CN86100519A - The improvement of estrade or relevant estrade - Google Patents

Abstract

The estrade of a kind of pocket billiards and the like recreation usefulness, it has a recreation table top and some to be connected in the sacculus of recreation table top.Hue discrimination device is installed in order to detect color by the ball of sacculus.Controller can be handled ball and be trapped in the described estrade or from described estrade and return.Controller is associated with hue discrimination device, so the delay of ball or return the color of this ball that depends on that described hue discrimination device is measured.

Description

The improvement of estrade or relevant estrade

The present invention relates to a kind of estrade, it is that specialized designs is used to carry out the recreation such as pocket billiards, and is right rather than special simple as Coin operated.

The estrade of using such as the billiard game that pockets allows a ball in a single day to fall under the recreation table top that just rests on estrade till beginning to operate coin-freed apparatus, so this estrade is suitable for as Coin operated because its rule can be improved to.In some recreation that need turn back to some balls estrade, at present and be not suitable for Coin operated because existing operating mechanism can not be to making one's options between the ball that falls.Therefore, the scope that can carry out billiard game on Coin operated is restricted, and this is its weak point.

The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of recreation estrade that can supply the public effectively to select at least.

Therefore, the present invention is a kind of estrade that is used for pocket billiards or recreation like that, it comprises a recreation table top, sacculus that some link to each other with described recreation table top, be used for detecting the ball by described sacculus color hue discrimination device and be used to control described ball or be trapped in described estrade or the controller that returns from described estrade.Because described controller is associated with described hue discrimination device, therefore described ball is a color of stagnating or return described this ball that depends on that described hue discrimination device is detected.

Under the situation of the scope of the invention of not leaving the claims defined, introduce many structural changes of the present invention, various rather different specific embodiments and applications to the people that are familiar with technology involved in the present invention.Disclosure of being done in this specification and explanation only are to make to illustrate, and do not attempt to be limited going up in all senses.

Below with reference to a following description of drawings preferred plan of the present invention:

Fig. 1 is the plane sketch of the estrade part of relevant preferred plan of the present invention,

Fig. 2 is the cross section side-looking sketch of relevant estrade preferred plan of the present invention,

Fig. 3 is a kind of diagrammatic side views of scheme that can be used for the return of serve mechanism of preferred plan of the present invention,

Fig. 4 can be used for the electronics block diagram that matches with the estrade of relevant preferred plan of the present invention.

Be described as follows to a kind of preferred plan of the present invention now:

The estrade of preferred plan of the present invention (1) has a smooth recreation table top (2), it be used to carry out pocket billiards or suchlike recreation and by cushion limit (3) with known mode round.In several selected positions several sacculus (4) are installed, for example a sacculus are installed, and when for example carrying out pocket billiards in recreation table top (2), the mid point on the long limit of estrade also is equipped with a sacculus at each angle of a kind of rectangle estrade.

The path that receives ball is installed below these sacculus, and this path can comprise that a forming board (5) enters one of them aperture (6) with guidance spheres.Therefore, in preferred plan of the present invention, any one ball by a certain sacculus (4) no matter and ball to be the capital that falls by which sacculus (4) arrive aperture (6).This aperture (6) is switched to path (7), along path (7) hue discrimination device (8) is installed.It is 833079 3(publication number 0114515A2 that this hue discrimination device can adopt application number) the described color recognition instrument of European patent, can remove the sound equipment output described in this patent specification certainly.Position near hue discrimination device (8) is equipped with a bulb (9), and in the path that hue discrimination device (8) is installed two groups of locators can be installed also.First group of locator (10) just connected bulb (9) when recording ball by its passage, thereby has sufficient time to heat bulb and reach required light output.Second group of locator (11) measured the position of ball, and this ball was located exactly for hue discrimination device and carried out color recognition this moment.Any suitable form can be adopted in locator (10) and (11), for example can be made into by the operated switch form in contact of laterally stretching in path that ball passes through, perhaps for example can adopt the form of a kind of light source and photoelectric tube, make ball by the time photoelectric tube light that received be cut off.

