CN108992915B

CN108992915B - Mahjong machine and slope tile discharging device and tile feeding method thereof

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Publication number: CN108992915B
Application number: CN201810805052.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 胡取贤
Original assignee: Zhejiang Chaosheng Electromechanical Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Xuanhe Electromechanical Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2015-12-25
Filing date: 2015-12-25
Publication date: 2021-07-16
Anticipated expiration: 2035-12-25
Also published as: CN108992913A; CN108992912A; CN105381605A; CN108786097A; CN108992915A; CN108786097B; CN108992913B; CN105381605B

Abstract

The invention discloses a mahjong machine and a slope tile-playing device and a tile-playing method thereof, wherein the slope tile-playing device comprises a tile-playing component and a tile-lifting component, the center of a tile-lifting integral seat of the tile-lifting component is a central hole, four tile-lifting parts are arranged on the periphery of the central hole of the tile-lifting integral seat, each tile-lifting part comprises a first side plate and a second side plate which are arranged in parallel at intervals, a tile-lifting groove is formed between the first side plate and the second side plate, and a tile-lifting supporting plate is positioned at the upper part of the tile-lifting groove; the mahjong tile feeding assembly comprises a mahjong tile feeding support, a mahjong tile feeding push head and a mahjong tile storage groove, wherein the mahjong tile feeding push head is provided with a plurality of mahjong tile pushing parts which are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles which are overlapped up and down in the same pier, and the mahjong tile pushing part contacted with the lower mahjong tile protrudes out of the mahjong tile pushing part contacted with the upper mahjong tile; most of the mahjong storage groove is horizontally arranged, and a mahjong outlet slope surface for lifting mahjong tiles is arranged at the position, close to the mahjong outlet, of the mahjong storage groove. The scheme ensures stable slope tile discharging of the mahjong machine and regular arrangement of mahjong tiles.

Description

Mahjong machine and slope tile discharging device and tile feeding method thereof

The application is

Application numbers are CN 201510998188.8;

the application name is a control method of the mahjong machine;

the application date is: 12 months and 25 days 2015;

the applicant is: zhejiang Xuan & electric appliances Limited;

the divisional application of the invention patent application.

[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device

The invention belongs to the field of mahjong machine manufacturing, and particularly relates to a mahjong machine adopting a tile storage groove slope tile discharging structure, a slope tile discharging device and a tile feeding method of the mahjong machine.

[ background of the invention ]

Along with the continuous improvement of the living standard, people pay more and more attention to leisure and entertainment life, and the convenient and labor-saving automatic mahjong machine is gradually loved by people.

Patent document No. CN200966910Y discloses a slope tile-playing device for a full-automatic mahjong machine, which comprises a table top plate, wherein a tile-playing port is arranged at the center of the table top plate, four rectangular tile-playing ports in a windmill shape are arranged on the table top plate, and are inclined at an angle with the side line of the table top plate, four arc-shaped tile storage grooves which are also arranged in a windmill shape of windmill are arranged below the table top plate, a tile-sending pushing head is arranged at the tail end of each tile storage groove, the pushing head is connected with a pushing head motor through a tile-sending steel wire rope, a supporting plate door strip is arranged on each tile-playing port, one end of each supporting plate door strip is hinged with the tile-playing port, and the other end. The four card outlets are arranged in a windmill shape, and each card outlet is inclined at an angle with the bottom edge of the table, namely the windmill shape is inclined, so that the table top can be made smaller, and the inclination of the card strips also conforms to the habits of players; secondly, when the mahjong is played, the whole mahjong pier is not built and then is lifted on the table top, but is pushed on the table top along the slope, so that the space in the machine can be reduced, and the volume of the whole machine can be reduced. However, in the card-delivering device, the whole card storage groove is arranged in a slope shape, the resistance in the card-delivering process is large, the load of a steel wire rope motor is large, a steel wire is easy to shake and break, the card-delivering process is not stable enough, the service life of the steel wire rope is short, the arrangement of the card storage groove, the stacking and pushing machine head and the conveying device (a mechanism for picking up mahjong tiles from a large disk and conveying the mahjong tiles to the stacking and pushing machine head) is unreasonable, the conventional four-side independent stacking and pushing machine head is difficult to push the mahjong tiles to the card inlet of the card storage groove track, and the height of the main.

Patent document No. CN201783185U discloses a chain-driven slope tile discharging device for a full-automatic mahjong machine, which comprises four liftable tile lifting plates hinged with a tabletop, wherein one end of each tile lifting plate is a tile inlet, a conveying belt is arranged outside each tile lifting plate, a stacking and pushing mechanism is arranged on one side of each conveying belt, an arc-shaped tile storage groove is arranged outside each four-side conveying belt, an annular closed chain is arranged below each groove, and vertical chain rods are arranged on each chain at set intervals. Although the mahjong tile discharging device adopts the chain to push the mahjong tiles, the problem of short service life of a steel wire rope is solved, the working noise of the machine is high, the plane size of a main machine is increased, and other defects are not improved.

Patent document No. CN102133480A discloses a full-automatic mahjong machine, which comprises a tile feeding system, a tile lifting system and a tile shuffling large plate, wherein the tile feeding system comprises four tile pushing devices, four tile feeding rails and a chain transmission device. The height of the card sending system is basically equal to that of the card lifting system, so that although the height of the host computer is reduced, the arrangement position of the card lifting system can interfere with the large-disk shuffling and the card sending system to suck mahjong, and the card sending system is only suitable for small mahjong. Moreover, the arrangement of the mahjong outlet of the mahjong conveying system and the mahjong inlet of the mahjong loading track is unreasonable, the mahjong pushing device does not have the mahjong stacking function, mahjong tiles are automatically stacked on the mahjong bearing table surface, and therefore the mahjong tiles are not stacked neatly and are easy to move and misplace, and the mahjong tiles cannot enter the mahjong loading track, and are disordered in the mahjong loading track. In addition, after the horizontal mahjong tile feeding track is adopted, mahjong tiles close to the mahjong tile discharging port of the mahjong tile feeding track are very easy to fall out of the mahjong tile discharging port and fall back to the large shuffling tray; the chain and the mahjong-serving flag wheel are adopted, so that the noise is high.

In the automatic mahjong machine disclosed in patent documents with publication numbers CN201906453U and CN201949619U, the mahjong storage plate in the mahjong storage track of the mahjong machine is obliquely arranged, one end of the mahjong storage plate is butted with the mahjong bearing plate, the mahjong stacking and pushing head pushes the mahjong tiles on the mahjong bearing plate to the mahjong storage plate, and after the mahjong tiles on the mahjong storage plate are arranged in a row, the mahjong loading and pushing head pushes the whole row of mahjong tiles to the mahjong loading assembly; because the dodging groove is formed in the stacking pushing head, and the push rod is arranged on the upper pushing head, the two pushing heads can be arranged in a vertical crossing mode, and the two pushing heads can be completely avoided from each other through the dodging groove when pushing the cards respectively. However, since the card storage rail passes above the conveying part of the card feeding device, the height of the main machine of the mahjong machine is high (the heights of the card feeding device and the card loading device are overlapped), and the L-shaped card storage rail is short, so that the universality is poor.

The automatic mahjong machine disclosed in the patent documents CN103861280A and CN104645608A also has the problems of high height of the main machine (the height of the card feeding device and the height of the card loading device are overlapped), short L-shaped card storage track and the like. Moreover, after the horizontal mahjong tile feeding track is adopted, mahjong tiles close to the mahjong tile discharging port of the mahjong tile feeding track are very easy to fall out of the mahjong tile discharging port and fall back to the large shuffling tray; the wire rope is adopted to drive the mahjong tile pushing head to move, the wire rope and the side wall of the track are seriously rubbed, and the service life is short.

The patent document with publication number CN204699375U discloses an automatic mahjong machine with an improved structure, which comprises a mahjong conveying system, a mahjong loading system, a mahjong lifting system and a large shuffling tray, wherein the mahjong conveying system comprises four mahjong conveying mechanisms, each mahjong conveying mechanism comprises a transmission frame and a conveying belt fixed on the transmission frame, the four mahjong conveying mechanisms are sequentially connected to form a rectangular structure, and the large shuffling tray is arranged in the four mahjong conveying mechanisms. The mahjong tile feeding tracks are all of large arc structures, friction force between mahjong tiles and the mahjong tile feeding tracks is reduced, and high mahjong tile feeding speed and low mahjong tile feeding noise are guaranteed. And moreover, the arrangement positions of the card feeding system and the card delivering system are subjected to avoidance partial overlapping design, so that the height of the host is reduced. However, because the tile feeding device adopts a straight line to feed and discharge the mahjong tiles, the tile outlet of the tile feeding device and the tile inlet of the tile feeding track cannot be reasonably arranged, the tile pushing resistance of the stacking and pushing device is large, the tiles are easy to be clamped, and the size of the table top of the mahjong machine is increased due to the large arc-shaped tile feeding track.

[ summary of the invention ]

In order to solve the technical problems in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a mahjong machine, a slope tile discharging device and a tile feeding method thereof, and aims to ensure stable slope tile discharging and regular arrangement of mahjong tiles of the mahjong machine.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a slope tile discharging device of a mahjong machine comprises a tile feeding assembly and a tile lifting assembly, and is characterized in that the tile lifting assembly comprises a tile lifting motor (603) and a tile lifting integral seat (601), the center of the tile lifting integral seat (601) is a central hole, four tile lifting parts are arranged on the periphery of the central hole of the tile lifting integral seat (601), each tile lifting part comprises a first side plate (602) and a second side plate (6012) which are arranged in parallel at intervals, a tile lifting supporting plate (604) is arranged between the first side plate (602) and the second side plate (6012), a tile lifting groove is formed between the first side plate (602) and the second side plate (6012), the tile lifting supporting plate (604) is located on the upper part of the tile lifting groove, one end of the tile lifting supporting plate (604) is installed on the tile lifting groove, and the other end of the tile lifting supporting plate (604) is driven to lift up and down by the tile lifting motor (603); the mahjong tile feeding assembly comprises a mahjong tile feeding support and a mahjong tile feeding pushing head, wherein a mahjong tile storage groove used for storing a plurality of mahjong tiles is formed in the mahjong tile feeding support, the mahjong tile storage groove is provided with at least one arc-shaped bend, the mahjong tile feeding pushing head (514) is provided with a plurality of mahjong tile pushing parts, the mahjong tile pushing parts are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles stacked up and down in the same pier, the mahjong tile pushing part contacted with the lower-layer mahjong tile protrudes out of the mahjong tile pushing part contacted with the upper-layer mahjong tile, so that when the mahjong tile feeding pushing head (514) pushes the plurality of mahjong tiles to horizontally move in the mahjong tile storage groove, the upper-layer mahjong tile lags behind the lower-layer mahjong tile, and when the last mahjong tile is pushed up to the inclined mahjong tile lifting supporting plate (604) by the mahjong tile feeding pushing head (514), the upper-layer mahjong tile is level with the lower-layer mahjong tile; most of the mahjong storage groove is horizontally arranged, and a mahjong outlet slope surface for lifting mahjong tiles is arranged at the position, close to the mahjong outlet, of the mahjong storage groove.

Preferably, the first side plate (602) and the second side plate (6012) are integrally formed with the tile lifting integral seat (601).

Preferably, the second side plate (6012) is integrally formed with the integral tile lifting seat (601), and the first side plate (602) is an independent part and is fixedly mounted on the integral tile lifting seat (601).

