JP2001178927A - Ball removal device for ball tray in pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely remove balls without leaving pachinko balls in a ball tray. SOLUTION: Relating to this ball removal device of the ball tray 7 in a pachinko machine, a ball removal hole 11 is opened on the bottom wall 10 of a tray part 8 for storing the pachinko balls, an opening/closing member 13 energized by an energizing member 15 in the direction of closing the ball removal hole 11 at all times is freely movably provided on the lower surface of the bottom wall 10 and the pachinko balls of the tray part 8 are removed by moving the opening/closing member 13 to the position of opening the ball removal hole 11. At least the side of closing the ball removal hole 11 of the opening/closing member 13 is inclined downwards and at least the upper surface positioned at the ball removal hole 11 of the opening/closing member 13 is inclined downwards.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an opening / closing member provided on a lower surface of a bottom wall of a ball tray in which a plurality of pachinko balls are allowed to fall and a ball hole is formed in the bottom wall of the ball tray for storing pachinko balls. The present invention relates to a ball punching device for a ball tray in a pachinko machine in which a ball punching hole is opened by sliding or rotating the ball.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an opening / closing member for closing a ball hole is
It was provided horizontally with respect to the ball punching hole, and moved horizontally to perform ball punching. Further, there is known a ball punching device for a ball tray in which an opening / closing member is locked at a ball pulling position by a locking member, and the locking is released by pressing of a pressing member (for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 3-53954). Gazette).

[0003]

In the conventional ball punching device for a ball tray, since the opening / closing member is moved horizontally to remove the ball, the pachinko ball on the opening / closing member is not removed but remains slightly. The player has to perform the ball removing operation again, which is a troublesome operation for the player.

Further, the ball removing device provided with the locking means for the opening / closing member requires a large number of parts and has a complicated structure.
There has been a problem that the assembling is troublesome and the cost is high. In addition, even if there is no pachinko ball on the plate portion, if the opening / closing member is slid, the ball is stopped and held at the ball removal position, and the stop release operation must be performed to release the stopped state of the opening / closing member. . For this reason, forgetting to release the ball even after the pachinko ball has been removed from the ball saucer, the ball saucer remains in the ball-absent state, disturbing the next player, and the clerk canceling each time There was a problem of having to operate.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a ball in a pachinko machine capable of reliably extracting a pachinko ball with a simple structure. It is an object of the present invention to provide a bowl removing device for a saucer. Another purpose is to stop and hold the opening / closing member at the ball-pulling position, automatically release the stop state when the pachinko ball is removed from the ball tray, and return the opening / closing member to the ball-pulling release position. An object of the present invention is to provide a ball punching device for a ball tray in a pachinko machine that can be operated.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a ball hole is formed in a bottom wall of a dish portion for storing pachinko balls, and the hole is formed in a lower surface of the bottom wall. An open / close member urged by an urging member in a direction in which the ball hole is always closed is movably provided, and the open / close member is moved to a position where the ball hole is opened to remove the ball of the pachinko ball in the dish portion. In a ball punching device for a ball tray in a pachinko machine described above, at least an upper surface of the opening / closing member located at a ball pulling hole is inclined downward.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the opening / closing member is stopped and held at a position where the ball removing hole is opened due to the weight of the pachinko balls stored in the dish when the ball is removed. When the ball is released from the ball weight, the ball removing state is released, and the opening / closing member is automatically returned to a position for closing the ball removing hole.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the present invention, a hole is formed in the bottom wall of the dish in which the ball hole is formed, into which a pachinko ball falls. The opening / closing member is stopped and held at a position where the ball hole is opened by the pachinko ball falling into the inlet hole.

In order to surely stop and hold the opening / closing member at a position where the ball hole is opened, a locking portion is provided on the opening / closing member, and the locking portion is provided at a position where the ball hole is opened in the support frame. It is preferable to provide an engaging portion that locks.

According to the present invention described above, the upper surface of the opening / closing member is formed as an inclined surface facing the ball hole, so that the pachinko ball can be reliably removed without leaving the pachinko ball in the dish portion.
In addition, when the pachinko ball is stored in the dish portion and the opening / closing member is moved to a position where the ball punching hole is almost fully opened against the urging of the urging member, the ball weight of the pachinko ball applied to the opening / closing member is changed. Even if you release your hand from the opening / closing member, you can remove the pachinko ball in the dish from the ball hole, the ball comes out from the hole, and the opening / closing member is released from the ball weight of the pachinko ball in the dish. The stop state of the opening / closing member is automatically released, whereby the opening / closing member can be automatically returned to the position for closing the ball hole.

The ball tray removing device for a ball tray in a pachinko machine according to the present invention is provided with an upper ball tray for supplying a hit ball provided on the front face of a front frame of the pachinko machine or a lower ball tray for storing excess balls in the upper ball tray. It can be applied to any of them.

