In 1924, Masonite was patented in Laurel, Mississippi , by William H. Mason , who was a friend and protégé of Thomas Edison . In 1929,

110-452: Is called Flyball. The inventors first publicized it on social media in March 2023. Gameplay varies depending on the particular machine but, normally, a player, after inserting appropriate payment, receives a queue of (usually nine) balls made of either polished Masonite or heavy plastic and each approximately three inches in diameter. Each machine has an inclined ramp, 10–13 feet long, up which

132-444: Is used extensively in the construction of sets for theater, film, and television. It is especially common in theaters as the stage floor, painted matte black. It is considered one of the best materials for making a musical wobble board . Masonite 4-by-8-foot (1.2 by 2.4 m; 120 by 240 cm) panels are sometimes sawn into 4-inch (100 mm; 10 cm) by 8-foot (2.4 m; 240 cm) strips. These strips are used to form

154-451: Is widely used as the curved surface of skateboard ramps. Masonite was a popular protective backing for wooden console stereo and television cabinets from the 1960s to the 1980s. Due to its flexibility, Masonite is commonly used by model railroaders for their layouts as fascia , to cover the structural materials used for the layout. Masonite swells and rots over time when exposed to the elements, and may prematurely deteriorate when it

176-419: Is widely used in construction, particularly in renovations where floors are finished prior to other work and require protection. Sheets of 1 ⁄ 8 -or- 1 ⁄ 4 -inch (3.2 or 6.4 mm) Masonite are typically laid over red rosin paper on finished floors to protect them. The Masonite sheets are taped together with duct tape to prevent shifting and to keep substances from leaking through. Masonite

198-402: The company initiated mass production of its product. In the 1930s and 1940s, Masonite was used for applications including doors , roofing , walls , desktops (e.g., Danelectro ), and canoes . It was sometimes used for house siding. Similar "tempered hardboard" is now a generic product made by many forest product companies. In 1972, the Masonite Corporation entered the door business as

220-400: The company. Over the next several years Sladek bought out his partners and renamed the company Skee-Ball Amusement Games Inc. In February 2016, Bay Tek Games, Inc. , of Pulaski, Wisconsin , acquired Skee-Ball Amusement Games, Inc., acquiring the rights to the legacy Skee-Ball game and trademark in the process, and moved its manufacturing to Pulaski. Super Ball!! , a version of Skee-Ball, was

242-406: The edge of sidewalks where curved shapes are desired when pouring concrete. Masonite is a popular choice for cake boards for professional cake decorators, since it is a natural product and is strong enough to support multiple-tiered creations such as wedding cakes. To a lesser extent, Masonite is used in guitar bodies, most notably by Danelectro . Due to its low cost and flexibility, Masonite

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264-499: The fibers in Masonite. Artists have often used it as a support for painting, and in artistic media such as linocut printing. Masonite's smooth surface makes it a suitable material for table tennis tables and skateboard ramps. Masonite is used by moving companies . Among other things, they use it to protect the walls of buildings where they work, and lay on floors to enable smooth rolling of dollies loaded with goods. Masonite

286-475: The fibers into boards on a screen, the boards are then pressed and heated to form the finished product with a smooth burnished finish. (Later a dry process with two burnished surfaces was also used.) The original lignin in the wood serves to bond the fibers without any added adhesive . The long fibers give Masonite a high bending strength, tensile strength , density, and stability. Unlike other composite wood panels, no formaldehyde -based resins are used to bind

308-443: The first alley was sold. Alleys continued to sell slowly over the next few years. In January 1910, Nice died unexpectedly, leaving Harper without the necessary funding for promotion. The company struggled for the rest of 1910, 1911 and 1912. Simpson worked with Harper, but they were having difficulty making any headway, and by December 1912 the Skee-Ball Alley Company was moribund. In 1910, Jonathan Dickinson Este became enamored of

330-540: The game ends. The coupons are typically traded at the arcade for prizes . Some machines award large coupon bonuses to players who attain or surpass a posted high score. At traveling carnival midways, prizes are typically won by scoring a certain minimum number of points in one game. This requires an attendant to hand out prizes immediately at the end of games, which is not common in arcade settings. Usually multiple small prizes can be traded for medium prizes and multiple mediums for large. Perfect or nearly perfect scores earn

352-406: The game, and hired Harper as general manager. In 1917 Este enlisted in the military and turned over operation of the company to his business partners. After his return in 1919 he sold The J. D. Este Company to his partners and exited the business. Este's business partners renamed the company the "Skee-Ball Company". They operated the manufacturing and distribution of the game until 1928 when the game

374-445: The game, and in 1913 he helped Simpson and John W. Harper to revitalize the company. Este installed two alleys at a Princeton location, near the university, to see how well they would do. After a few weeks, interest in the game fizzled, but in 1914 Este installed Skee-Ball in rented space on Atlantic City 's boardwalk . He purchased the patent and all rights to the game from Simpson, incorporated The J. D. Este Company to build and market

396-547: The largest prize available, while very low scores may earn nothing at all. Vineland, New Jersey Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 388329857 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:46:11 GMT Masonite Masonite (also called Quartboard and pressboard )

418-414: The player must roll the balls. A sudden increase in incline at the end of the ramp (called the "ball-hop") launches the balls above the plane of the ramp toward a series of rings that direct the balls into holes of varying point values, with the smallest and hardest to reach usually giving the most points. The machine dispenses coupons to the player, based on scoring thresholds, either during the game or after

440-729: The tournament. $ 2400 in prizes were awarded to the winners. In 1935, Bergoffen died unexpectedly in Atlantic City, leaving Hugo and Maurice Piesen to run the National Skee-Ball Company. In June 1936, The Rudolph Wurlitzer Manufacturing Company bought all of the rights to the game and set up a games division. Wurlitzer produced more than five thousand Skee-Ball alleys and began selling them in December 1936, but they ceased production of alleys in 1937 as demand weakened. Beginning in 1942, Wurlitzer shifted its focus from amusement devices to

462-586: The war effort by building equipment for the United States government. As the war drew to a close, the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC) contacted Wurlitzer to ask about either licensing the rights to Skee-Ball or selling it outright. By January 1946, PTC was the new owner and manufacturer of Skee-Ball. That lasted until 1977 when Skee-Ball, Inc., was spun-off from PTC under the same ownership. By 1984, Joe Sladek and three other partners had bought

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484-459: Was sold to Herman Bergoffen, Hugo Piesen, and Maurice Piesen, who incorporated the National Skee-Ball Company. In 1929, the National Skee-Ball Company of Coney Island, New York , trademarked the name Skee-Ball. The National Skee-Ball Company organized the first national Skee-Ball tournament at Skee-Ball Stadium in Atlantic City. The tournament alleys were shorter than the alleys that Simpson had built. Over one hundred contestants qualified to play in

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