Preferably, the card pushing head (514) is provided with three card pushing parts, the lower card pushing part (5141) protrudes out of the middle card pushing part (5142), the middle card pushing part (5142) protrudes out of the upper card pushing part (5143), when the upper pushing head (514) pushes the multi-pier mahjong tiles to move horizontally, the lower pushing part pushes the lower mahjong tile, the upper pushing part pushes the upper mahjong tile, the upper mahjong tile lags behind the lower mahjong tile, when the tile feeding pushing head (514) pushes the last mahjong tile to the inclined tile lifting supporting plate (604), the mahjong tiles on the upper layer and the mahjong tiles on the lower layer are inclined upwards to climb and the pushing head of the upper mahjong tile is still horizontally moved, so that the inclined middle mahjong tile pushing part pushes the mahjong tiles on the lower layer, the upper mahjong pushing part enables the mahjong tiles on the upper layer to incline and protrude forwards, namely the mahjong tiles on the upper layer are flush with the mahjong tiles on the lower layer when protruding forwards.

Preferably, a card feeding guide rail (503) is installed on the inner side wall of the card storage groove, a card feeding pushing head (514) is arranged on the card feeding guide rail (503) in a sliding mode, the card feeding pushing head (514) is driven by a card feeding driving mechanism to slide along the card feeding guide rail (503), and the card feeding pushing head (514) and the card feeding guide rail (503) are both made of materials with smooth and wear-resistant surfaces.

Preferably, a mahjong tile storage groove bottom patch (502) is arranged at the bottom of the mahjong tile storage groove, the mahjong tile storage groove bottom patch (502) is made of materials with smooth and wear-resistant surfaces, most of the mahjong tile storage groove bottom patch (502) is horizontally arranged, and the mahjong tile storage groove bottom patch (502) is formed at a mahjong tile outlet close to the mahjong tile storage groove and can lift a mahjong tile outlet slope surface (5022).

Preferably, a card pressing plate (519) for limiting the height of the card storage groove is mounted on the card feeding support (501) above the card storage groove, and the card pressing plate (519) covers part or all of the top of the card storage groove.

Preferably, the card storage groove outer patch (504) is arranged at the arc-shaped bent part of the outer side wall of the card storage groove, and the card storage groove outer patch (504) is made of a material with a smooth and wear-resistant surface.

A mahjong machine comprises a big shuffling tray (2) positioned in the center of a bottom plate (8) of a machine frame, four groups of mahjong picking and carrying systems are arranged around the big shuffling tray (2), each mahjong picking and carrying system comprises a mahjong conveying device (3) used for picking and conveying mahjong tiles one by one from the big shuffling tray, a mahjong pushing device (4) used for stacking the mahjong tiles into a pier and pushing out the pile, and a slope mahjong discharging device used for conveying the arranged piles of mahjong tiles to the table surface of the mahjong machine along a slope, and the slope mahjong discharging device is the slope mahjong discharging device.

A mahjong loading method of a mahjong machine is characterized by comprising the mahjong machine, when the mahjong machine receives a loading signal, the tile lifting supporting plates in the four groups of tile picking and carrying systems all descend, the upper tile pushing head pushes mahjong tiles in a tile storage groove onto the table surface of the mahjong machine along the tile lifting supporting plates, wherein the horizontally moving upper tile pushing head is provided with a plurality of tile pushing parts which are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles superposed up and down in the last pier, the tile pushing part contacted with the lower mahjong tile protrudes out of the tile pushing part contacted with the upper mahjong tile, when the upper tile pushing head pushes the plurality of mahjong tiles to horizontally move, the upper mahjong tile lags behind the lower mahjong tile, and when the upper tile pushing head pushes the last mahjong tile onto the inclined tile lifting supporting plate, the upper mahjong tile is level with the lower mahjong tile; when the sensor detects the signal that the card pushing head is in place, the card lifting supporting plate is lifted upwards to be flush with the tabletop of the mahjong machine.

The invention adopts the technical scheme that four square tile lifting supports are integrally formed into a tile lifting integral seat, and the square tile lifting support plates are arranged on the tile lifting integral seat and are integrally formed, so that the square shape and the position of the square tile lifting support plates are ensured, and the adjustment panel is convenient to install. Not only easy to assemble, the positioning assembly precision is higher moreover, has also increased the bulk strength, the wholeness and the operating stability of mahjong host computer. The upper mahjong pushing head moving horizontally in the mahjong storage groove is provided with a plurality of pushing parts, the pushing parts are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles stacked up and down in the same pier, wherein the pushing part contacted with the lower mahjong tile protrudes out of the pushing part contacted with the upper mahjong tile, so that when the upper mahjong pushing head pushes the multi-pier mahjong tiles to move horizontally, the upper mahjong tile lags behind the lower mahjong tile, and when the upper mahjong pushing head pushes the last mahjong tile to the inclined tile lifting support plate, the upper mahjong tile is level with the lower mahjong tile. The mahjong tiles on the upper layer and the lower layer of the multi-pier mahjong tiles on the table top of the mahjong machine are parallel and level without displacement. Most of the mahjong storage groove is horizontally arranged, and a mahjong playing slope for lifting mahjong tiles is arranged at the position, close to the mahjong playing port, of the mahjong storage groove, so that the mahjong tiles close to the mahjong playing port in the mahjong storage groove are effectively prevented from falling back to a mahjong shuffling tray in the mahjong pushing process of the mahjong pushing device, and the mahjong playing resistance of the mahjong playing head pushing device cannot be excessively increased. In addition, store up the tablet groove and be equipped with the slope from a certain extent, thereby can also play the extension and rise tablet layer board length in the tablet subassembly, slow down and rise the effect that tablet layer board slope degree of slope reduces the tablet resistance of going up. Thus ensuring stable slope tile discharging of the mahjong machine and regular arrangement of mahjong tiles.

The following further explains the specific structural arrangement of the automatic mahjong machine as follows:

an automatic mahjong machine comprises a central lifting assembly, a shuffling large disc and a mahjong scraping device which are positioned in the center of a bottom plate of a machine frame, four groups of mahjong picking and carrying systems are arranged around the shuffling large disc, each mahjong picking and carrying system comprises a mahjong conveying device, a mahjong pushing device and a slope mahjong discharging device, the mahjong conveying devices are used for picking and discharging mahjong tiles from the shuffling large disc one by one, the mahjong pushing devices are used for stacking the mahjong tiles into a pier and pushing the pier, the slope mahjong discharging devices are used for conveying the arranged multi-pier mahjong tiles onto a table surface of the mahjong machine along a slope, and each slope mahjong discharging device comprises a mahjong loading assembly and a mahjong lifting assembly.

The mahjong tile feeding device comprises a mahjong tile feeding box, a mahjong tile feeding channel for transferring mahjong tiles is arranged in the mahjong tile feeding box, a mahjong tile sucking wheel is arranged at a mahjong tile inlet of the mahjong tile feeding channel, and a conveying belt driven by a mahjong tile feeding motor is arranged in the mahjong tile feeding channel.

In order to solve the technical problem of the prior art, namely that the arrangement of the mahjong outlet of the mahjong conveying device and the mahjong inlet of the mahjong storage groove in the mahjong loading assembly is unreasonable, so that mahjong tiles pushed by the mahjong pushing device are prone to being scattered and blocked, the inner side wall and the outer side wall of the mahjong conveying channel are arc-shaped, the mahjong conveying channel is arc-shaped and bent, an included angle is formed between the mahjong inlet direction and the mahjong outlet direction of the mahjong conveying channel, and the included angle ranges from 1 degree to 15 degrees. The mahjong tile inlet and the mahjong tile outlet of the tile feeding device are not on the same straight line, but are staggered by a certain angle, so that the tile outlet and the tile outlet of the tile feeding device can be arranged at an included angle of 80-100 degrees with the tile pushing direction of the tile pushing device, and mahjong tiles stacked on the tile bearing block of the tile pushing device and mahjong tiles pushed by the tile pushing device are tidy and disordered and have smaller resistance. In addition, the card inlet of the card sending channel can be arranged at the edge of the shuffling large plate which does not need to be reduced in size, and the influence of the reduction of the shuffling large plate on the shuffling is avoided, so that the shuffling quantity and the size of the mahjong tiles used are limited. The included angle range of 1-15 degrees can realize the purpose, the mahjong tile conveying channel cannot influence the conveying of mahjong tiles by one conveying belt due to overlarge radian, and the included angle range can be further enlarged by arranging a plurality of conveying belts under the condition of not counting cost.

One end of the card inlet of the card sending box is provided with an extension part used for being connected with the other adjacent card sending device, one side of the extension part, which is close to the card inlet, is provided with a card arranging guide block, so that the width of the card inlet of the card sending device is slightly larger than the width of the selected mahjong and shorter than the length of the mahjong, and the height of the card inlet is larger than the thickness of the mahjong and smaller than the width of the mahjong. The extension may be a separate component but is preferably integrally formed with the outer side wall of the card shoe. The height of the extending part is lower than that of the mahjong tile sending box, so that the mahjong tile storage grooves in the mahjong tile feeding assembly can be superposed above the extending part, the height of a mahjong machine host is reduced, the mahjong machine host is thinner, the mahjong tile sending device of one side is arranged on the inner side of the mahjong tile storage grooves in the mahjong tile feeding assembly of the same side, the length of the mahjong tile storage grooves is prolonged, the number of the mahjong tiles is increased, and the universality of the mahjong machine for using various mahjong tiles in different sizes is improved. The invention is to superpose the card storage groove in the card feeding assembly on the extension part which can properly reduce the height, but not on the conveying part of the card sending device (namely the conveying belt) which can not reduce the height, thereby overcoming the technical problems of higher host height and over short card storage groove in the prior art.

The card pushing device comprises a card pushing head and a card bearing block, wherein the card pushing head is driven by a card pushing motor. Specific structures of the card pushing device can be found in patent documents with publication numbers CN201906453U, CN201949619U, CN103861280A and CN 204699375U. Generally, the mahjong tile pushing device comprises a machine head box, a mahjong tile pushing motor is mounted on the machine head box, a transmission mechanism is arranged in the machine head box, a mahjong tile pushing head and a mahjong tile bearing block are arranged outside the machine head box, the mahjong tile pushing motor drives the mahjong tile bearing block to move up and down through the transmission mechanism to achieve stacking of mahjong tiles, and the mahjong tile pushing motor drives the mahjong tile pushing head to move horizontally through the transmission mechanism to achieve pushing of the stacked mahjong tiles. The mahjong tile pushing device comprises a machine head box, a mahjong tile pushing block, a mahjong tile blocking frame, a mahjong tile outlet and a mahjong tile blocking frame, wherein the machine head box is provided with a counting detection device for detecting the number of times of pushing the mahjong tiles, the mahjong tile blocking frame is arranged near the mahjong tile receiving block, the mahjong tile outlet and the mahjong tile blocking frame of the mahjong tile feeding device are respectively located on the inner side and the outer side of the mahjong tile receiving block, and the mahjong tile blocking frame is provided with a mahjong tile feeding detection device for detecting whether the mahjong. And a counting detection device for detecting the number of the pushed cards is arranged in the machine head box.

The mahjong tile feeding assembly comprises a mahjong tile feeding support, a mahjong tile storage groove used for storing multi-pier mahjong tiles is formed in the mahjong tile feeding support, the mahjong tile storage groove is provided with at least one arc-shaped bend, a mahjong tile feeding guide rail is installed on the inner side wall of the mahjong tile storage groove, a mahjong tile feeding push head is arranged on the mahjong tile feeding guide rail in a sliding mode, and the mahjong tile feeding push head is driven by a mahjong tile feeding driving mechanism to slide along the mahjong tile feeding guide rail. The card pushing head in the card pushing assembly and the card pushing head in the card pushing device adopt a staggered avoiding design to avoid mutual interference between the two.