Further, the ball punching device of the present invention can be applied to a device in which an opening / closing member for opening and closing a ball punching hole is slidably provided in a front-rear direction or a left-right direction, or a device provided rotatably. It is.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A first embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a lower ball tray, and FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the lower ball tray. A frame-shaped front frame 2 is provided on the front of the pachinko machine 1 so as to be openable and closable. The front frame 2 includes a glass door frame 3 and a front plate 4.
Is attached. A game board 5 is provided on the rear side of the glass door frame 3, and an upper ball receiving tray 6 is attached to a front surface of the front plate 4. Also, an upper ball receiving tray 6 is provided on the lower front surface of the front frame 2.
The lower ball receiving tray 7 for storing surplus spheres is mounted.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the lower ball receiving tray 7 is formed by dividing into two portions, a dish portion 8 for storing a large amount of pachinko balls and a cover member 9 attached to the upper portion of the dish portion 8. ing. A ball hole 11 for dropping a plurality of pachinko balls at the same time is opened substantially at the center of the bottom wall 10 of the plate portion 8 and a plurality of pachinko balls are dropped in communication with the ball hole 11 in the ball removing direction. A drop-in hole 12 is formed. The bottom wall 10 is inclined downward toward the ball hole 11 so that all the pachinko balls stored in the dish 8 face the ball hole 11. Reference numeral 13 denotes an opening / closing member which opens and closes the ball hole 11 in the bottom wall 10 of the plate portion 8. The opening / closing member 13 is a lower surface of the bottom wall 10 of the plate portion 8 and a support frame 14 screwed to the lower surface of the bottom wall 10. Between the support frame 1
Due to the elasticity of a spring 15 as an urging member housed in 4, it is always urged in a direction to close the ball hole 11.

The opening / closing member 13 is formed in a frame shape having a closing plate portion 17 for closing the ball removing hole 11 and a ball receiving plate portion 18 positioned at the drop-in hole 12 when the ball removing hole 11 is closed. An upper surface on the side that closes the ball hole 11 is formed to be inclined downward, and an operating portion 16 protruding outward from a cutout recess 14 a of the support frame 14 is formed on the front edge. The opening / closing member 13 can be moved by manually operating the operation unit 16. In addition, the opening / closing member 13 has a locking portion 19 provided at an end edge of the closing plate portion 17, and a lower end edge of the locking portion 19 is a rounded surface to facilitate the engagement. The opening / closing member 13 may be configured such that the upper surface is always inclined such that the side that closes the hole 11 is inclined downward, and the opening / closing member 13 may be provided in an inclined manner.

As shown in FIG. 3, the support frame 14 has a through hole 20 having a size substantially the same as that of the ball hole 11 at a position facing the ball hole 11, and the opening / closing member 13 is provided with a ball hole. At the position where the hole 11 is opened, there is formed an engaging portion 22 with which the engaging portion 19 is engaged. The engaging portion 22 is formed in a wedge shape having a tapered surface so that the opening / closing member 13 can be smoothly engaged. .

Next, the operation of removing the ball from the ball tray will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 4, the normally openable and closable member 13 closes the ball hole 11 with the ball receiving plate portion 18 positioned in the drop-in hole 12 by the bias of the spring 15 and the closing plate portion 17 inclined downward. I have. In this state, FIG.
When a large amount of pachinko balls are stored in the dish portion 8 as shown in FIG. 8, a finger is put on the operating portion 16 to move the opening / closing member 13 to the side where the ball hole 11 is opened against the bias of the spring 15. When the ball is moved, the ball removing hole 11 is opened, and the pachinko ball of the dish portion 8 starts falling from the ball removing hole 11 due to the inclination of the bottom wall 10 and the opening / closing member 13. Then, as shown in FIG. 6B, when the opening / closing member 13 is moved to a position where the ball removing hole 11 is almost fully opened, the locking portion 19 of the closing plate portion 17 gets over the engaging portion 22 and falls down. When the ball weight of the pachinko ball located in the hole 12 is applied to the closing plate portion 17 and the ball receiving plate portion 18, the opening / closing member 13 is moved downward, and the locking portion 19 is engaged with the engaging portion 22. Therefore, even if the hand is released from the operation unit 16, the weight of the ball applied to the opening / closing member 13 exceeds the urging force of the spring 15, and the opening / closing member 13 stops at the state of opening the ball hole 11 as shown in FIG. Will be retained. Then, the pachinko balls in the dish portion 8 fall out of the through holes 20 through the ball holes 11 and are extracted.

When the pachinko balls in the plate portion 8 are extracted in this way and the number of pachinko balls located in the drop-in holes 12 decreases, the urging force of the spring 15 opens and closes as shown in FIG. Locking portion 1 overcoming the ball weight on member 13
The engagement between the engaging portion 9 and the engaging portion 22 is released, and the opening / closing member 13 moves back as shown in FIG. At this time, since the closing plate 17 is in the downward inclined state,
The pachinko ball in the drop-in hole 12 has the closing plate portion 17 in which the ball hole 1 is inserted.
Since the roller always rolls toward the ball hole 11 until the ball hole 1 is closed, as shown in FIG.
It is possible to drop the ball without dropping from the ball hole 11 and leaving the pachinko ball in the dish portion 8 before closing the ball 1. The position at which the closing plate 17 closes the ball hole 11 is inclined downward at the maximum, and the downward inclination angle of the closing plate 17 is gradually increased as the closing plate 17 closes the hole 11. As a result, the ball can be more reliably removed.

