JP2001087514A - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pachinko machine capable of miniaturizing a set plate and reducing the cost. SOLUTION: Set plates which have been conventionally separated into upper and lower sides are integrated. In the upper part 5 of the set plate, a ball pay- out mechanism and a ball extracting mechanism are arranged. On a lower part 6 of the set plate, a ball guiding path 21 for guiding prize and dispensed balls derived from the ball pay-out mechanism up to an upper tray overflow ball branching mechanism 20, a ball leading-out path 23 from the upper tray overflow ball branching mechanism 20 and a ball extracting bypass passage 25 for balls discharged from the ball extracting mechanism are mounted. Other ball passages are separated from the set plate and are incorporated into a game board supporting frame 1.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko machine in which a set plate is attached to the back of a game board support frame.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a pachinko machine has a structure in which a game board is mounted on the surface of a game board support frame, and a set plate is mounted on the back surface of the game board support frame. Various ball supply and ball processing mechanisms are attached to this set plate. In conventional pachinko machines, the set plate is generally divided into upper and lower parts and hinged to the surface of the game board support frame, respectively, and the upper set plate has a ball tank, ball alignment rail, ball pressure reduction rail, A ball payout mechanism and a ball removal mechanism, such as a ball counting and paying device, have been attached. In addition, the lower set plate has a ball guide path for guiding the prize lending ball derived from the ball counting and paying device to the upper plate, a ball bypass passage for discharging the ball discharged by the ball removing mechanism, and an overflow ball from the upper plate. The guide path leading to the plate, the discharge path to the back of the pachinko machine for balls discharged from the ball bypass path, the discharge path to the back of the pachinko machine for winning and non-winning balls, the winning ball collecting gutter, etc. are all incorporated. Was.

For this reason, each set plate has a large and complicated structure, and requires a large production cost. In particular, the lower set plate has a structure in which many ball passages are intricately intricate, so that it has a structure that protrudes greatly from the back surface of the game board support frame, thereby reducing the space on the back surface of the pachinko machine. In addition, each set plate is pivotally attached to the game board support frame by metal hinges and screws, and screws are also used for mounting equipment to each set plate,
It took a lot of trouble to disassemble and recycle discarded pachinko machines.

[0004]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, reduces the size and cost of the set plate by devising the structure of the set plate, and also discards the discarded pachinko machine. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a new pachinko machine that can reduce the number of operations when disassembling and recycling.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is directed to a pachinko machine in which a set board is attached to a back surface of a game board support frame, and a ball payout mechanism and a ball removal mechanism are provided on an upper portion of the set board. And at the bottom of the set plate,
A ball guide path that guides the prize lending ball derived from the ball payout mechanism to the upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism, a ball lead-out path from the upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism, and ball removal of the ball discharged by the ball removal mechanism. A bypass passage is mounted, and a winning ball collecting gutter and other ball passages are separated from the set plate.

The other ball passages include an overflow ball guide path for guiding the overflow ball to the lower plate, a ball ejection path for the ball discharged from the ball removal bypass passage to the back side of the pachinko machine, a winning ball and a non-winning ball. And a discharge path to the back side of the pachinko machine, and it is preferable to incorporate these into a game board support frame. It is preferable that the upper part of the set plate has a structure that cantileverly supports one side of the ball tank, and that the upper part of the set plate and the lower part of the set plate are integrally formed in a short U-shape of a horizontal bar, and a game board support frame. It is preferable that the mounting of the set plate to the mounting plate and the mounting of each mechanism to the set plate be performed by a fitting structure without using screws.

In the pachinko machine of the present invention, the guide path for guiding the overflow balls to the lower plate, which has been conventionally mounted on the set plate, the discharge path for the balls discharged from the ball removal bypass passage to the back side of the pachinko machine, Since the paths for discharging winning and non-winning balls to the back of the pachinko machine were separated from the set plate and incorporated into the game board support frame, which is a fixed part of the pachinko machine,
The size and cost of the set plate can be reduced. Further, since the amount of protrusion of the pachinko machine on the back surface is reduced, the space can be reduced. Further, by adopting a fitting structure that does not use screws, it is possible to reduce the number of steps in recycling.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below. 1 and 2 are general views of a pachinko machine showing an embodiment of the present invention, wherein 1 is a game board support frame, and 2 is a game board supported inside. Reference numeral 3 denotes a set plate attached to the back surface of the game board support frame 1. The shape of the set plate 3 itself is a short U-shape of a horizontal bar as shown in FIG. 3, and the upper side of the ball counting and dispensing device 4 shown in FIG. The lower side is referred to as a lower set plate 6. The set plate 3 is integrally formed of resin as a whole. As shown in FIG.
Also, it is integrally formed of resin, is fitted into the hinge portion 8 on the game board support frame 1 side, and is passed through a pin 9 to be pivotally attached to the game board support frame 1 without using metal screws.