In order to reduce the motion complexity of the card pushing device, the height of the card inlet of the card storage groove is close to the height of the card outlet of the card sending device (the height of the card inlet of the card storage groove is lower than the height of the card outlet of the card sending device, the height difference between the height of the card inlet and the height of the card outlet is smaller than the height of one mahjong, preferably 1-13 cm), therefore, the card bearing block firstly bears a first mahjong at an initial position slightly lower than the card outlet of the card sending device, then descends by a certain height to bear a second mahjong, then rises to the initial position, and the card pushing head pushes a pile of stacked mahjong into the card inlet of the card storage groove.

In order to avoid the mahjong tiles pushed by the tile pushing device from being scattered and blocked easily, the tile feeding direction of the tile inlet of the tile storage groove and the tile discharging direction of the tile outlet of the tile feeding device form an included angle of 80-100 degrees, and the tile pushing direction of the tile pushing head of the tile pushing device is matched with the tile feeding direction of the tile inlet of the tile storage groove to be consistent. One end of the card feeding guide rail extends out of the card inlet of the card storage groove to the position above the card bearing block of the card pushing device, the extending end of the card feeding guide rail is located above the card outlet of the card sending device, and mahjong cards sent out from the card outlet of the card sending device penetrate through the lower portion of the extending end of the card feeding guide rail to enter the card bearing block of the card pushing device. Therefore, the card feeding guide rail is arranged at the upper part of the inner side wall of the card storage groove.

The guide rail is preferably made of materials with smooth and wear-resistant surfaces, such as polyformaldehyde, polytetrafluoroethylene and the like. The mahjong tile serving guide rail is arranged on the mahjong tile serving support as an independent part, and the mahjong tile serving support is made of materials with poor performance and low price, so that the use requirement can be met, and the manufacturing cost of a machine can be reduced. The mahjong tile feeding guide rail is preferably matched and positioned with the mahjong tile feeding support through a plurality of T-shaped clamping protrusions and is locked and fixed through a fastener, so that the mahjong tile feeding guide rail is convenient to install.

In order to ensure the supporting strength of the extending end of the card feeding guide rail, the card feeding support is also provided with a connecting arm in an extending way, the connecting arm is positioned above the card pushing device, and the connecting arm can be an independent part or can be wholly or partially integrated with the card feeding support.

The card storage groove is approximately U-shaped, can be composed of a plurality of arc-shaped bent sections and a plurality of straight sections, and can also be a large arc-shaped bent as shown in CN204699375U, but the size of the table top of the mahjong machine is increased.

The mahjong tile feeding driving mechanism preferably adopts a steel wire rope structure and comprises a mahjong tile feeding motor, a driving rolling wheel, a guide wheel A, a tension wheel, a guide wheel B, a guide wheel C, a guide wheel D and a steel wire rope, wherein the mahjong tile feeding motor is arranged on a mahjong tile feeding support and positioned on the inner side of a mahjong tile storage groove, the driving rolling wheel is driven by the mahjong tile feeding motor to rotate, the steel wire rope is wound through the guide wheel A, the guide wheel B, the guide wheel C, the guide wheel D and a mahjong tile feeding guide rail and is fixedly connected with the driving rolling wheel after being wound for a plurality of circles, the guide wheel B is positioned outside a mahjong tile inlet of the mahjong tile storage groove, the guide wheel D is positioned outside a mahjong tile outlet of the mahjong tile storage groove, the guide wheel A and the guide wheel C are respectively positioned on the inner side of an arc-shaped bending part of the mahjong tile storage groove, thus, one part of the steel wire rope penetrates through the mahjong tile storage groove, the other part of the steel wire rope penetrates through the, a sensor A is arranged outside a card inlet of the card storage groove, a sensor B is arranged outside a card outlet of the card storage groove, the sensor A and the sensor B are used for detecting whether a card pushing head moves in place or not, and the sensor A and the sensor B can be Hall sensors or photoelectric sensors.

The take-up pulley adopts the automatic tensioning wire rope of spring structure, and for the convenience of adjusting wire rope's elasticity, preferred wire rope is again around an regulation guide pulley, and this regulation guide pulley can be installed on the tablet support through the fastener in order to adjust the position and the fixed mode of locking, adjusts the elasticity degree that the guide pulley can be used to preliminary adjustment wire rope like this, and the take-up pulley is used for the elasticity degree of automatic fine setting wire rope.

In order to avoid the influence on the service life and the running stability of the steel wire rope caused by the sliding friction contact of the part of the steel wire rope in the mahjong tile storage groove and the mahjong tile feeding guide rail and/or the arc-shaped bent side wall of the mahjong tile storage groove, rolling members are arranged at the positions, close to the mahjong tile feeding guide rail and/or the mahjong tile storage groove, of the steel wire rope, the rolling members are rotatably arranged on the mahjong tile feeding guide rail or the mahjong tile feeding support, and the part of the steel wire rope in the mahjong tile storage groove is in rolling contact with the rolling members and keeps a gap with the side wall of the mahjong tile feeding guide rail and. Therefore, sliding friction in the prior art is replaced by rolling friction of the steel wire rope, so that the friction resistance of the steel wire rope in operation is greatly reduced, the operation load of a tile feeding motor is also greatly reduced, abrasion of the tile storage groove and the tile feeding guide rail is also reduced, the service life and the operation stability of the machine are improved, the problems of steel wire breakage and multiple faults which cannot be solved by tile storage groove slope tile feeding type mahjong machine products in the industry since the peacock friend ladder (namely patent document CN200966910Y) appears for nearly ten years are thoroughly solved, the defects of high noise, more oil stains and the like which cannot be overcome by adopting other traction modes such as chains and the like are overcome, the popularization and the use of the tile storage groove slope tile feeding type mahjong machine products are greatly promoted, and even the flat push tile feeding type mahjong machine products commonly used in the existing market are replaced.

In order to ensure that a gap is reserved between the part of the steel wire rope in the mahjong storage groove and the side wall of the mahjong loading guide rail and simultaneously the installation and the sliding of the mahjong loading pushing head are not influenced, the mahjong loading pushing head is sleeved on the mahjong loading guide rail, a groove is formed in the side wall of the mahjong loading guide rail, the rolling piece protrudes into the groove, and the steel wire rope is installed in the groove and is in rolling contact with the rolling piece.

The rolling piece is preferably a rolling needle, a plurality of rolling needle grooves are formed in the upper plate guide rail, the rolling needle is embedded in the rolling needle grooves and is in rolling contact with the steel wire rope, and the rolling needle grooves are covered by the pressing plate. The rolling needle diameter can be made less, sets up a plurality of rolling needles in the arc bending position who stores up the tablet groove, can closely laminate wire rope's annular path with the crooked radian that stores up tablet groove, the guide rail of registering license to reduce the sliding friction of registering license pushing head and registering license guide rail more, reduce registering license motor and wire rope's load, reduce registering license pushing head and registering license guide rail's wearing and tearing, guarantee registering license actuating mechanism's operating stability and life.

The rolling part can also be a bearing with a smaller diameter, a plurality of bearing mounting grooves are formed in the mahjong tile guide rail, the bearing is embedded in each bearing mounting groove and is in rolling contact with the steel wire rope, the bearing mounting grooves are covered by the pressing plates, and the shaft of the bearing is mounted on the mahjong tile guide rail through the pressing plates. In addition, the rolling member may be a guide wheel having a small diameter.

In order to reduce the frictional resistance between the mahjong tiles and the bottom of the tile storage groove and simultaneously not increase the cost greatly, the bottom of the tile storage groove is provided with a tile storage groove bottom patch, and the tile storage groove bottom patch is preferably made of materials with smooth and wear-resistant surfaces, such as polyformaldehyde, polytetrafluoroethylene and the like. The bottom patch of the mahjong storage groove is used as an independent part to be installed in the mahjong storage groove of the mahjong serving support, and the mahjong serving support is made of materials with poor performance and low price, so that the use requirement can be met, and the manufacturing cost of a machine can be reduced. The storage card slot bottom patch is preferably matched and positioned with the card feeding support through a plurality of buckles and is locked and fixed through a fastener, so that the storage card slot bottom patch is convenient to mount.

The mahjong storage groove can be made into a slope form with a relatively slow slope from the mahjong inlet to the mahjong outlet, but the mahjong loading resistance of the mahjong loading and pushing head can be increased. In addition, store up the tablet groove and be equipped with the slope from a certain extent, thereby can also play the extension and rise tablet layer board length in the tablet subassembly, slow down and rise the effect that tablet layer board slope degree of slope reduces the tablet resistance of going up. The mahjong tile playing slope can be formed at the bottom of the mahjong tile storage groove, but is preferably arranged on the bottom patch of the mahjong tile storage groove, most of the bottom patch of the mahjong tile storage groove is horizontally arranged, and the mahjong tile playing slope surface capable of lifting mahjong tiles is formed at the position, close to the mahjong tile playing opening of the mahjong tile storage groove, of the bottom patch of the mahjong tile storage groove.

In order to avoid the mahjong tiles on the table top of the mahjong machine from shifting up and down, the horizontally moving upper mahjong pushing head is provided with a plurality of mahjong pushing parts which are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles which are overlapped up and down in the same pier, wherein the mahjong pushing part contacted with the mahjong tiles on the lower layer protrudes out of the mahjong pushing part contacted with the mahjong tiles on the upper layer, so that when the upper mahjong pushing head pushes the mahjong tiles on the lower layer to move horizontally, the mahjong tiles on the upper layer lag behind the mahjong tiles on the lower layer, and when the last mahjong tile is pushed by the upper mahjong pushing head to the inclined mahjong tile lifting supporting plate, the mahjong tiles on the upper layer are level with the mahjong tiles on the lower layer. The upper card pushing head of the invention is provided with three card pushing parts, the lower card pushing part protrudes out of the middle card pushing part, the middle card pushing part protrudes out of the upper card pushing part, when the upper pushing head pushes the multi-pier mahjong tiles to move horizontally, the lower pushing part pushes the lower mahjong tiles, the upper pushing part pushes the upper mahjong tiles, the upper mahjong tiles lag behind the lower mahjong tiles, when the tile feeding pushing head pushes the last mahjong tile to the inclined tile lifting supporting plate, the mahjong tiles on the upper layer and the mahjong tiles on the lower layer are inclined upwards and climb, while the tile feeding pushing head still moves horizontally, thus, the inclined middle mahjong pushing part pushes the mahjong tiles on the lower layer, and the upper mahjong pushing part enables the mahjong tiles on the upper layer to incline and protrude forwards, namely, the mahjong tiles on the upper layer are flush with the mahjong tiles on the lower layer before protruding, so that when the tile lifting supporting plate rotates to be horizontal to the panel, the mahjong tiles on the upper layer are flush with the mahjong tiles on the lower layer without displacement. The middle pushing part of the mahjong tile pushing device is arranged to be in inclined line or surface contact with the lower mahjong tile, so that the stability of pushing the upper mahjong tile pushing head is further improved.

The bottom patch of the mahjong storage groove is provided with a mahjong inlet slope surface at the mahjong inlet of the mahjong storage groove for the mahjong to enter. In order to avoid the faults of arching, jumping and the like of mahjong tiles in the tile storage groove in the tile pushing process of the tile pushing device, a tile pressing plate for limiting the height of the tiles in the tile storage groove is arranged above the tile storage groove on the tile feeding support, and the tile pressing plate covers part or all of the top of the tile storage groove. In order to reduce the frictional resistance of the side wall of the mahjong storage groove to the movement of mahjong tiles, a tile storage groove outer side paster is arranged at the arc-shaped bending part of the outer side wall of the tile storage groove and is made of a material with a smooth and wear-resistant surface.

