CN113908524A - Portable automatic mahjong machine and using method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a portable automatic mahjong machine and a using method thereof, comprising a shell and a shuffling system arranged in the shell; the casing comprises a mahjong machine desktop, the mahjong machine desktop comprises a main desktop and 4 expansion angles respectively taking each edge of the main desktop as a rotating shaft, and the 4 expansion angles can rotate outwards to be flush with the main desktop to form an expansion desktop; the shuffling system comprises a card turning assembly, a conveying assembly and a board lifting assembly; including 4 the conveying subassembly, respectively along the even setting in of circumference interval in the piece subassembly of turning over on, this conveying subassembly includes that L type conveying says, pick up the tablet device, rises the tablet device and pushes away the tablet device, the portable automatic mahjong machine and the application method of this application have convenient to carry, the reason tablet is swift, regular advantage.

Description

Portable automatic mahjong machine and using method thereof

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of mahjong machines, in particular to a portable automatic mahjong machine and a using method thereof.

Background

The mahjong machine is invented and produced by Japan, is imported from Japan to China from a small amount of original clothes, and then is brought to China in the early nineties of the last century because of the huge market of China, and the Japanese is mass-produced in China in the beginning of the last nineties, so that the mahjong machine enters the market of China and then enters the rapid development period to form a huge industrial chain.

The mahjong machine in the prior art is similar to a dining table in size, so the machine is also called as an automatic mahjong table, and has the defects of large volume, heavy weight, difficulty in moving and incapability of carrying the mahjong table with a user to play mahjong games. The existing mahjong machine is a four-port machine, the four mahjong machine is provided with four tile pushing ports, no conveying chain is used, the four ports simultaneously send the complete tiles to the table top, the internal mechanical structure of the mahjong machine is large in size, and the mahjong machine is difficult to compress into a portable mahjong machine.

Therefore, a portable automatic mahjong machine and a corresponding mechanical structure thereof are needed.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects in the prior art and provide a portable automatic mahjong machine and a using method thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has the following configurations:

the invention comprises a portable automatic mahjong machine, which comprises a tabletop opening component for pushing mahjong tiles into the mahjong machine, a housing and a shuffling system arranged in the housing;

the casing comprises a mahjong machine desktop, the mahjong machine desktop comprises a main desktop and 4 expansion angles respectively taking each edge of the main desktop as a rotating shaft, and the 4 expansion angles can rotate outwards to be flush with the main desktop to form an expansion desktop;

the shuffling system comprises a card turning assembly, a conveying assembly and a board lifting assembly; the card-pushing device is arranged at one end of the card-pushing device and can move back and forth towards the length direction of the conveying channel opposite to the card-picking device in the L-shaped conveying channel through the card-pushing device; the table comprises a main table top and a conveying assembly, and is characterized by further comprising 4 plate lifting assemblies which are matched with the conveying assembly respectively, wherein one end of each plate lifting assembly is in butt joint with the L-shaped conveying channel, the other end of each plate lifting assembly is provided with a rotating shaft located in the plane direction of the main table top, and the plate lifting assemblies can rotate around the rotating shafts until the tops of the plate lifting assemblies are parallel to the main table top.

In the portable automatic mahjong machine, the tile turning assembly comprises a lifting rod capable of moving longitudinally along an axis, a tile guiding claw group sleeved on the periphery of the lifting rod, and a chassis which is vertically arranged with the lifting rod and rotates around the lifting rod; the chassis is provided with a gradient with the height decreasing from the axis to the outside, and the bottom of the chassis is provided with a magnet; the conveying assembly is arranged on the chassis. In the portable automatic mahjong machine, the L-shaped conveying channel consists of a mahjong picking conveying channel consisting of two parallel support plates arranged at intervals and a mahjong conveying channel provided with a first conveying belt.

In the portable automatic mahjong machine, the mahjong piece picking device comprises a magnetic wheel, a driven wheel and a second conveyor belt sleeved outside the magnetic wheel and the driven wheel, and the mahjong piece picking device is arranged between the two support plates along the length direction of the mahjong piece picking conveyor belt.

In the portable automatic mahjong machine, a groove is arranged at the corner of the L-shaped conveying channel, an opening is arranged at the bottom of the groove, and the tile lifting device penetrates through the opening to move up and down along the vertical direction.

