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[FranciscoPozo]

File Name: Cover Girl (Keeney 1947)

File Submitter: FranciscoPozo

File Submitted: 21 Nov 2021

File Category: Future Pinball

Author(s): FranciscoPozo(fpozo45)
Manufacturer: Other - Pinball
Year: 1947
Permission to MOD?: Yes, without approval

Cover Girl / IPD No. 579 / December, 1947 / 1 Player Manufacturer: J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1934-1964) Date Of Manufacture: December, 1947 Type: Electro-mechanical (EM)  Serial Number Database: View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net)  (External site) Notable Features: 5 balls per play. Flippers (7), Passive bumpers (10), Kick-out holes (3). Notes: 'Cover Girl' was the first flipper game made by Keeney.

This game was made in two versions and offered simultaneously (per Billboard, Jan-10-1948, page 103). The first pictures below are the rolldown version with the console cabinet. The pictures following the flyer are the standard cabinet version with ball-shooter.

This game is not to be confused with Gottlieb's 1945 'Cover Girl'.
 

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[wiesshund]

Them be some funky bats

 

Is the bottom center bat only supposed to rotate 1 direction?

Edited by wiesshund, 22 November 2021 - 07:54 AM.

[FranciscoPozo]

The 7h flipper maybe does the way you say. I made it rotating both direction but it looked weird in my opinion. Now If you think about it it results more challenging the way it is and in a certain manner is more amusing if you can take advantage of this peculiatr flipper

Rotating both sides it was very easy to get replays even with a single ball. There is no further history about this game, so the rules probably are not the actual ones.

[wiesshund]

The 7h flipper maybe does the way you say. I made it rotating both direction but it looked weird in my opinion. Now If you think about it it results more challenging the way it is and in a certain manner is more amusing if you can take advantage of this peculiatr flipper

Rotating both sides it was very easy to get replays even with a single ball. There is no further history about this game, so the rules probably are not the actual ones.

 

It rotates both directions

here are the mechanics

 

See the single actuator bar?

all flippers on one side linked to a solid bar

Solenoid shoves all flips on one side at same time

 

Other side rotates center bat the other way

 

I would imagine they had some kind of a cut out so you could only flip one side at a time?
To prevent binding the solenoids fighting for dominance over the center bat?
But maybe not?