The specific structure of the tile lifting assembly can be seen in patent documents with publication numbers CN201906453U, CN201949619U, CN102133480A, CN103861280A and CN204699375U, and generally, one of the tile lifting assemblies includes a tile lifting support, a tile lifting support plate and a tile lifting motor, a tile lifting groove is arranged on the tile lifting support, the tile lifting support plate is positioned on the upper portion of the tile lifting groove, one end of the tile lifting support plate is mounted on the tile lifting groove, the other end of the tile lifting support plate is movable and driven by the tile lifting motor through a transmission mechanism such as a cam or a tile lifting rocker arm to lift up and down, and a sensor C for detecting the position of the tile lifting support plate is further arranged on the tile lifting support, for example, two hall elements or a light eye are arranged up and down.

In the prior art, the square tile lifting assemblies are mutually independent, each tile lifting assembly is generally fixed on a bottom plate of a rack respectively, and a tile lifting supporting plate in each tile lifting assembly needs to be matched with a tile lifting port on the table top of the mahjong machine, so that the square tile lifting assembly needs to be adjusted to be matched with a panel when the mahjong machine is transferred, the transfer difficulty is high, and the efficiency is low. In order to solve the problem, an embodiment of the invention provides a tile lifting assembly, which is characterized in that four tile lifting supports in four directions are integrally formed to manufacture a tile lifting integral seat, the tile lifting assembly comprises the tile lifting integral seat, a central hole for a central lifting assembly to pass through is formed in the center of the tile lifting integral seat, four tile lifting parts are arranged on the periphery of the central hole of the tile lifting integral seat, each tile lifting part comprises a first side plate and a second side plate which are arranged in parallel at intervals, a tile lifting supporting plate is arranged between the first side plate and the second side plate, a tile lifting groove is formed between the first side plate and the second side plate, the tile lifting supporting plate is located at the upper part of the tile lifting groove, one end of the tile lifting supporting plate is installed on the tile lifting groove, the other end of the tile lifting supporting plate can move and is driven by the tile lifting motor to lift up and down, the first side plate is connected with the tile lifting. Therefore, the square tile lifting supporting plate is arranged on the whole tile lifting seat and is integrated, the square shape and the position of the square tile lifting supporting plate are guaranteed, the mounting and adjusting panel is convenient to mount, and the panel can be placed on the square tile lifting supporting plate. For convenience of assembly and debugging, the first side plate and the second side plate are preferably manufactured by being integrally formed with the card lifting integral seat. However, in consideration of the difficulty of mold forming and the manufacturing cost, only the second side plate may be integrally formed with the raising card integral base, and the first side plate may be a separate component and then mounted on the raising card integral base. In order to ensure the strength and the flatness of the integral card lifting seat, a plurality of reinforcing parts can be arranged on the integral card lifting seat, the reinforcing parts can be a plurality of metal rod pieces or metal pipe fittings, and can also be integrally formed sheet metal frames or welded metal frames, and in addition, the reinforcing parts can be made of other materials meeting the strength requirement except metal, such as wood, composite materials and the like. Further preferably, the first side plate and the tile lifting motor are arranged on the inner side of the tile lifting groove, and the second side plate is arranged on the outer side of the tile lifting groove, so that a notch which can be overlapped with a tile sending box of the tile sending device can be integrally formed on the whole tile lifting seat and the second side plate, the forming precision of the notch is guaranteed, and the positioning accuracy of the tile lifting assembly and the tile sending device in the overlapping matching process is guaranteed. Further preferably, the integral tile lifting seat is directly fixed on the tile sending boxes of the four tile sending devices, or the integral tile lifting seat is fixed on the tile sending boxes of the four tile sending devices through the reinforcing parts, so that the mounting is convenient, the positioning and assembling precision is higher, and the integral strength, the integrity and the operation stability of the main machine of the mahjong machine are improved.

In addition, the invention also provides another mode which can effectively prevent mahjong tiles close to the tile outlet in the tile storage groove from falling back to the tile shuffling large plate in the tile pushing process of the tile pushing device.

In order to facilitate assembly and improve production efficiency, the invention also provides another implementation mode of the tile feeding assembly and the tile lifting assembly, the tile feeding support in the tile feeding assembly on one side and the tile lifting support in the tile lifting assembly on the adjacent side are integrally formed, namely, the tile feeding assembly on one side and the tile lifting assembly on the other side adjacent to the tile feeding assembly on the other side are installed on the same integrated support, and the four integrated supports are connected end to form the square slope tile discharging device. Each integrated support is provided with a card feeding part and a card lifting part. The mahjong tile feeding part comprises a mahjong tile storage groove integrally formed with an integrated support, the mahjong tile storage groove is provided with at least one arc-shaped bend, a mahjong tile feeding guide rail is installed on the inner side wall of the mahjong tile storage groove, a mahjong tile feeding pushing head is arranged on the mahjong tile feeding guide rail in a sliding mode, and the mahjong tile feeding pushing head is driven by a mahjong tile feeding driving mechanism to slide along the mahjong tile feeding guide rail. The card raising portion comprises a first side plate and a second side plate which are arranged in parallel at intervals, a card raising supporting plate is arranged between the first side plate and the second side plate, a card raising groove is formed between the first side plate and the second side plate, the card raising supporting plate is located on the upper portion of the card raising groove, one end of the card raising supporting plate is installed on the card raising groove, the other end of the card raising supporting plate can move up and down driven by a card raising motor, the first side plate is connected with the card raising motor, and the second side plate is located on the opposite side of the first side plate. For convenience of assembly and debugging, the first side plate and the second side plate are preferably manufactured by integrally forming with the integrated bracket. However, in consideration of the difficulty of molding and manufacturing cost of the mold, only the second side plate may be integrally molded with the integrated bracket, and the first side plate may be a separate component and then mounted on the integrated bracket. The other structure is the same as the above embodiment.

In another embodiment of the tile feeding assembly and the tile lifting assembly, the tile feeding support in the tile feeding assembly on one side and the tile lifting support in the tile lifting assembly on the adjacent side are manufactured in an integrated mode, the tile feeding assembly on one side and the tile lifting assembly on the other adjacent side are installed on the same integrated support, and the four integrated supports are connected end to form the square slope tile discharging device. Each integrated support is provided with a card feeding part and a card lifting part. The mahjong tile feeding part comprises a mahjong tile storage groove integrally formed with an integrated support, the whole mahjong tile storage groove is in a large arc shape and is bent, the integrated support is provided with a centralized wiring position between the mahjong tile storage groove and the mahjong tile lifting groove, and the electric wire of the mahjong tile feeding part and the electric wire of the mahjong tile lifting part are gathered to the centralized wiring position and are connected with a mahjong machine host controller and a power supply through connectors. The centralized wiring location has a cavity for housing the connector and a cover plate covering the cavity. The other structure is the same as the above embodiment.

The control method of the mahjong machine comprises the following steps:

when the mahjong machine works, the shuffling large disc rotates and the mahjong tile scraping device is not moved, mahjong tiles on the shuffling large disc are sent to the lower part of the tile inlet of the four tile sending devices at the edge of the shuffling large disc, the mahjong tiles are sucked by the tile sucking wheels in the tile sending devices and are sent into the tile sending channels after being straightened into the same direction, the tile sending channels are arc-shaped, the height of the tile outlet of the tile sending channels is not lower than that of the tile inlet of the tile sending channels, and the height of the tile bearing table surface of the tile bearing block of the tile pushing device and the height of the tile inlet of the tile storage groove are both close to that of the tile outlet of the tile sending channels; the mahjong tiles are sent to a tile bearing block of a tile pushing device from a tile outlet of a tile sending channel through a conveying belt and are blocked by a tile blocking frame, after a tile sending detection device on the tile blocking frame detects the mahjong tiles, a tile pushing motor drives the tile bearing block to descend by a certain height to bear a second mahjong tile, after a tile sending detection device on the tile blocking frame detects that two mahjong tiles are arranged on the tile bearing block, the tile pushing motor drives the tile bearing block to ascend to an initial position, then the tile pushing motor drives a tile pushing head to push a stacked mahjong tile into a tile inlet of a tile storage groove, the tile pushing head can prevent other mahjong tiles from being sent out from the tile outlet of the tile sending channel when pushing the mahjong tiles out of the tile bearing block, after the tile pushing head is reset, the tile pushing device starts to stack the next mahjong tile, and the counting detection device counts once every time when the tile pushing head pushes the mahjong tiles; when the count of the count detection device in the group of the card picking and carrying systems reaches a set number, the card storage groove in the card picking and carrying system is full of mahjong cards, the card pushing head in the card picking and carrying system stops pushing the cards, the card feeding motor in the card feeding device of the card picking and carrying system rotates reversely, and the remaining mahjong cards in the card feeding device return to the shuffling large disc; when the mahjong tiles are fully stored in the tile storage grooves of the four groups of the tile picking and conveying systems, the mahjong tile picking and conveying systems wait for a tile feeding signal. When the mahjong machine receives a mahjong-playing signal, the lifting support plates in the four groups of mahjong-picking and carrying systems all descend, the mahjong tiles in the tile storage grooves are pushed onto the table surface of the mahjong machine by the upper mahjong pushing heads, wherein the horizontally moving upper mahjong pushing heads are provided with a plurality of mahjong-pushing parts, the mahjong-pushing parts respectively contact two mahjong tiles stacked up and down in the last pier, the mahjong-pushing part in contact with the lower mahjong tile protrudes out of the mahjong-pushing part in contact with the upper mahjong tile, when the upper mahjong pushing heads push the plurality of mahjong tiles to horizontally move, the upper mahjong tile lags behind the lower mahjong tile, and when the upper mahjong pushing heads push the last mahjong tile up to the inclined lifting support plates, the upper mahjong tile is level with the lower mahjong tile; when the sensor B outside the card outlet of the card storage groove detects the signal that the card pushing head is in place, the card lifting supporting plate rises upwards to be flush with the desktop of the mahjong machine, and the card pushing head is reset.

If the card feeding motor in the card feeding device is saved, the conveying belt in the square card feeding device can be in transmission connection with the shuffling motor of the large shuffling tray, so that an electronic control counting gate or a card feeding detection device is required to be arranged at a card feeding port of the card feeding channel, the electronic control counting gate is easy to damage and has a short service life, the card feeding detection device is preferably selected, and the number of cards fed into each group of card picking and conveying systems is controlled by stopping the operation of the card pushing device in the midway. Therefore, another mahjong machine control method is as follows:

when the mahjong machine works, the shuffling large disc rotates and the mahjong tile scraping device is not moved, mahjong tiles on the shuffling large disc are sent to the lower part of the tile inlet of the four tile sending devices at the edge of the shuffling large disc, the mahjong tiles are sucked by the tile sucking wheels in the tile sending devices and are sent into the tile sending channels after being straightened into the same direction, the tile sending channels are arc-shaped, the height of the tile outlet of the tile sending channels is not lower than that of the tile inlet of the tile sending channels, and the height of the tile bearing table surface of the tile bearing block of the tile pushing device and the height of the tile inlet of the tile storage groove are both close to that of the tile outlet of the tile sending channels; the mahjong tiles are sent to a tile bearing block of a tile pushing device from a tile outlet of a tile sending channel through a conveying belt and are blocked by a tile blocking frame, after a tile sending detection device on the tile blocking frame detects the mahjong tiles, a tile pushing motor drives the tile bearing block to descend by a certain height to bear a second mahjong tile, after a tile sending detection device on the tile blocking frame detects that two mahjong tiles are arranged on the tile bearing block, the tile pushing motor drives the tile bearing block to ascend to an initial position, then the tile pushing motor drives a tile pushing head to push a stacked mahjong tile into a tile inlet of a tile storage groove, the tile pushing head can prevent other mahjong tiles from being sent out from the tile outlet of the tile sending channel when pushing the mahjong tiles out of the tile bearing block, after the tile pushing head is reset, the tile pushing device starts to stack the next mahjong tile, and the counting detection device counts once every time when the tile pushing head pushes the mahjong tiles; when the count of the count detection device in the group of the card picking and conveying systems reaches a set number, the card pushing device in the card picking and conveying system stops pushing cards, N mahjong tiles are arranged in a card storage groove of the card picking and conveying system at the moment, and the mahjong tiles picked by a tile suction wheel in the card picking and conveying system are stored in the card feeding device and the card pushing device; when the mahjong tile feeding detection device in the group of mahjong tile picking and conveying systems continuously detects that mahjong tiles exist, the mahjong tiles are fully stored in the mahjong tile feeding device and the mahjong tile pushing device of the mahjong tile picking and conveying systems and are marked as M mahjong tiles; when the mahjong tiles are continuously detected by the tile feeding detection devices on the tile feeding devices in the four tile picking and carrying systems, the tile pushing devices of the four tile picking and carrying systems start to work again and push the mahjong tiles into the respective tile storage grooves; when the mahjong tiles are fully stored in the tile storage grooves of the four groups of the tile picking and conveying systems, the mahjong tile picking and conveying systems wait for a tile feeding signal. When the mahjong machine receives a mahjong-playing signal, the lifting support plates in the four groups of mahjong-picking and carrying systems all descend, the mahjong tiles in the tile storage grooves are pushed onto the table surface of the mahjong machine by the upper mahjong pushing heads, wherein the horizontally moving upper mahjong pushing heads are provided with a plurality of mahjong-pushing parts, the mahjong-pushing parts respectively contact two mahjong tiles stacked up and down in the last pier, the mahjong-pushing part in contact with the lower mahjong tile protrudes out of the mahjong-pushing part in contact with the upper mahjong tile, when the upper mahjong pushing heads push the plurality of mahjong tiles to horizontally move, the upper mahjong tile lags behind the lower mahjong tile, and when the upper mahjong pushing heads push the last mahjong tile up to the inclined lifting support plates, the upper mahjong tile is level with the lower mahjong tile; when the sensor B outside the card outlet of the card storage groove detects the signal that the card pushing head is in place, the card lifting supporting plate rises upwards to be flush with the desktop of the mahjong machine, and the card pushing head is reset.

In this control method, the total number of mahjong tiles required by one side is N + M. Therefore, an electric control counting gate in the mahjong tile feeding mechanism is omitted, an independently controlled reversible motor of the mahjong tile feeding mechanism is omitted, the manufacturing cost and the using power consumption of the mahjong tile machine are greatly reduced, the reliability is improved, and the failure rate is reduced.

[ description of the drawings ]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the host of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the host of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the mainframe of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a top view of the host of the present invention (with the card feed rail and card raising assembly removed);

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the card feeding apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view (side plan view) of a card delivery device, a card pusher device, a card loading assembly, and a card lifting assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a perspective view (side elevation) of a card delivery device, a card pusher device, a card loading assembly, and a card lifting assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is an exploded view of one embodiment of the card feeding assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the needle arrangement of the card feeding assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a perspective view (needle) of one embodiment of the card feeding assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic (top view) view of the arrangement of a card shoe delivery device, card shoe pushing device and card shoe loading assembly of one aspect of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is one of a perspective view of a card delivery device, a card pusher device and a card loading assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a second perspective view of a card delivery device, a card pusher device and a card loading assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a schematic structural view (side plan) of the card raising assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 15 is a schematic structural view (side elevation) of the card raising assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 16 is an exploded view of another embodiment of the card feeding assembly of the present invention (bearing);

FIG. 17 is a schematic view of the arrangement of the bearings in the card feeding assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 18 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 19 is a schematic structural view of another embodiment of a card feeding assembly and a card raising assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 20 is an exploded view of another embodiment of a card loading assembly and card raising assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 21 is an exploded view of a third embodiment of a card loading assembly and card raising assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 22 is one of the card feeding schematics of the card feeding pusher head of the present invention;

FIG. 23 is a second drawing of the card feeding head of the present invention;

figure 24 is a schematic structural view of a fourth embodiment of a card feeding assembly and a card raising assembly of the present invention.

Reference numerals:

a central lifting component 1, a shuffling big disk 2,

a card sending device 3, a card sending box 301, a card sucking wheel 302, a card sending motor 303, a conveyer belt 304, a card sending channel 305, a channel outer side wall 3011, a channel inner side wall 3012, an extending part 3013,

a card pushing device 4, a card pushing head 401, a card bearing block 402, a card pushing motor 403,

the mahjong tile feeding assembly 5, a mahjong tile feeding bracket 501, a mahjong tile storage groove bottom patch 502, a mahjong tile inlet slope surface 5021, a mahjong tile outlet slope surface 5022, a mahjong tile feeding guide rail 503, a groove 5031, a needle roller groove 5032, a T-shaped clamping protrusion 5033, a mahjong tile storage groove outer patch 504, a driving rolling wheel 505, a guide wheel A506, a tension wheel 507, a guide wheel B508, a guide wheel C509, a guide wheel D510, a connecting arm 511, a sensor A512, a sensor B513, a mahjong tile feeding push head 514, a lower mahjong tile pushing part 5141, a middle mahjong tile pushing part 5142, an upper mahjong tile pushing part 5143, a steel wire rope 515, a needle roller 516, a pressing plate 517, a bearing 518, a positioning shaft 5181, a mahjong tile pressing plate 519, a mahjong tile feeding,

the mahjong lifting assembly 6, the whole mahjong lifting seat 601, the notch 6011, the first side plate 602, the mahjong lifting motor 603, the mahjong lifting supporting plate 604, the mahjong blocking piece 6041, the reinforcing piece 605, the mahjong lifting rocker arm 606, the sensor C607,

the mahjong tile scraping device comprises an integrated support 56, a tile blocking frame 7, a rack bottom plate 8, a tile scraping device 9, a mahjong machine panel 10 and mahjong tiles 11.

[ detailed description ] embodiments

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like or similar reference numerals refer to the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar function throughout. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are illustrative and intended to be illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "length", "width", "thickness", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "clockwise", "counterclockwise", and the like, indicate orientations and positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are used only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be considered as limiting the present invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, unless otherwise specified, "a plurality" means two or more unless explicitly defined otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, "above" or "below" a first feature means that the first and second features are in direct contact, or that the first and second features are not in direct contact but are in contact with each other via another feature therebetween. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the invention, the center of the main machine of the mahjong machine is taken as the inside, and the periphery of the main machine of the mahjong machine is taken as the outside.

An automatic mahjong machine as shown in figures 1-4 comprises a central lifting component 1, a shuffling large disk 2 and a mahjong scraping device 9 which are positioned in the center of a bottom plate 8 of a machine frame, four groups of mahjong picking and carrying systems are arranged around the periphery of the shuffling large disk 2, the mahjong picking and carrying systems comprise a mahjong conveying device 3 for picking and conveying mahjong tiles on the shuffling large disk one by one, a mahjong pushing device 4 for stacking the mahjong tiles into a pier and pushing out the pile, and a slope mahjong discharging device for conveying the arranged mahjong tiles onto a table surface of the mahjong machine along a slope, and the slope mahjong discharging device comprises a mahjong loading component 5 and a mahjong lifting component 6.

The card feeding device 3 shown in fig. 5 comprises a card feeding box 301, a card feeding channel 305 for transferring mahjong cards is arranged in the card feeding box 301, a card sucking wheel 302 is arranged at a card inlet of the card feeding channel 305, and a conveying belt 304 driven by a card feeding motor 303 is arranged in the card feeding channel 305.

In order to solve the technical problem of the prior art, namely that the arrangement of the card outlet of the card sending device and the card inlet of the card storage groove in the card loading assembly is unreasonable, so that mahjong cards pushed by the card pushing device are easy to be scattered and blocked, the inner side wall 3011 and the outer side wall 3012 of the card sending channel 305 are arc-shaped, so that the card sending channel 305 is arc-shaped and bent, an included angle is formed between the card inlet direction and the card outlet direction of the card sending channel 305, and the included angle ranges from 1 degree to 15 degrees. The mahjong tile inlet and the mahjong tile outlet of the tile feeding device shown in fig. 4 are not on the same straight line, but are staggered by a certain angle, so that the tile outlet and the tile outlet of the tile feeding device can be arranged at an included angle of 80-100 degrees with the tile pushing direction of the tile pushing device, and mahjong tiles stacked on the tile bearing block of the tile pushing device and mahjong tiles pushed by the tile pushing device are tidy and have smaller resistance. Furthermore, the card inlet of the card feeding channel 305 can be arranged at the edge of the shuffling large plate 2 which does not need to be reduced in size, thereby avoiding the reduction of the shuffling large plate 2 from influencing the shuffling-causing the limitation of the shuffling quantity and the size of the mahjong cards to be used. The included angle range of 1-15 degrees can realize the purpose, the mahjong tile conveying channel cannot influence the conveying of mahjong tiles by one conveying belt due to overlarge radian, and the included angle range can be further enlarged by arranging a plurality of conveying belts under the condition of not counting cost.

An extension part 3013 used for being connected with the other adjacent card sending device is arranged at one end of the card inlet of the card sending box 301, a card guiding block is formed at one side of the extension part 3013 close to the card inlet, so that the width of the card inlet of the card sending device is slightly larger than the width of the selected mahjong and shorter than the length of the mahjong, and the height of the card inlet is larger than the thickness of the mahjong and smaller than the width of the mahjong. The extension 3013 may be a separate component, but is preferably integrally formed with the card shoe outer sidewall. The height of the extending part 3013 is lower than that of the tile sending box, so that the tile storage groove in the tile feeding assembly can be overlapped above the tile sending box, as shown in fig. 2 and 3, the height of the main machine of the mahjong machine is reduced, the main machine of the mahjong machine is thinner, and the tile sending device of one party is arranged on the inner side of the tile storage groove in the tile feeding assembly of the same party, so that the length of the tile storage groove is prolonged, the number of the tiles is increased, and the universality of the mahjong machine for using various mahjong tiles of different sizes is improved. The invention is to superpose the card storage groove in the card feeding assembly on the extending part 3013 which can properly reduce the height, but not on the conveying part of the card feeding device (namely the conveying belt), thereby overcoming the technical problems of high host height and short card storage groove in the prior art.

The card picking and carrying system shown in figures 6 and 7 comprises a card sending device 3, a card pushing device 4 and a slope card playing device, wherein the slope card playing device comprises a card loading assembly 5 and a card lifting assembly 6.

As shown in fig. 12 and 13, the card pushing device 4 includes a card pushing head 401 driven by a card pushing motor 403 and a card receiving block 402. Specific structures of the card pushing device can be found in patent documents with publication numbers CN201906453U, CN201949619U, CN103861280A and CN 204699375U. Generally, the mahjong tile pushing device comprises a machine head box, a mahjong tile pushing motor is mounted on the machine head box, a transmission mechanism is arranged in the machine head box, a mahjong tile pushing head and a mahjong tile bearing block are arranged outside the machine head box, the mahjong tile pushing motor drives the mahjong tile bearing block to move up and down through the transmission mechanism to achieve stacking of mahjong tiles, and the mahjong tile pushing motor drives the mahjong tile pushing head to move horizontally through the transmission mechanism to achieve pushing of the stacked mahjong tiles. The machine head box is provided with a counting detection device for detecting the number of times of pushing the mahjong, a mahjong blocking frame 7 is arranged near the mahjong bearing block 402, a mahjong outlet of the mahjong delivering device and the mahjong blocking frame 7 are respectively positioned at the inner side and the outer side of the mahjong bearing block 402, and the mahjong blocking frame 7 is provided with a mahjong delivering detection device for detecting whether the mahjong is delivered to the mahjong bearing block from the mahjong outlet of the mahjong delivering device or not. And a counting detection device for detecting the number of the pushed cards is arranged in the machine head box.