In the portable automatic mahjong machine, the lifting plate assembly comprises a lifting plate and a lifting plate lifting device, the lifting plate rotates through a rotating shaft arranged in the plane direction of the main tabletop, and can rotate to one end of the L-shaped conveying channel and be in butt joint with the L-shaped conveying channel when rotating towards the shell; the lifting plate lifting device is arranged below the lifting plate and used for lifting the moving end of the lifting plate.

In the portable automatic mahjong machine, the highest position of the upward movement of the tile lifting device is parallel to the horizontal position of the adjacent end of the first conveyor belt, the tile pushing device comprises a push plate in the vertical direction, and the bottom of the push plate is higher than the highest position of the tile lifting device.

In the portable automatic mahjong machine, the main table top is square, the expansion angle is an equilateral right-angled triangle, and the expansion table top is square.

The application also comprises a use method applied to the portable automatic mahjong machine of claim 1, comprising the following steps:

s1, opening an expansion angle arranged on the shell to form an expansion desktop;

s2, pushing the mahjong tiles into the mahjong machine through the desktop opening component, and turning the mahjong tiles through the tile turning component;

s3, the mahjong tiles on the tile turning assembly are attracted to the L-shaped conveying channel by the tile picking device through magnetism and are conveyed along the L-shaped conveying channel;

s4, conveying the mahjong tiles to the corner of the L-shaped conveying channel, and lifting the mahjong tiles upwards by the tile lifting device;

s5, the mahjong tiles on the mahjong tile lifting device are pushed to the other conveying channel of the L-shaped conveying channel by the mahjong tile pushing device and are conveyed along the other conveying channel;

s6, conveying the mahjong tiles to the board lifting assembly butted with the L-shaped conveying channel, repeating the steps S3-S5 until all the mahjong tiles in the mahjong machine are processed, and lifting the board lifting assembly until the upper surface of the board lifting assembly is parallel to the main tabletop.

In the using method of the portable automatic mahjong machine,

in step S4, tiles are conveyed to the corner of the L-shaped conveying path, and when 2 tiles are stacked at the corner, the tile lifting device lifts the tiles upward;

and S6, conveying the mahjong tiles to a lifting plate assembly butted with the L-shaped conveying channel, repeating the steps S3-S5, arranging the mahjong tiles on the lifting plate assembly along the length direction of the lifting plate assembly in sequence until all the mahjong tiles in the mahjong machine are processed, and lifting the lifting plate assembly until the upper surface of the lifting plate assembly is parallel to the main tabletop.

The portable automatic mahjong machine and the use method thereof comprise a shell and a shuffling system arranged in the shell; the casing comprises a mahjong machine desktop, the mahjong machine desktop comprises a main desktop and 4 expansion angles respectively taking each edge of the main desktop as a rotating shaft, and the 4 expansion angles can rotate outwards to be flush with the main desktop to form an expansion desktop; the shuffling system comprises a card turning assembly, a conveying assembly and a board lifting assembly; including 4 the conveying subassembly, respectively along the even setting in of circumference interval in the piece subassembly of turning over on, this conveying subassembly includes that L type conveying says, pick up the tablet device, rises the tablet device and pushes away the tablet device, the portable automatic mahjong machine and the application method of this application have convenient to carry, the reason tablet is swift, regular advantage.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a preferred first embodiment of a tile turning assembly of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a preferred second embodiment of a tile flipping assembly of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of an L-shaped conveying channel of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of a card picking device of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the application;

figure 6 is a cross-sectional view of a preferred embodiment of the card pickup assembly of figure 5;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of a tile lifting device of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a detailed block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the card raising apparatus of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural view of a preferred embodiment of a tile pushing device of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a detailed block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the card pushing device of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a first structural view of the preferred plate-lifting assembly of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application assembled with an L-shaped conveying path;

FIG. 12 is a structural view illustrating a second state in which a preferred lifting plate assembly of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application is assembled with an L-shaped conveying path;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view showing an assembled structure of a partition frame of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

FIG. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a preferred housing of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application, viewed from above in a first state;

FIG. 15 is a schematic structural diagram of a preferred housing of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application in a second state, which is viewed from above;