According to the embodiment described above, since at least the closing plate portion 17 of the opening / closing member 13 is inclined downward toward the ball removing hole 11, the ball removing without leaving the pachinko ball in the dish portion 8 is ensured. can do. Further, the opening / closing member 13
Is moved to the side where the ball hole 11 is opened.
When the ball weight of the pachinko ball located at position 2 is applied to the opening and closing member 13, the opening and closing member 13 is moved downward,
And the engagement portion 22 can be engaged to stop and hold at the ball-pulling position. In addition, since the pachinko ball is removed and the weight of the ball on the opening / closing member 13 is reduced, the engagement of the opening / closing member 13 is automatically released, so that unnecessary opening of the opening / closing member 13 can be prevented. When it is desired to stop the ball removal on the way, the operation unit 16 is slightly moved upward against the ball weight applied to the opening / closing member 13 to disengage the ball. The pachinko ball can be closed and a small amount of pachinko balls can be easily removed from the dish portion 8.

Further, even if one of the locking portion 19 or the engaging portion 22 becomes worn out and cannot be engaged, the opening / closing operation of the ball hole 11 is not hindered and the pachinko of the plate portion 8 is not affected. The ball can be removed. Note that the contact friction between the support frame 14 and the opening / closing member 13 may be increased without providing the locking portion 19 and the engaging portion 22, and the pachinko ball may be stopped and held by the ball weight.

Further, the engaging portion 22 may be formed as a concave hole, and the engaging portion 19 may be protruded from the lower surface of the opening / closing member 13 to be engaged. Further, the locking portion 19 is connected to the opening / closing member 13.
May be provided at the rear end or lower surface of the support frame 14. Further, the engaging portion 22 may be cut out and provided in the cutout recess 14a of the support frame 14 using, for example, the operation portion 16 protruding outward of the support frame 14. It may be.

Further, a plurality of the locking portions 19 and the engaging portions 22 may be provided so that the opening state of the ball removing hole 11 is changed in a stepwise manner depending on the ball weight applied to the opening / closing member 13, By causing the opening / closing member 13 to be engaged stepwise, it is possible to make it difficult for the pachinko balls to remain on the dish portion 8. Further, one of the locking portion 19 and the engaging portion 22
Even if is worn out and cannot be engaged, the other can be engaged to hold the opening / closing member 13 at the open position of the ball hole 11.

Further, by changing the shape and size of the drop-in hole 12, the weight of the ball on the opening / closing member 13 can be adjusted, and the timing of disengagement of the opening / closing member 13 can be adjusted. Further, it can be adjusted by adjusting the urging force of the spring 15.

[0024]

As is apparent from the above description,
In the ball punching device for a ball tray according to the present invention, the opening / closing member is provided to be inclined toward the ball punching hole side, so that the pachinko ball can be reliably removed without leaving the pachinko ball in the ball tray. In addition, the pachinko ball on the opening / closing member is stopped using the ball weight of the pachinko ball on the opening / closing member, and the pachinko ball on the ball receiving tray is pulled out to reduce the ball weight of the pachinko ball on the opening / closing member. Is automatically released, so that the player does not have to perform troublesome operations.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a lower ball receiving tray.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a lower ball receiving tray.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the lower ball tray with the ball hole removed.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the lower ball tray with the ball hole removed.

FIGS. 6 (a) to 6 (d) are diagrams for explaining the operation of removing a ball.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 6 Upper ball receiving tray 7 Lower ball receiving tray 8 Plate portion 10 Bottom wall 11 Ball removal hole 12 Drop-in hole 13 Opening / closing member 15 Spring (biasing member) 19 Locking portion 22 Engaging portion

Claims (3)

[Claims] An opening / closing member urged by an urging member in a direction to always close the ball hole on the lower surface of the bottom wall is provided on a bottom wall of a dish portion for storing pachinko balls. And a ball punching device for a ball receiving tray in a pachinko machine in which the opening / closing member is moved to a position where the ball punching hole is opened by removing the ball from the pachinko ball in the dish portion. A ball punching device for a ball tray in a pachinko machine, characterized in that the upper surface of the ball is tilted downward. 2. The open / close member is stopped and held at a position to open a hole for removing a ball by the weight of a pachinko ball stored in a dish portion when the ball is removed, and when released from the ball weight, the ball removing state is released. The ball punching device for a ball tray in a pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein the opening / closing member is automatically returned to a position where the ball punching hole is closed. 3. A bottom hole of a dish portion in which said ball hole is opened is provided with a hole into which a pachinko ball falls, and an opening / closing member is formed by said pachinko ball falling into said hole. 3. The ball punching device for a ball tray in a pachinko machine according to claim 2, wherein the ball receiving tray is stopped and held at an open position.