The tile feeding assembly 5 shown in fig. 8 and 10 comprises a tile feeding support 501, a tile storage groove for storing a plurality of tiles is arranged on the tile feeding support 501, the tile storage groove is provided with at least one arc-shaped bend, a tile feeding guide rail 503 is mounted on the inner side wall of the tile storage groove, a tile feeding pushing head 514 is arranged on the tile feeding guide rail 503 in a sliding manner, and the tile feeding pushing head 514 is driven by a tile feeding driving mechanism to slide along the tile feeding guide rail 503. As shown in fig. 12 and 13, the card pushing head 514 of the card pushing assembly and the card pushing head 401 of the card pushing device 4 adopt a staggered avoiding design to avoid mutual interference.

In order to reduce the complexity of the movement of the card pushing device, as shown in fig. 12 and 13, the height of the card inlet of the card storage slot is close to the height of the card outlet of the card sending device (the height of the card inlet of the card storage slot is lower than the height of the card outlet of the card sending device, and the height difference between the height of the card inlet and the height of the card outlet is smaller than the height of one mahjong tile, preferably 1 to 13 cm), so that the card receiving block 402 receives a first mahjong tile at an initial position slightly lower than the height of the card outlet of the card sending device, then descends by one height to receive a second mahjong tile, then the card receiving block 402 ascends to the initial position, and the card pushing head 401 pushes a pile of stacked mahjong tiles into the card inlet of the card storage slot.

In order to avoid the problem that mahjong tiles pushed by the tile pushing device are prone to scattering and jamming, as shown in fig. 11, 12 and 13, the tile feeding direction of the tile inlet of the tile storage groove and the tile discharging direction of the tile outlet of the tile feeding device are arranged at an included angle of 80-100 degrees, and the tile pushing direction of the tile pushing head 401 of the tile pushing device 4 is matched with the tile feeding direction of the tile inlet of the tile storage groove to be consistent. One end of the card feeding guide rail 503 extends out of the card inlet of the card storage slot to the upper side of the card holding block 402 of the card pushing device, the extending end of the card feeding guide rail 503 is positioned above the card outlet of the card sending device, and mahjong cards sent out from the card outlet of the card sending device pass through the lower side of the extending end of the card feeding guide rail 503 to be fed onto the card holding block 402 of the card pushing device. Therefore, the card guide 503 is installed on the upper portion of the inner side wall of the card storage slot.

The listing guide 503 is preferably made of a material with a smooth and wear-resistant surface, such as polyoxymethylene, polytetrafluoroethylene, and the like. The mahjong tile serving guide rail is arranged on the mahjong tile serving support as an independent part, and the mahjong tile serving support is made of materials with poor performance and low price, so that the use requirement can be met, and the manufacturing cost of a machine can be reduced. The listing guide 503 is preferably positioned by a plurality of T-shaped snap protrusions 5033 to engage with the listing support 501 and is fastened by fasteners for easy installation.

In order to ensure the supporting strength of the extended end of the card guide 503, the card support 501 is also extended with a connecting arm 511, the connecting arm 511 is located above the card pushing device 4, and the connecting arm 511 can be a separate component or can be wholly or partially integrated with the card support.

The mahjong tile feeding driving mechanism preferably adopts a steel wire rope structure, as shown in fig. 10 and fig. 11, the mahjong tile feeding driving mechanism comprises a mahjong tile feeding motor 520, a driving rolling wheel 505, a guide wheel a506, a tension wheel 507, a guide wheel B508, a guide wheel C509, a guide wheel D510 and a steel wire rope 515 which are arranged on a mahjong tile feeding support 501, the mahjong tile feeding motor 520 is fixed on the mahjong tile feeding support 501 and is positioned at the inner side of a mahjong tile storage groove, the driving rolling wheel 505 is driven to rotate by the mahjong tile feeding motor 520, the steel wire rope 515 is wound through the guide wheel a506, the guide wheel B508, the guide wheel C509, the guide wheel D510 and a mahjong tile feeding guide rail 503 for a plurality of turns and is fixedly connected with the driving rolling wheel 505, the guide wheel B508 is positioned outside a tile inlet of the mahjong tile storage groove, the guide wheel D510 is positioned outside a mahjong tile outlet of the mahjong tile storage groove, the guide wheel a506 and the guide wheel C509 are respectively positioned at the inner side of an arc bending part of the mahjong tile storage, when the mahjong tile feeding motor 520 moves the steel wire rope 515 through the driving winding wheel 505, the mahjong tile feeding pushing head 514 slides on the mahjong tile feeding guide rail 503, a sensor A512 is arranged outside the mahjong tile inlet of the mahjong tile storage groove, a sensor B513 is arranged outside the mahjong tile outlet of the mahjong tile storage groove, the sensor A512 and the sensor B513 are used for detecting whether the mahjong tile feeding pushing head 514 moves in place, and the sensor A512 and the sensor B513 can be Hall sensors or photoelectric sensors.

Take-up pulley 507 adopts the automatic tensioning wire rope 515 of spring structure, and in order to facilitate the elasticity degree of adjustment wire rope, preferably wire rope rethread a regulation guide pulley, should adjust the guide pulley and can adjust the position and lock fixed mode and install on the tablet support through the fastener in order to adjust, adjust the elasticity degree that the guide pulley can be used to preliminary adjustment wire rope like this, and the take-up pulley is used for the elasticity degree of automatic fine setting wire rope. As shown in fig. 11 and 19-21, in the invention, the guide wheel C509 is set as an adjusting guide wheel, the shaft of the guide wheel C509 is fixed in a kidney-shaped hole through a fastener, the tightness degree of the steel wire rope can be adjusted by moving the guide wheel C509 along the kidney-shaped hole by loosening the fastener, the position of the guide wheel C509 can be fixed by locking the fastener, the adjustment is convenient and quick, the adjustment range is large, the automatic adjustment stroke of the tension wheel is shortened, and the tension wheel has a smaller structure volume, is more stable in tension and has a larger tension force.

In order to avoid that the part of the steel wire rope 515 in the card storage groove is in sliding friction contact with the card feeding guide rail 503 and/or the arc-shaped bent side wall of the card storage groove to influence the service life and the running stability of the steel wire rope, a rolling member is arranged at the position, close to the card feeding guide rail 503 and/or the card storage groove, of the steel wire rope 515, the rolling member is rotatably arranged on the card feeding guide rail 503 or the card feeding support 501, and the part of the steel wire rope 515 in the card storage groove is in rolling contact with a plurality of rolling members and keeps a gap with the card feeding guide rail 503 and/or the side wall of the card storage groove. Therefore, sliding friction in the prior art is replaced by rolling friction of the steel wire rope, so that the friction resistance of the steel wire rope in operation is greatly reduced, the operation load of a tile feeding motor is also greatly reduced, abrasion of the tile storage groove and the tile feeding guide rail is also reduced, the service life and the operation stability of the machine are improved, the problems of steel wire breakage and multiple faults which cannot be solved by tile storage groove slope tile feeding type mahjong machine products in the industry since the peacock friend ladder (namely patent document CN200966910Y) appears for nearly ten years are thoroughly solved, the defects of high noise, more oil stains and the like which cannot be overcome by adopting other traction modes such as chains and the like are overcome, the popularization and the use of the tile storage groove slope tile feeding type mahjong machine products are greatly promoted, and even the flat push tile feeding type mahjong machine products commonly used in the existing market are replaced.

In order to ensure that a gap is left between the part of the steel wire rope in the mahjong storage groove and the side wall of the mahjong loading guide rail 503 without influencing the installation and sliding of the mahjong loading pushing head 514, the mahjong loading pushing head 514 is sleeved on the mahjong loading guide rail 503, a groove 5031 is arranged on the side wall of the mahjong loading guide rail 503, the rolling member protrudes into the groove 5031, and the steel wire rope 515 is installed in the groove 5031 and is in rolling contact with the rolling member.

The rolling members are preferably roller pins, and as shown in fig. 8 and 9, a plurality of roller pin grooves 5032 are provided on the listing rail 503, a roller pin 516 is embedded in the roller pin grooves 5032, the roller pin 516 is in rolling contact with a wire rope 515, and the roller pin grooves 5032 are covered by a pressure plate 517. The rolling needle diameter can be made less, sets up a plurality of rolling needles in the arc bending position who stores up the tablet groove, can closely laminate wire rope's annular path with the crooked radian that stores up tablet groove, the guide rail of registering license to reduce the sliding friction of registering license pushing head and registering license guide rail more, reduce registering license motor and wire rope's load, reduce registering license pushing head and registering license guide rail's wearing and tearing, guarantee registering license actuating mechanism's operating stability and life.

The rolling member may also be a bearing with a smaller diameter, as shown in fig. 16 and 17, a plurality of bearing installation grooves are provided on the listing guide rail 503, a bearing 518 is embedded in the bearing installation groove, the bearing 518 is in rolling contact with the steel wire rope 515, the bearing installation groove is covered by a pressing plate 517, and a shaft 5181 of the bearing 518 is installed on the listing guide rail 503 through the pressing plate 517. In addition, the rolling member may be a guide wheel having a small diameter.

In order to reduce the friction resistance between the mahjong tiles and the bottom of the tile storage groove without greatly increasing the cost, as shown in fig. 8, the bottom of the tile storage groove is provided with a tile storage groove bottom patch 502, and the tile storage groove bottom patch 502 is preferably made of a material with a smooth and wear-resistant surface, such as polyoxymethylene, polytetrafluoroethylene, and the like. The bottom paster 502 of the mahjong storage groove is used as an independent part to be installed in the mahjong storage groove of the mahjong serving support, and the mahjong serving support is made of materials with poor performance and low price, so that the use requirement can be met, and the manufacturing cost of a machine can be reduced. The slot bottom patch 502 of the mahjong tiles is preferably matched with the mahjong tile serving bracket 501 through a plurality of buckles to be positioned and locked and fixed through fasteners so as to facilitate installation.

The mahjong storage groove can be made into a slope form with a relatively slow slope from the mahjong inlet to the mahjong outlet, but the mahjong loading resistance of the mahjong loading and pushing head can be increased. In addition, store up the tablet groove and be equipped with the slope from a certain extent, thereby can also play the extension and rise tablet layer board length in the tablet subassembly, slow down and rise the effect that tablet layer board slope degree of slope reduces the tablet resistance of going up. The card-playing slope may be formed at the bottom of the card storage slot, but is preferably disposed on the card storage slot bottom patch 502, as shown in fig. 8, most of the card storage slot bottom patch 502 is horizontally disposed, and the card storage slot bottom patch 502 is formed with a card-playing slope 5022 capable of lifting mahjong cards at the card-playing port close to the card storage slot.