FIG. 16 is a schematic structural diagram of a second state front view of a preferred housing of the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating the preferred steps of the method for using the portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application;

description of the symbols: a housing 100; a card-flipping assembly 200; a transfer assembly 300; a riser assembly 400; an L-shaped conveying channel 500; a card pickup device 600; a card raising device 700; a card pushing device 800; a spacer 1000; a main desktop 110; an expansion angle 120; a lifting rod 210; a chassis 220; a card guiding claw group 230; a card guiding claw 231; a card guide claw lifting plate 232; a card guide claw lifting device 233; a take-up pulley 831; a lifting plate 410; the rotation guide slot 411; a lifter plate lift 420; a card-pickup delivery lane 510; a support plate 511; a card delivery lane 520; a groove 530; a guide way 540; a magnetic wheel 610; a magnet 611; a magnet cover plate 612; a driven wheel 620; a second conveyor belt 630; a card lifting plate 710; a guide shaft 720; a push plate 810; a fixed guide plate 820; a roller 821; a spacer opening 1010.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is to be understood that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present disclosure, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the disclosed embodiments without making any creative effort, also belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

As used in this application and the appended claims, the terms "a," "an," "the," and/or "the" are not intended to be inclusive in the singular, but rather are intended to be inclusive in the plural unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. The terms "first" and "second" are not limiting words, and are used for explanation only and understanding of the technical solutions of the present invention, and the terms "first" and "second" may be substituted for each other. In general, the terms "comprises" and "comprising" merely indicate that steps and elements are included which are explicitly identified, that the steps and elements do not form an exclusive list, and that a method or apparatus may include other steps or elements.

The components, relative arrangements, functions, and numerical values set forth in these embodiments do not limit the scope of the present invention unless specifically stated otherwise. Also, it is apparent that the dimensions of the various parts shown in the drawings are not drawn to scale in practice for ease of description. Techniques, methods and apparatus that are known to those of ordinary skill in the relevant art have not been described in detail for the time being, but are intended to be part of the specification as appropriate. In all examples shown and discussed herein, any particular value should be construed as exemplary only and not as a limitation. Thus, other examples of step-wise embodiments may have a different order of precedence.

FIG. 1 shows a portable automatic mahjong machine of the present application, which comprises a housing and a shuffling system arranged inside the housing; the shuffling system comprises a card turning assembly 200, a conveying assembly 300 and a board lifting assembly 400; the embodiment of this figure includes a card flipping assembly 200, a transport assembly 300, a plate lifting assembly 400, and a table top opening assembly, and for ease of description and illustration, the housing 100 is not shown in figure 1. Desktop opening subassembly set up in turning over tablet subassembly 200 top to with the 110 parallel and level of main desktop of casing 100, the user can open the opening that desktop opening subassembly was provided with, make during mahjong tiles fall into the tablet subassembly 200 that turns over, the work of tablet subassembly 200 that turns over makes mahjong tiles overturn, and adsorb to conveying assembly 300, arrange the pile back in order through conveying assembly 300, arrange in proper order on the board subassembly 400 that rises in groups, arrange the completion back, rise board subassembly 400 and rise to the 110 parallel and level of main desktop with casing 100, accomplish the automatic arrangement of mahjong tiles. As shown, the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes 4 transport assemblies 300 arranged uniformly around the circumference and 4 lift plate assemblies 400 corresponding to the transport assemblies. Mahjong pieces used in cooperation with the mahjong tile picking device are provided with magnets on the patterned surfaces, and the mahjong pieces are turned over to the surface with the magnets to face upwards through the mahjong piece turning assembly and are adsorbed on the mahjong piece picking device.

As shown in fig. 2, which is a schematic structural view of a preferred first embodiment of a card turning assembly 200, the card turning assembly 200 includes a lifting rod 210 capable of being lifted longitudinally, a card guiding claw group sleeved on the periphery of the lifting rod 210, the card guiding claw group does not move along with the lifting rod 210, and a chassis 220 vertically installed with the lifting rod 210 and rotating around the lifting rod 210; the chassis 220 has a gradient with the height decreasing from the axis to the outside, and the outermost ring is an annular flat plate; the bottom of the chassis is provided with magnets, preferably 4 powerful magnets, arranged at fixed intervals under the plate on the outer ring of the chassis 220. In a specific use example, the lifting rod 210 moves upwards to open the opening of the opening component of the table top, mahjong tiles fall into the mahjong machine through the opening of the table top, and the powerful magnet arranged below the base plate enables the mahjong tiles to turn over, specifically, the upper surface of the magnet has the same magnetic pole with the pattern surface of the mahjong tile strip and has the opposite magnetic pole with the back surface of the mahjong tile, and when the pattern surface of the mahjong tile falls downwards into the mahjong machine, the pattern surface of the mahjong tile is downwards adsorbed onto the base plate; when the back of the mahjong tiles falls down into the mahjong machine, the mahjong tiles generate magnetic repulsion with the chassis to turn over the mahjong tiles until the patterned surface faces downwards, and the patterned surface of the mahjong tiles are adsorbed to the chassis downwards; thereby completing the turning of the mahjong pieces. The mahjong guiding claw group comprises a claw group fixing platform and 4 mahjong guiding claws 231 uniformly arranged around the fixing platform, when mahjong falls into the chassis, the chassis rotates, the mahjong moves to the flat plate of the outer ring of the chassis 220 along the gradient of the chassis 220, the mahjong guiding claw group is fixed relative to the lifting rod 210, and the mahjong guiding claws 231 guide the mahjong to move to the flat plate of the chassis along the length direction of the mahjong. The following card picking devices 600 are respectively arranged above the outer ring flat plate and used for adsorbing mahjong cards on the flat plate.