In FIGS. 4 to 6, a number of devices and mechanisms are mounted on the set plate 3. First, on the set plate upper part 5, a ball payout mechanism and a ball removal mechanism are arranged. The ball payout mechanism includes a ball tank 10, a ball alignment rail 11, a ball pressure reducing rail 12, and a ball counting and paying device 4. Although these are individually known from the prior art, in the present invention, the ball tank 10 is fixed at the right end only to the ball tank mounting portion 13 of the upper portion 5 of the set plate and is supported in a cantilever manner. The back surface of the ball tank 10 is engaged with the game board support frame 1 to receive the load of the ball. In this way, the width of the upper part 5 of the set plate of the present invention is less than half of the conventional width.
Further, as shown below, the lower portion 6 of the set plate also has a simplified structure to reduce the width, and as described above, the entire set plate 3 has a U-shape with short horizontal bars. As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the lid of the ball pressure reducing rail 12 is
The structure is such that it can be fixed without using screws by fitting it into the engaging portion 14 formed at the same time.

In the above-described ball payout mechanism, the balls in the ball tank 10 are aligned by the ball alignment rail 11, and are sent to the ball counting and paying device 4 while suppressing the line pressure by the ball pressure decreasing rail 12, so that the lending ball and the prize are awarded. It has a function of paying out balls. In addition, beside the ball counting and dispensing device 4,
A boring device 15 that constitutes a boring mechanism is arranged. This is for extracting the ball in the ball tank 10 without passing through the ball counting and dispensing device 4. Set board upper part 5
Each of the above components is mounted.

On the other hand, the following three ball passages are formed in the lower portion 6 of the set plate. The first is a ball guide path 21 that guides the prize lending balls derived from the ball counting and paying device 4 of the ball payout mechanism to the upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism 20. This ball guide path 21 is shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 showing a cross section along the ball flow path. Upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism 2
0 supplies a prize lending ball to the upper plate 22 as shown in FIG.
When the upper plate 22 becomes full, it has a function of overflowing the ball. The upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism 20 is provided by hollowing out the game board 2. The ball guide path 21 is formed outside the lower portion 6 of the set plate, and guides a prize lending ball derived from the ball counting and paying device 4 to the upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism 20.

A second ball passage formed in the lower portion of the set plate 6 is a lead-out passage 23 for balls from the upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism 20. This is a very short passage as shown in FIG. 7, and an overflow that guides the ball overflowing from the side of the upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism 20 to the overflow ball formed inside the game board support frame 1 to the lower plate. It is led out to the upper end of the ball guide path 24.

A third ball passage formed in the lower portion 6 of the set plate is a ball removal bypass passage 25 for the balls discharged by the ball removal device 15 constituting the ball removal mechanism. As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, this is formed in parallel with the ball guide path 21 of the prize lending ball described above, and discharge balls from the ball punching device 15 are formed inside the game board support frame 1. It is led to the ball ejection path 26. The ball ejection path 26 is also formed inside the game board support frame 1 together with the overflow ball guide path 24.

As described above, in the present invention, only these three ball passages are formed in the lower portion 6 of the set plate, but in addition to this, it is necessary to process a winning ball and a non-winning ball (out ball). It is. FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 are views showing a structure for the processing. Reference numeral 30 denotes a winning ball collecting gutter fixed to the lower portion of the back surface of the game board 2. A winning ball counting device 31 is provided below the winning ball collecting gutter 30 and counts the winning balls and discharges them to the discharge path 32 of the game board support frame 1.
Non-winning balls collected at the lower part of the surface of the game board 2 are discharged from the non-winning ball passage at the lower end of the game board 2 to the discharge path 32 of the game board support frame 1 as shown in FIG. Thus, the winning ball and the non-winning ball are discharged from the same discharge path 32. The ball paths for processing the winning balls and the non-winning balls are all provided in the game board support frame 1 and are not provided in the lower set plate 6.