In order to avoid the mahjong tiles on the table top of the mahjong machine from shifting up and down, the horizontally moving upper mahjong pushing head 514 is provided with a plurality of mahjong pushing parts which are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles which are stacked up and down in the same pier, wherein the mahjong pushing part contacted with the mahjong tiles on the lower layer is protruded out of the mahjong pushing part contacted with the mahjong tiles on the upper layer, so that when the upper mahjong pushing head 514 pushes the mahjong tiles on the pier to move horizontally, the mahjong tiles on the upper layer lag behind the mahjong tiles on the lower layer, and when the upper mahjong pushing head 514 pushes the mahjong tiles on the inclined mahjong lifting support plate 604, the mahjong tiles on the upper layer are level with the mahjong tiles on the lower layer. As shown in fig. 8, the upper pushing head 514 of the present invention has three pushing portions, the lower pushing portion 5141 protrudes from the middle pushing portion 5142, the middle pushing portion 5142 protrudes from the upper pushing portion 5143, as shown in fig. 22, when the upper pushing head 514 pushes a plurality of mahjong tiles to move horizontally, the lower pushing portion pushes a lower mahjong tile, the upper pushing portion pushes an upper mahjong tile, the upper mahjong tile lags behind the lower mahjong tile, as shown in fig. 23, when the upper pushing head 514 pushes the last mahjong tile onto the inclined tile lifting support plate 604, the upper and lower mahjong tiles both incline and climb upward while the upper pushing head still moves horizontally, so that the inclined middle pushing portion pushes the lower mahjong tile, and the upper pushing portion inclines and protrudes forward, i.e. the mahjong tile before protruding from the upper layer is flush with the lower mahjong tile, thus, when the card-lifting support plate 604 is rotated to a horizontal position with respect to the face plate 10, the upper level tiles are flush with the lower level tiles without displacement. The middle pushing part of the mahjong tile pushing device is arranged to be in inclined line or surface contact with the lower mahjong tile, so that the stability of pushing the upper mahjong tile pushing head is further improved.

The tile inlet slope 5021 for the mahjong tiles to enter is formed at the tile inlet of the tile storage slot by the tile storage slot bottom patch 502. In order to avoid the faults of arching, jumping and the like of mahjong tiles in the tile storage groove in the tile pushing process of the tile pushing device, a tile pressing plate 519 for limiting the tile storage height of the tile storage groove is mounted above the tile storage groove on the tile feeding support 501, and the tile pressing plate 519 covers part or all of the top of the tile storage groove. In order to reduce the frictional resistance of the side wall of the mahjong storage groove to the movement of mahjong tiles, a tile storage groove outer side paster 504 is arranged at the arc-shaped bending part of the outer side wall of the mahjong storage groove, and the tile storage groove outer side paster 504 is made of materials with smooth and wear-resistant surfaces.

The specific structure of the tile lifting assembly can be seen in patent documents with publication numbers CN201906453U, CN201949619U, CN102133480A, CN103861280A and CN204699375U, and generally, one of the tile lifting assemblies includes a tile lifting support, a tile lifting support plate and a tile lifting motor, the tile lifting support plate is provided with a tile lifting groove, the tile lifting support plate 604 is located above the tile lifting groove, one end of the tile lifting support plate is mounted on the tile lifting groove, the other end of the tile lifting support plate is movable and driven by the tile lifting motor through a transmission mechanism such as a cam or a tile lifting rocker 606 to lift up and down, and the tile lifting support plate is further provided with a sensor C607 for detecting the position of the tile lifting support plate, for example, an upper hall element and a lower hall element or a light eye.

In the prior art, the square tile lifting assemblies are mutually independent, each tile lifting assembly is generally fixed on a bottom plate of a rack respectively, and a tile lifting supporting plate in each tile lifting assembly needs to be matched with a tile lifting port on the table top of the mahjong machine, so that the square tile lifting assembly needs to be adjusted to be matched with a panel when the mahjong machine is transferred, the transfer difficulty is high, and the efficiency is low. In order to solve the problem, an embodiment of the tile lifting assembly according to the present invention is to integrally form four tile lifting brackets into one tile lifting integral seat, as shown in fig. 14 and 15, the tile lifting assembly includes a tile lifting integral seat 601, a central hole is formed in the center of the tile lifting integral seat 601, the central lifting assembly 1 can pass through the central hole, four tile lifting portions are disposed around the central hole of the tile lifting integral seat 601, each tile lifting portion includes a first side plate 602 and a second side plate 6012 disposed in parallel at an interval, a tile lifting supporting plate 604 is disposed between the first side plate 602 and the second side plate 6012, a tile lifting groove is formed between the first side plate 602 and the second side plate 6012, the tile lifting supporting plate 604 is located at an upper portion of the tile lifting groove, one end of the tile lifting supporting plate is mounted on the tile lifting groove, and the other end of the tile lifting supporting plate can move and can be driven by a tile lifting motor 603 to lift up and down. Therefore, the square tile lifting supporting plate is arranged on the whole tile lifting seat and is integrated, the square shape and the position of the square tile lifting supporting plate are guaranteed, the mounting and adjusting panel is convenient to mount, and the panel can be placed on the square tile lifting supporting plate. The first side plate is connected with the tile lifting motor, the second side plate is located at the opposite side of the first side plate, and in order to facilitate assembly and debugging, the first side plate 602 and the second side plate 6012 are preferably manufactured by integrally forming with the tile lifting integral seat 601. However, in consideration of the difficulty of mold forming and the manufacturing cost, it is also possible to manufacture only the second side plate 6012 integrally with the raising card integral base 601, and then mount the first side plate 602 on the raising card integral base 601 as a separate component. In order to ensure the strength and the flatness of the integral mahjong tile lifting seat, a plurality of reinforcing members 605 may be disposed on the integral mahjong tile lifting seat 601, and these reinforcing members 605 may be a plurality of metal rods or metal pipes, or may be an integrally formed sheet metal frame or a welded metal frame, and besides, the reinforcing members may be made of other materials meeting the strength requirement besides metal, such as wood, composite materials, etc. Further preferably, the first side plate 602 and the tile lifting motor 603 are installed on the inner side of the tile lifting groove, and the second side plate 6012 is installed on the outer side of the tile lifting groove, so that a notch 6011 capable of being overlapped with a tile sending box of the tile sending device can be integrally formed on the tile lifting integral seat 601 and the second side plate 6012, the forming precision of the notch 6011 is ensured, and the positioning accuracy when the tile lifting assembly is overlapped with the tile sending device is ensured. Further preferably, the integral tile lifting seat 601 is directly fixed on the tile sending boxes of the four tile sending devices, or the integral tile lifting seat 601 is fixed on the tile sending boxes of the four tile sending devices through the reinforcing piece 605, so that the mounting is convenient, the positioning and assembling precision is higher, and the integral strength, the integrity and the operation stability of the main machine of the mahjong machine are improved.

In addition, the invention also provides another mode which can effectively prevent the mahjong tiles close to the tile outlet in the tile storage groove from falling back to the big shuffling tray in the tile pushing process of the tile pushing device, as shown in fig. 14 and 15, a tile blocking piece 6041 is fixed below the movable end of the tile lifting supporting plate 604, and when the tile lifting supporting plate 604 is level with the panel 10 of the mahjong machine, the tile blocking piece 6041 blocks the tile outlet in the tile storage groove to prevent the mahjong tiles from falling out, thereby reducing the occurrence of faults.

In order to facilitate assembly and improve production efficiency, the invention also provides another embodiment of the tile feeding assembly and the tile lifting assembly, the tile feeding support in the tile feeding assembly on one side and the tile lifting support in the tile lifting assembly on the adjacent side are integrally molded, as shown in fig. 18 and 19, the tile feeding assembly on one side and the tile lifting assembly on the other side adjacent to the tile feeding assembly on the other side are installed on the same integrated support 56, and the four integrated supports 56 are connected end to form the square slope tile discharging device. Each of the integral supports 56 is provided with a card-feeding portion and a card-raising portion. The card feeding part comprises a card storage groove integrally formed with the integrated support 56, the card storage groove is provided with at least one arc-shaped bend, a card feeding guide rail 503 is installed on the inner side wall of the card storage groove, a card feeding pushing head 514 is arranged on the card feeding guide rail 503 in a sliding mode, and the card feeding pushing head 514 is driven by a card feeding driving mechanism to slide along the card feeding guide rail 503. The mahjong tile lifting part comprises a first side plate 602 and a second side plate 6012 which are arranged at intervals in parallel, a mahjong tile lifting supporting plate 604 is arranged between the first side plate 602 and the second side plate 6012, a mahjong tile lifting groove is formed between the first side plate 602 and the second side plate 6012, the mahjong tile lifting supporting plate 604 is located on the upper portion of the mahjong tile lifting groove, one end of the mahjong tile lifting supporting plate is installed on the mahjong tile lifting groove, and the other end of the mahjong tile lifting supporting plate can move and is driven to ascend and descend by a mahjong tile lifting motor 603. The first side plate is connected to the tile lifting motor, and the second side plate is located at the opposite side of the first side plate, so that the first side plate 602 and the second side plate 6012 are preferably integrally formed with the integrated bracket 56 for convenience of assembly and debugging, as shown in fig. 20. However, in consideration of the difficulty of molding the mold and the manufacturing cost, it is also possible to manufacture only the second side plate 6012 integrally with the integrated bracket 56, and then mount the first side plate 602 on the integrated bracket 56 as a separate component, as shown in fig. 21. The other structure is the same as the above embodiment.

In yet another embodiment of the tile loading assembly and the tile lifting assembly shown in fig. 24, the tile loading support of one tile loading assembly and the tile lifting support of the adjacent tile lifting assembly are also integrally formed, the tile loading assembly of one tile loading assembly and the tile lifting assembly of the other tile loading assembly adjacent to the tile loading assembly are mounted on the same integrated support 56, and the four integrated supports 56 are connected end to form the square slope tile discharging device. Each of the integral supports 56 is provided with a card-feeding portion and a card-raising portion. The part of registering license includes the storage tablet groove with integrative support 56 integrated into one piece, should store up that the tablet groove is whole to be big arc bending to, integrative support 56 is equipped with one and concentrates wiring position 521 storing up the tablet groove and rising between the tablet groove, and the electric wire of the part of registering license and the part of rising license gathers to concentrating wiring position 521 and is connected with mahjong host computer controller and power through the connector. The centralized wiring location 521 has a cavity for placing the connector and a cover plate covering the cavity. The other structure is the same as the above embodiment.

The control method of the mahjong machine comprises the following steps:

when the mahjong machine works, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, the large shuffling tray 2 rotates and the mahjong tile scraping device 9 is not moved, mahjong tiles on the large shuffling tray 2 are respectively pushed to the lower parts of the tile inlets of the four tile feeding devices 3 at the edge of the large shuffling tray 2, the mahjong tiles are sucked by the tile sucking wheels 302 in the tile feeding devices 3 and are conveyed into the tile feeding channels 305 after being straightened into the same direction, the tile feeding channels 305 are arc-shaped, the height of the tile outlet of the tile feeding channels 305 is not lower than that of the tile inlet of the tile feeding channels 305, and the height of the tile bearing table surface of the tile bearing block 402 of the tile pushing device 4 and the height of the tile inlet of the tile storage groove are both close to that of the tile outlet of the tile feeding channels 305; the mahjong tiles are sent to a tile bearing block 402 of a tile pushing device 4 from a tile outlet of a tile sending channel 305 through a conveying belt and are blocked by a tile blocking frame 7, after a tile sending detection device on the tile blocking frame 7 detects the mahjong tiles, a tile pushing motor 403 drives the tile bearing block 402 to descend by a height to bear a second mahjong tile, after a tile sending detection device on the tile blocking frame 7 detects that two mahjong tiles exist on the tile bearing block 402, the tile pushing motor 403 drives the tile bearing block 402 to ascend to an initial position, then the tile pushing motor 403 drives the tile pushing head 401 to push a stacked block of mahjong tiles into a tile inlet of a tile storage groove, the tile pushing head 401 can prevent other mahjong tiles from being sent out from the tile outlet of the tile sending channel 305 when pushing the mahjong tiles out of the tile bearing block 402, after the tile pushing head 401 resets, the tile pushing device 4 starts to stack the next block of mahjong tiles, and the tile pushing head 401 counts once every time when the tile pushing head 401 pushes the tiles; when the count of the count detection device in a group of the card picking and carrying systems reaches a set number, a card storage groove in the card picking and carrying system is full of mahjong cards, a card pushing head 401 in the card picking and carrying system stops pushing the cards, a card feeding motor in a card feeding device 3 of the card picking and carrying system rotates reversely, and the remaining mahjong cards in the card feeding device return to a shuffling large disk; when the mahjong tiles are fully stored in the tile storage grooves of the four groups of the tile picking and conveying systems, the mahjong tile picking and conveying systems wait for a tile feeding signal. When the mahjong machine receives a mahjong-playing signal, the lifting support plates in the four groups of mahjong-picking and carrying systems all descend, the mahjong tiles in the tile storage grooves are pushed onto the table surface of the mahjong machine by the lifting push heads, wherein the horizontally moving lifting push heads 514 are provided with a plurality of mahjong-pushing parts which are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles stacked up and down in the last pier, the mahjong-pushing part contacted with the lower-layer mahjong tile protrudes out of the mahjong-pushing part contacted with the upper-layer mahjong tile, when the lifting push heads 514 push the plurality of mahjong tiles to horizontally move, the upper-layer mahjong tile lags behind the lower-layer mahjong tile, and when the lifting push heads 514 push the last mahjong tile onto the inclined lifting support plate 604, the upper-layer mahjong tile is level with the lower-layer mahjong tile; when the sensor B513 outside the card outlet of the card storage groove detects that the card pushing head 514 is in place, the card lifting supporting plate is lifted upwards to be flush with the table top of the mahjong machine, and the card pushing head 514 is reset.