As shown in fig. 3, the card-flipping assembly 200 also includes a schematic structural view of other preferred embodiments, and the chassis 220 is omitted for convenience of description and illustration. In this embodiment, the structure of the chassis 220, the lifting rod 210 and the card guiding claw set 230 is the same as the embodiment of fig. 2 and 3. In this embodiment, the lifting rod 210 can move upward to lift the opening cover plate of the opening assembly of the tabletop, when the user presses the start button, the motor in the lifting rod 210 is started to drive the rotating wheel and the connecting rod to lift the lifting rod 210 upward to open the opening, and the user can push the mahjong tiles into the chassis 220 of the mahjong machine through the opening.

The technical scheme of this application includes 4 transfer assembly 300, respectively along the even setting of circumference interval in chassis 220 top, this transfer assembly 300 includes L type transfer way 500, picks up tablet device 600, rises tablet device 700 and pushes away tablet device 800.

A preferred embodiment of an L-shaped carryway 500 is shown in fig. 4, which shows the L-shaped carryway 500 assembled with a card-picking apparatus 600. The L-shaped conveying channel 500 comprises a card picking conveying channel 510 and a card sending conveying channel 520, wherein the card picking conveying channel 510 is composed of two support plates 511 which are arranged in parallel at intervals, and the card sending conveying channel 520 is provided with a first conveying belt; the card picking and conveying channel 510 and the card sending and conveying channel 520 are integrally formed, the card picking and conveying channel 510 is two support plates 511 which are arranged in parallel at intervals, the support plates 511 are vertically connected with the card sending and conveying channel 520, the distance between the support plates 511 is equal to the thickness of the card picking device 600, and the card picking device 600 is installed between the two support plates 511. When the mahjong tile stacking device is specifically applied to the embodiment, the tile lifting device 700 adsorbs mahjong tiles with magnets arranged on one surface through the magnets arranged inside, the mahjong tiles are conveyed along the length direction of the tile picking conveying channel 510, conveyed to the bent angle position of the L-shaped conveying channel 500, enter the groove 530 to be stacked, the mahjong tiles are lifted and pushed to the second conveying belt 630 through the tile lifting device 700 and the tile pushing device 800, and the mahjong tiles are conveyed through the second conveying belt 630. The card raising device 700 and the card pushing device 800 will be described in detail below.

As shown in FIG. 4, the preferred size of the groove 530 of the L-shaped conveying path 500 is 38-45 mm long, 28-34 mm wide and 38-46 mm deep. The mahjong tiles which are popular at present comprise No. 40 mahjong tiles, and the size of the mahjong tiles is 39.5mm in length, 29mm in width and 20mm in height; no. 42 mahjong, the size is 41.5mm long, 31mm wide and 22mm high; no. 44 mah-jong is 43.5mm long, 33mm wide and 22.5mm high. The recess 530 provided in this embodiment is sized to accommodate the various popular mahjong tiles described above. Specifically the size of the stack of two tiles. That is, stacking of two tiles one on top of the other can be accomplished in the recess 530. In a preferred embodiment, the depth of the groove 530 is based on the height of the first conveyer, and if the second conveyer 630 is used as a reference, the depth of the end adjacent to the second conveyer 630 is 19-23 mm, i.e. the height of 1 mah-jong tile or the height of 1-2 mah-jong tiles. 1 mahjong tile falls into the groove 530 through the tile picking device 600, and another mahjong tile continues to be stacked on the mahjong tile through the tile picking device 600, so that the stacking of 2 mahjong tiles is completed. The bottom of the groove 530 is further provided with an opening through which the card lifting means 700 can lift the mahjong tiles in the groove 530. It should be understood that the above description of the dimensions of the groove 530 is not limiting, but rather exemplary, and that the groove 530 is equally applicable to other dimensions in practical applications. Comprises a length of 18-65 mm, a width of 18-64 mm and a depth of 18-66 mm.