As described above, in the present invention, the overflow ball guide path 24 for guiding the overflow ball to the lower plate,
The ball discharge path 26 to the back side of the pachinko machine for the balls discharged from the ball removal bypass passage 25, the discharge path 32 to the back side of the pachinko machine for winning and non-winning balls, the winning ball collecting gutter 30 and the like are separated from the set plate. The ball passages other than the winning ball collecting gutter 30 are all provided in the game board support frame 1. The game board support frame 1 is designed to fit in the same thickness as the game board 2 except for a part where the ball passage intersects.

In the above-mentioned pachinko machine, the winning prize ball, the non-winning prize ball, the prize lending ball, the overflow ball, the unplugged ball, and the like are all processed in the same manner as in the prior art. FIGS. 7 and 8 show the flow of the uncut balls in FIGS. 9 and 10, and the flow of the winning and non-winning balls in FIGS. 11 and 12.

[0017]

As described above, in the pachinko machine of the present invention, by providing many functions conventionally mounted on the set plate on the fixed side, it is possible to reduce the size and cost of the set plate. It is. In addition, the protrusion at the lower part of the set plate can be reduced to reduce the space on the back surface of the pachinko machine. Furthermore, as shown in the embodiment, by adopting a fitting structure without using a metal screw, it is possible to reduce trouble in disassembling and recycling a discarded pachinko machine.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing the entire back surface of a pachinko machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a right side view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing only a set plate.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing a state where each component is attached to a set plate.

FIG. 5 is a right side view of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a front view of the main part showing the flow of award lending balls and overflow balls.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view along the ball flow path in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a front view of a main part showing a flow of a blank ball.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view along the ball flow path in FIG.

FIG. 11 is an essential part front view showing a flow of a winning ball and a non-winning ball.

FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view along the ball flow path in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 game board support frame 2 game board 3 set plate 4 ball counting and dispensing device 5 upper set plate 6 lower set plate 7 hinge portion 8 hinge portion 9 hinge pin 10 ball tank 11 ball alignment rail 12 ball pressure reducing rail 13 ball tank Attachment part 14 Engagement part 15 Ball removal device 20 Upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism 21 Ball guideway 22 Upper plate 23 Ball lead-out path 24 Overflow ball guide path 25 Ball removal bypass passage 26 Ball removal discharge path 30 Winning ball collecting gutter 31 Winning Ball Counting Device 32 Ejection path for winning and non-winning balls

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Yoshimori Sugita 406 Takamiyacho, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture (72) Inventor Mutsumi Shiota 1-55 Nishisakacho, Tajimi-shi, Gifu Prefecture (72) Inventor Takumi Maejima Aichi Prefecture 1F, Shimojima, Saito, Fuso-cho, Niwa-gun 20F F-term (reference) 2C088 BA37 BA79 DA08 EA26

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A pachinko machine in which a set plate is attached to the back of a game board support frame, a ball payout mechanism and a ball removal mechanism are arranged at an upper portion of the set plate, and a prize derived from the ball payout mechanism is provided at a lower portion of the set plate. It is equipped with a ball guide path that guides lending to the upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism, a ball lead-out path from the upper plate overflow ball branching mechanism, and a ball removal bypass passage for balls discharged by the ball removal mechanism. A pachinko machine wherein a ball collecting gutter and other ball passages are separated from a set plate. 2. Other ball paths include an overflow ball guide path for guiding the overflow ball to the lower plate, a ball discharge path to the back side of the pachinko machine for balls discharged from the ball removal bypass path, a winning ball and a non-winning ball. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein the pachinko machine includes a discharge path to the back side of the pachinko machine, and these are incorporated in a game board support frame. 3. The set plate upper portion has a structure that cantileverly supports one side of the ball tank, and the set plate upper portion and the set plate lower portion are integrally formed in a short U-shape of a horizontal bar. The described pachinko machine. 4. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein the mounting of the set plate to the game board support frame and the mounting of each mechanism to the set plate are performed using screws.