Crossed hue discrimination device (8), path (12) is divided into return path (13) and is detained path (14).

Path (14) can comprise a raceway groove or groove, and perhaps available required wire or pipe are made.Return path (13) in fact can be formed by being detained fracture or the gap of passing through of can pushing the ball in the path (14).This can for example realize like this: install one can transversal path (14) movable gate control ball by aperture inlet passage (13); A gate that can rotate from the position of closing a path or another path perhaps is installed; Perhaps preferably be from its path, to knock out, a solenoid (15) that has iron core for example can be installed ball.If when giving the direction of (15) appointments of solenoid, the ball by solenoid (15) is just knocked out by iron core.Path (13) leads to one and returns aperture (16), and ball can be collected in the estrade outside by this aperture.There is a pallet (17) end to path (13), just is returned to bleeding point (16) after the ball that enters this pallet through path (13) falls.

In path (14) or its end position a gate or other arresting devices (18) are installed, thereby can prevent that the ball by path (14) from arriving bleeding point (16) by this gate or other arresting devices (18).When gate (18) when opening, remain on ball motionless in the path (14) just by gate (18) and along pallet (17), for example the direction with arrow (20) indication turns back to bleeding point (16).

Be preferably in one or several is installed on path (14) can manually operated return of serve mechanism (21).If the recreation carried out is a pocket billiards, then just need to install six this can be manually operated return of serve mechanism.That is to say, except that redness, the color of each ball all need one can be manually operated return of serve mechanism.Location about last return of serve mechanism (21), preferably to make the length of the parts (22) of path (14) between gate (18) and last return of serve mechanism (21) be equal on the estrade number for the red ball of use, for example ten red balls in fact.

Each return of serve mechanism (21) is operated on demand by manual operation switch, can allow a ball directly return and enter pallet (17) to turn back to (16) position.Like this, each return of serve mechanism (21) can adopt a kind of form of plate (22) that has downward extension and form the rib (23) of a rotating fulcrum.Tilt upward as the outward extending plate shown in (24), do not slide so that ball (25) does not make ball incline from path (14) by this plate.The other end at plate (22) is equipped with a pin (26) that extends downwards, and its structure is like this: when ball (25) is in position shown in Fig. 3 in fact, plate (22) will (27) direction roll and finally turn back to bleeding point (16) at this position ball (25) with disequilibrium and the activity supporting point that rotates (23) is poured into the second place from this plate along arrow.Therefore a brake apparatus is installed under normal circumstances to prevent above-mentioned rotation, this brake apparatus comprises an angle-shaped piece (28) along location, path (14) side, has located an aperture in (29) of this angle-shaped piece, inserts a pin (30) in this aperture.Pin (30) is installed on the resilient flexible spare (31) as reed and so on, and the other end (32) of this elastic component (31) is connected on the upwards upright arm (33) of angle-shaped piece (28).A solenoid (34) is installed then, and the iron core of this solenoid (35) is connected with pin (30), so when solenoid (34) was pull-in on wherein iron core (35), pin (30) also and then was drawn out and makes plate (22) disequilibrium.The constraint that is subjected to pin (26) owing to pin (30) makes it can not return to original resting position, yet, after in case ball (25) slave plate (22) is located to roll down, owing to for example be installed in the effect of the little spring (36) between path (14) and the plate (22), and make plate (22) return to position as shown in Figure 3.

The electronics systems preferred design becomes like this: but manual control plate (22) in the short time after service so that allow a ball fall by sacculus by correct color order, then can cause making ball turn back to estrade to the service of breaking the rules.Like this, for example after a certain desired time-delay (for example six seconds), if necessary, can (such as 20 seconds) operate solenoid (34) in a short time, conceding points turns back to the original place for sending out again.