As shown in fig. 5, in the preferred embodiment of the card picking device 600, the card picking device 600 includes a magnetic wheel 610, a driven wheel 620 and a second conveyer belt 630 sleeved outside the magnetic wheel 610 and the driven wheel 620, a motor is mounted on an axis of the magnetic wheel 610 to drive the magnetic wheel 610 to rotate, the magnetic wheel 610 drives the second conveyer belt 630 and the driven wheel 620 to rotate, and the second conveyer belt is used for conveying mahjong tiles attracted by the magnetic wheel 610. Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the card pickup device 600, in which 2 magnets 611 are provided in a magnetic wheel 610, and the 2 magnets 611 are provided at opposite ends of the magnetic wheel 610, respectively. In a preferred embodiment, the magnet 611 is detachable, and a magnet cover 612 is provided, so that when the magnet 611 needs to be replaced, the magnet cover 612 is opened for replacement. In other preferred embodiments, the number of magnets 611 may be any, including 1, 3, 4, etc. In other preferred embodiments, the magnetic wheel 610 may be replaced with a rotating wheel made of a magnet.

As shown in fig. 7, which is an exemplary view of a preferred card lifting device 700, the card lifting device 700 of fig. 7 is assembled with an L-shaped conveying path 500, the card lifting device 700 is arranged at a corner of the L-shaped conveying path 500, the card lifting device 700 is respectively arranged at one end of the first conveying belt and the second conveying belt 630, and faces to an opening of the groove 530 in a vertical direction, and the card lifting device 700 can move up and down in the vertical direction; fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of a preferred specific structure of the card lifting device 700, which includes a card lifting plate 710 and guide shafts 720, wherein the number of the guide shafts 720 is preferably 2, and the guide shafts are used for fixing and guiding the movement of the card lifting plate 710. The card lifting plate 710 moves up and down through a motor, specifically, the motor drives a rotating wheel to move, and a connecting rod fixed on the rotating wheel drives the card lifting plate 710 to move up and down. The size of the upper surface of the card lifting plate 710 is smaller or slightly smaller than the opening of the groove 530 on the L-shaped conveying path 500, so that the card lifting device 700 can lift the mahjong tiles through the opening of the groove 530. Preferably, the motor is a stepping motor. The highest position of the upward movement of the card lifting device 700 is at the same level as or slightly higher than the horizontal position of the adjacent end of the first conveyor belt, so that the card pushing device 800 described below pushes the mahjong cards to the first conveyor belt.

Preferably, the tile lifting device 700 is provided with a photo sensor, which is disposed on the L-shaped conveying path 500, and the sensing aspect of which faces the tile lifting device 700 for sensing the number of the tiles. In a default state, the position of the tile lifting plate 710 in the tile lifting device 700 is flush with the adjacent ends of the first conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt, when a first mahjong tile is conveyed onto the tile lifting plate 710, the photoelectric sensor senses the action, the tile lifting plate 710 descends by the height of one mahjong tile, when a second mahjong tile is conveyed onto the tile lifting plate 710, the second mahjong tile is overlapped above the first mahjong tile, and when the photoelectric sensor senses the two mahjong tiles, the tile lifting plate 710 is lifted upwards until the upper surface of the tile lifting plate is flush with the first conveyor belt. Preferably, the first and second belts are positioned flush with the adjacent end of the card lifting device 700.

As shown in fig. 8, one end of the link is movably fixed in a direction vertical to the guide shaft 720 through a groove provided on the card lifting plate 710; preferred grooves may be provided at various locations on one side of the card lifting plate 710, and the placement of different groove locations may affect the height at which the card lifting device 700 is lifted.