when the mahjong machine works, the shuffling large disc 2 rotates the tile scraping device 9 to be fixed, mahjong tiles on the shuffling large disc 2 are respectively pushed to the lower parts of tile inlets of four tile feeding devices 3 at the edge of the shuffling large disc 2, the mahjong tiles are sucked by the tile sucking wheels 302 in the tile feeding devices 3 and are conveyed into the tile feeding channels 305 after being straightened into the same direction, the tile feeding channels 305 are arc-shaped, the height of a tile outlet of the tile feeding channels 305 is not lower than that of the tile inlets of the tile feeding channels 305, and the height of a tile bearing table surface of a tile bearing block 402 of the tile pushing device 4 and the height of a tile inlet of a tile storage groove are both close to that of the tile outlets of the tile feeding channels 305; the mahjong tiles are sent to a tile bearing block 402 of a tile pushing device 4 from a tile outlet of a tile sending channel 305 through a conveying belt and are blocked by a tile blocking frame 7, after a tile sending detection device on the tile blocking frame 7 detects the mahjong tiles, a tile pushing motor 403 drives the tile bearing block 402 to descend by a height to bear a second mahjong tile, after a tile sending detection device on the tile blocking frame 7 detects that two mahjong tiles exist on the tile bearing block 402, the tile pushing motor 403 drives the tile bearing block 402 to ascend to an initial position, then the tile pushing motor 403 drives the tile pushing head 401 to push a stacked block of mahjong tiles into a tile inlet of a tile storage groove, the tile pushing head 401 can prevent other mahjong tiles from being sent out from the tile outlet of the tile sending channel 305 when pushing the mahjong tiles out of the tile bearing block 402, after the tile pushing head 401 resets, the tile pushing device 4 starts to stack the next block of mahjong tiles, and the tile pushing head 401 counts once every time when the tile pushing head 401 pushes the tiles; when the count of the count detection device in the group of the card picking and conveying systems reaches a set number, the card pushing device in the card picking and conveying system stops pushing cards, N mahjong tiles are arranged in a card storage groove of the card picking and conveying system at the moment, and the mahjong tiles picked by a tile suction wheel in the card picking and conveying system are stored in the card feeding device and the card pushing device; when the mahjong tile feeding detection device in the group of mahjong tile picking and conveying systems continuously detects that mahjong tiles exist, the mahjong tiles are fully stored in the mahjong tile feeding device and the mahjong tile pushing device of the mahjong tile picking and conveying systems and are marked as M mahjong tiles; when the mahjong tiles are continuously detected by the tile feeding detection devices on the tile feeding devices in the four tile picking and carrying systems, the tile pushing devices of the four tile picking and carrying systems start to work again and push the mahjong tiles into the respective tile storage grooves; when the mahjong tiles are fully stored in the tile storage grooves of the four groups of the tile picking and conveying systems, the mahjong tile picking and conveying systems wait for a tile feeding signal. When the mahjong machine receives a mahjong-playing signal, the lifting support plates in the four groups of mahjong-picking and carrying systems all descend, the mahjong tiles in the tile storage grooves are pushed onto the table surface of the mahjong machine by the lifting push heads, wherein the horizontally moving lifting push heads 514 are provided with a plurality of mahjong-pushing parts which are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles stacked up and down in the last pier, the mahjong-pushing part contacted with the lower-layer mahjong tile protrudes out of the mahjong-pushing part contacted with the upper-layer mahjong tile, when the lifting push heads 514 push the plurality of mahjong tiles to horizontally move, the upper-layer mahjong tile lags behind the lower-layer mahjong tile, and when the lifting push heads 514 push the last mahjong tile onto the inclined lifting support plate 604, the upper-layer mahjong tile is level with the lower-layer mahjong tile; when the sensor B513 outside the card outlet of the card storage groove detects that the card pushing head 514 is in place, the card lifting supporting plate is lifted upwards to be flush with the table top of the mahjong machine, and the card pushing head 514 is reset.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the principle and spirit of the present invention.

Claims

1. A slope tile discharging device of a mahjong machine comprises a tile feeding assembly and a tile lifting assembly, and is characterized in that the tile lifting assembly comprises a tile lifting motor (603) and a tile lifting integral seat (601), the center of the tile lifting integral seat (601) is a central hole, four tile lifting parts are arranged on the periphery of the central hole of the tile lifting integral seat (601), each tile lifting part comprises a first side plate (602) and a second side plate (6012) which are arranged in parallel at intervals, a tile lifting supporting plate (604) is arranged between the first side plate (602) and the second side plate (6012), a tile lifting groove is formed between the first side plate (602) and the second side plate (6012), the tile lifting supporting plate (604) is located on the upper part of the tile lifting groove, one end of the tile lifting supporting plate (604) is installed on the tile lifting groove, and the other end of the tile lifting supporting plate (604) is driven to lift up and down by the tile lifting motor (603); the mahjong tile feeding assembly comprises a mahjong tile feeding support and a mahjong tile feeding pushing head, wherein a mahjong tile storage groove used for storing a plurality of mahjong tiles is formed in the mahjong tile feeding support, the mahjong tile storage groove is provided with at least one arc-shaped bend, the mahjong tile feeding pushing head (514) is provided with a plurality of mahjong tile pushing parts, the mahjong tile pushing parts are respectively contacted with two mahjong tiles stacked up and down in the same pier, the mahjong tile pushing part contacted with the lower-layer mahjong tile protrudes out of the mahjong tile pushing part contacted with the upper-layer mahjong tile, so that when the mahjong tile feeding pushing head (514) pushes the plurality of mahjong tiles to horizontally move in the mahjong tile storage groove, the upper-layer mahjong tile lags behind the lower-layer mahjong tile, and when the last mahjong tile is pushed up to the inclined mahjong tile lifting supporting plate (604) by the mahjong tile feeding pushing head (514), the upper-layer mahjong tile is level with the lower-layer mahjong tile; most of the mahjong storage groove is horizontally arranged, and a mahjong outlet slope surface for lifting mahjong tiles is arranged at the position, close to the mahjong outlet, of the mahjong storage groove.

2. The slope tile-playing device of the mahjong machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first side plate (602) and the second side plate (6012) are integrally formed with the tile-lifting integral seat (601).

3. The slope tile-playing device of mahjong machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second tile-playing device

The side plate (6012) and the integral tile lifting seat (601) are manufactured in an integrated forming mode, and the first side plate (602) is an independent part and is fixedly installed on the integral tile lifting seat (601).

4. The slope tile discharging device of mahjong machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the upper tile pushing head (514) has three tile pushing parts, the lower tile pushing part (5141) protrudes from the middle tile pushing part (5142), the middle tile pushing part (5142) protrudes from the upper tile pushing part (5143), when the upper tile pushing head (514) pushes the multi-pier mahjong tiles to move horizontally, the lower tile pushing part pushes the lower tiles, the upper tile pushing part pushes the upper tiles, the upper tiles are behind the lower tiles, when the upper tile pushing head (514) pushes the last pier mahjong tile to the inclined tile lifting support plate (604), the upper tiles and the lower tiles are inclined to climb upwards while the upper tile pushing head moves horizontally, so that the inclined middle tile pushing part pushes the lower tiles, and the upper tile pushing part makes the upper tiles inclined and protruded, namely, the mahjong tiles on the upper layer are flush with the mahjong tiles on the lower layer before protruding.

5. The slope tile discharging device of the mahjong machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inner side wall of the tile storage groove is provided with a tile feeding guide rail (503), a tile feeding pushing head (514) is arranged on the tile feeding guide rail (503) in a sliding manner, the tile feeding pushing head (514) is driven by a tile feeding driving mechanism to slide along the tile feeding guide rail (503), and the tile feeding pushing head (514) and the tile feeding guide rail (503) are both made of materials with smooth and wear-resistant surfaces.

6. The slope card-playing device of the mahjong machine according to claim 1, wherein a card-storing slot bottom patch (502) is arranged at the bottom of the card-storing slot, the card-storing slot bottom patch (502) is made of a material with a smooth and wear-resistant surface, most of the card-storing slot bottom patch (502) is horizontally arranged, and the card-playing slope surface (5022) capable of lifting mahjong cards is formed at the card-playing port close to the card-storing slot by the card-storing slot bottom patch (502).

7. The slope card-playing device of the mahjong machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein a card pressing plate (519) for limiting the height of the card storage groove is mounted on the card feeding support (501) above the card storage groove, and the card pressing plate (519) covers part or all of the top of the card storage groove.

8. The slope tile discharging device of the mahjong machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the tile storage groove outer side patch (504) is arranged at the arc-shaped bending part of the outer side wall of the tile storage groove, and the tile storage groove outer side patch (504) is made of a material with a smooth and wear-resistant surface.

9. A mahjong machine, comprising a shuffling large plate (2) positioned at the center of a bottom plate (8) of a frame, four groups of card picking and carrying systems are arranged around the shuffling large plate (2), the card picking and carrying systems comprise a card feeding device (3) used for picking and sending mahjong tiles from the shuffling large plate one by one, a card pushing device (4) used for stacking the mahjong tiles into a pier and pushing out the pile, and a slope card discharging device used for sending the arranged piles of mahjong tiles to the table surface of the mahjong machine along a slope, and the slope card discharging device is the slope card discharging device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8.

10. A mahjong machine tile feeding method, characterized in that, the method comprises the mahjong machine as claimed in claim 9, when the mahjong machine receives a tile feeding signal, the tile lifting support plates in the four groups of tile picking and carrying systems all descend, the tile feeding pushing head pushes the mahjong tiles in the tile storage groove to the table surface of the mahjong machine along the tile lifting support plates, wherein, the horizontally moving tile feeding pushing head has a plurality of tile pushing parts which respectively contact two mahjong tiles superposed up and down in the last pier, the tile pushing part contacting with the lower mahjong tiles protrudes out of the tile pushing part contacting with the upper mahjong tiles, when the tile feeding pushing head pushes the plurality of piers mahjong tiles to move horizontally, the upper mahjong tiles lags behind the lower mahjong tiles, and when the last pier mahjong tile is pushed by the tile feeding pushing head to the inclined tile lifting support plates, the upper mahjong tiles are level with the lower mahjong tiles; when the sensor detects the signal that the card pushing head is in place, the card lifting supporting plate is lifted upwards to be flush with the tabletop of the mahjong machine.