Referring to Fig. 4, control logic that is provided and timer (40) comprise a program storage and are powered by power supply or battery (41).Its various function operations are as follows: have a Coin box, when a coin enters, this Coin box just starts recreation and starting coin sensor (42), and it opens gate (18) by the ball device of initially releasing such as solenoid or gate (43).Being trapped in ball in the path (14) so just turns back to bleeding point (16) by pallet (17) and also is placed on the estrade exactly.If carry out pocket billiards, and red ball falls earlier during beginning, then the programming of circuit (40) is such: when hue discrimination device (8) when detecting red ball, solenoid (15) is not worked, and ball continues to arrive gate (18) and stop along path (14).If next fallen ball is a certain colored bulb, hue discrimination device (8) will record the colored bulb that is passed through and cause solenoid (15) action, makes ball pass through path (13) and turns back to bleeding point (16), so that reset on the estrade.In the starting stage of recreation, red ball will be placed in the parts (22) of path (14), and each colored bulb will return.Terminal stage in each recreation, in other words after all red balls all successfully have been driven into sacculus, if yellow ball is driven into sacculus, then solenoid (15) will be failure to actuate, and that yellow ball will be along path (14) by being placed on the return of serve mechanism (21) farthest.If this ball is not yellow ball, then solenoid (15) action makes ball pass through path (13) to return.If a ball is to fall into sacculus by correct color order, and the service to breaking the rules then can cause releasing ball device (44) and enter work.This releases ball device can adopt for example a kind of form of selector button, and for example it interrelates with the light that impinges upon on (45), can operate with instruction button.Can operate this button in the time of action button (44), corresponding solenoid (34) enters action and makes this ball (25) turn back to bleeding point (16).In case all balls all fall by correct order, operating specie mechanism (42) once more before so, there is not more ball to be returned.

Like this, we can see at least provides a kind of estrade to people in preferred plan of the present invention, and it can realize detecting the color of the ball that falls in for example pocket billiards or similar recreation.And whether correctly or improperly be driven in the sacculus according to ball, proceed recreation or ball be detained to deposit in the estrade and ball returned.This is attractive especially, because it has enlarged the scope that can play satisfactorily on Coin operated platform.

Claims (7)

1, a kind of estrade that is used to carry out pocket billiards or recreation like that, comprise that recreation table top, several sacculus, a present invention who is connected in described recreation table top also comprise the hue discrimination device of detection by the color of the ball of described sacculus and the controller of controlling described ball or being trapped in the described estrade or returning from described estrade, described controller is associated with described hue discrimination device, makes described ball be delay or return the color that depends on by detected described this ball of described hue discrimination device.

2, according to the estrade of claim 1 defined, wherein said controller comprises the electronics systems with a program storage.

3, according to the estrade of claim 1 or 2 defineds, the path that two balls are wherein arranged after described hue discrimination device, wherein a path makes ball return from described estrade, another path is equipped with arresting device, make that the ball that passes through along this path is detained by described arresting device, till described arresting device is released.

4, according to the estrade of claim 3 defined, many return of serves mechanism wherein is installed in described delay path, there is man-operated mechanism to operate described return of serve mechanism, a selected and suitable ball is returned from described estrade.

5, the estrade of stipulating according to claim 4, wherein said each described return of serve mechanism comprises a plate that can be between two positions rotates around an axle that is arranged essentially parallel to described delay path, the primary importance of described plate is maintained on the described plate ball, and the second place of described plate makes described ball roll down from described delay path, has a brake apparatus to keep described plate to be in described primary importance till described brake apparatus is released.

6, according to the estrade of claim 1 defined, wherein provided original via before described hue discrimination device, each described sacculus all leads to described path.

7,, the ball bit detector wherein is installed measures ball and be on the tram, so that described hue discrimination device detects the color of described ball according to the estrade of claim 6 defined.

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