Fig. 9 shows a preferred embodiment of the card-pushing device 800, shown assembled with the L-shaped conveying path 500, and fig. 10 is a detailed structural view of the card-pushing device 800. The card pushing device 800 is disposed at one end of the groove 530 opposite to the first conveyor belt. The card pushing device 800 comprises a fixed guide plate 820, a roller 821 and a pushing plate 810, wherein the fixed guide plate 820 is L-shaped in section, one surface of the fixed guide plate 820 is parallel to the groove 530 and is fixedly connected above the pushing plate, the other surface of the fixed guide plate 820 is parallel to the side surface of the L-shaped conveying channel 500, and the fixed guide plate 820 is connected with the guide channel 540 of the L-shaped conveying channel 500 through the roller 821 and can move along the guide channel 540. The reason why the tile pushing device 800 can move along the guide track 540 is that the winding of the winding wheel 831 completes the movement of the tile pushing device 800 to the side of the first conveyor belt, and the spring rebounding device arranged on the tile pushing device 800 moves to the opposite side of the first conveyor belt, so that the reciprocating movement of the tile pushing device 800 on the guide track 540 is completed, and the mahjong tiles are pushed to the first conveyor belt. The preferred take-up wheel 831, two driven wheels and a moving wheel disposed on the card pushing device 800 form a take-up moving device. When the take-up wheel 831 takes up the thread, the two driven wheels are driven to rotate and move the card pushing device 800, and in other embodiments, the take-up wheel 831 may be replaced by any one of the driven wheels. The tile pushing device 800 is connected with the tile lifting device 700, and when the tile lifting device 700 completes the upward lifting action, the tile pushing device 800 starts to work. Preferably, the bottom of the pusher plate is higher than the highest position of the card lifting device 700. Fig. 10 shows that the number of the rollers 821 is 4, but other preferred embodiments are not limited to the number of the rollers 821, and may include other embodiments of the rollers 821. In the embodiment in which 4 rollers 821 are provided, the rollers 821 are arranged at positions on the opposite side to the side on which the 4 circles are shown in the square arrangement on the guide plate 820 as shown in fig. 9 and 10, and the shape of each guide is the same as that of the rollers 821 shown in fig. 10.

Fig. 11 is a first state view of the assembly of the plate raising assembly 400 with the L-shaped conveying passage 500, and fig. 12 is a second state view of the assembly of the plate raising assembly 400 with the L-shaped conveying passage 500; as shown in fig. 11, the lifting plate assembly 400 includes a lifting plate 410 and a lifting plate lifting device 420, wherein one end of the lifting plate 410 is connected to the upper surface of the casing 100, a rotation axis is disposed in the plane direction of the upper surface of the casing 100, the lifting plate 410 can rotate around the rotation axis, the rotation axis of the lifting plate 410 is a fixed end, the other end is a rotation end, when the lifting plate 410 rotates towards the inside of the casing 100, the lifting plate rotates to and is abutted against one end of the first conveyor belt, the mahjong tiles are conveyed onto the lifting plate 410 through the first conveyor belt, and the mahjong tiles sequentially arranged are moved towards the fixed end 410 of the lifting plate along the length direction of the lifting plate 410 by the thrust generated by the continuous operation of the first conveyor belt, so as to complete the arrangement of the mahjong tiles. Preferably, the lifting plate 410 is provided with a position-defining groove for keeping the mahjong tiles in an orderly arrangement while moving on the lifting plate 410. The lower part of the lifting plate 410 is provided with a rotating guide slot 411, the rotating guide slot 411 is connected with a lifting plate lifting device 420, the lifting plate lifting device 420 comprises a rotating wheel connected with a motor and a connecting rod fixedly connected with the rotating wheel, one end of the connecting rod is connected with the rotating guide slot 411, and one end of the connecting rod can move in the slot of the rotating guide slot 411 to complete the rotation of the lifting plate 410. As shown in fig. 12, the motor drives the connecting rod to rotate to the vertical state, so that the lifting plate 410 rotates to be flush with the tabletop of the casing 100, thereby completing the putting on of the aligned mahjong tiles.

With continued reference to the lifter plate of fig. 11, 12, and 15, the lifter plate 410 is bent. Preferably, the two straight plates with obtuse included angles are connected through a chamfer, and the 4 lifting plates 410 are arranged on the main tabletop 110 of the mahjong machine around the upper surface of the tabletop opening component and are in a similar circle shape. In a specific use, the first conveyor belt continuously conveys the stacked mahjong tiles, and the mahjong tiles move along the track of the lifting plate from the moving end of the lifting plate 410 to the joint end with the main table top, in some embodiments, when the length of the arranged mahjong tiles is greater than the length of the lifting plate, the mahjong tiles move towards the main table top through the joint end of the lifting plate 410, are partially arranged on the main table top 110 and partially arranged on the lifting plate 410, and after the lifting plate 410 is lifted, the arrangement of the mahjong tiles is completed.

As shown in FIG. 13, the mahjong machine of the present invention further comprises a partition frame 1000, wherein the housing 100, the tabletop opening assembly, and the 3 sets of conveying assemblies 300 are hidden for the convenience of description and illustration. The card turning assembly 200 and the transferring assembly 300 are separated from each other and arranged in the housing 100, and the transferring assembly 300 is mounted on the separating frame 1000; the spacer 1000 is provided with a spacer opening 1010, and the magnetic wheel 610 passes through the spacer opening 1010 and faces the chassis 220. When a user pushes the mahjong tiles into the mahjong table, the separating frame can prevent the mahjong tiles from falling into the conveyor belt or smashing the conveying assembly 300 when falling off, and the normal work of the conveying assembly 300 is influenced.

As shown in fig. 14, 15 and 16, the upper portion of the housing 100 includes a main tabletop 110 and four triangular expansion angles 120 for two states of the housing of the mahjong machine of the present application; FIG. 14 is a top view of the expanded angle 120 in a collapsed state, FIG. 15 is a top view of the expanded angle 120 in an expanded state, and FIG. 16 is a front view of the expanded angle 120 in an expanded state; when the mahjong machine is in a folding state, the mahjong machine is portable and is cuboid, square or trapezoid in shape, the mahjong machine is convenient to carry, when the mahjong machine is needed to be used, the expansion angle 120 is outwards rotated to be flush with the main desktop 110, an expansion desktop is formed, and the expansion desktop is square.

As shown in fig. 17, a method for using the portable mahjong machine in the above description is disclosed, and it should be understood that the method can be applied to any of the embodiments of the portable mahjong machine.

The use method of the preferred portable automatic mahjong machine comprises the following steps:

s1, opening an expansion angle arranged on the shell to form an expansion desktop;

s2, pushing the mahjong tiles into the mahjong machine through the desktop opening component, and turning the mahjong tiles by the tile turning component and guiding the mahjong tiles to the flat plate on the outer ring of the chassis;

s3, the mahjong tiles on the tile turning assembly are attracted to the L-shaped conveying channel by the tile picking device through magnetism and are conveyed along the L-shaped conveying channel;

s4, conveying the mahjong tiles to the corner of the L-shaped conveying channel, and lifting the mahjong tiles upwards by the tile lifting device;

s5, the mahjong tiles on the mahjong tile lifting device are pushed to the other conveying channel of the L-shaped conveying channel by the mahjong tile pushing device and are conveyed along the other conveying channel;

s6, conveying the mahjong tiles to the board lifting assembly butted with the L-shaped conveying channel, repeating the steps S3-S5 until all the mahjong tiles in the mahjong machine are processed, and lifting the board lifting assembly until the upper surface of the board lifting assembly is parallel to the main tabletop.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention,

in step S4, tiles are conveyed to the corner of the L-shaped conveying path, and when 2 tiles are stacked at the corner, the tile lifting device lifts the tiles upward;

and S6, conveying the mahjong tiles to a lifting plate assembly butted with the L-shaped conveying channel, repeating the steps S3-S5, arranging the mahjong tiles on the lifting plate assembly along the length direction of the lifting plate assembly in sequence until all the mahjong tiles in the mahjong machine are processed, and lifting the lifting plate assembly until the upper surface of the lifting plate assembly is parallel to the main tabletop.

The foregoing is illustrative of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting thereof. Although a few exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been described, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications are possible in the exemplary embodiments without materially departing from the novel teachings and advantages of this invention. Accordingly, all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this invention as defined in the claims. It is to be understood that the foregoing is illustrative of the present invention and is not to be construed as limited to the specific embodiments disclosed, and that modifications to the disclosed embodiments, as well as other embodiments, are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims. The invention is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims (10)

1. A portable automatic mahjong machine comprises a tabletop opening component used for pushing mahjong tiles into the mahjong machine, and is characterized by comprising a shell and a shuffling system arranged in the shell;

the casing comprises a mahjong machine desktop, the mahjong machine desktop comprises a main desktop and 4 expansion angles respectively taking each edge of the main desktop as a rotating shaft, and the 4 expansion angles can rotate outwards to be flush with the main desktop to form an expansion desktop;

the shuffling system comprises a card turning assembly, a conveying assembly and a board lifting assembly; the card-pushing device is arranged at one end of the card-pushing device and can pass through the upper part of the card-pushing device to move back and forth towards the length direction of the conveying channel opposite to the card-picking device in the L-shaped conveying channel; the table comprises a main table top and a conveying assembly, and is characterized by further comprising 4 plate lifting assemblies which are matched with the conveying assembly respectively, wherein one end of each plate lifting assembly is in butt joint with the L-shaped conveying channel, the other end of each plate lifting assembly is provided with a rotating shaft located in the plane direction of the main table top, and the plate lifting assemblies can rotate around the rotating shafts until the tops of the plate lifting assemblies are parallel to the main table top.

2. The portable automatic mahjong machine according to claim 1, wherein the tile turning assembly comprises a lifting rod capable of moving longitudinally along an axis, a tile guiding claw group sleeved on the periphery of the lifting rod, and a chassis vertically installed with the lifting rod and rotating around the lifting rod; the base plate has a gradient with the height decreasing from the axis to the outside, the outermost ring is an annular flat plate, and the bottom of the base plate is provided with a magnet; the conveying assembly is arranged on the chassis.

3. The portable automatic mahjong machine according to claim 1, wherein the L-shaped conveying path is composed of a card picking conveying path composed of two parallel and spaced support plates, and a card conveying path provided with a first conveying belt.

4. The portable automatic mahjong machine according to claim 3, wherein the card picking device comprises a magnetic wheel, a driven wheel and a second conveyor belt sleeved outside the magnetic wheel and the driven wheel, and the card picking device is arranged between the two support plates along the length direction of the card picking conveyor belt.

5. The portable automatic mahjong machine according to claim 1, wherein a groove is provided at the corner of the L-shaped conveying path, an opening is provided at the bottom of the groove, and the card lifting device moves up and down in the vertical direction through the opening.

6. The portable automatic mahjong machine according to claim 1, wherein the lifting plate assembly comprises a lifting plate and a lifting plate lifting device; the lifting plate is bent, rotates through a rotating shaft arranged in the plane direction of the main tabletop and can rotate to one end of the L-shaped conveying channel and be in butt joint with the L-shaped conveying channel when rotating towards the shell; the lifting plate lifting device is arranged below the lifting plate and used for lifting the moving end of the lifting plate.

7. The portable automatic mahjong machine according to claim 3, wherein the highest position of the upward movement of the tile lifting device is level with the horizontal position of the adjacent end of the first conveyor belt, and the tile pushing device comprises a vertical push plate, and the bottom of the push plate is higher than the highest position of the tile lifting device.

8. The portable automatic mahjong machine according to claim 1, wherein the main table top is square, the expansion angle is an equilateral right triangle, and the expansion table top is square.

9. The use method of the portable automatic mahjong machine applied to the claim 1 is characterized by comprising the following steps:

s1, opening an expansion angle arranged on the shell to form an expansion desktop;

s2, pushing the mahjong tiles into the mahjong machine through the desktop opening component, and turning the mahjong tiles by the tile turning component and guiding the mahjong tiles to the outer ring of the chassis;

s3, the mahjong tiles on the outer ring of the chassis are attracted to the L-shaped conveying channel by the mahjong tile picking device through magnetism and are conveyed along the L-shaped conveying channel;

s4, conveying the mahjong tiles to the corner of the L-shaped conveying channel, and lifting the mahjong tiles upwards by the tile lifting device;

s5, the mahjong tiles on the mahjong tile lifting device are pushed to the other conveying channel of the L-shaped conveying channel by the mahjong tile pushing device and are conveyed along the other conveying channel;

s6, conveying the mahjong tiles to the board lifting assembly butted with the L-shaped conveying channel, repeating the steps S3-S5 until all the mahjong tiles in the mahjong machine are processed, and lifting the board lifting assembly until the upper surface of the board lifting assembly is parallel to the main tabletop.

10. The use method of the portable automatic mahjong machine according to claim 9,

in step S4, tiles are conveyed to the corner of the L-shaped conveying path, and when 2 tiles are stacked at the corner, the tile lifting device lifts the tiles upward;

and S6, conveying the mahjong tiles to a lifting plate assembly butted with the L-shaped conveying channel, repeating the steps S3-S5, arranging the mahjong tiles on the lifting plate assembly along the length direction of the lifting plate assembly in sequence until all the mahjong tiles in the mahjong machine are processed, and lifting the lifting plate assembly until the upper surface of the lifting plate assembly is parallel to the main tabletop.

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