JP2002000862A - Ball payout device for pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ball payout device capable of paying out balls by a small-sized power unit by reducing a pressure applied to a ball sending member. SOLUTION: A braking member 11 for repeatedly blocking the flow-down of a ball train following received and sent balls and unblocking the flow-down every time a ball holding part provided on the outer periphery of the ball sending members 2 and 3 receives the balls from introduction passages 5 and 6 and sends out the balls to a lead-out passage is provided on an introduction passage side wall on the upstream side of the ball sending members 2 and 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ball payout device for a pachinko machine for paying out balls to be paid and prize balls.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a ball dispensing device for a pachinko machine for dispensing a lending ball or a prize ball to a ball receiving tray, a ball is sent out from an introduction passage by a rotating action of a power unit, and the ball is sent to a discharge passage. It is known that a member is mounted. However, the balls flowing down from the introduction passage are stacked in multiple stages to form a row of beads in a rosary, so even when one ball enters the ball holding portion of the ball sending member,
A large downward pressure of the row of balls is applied to the balls, and a large driving force is required to rotate the ball sending member by the rotating action of the power unit and send the receiving balls to the lead-out passage.

[0003] Further, the ball dispensing device is a device for reversing the rotation direction of a ball sending member by a power device capable of rotating forward and backward, and discriminates prize balls and lending balls, and sends and pays out balls to respective lead-out passages. However, in the case where a few balls form a bridge in the introduction path, even if it is attempted to reverse the rotation direction of the ball sending member, the reversal resistance due to the bridge formation is large, and a large driving force is also required. The required power unit becomes large, occupying a small space behind the pachinko machine game board, and there is a problem that the cost is increased.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and reduces the ball pressure applied to the ball sending member so that the ball can be paid out by a small power unit. This is to provide a dispensing device.

[0005]

A ball dispensing device of a pachinko machine according to the present invention, which has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, has a ball sending member for receiving a ball from an introduction passage by a rotating action and sending the ball to a discharge passage. And a power supply device for imparting a rotating action to the ball sending member, and a ball discharging device for a pachinko machine including a ball counting device for counting the number of balls derived from the ball sending member. Each time the holding unit receives and sends out a ball, the braking member that repeats the blockage of the ball row following the ball that is received and sent out and the release of the blockage of the ball is provided on the upstream side of the ball sending member. A driving piece that swings in synchronization with the rotation of the ball delivery member below a support shaft perpendicular to the ball introduction passage direction; The upper part of the shaft It can be used and a ball retaining piece projecting or retracting the introducing passage of the ball in.

Further, in the ball dispensing device for a pachinko machine according to the present invention, a set of braking members is disposed between two rows of introduction passages, and the ball holding portion, the passive gear portion, and the braking member swing. Two sets of ball sending members consisting of a cam portion and a connecting portion are combined by a connecting portion by shifting a ball holding portion so as to alternately feed the balls, and are axially mounted below the braking member. The cam portion swings the driving piece of the braking member left and right by rotating the ball sending member by meshing the driving gear mounted on the shaft with the passive gear portion, and the ball locking pieces are arranged in two rows. It is desirable to alternately project into the introduction passage of the ball, when the ball counting device detects the ball sent from the ball holding unit of one ball sending member, the next ball holding unit of the other ball sending member is The ball counting device is placed in the two rows of outgoing passages so as to be at the position for receiving the balls from the introduction passage. It is desirable to disposed to Re respectively.

In the ball dispensing apparatus for a pachinko machine according to the present invention, each time a ball holding portion provided on the outer periphery of a ball sending member receives and sends out a ball, a ball row following the ball to be received and sent out is received. By providing a braking member that repeatedly blocks the flow-down and the release of the flow-down prevention on the introduction passage side wall upstream of the ball delivery member, it is possible to shut off a large downstream pressure of the ball row applied to the ball delivery member from above. it can.

[0008]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a view showing an embodiment of a ball payout device of a pachinko machine according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line AA, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line BB. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 denotes a main body of the ball dispensing device, and reference numerals 2 and 3 denote two sets of ball sending members provided in the main body 1. Each of the ball sending members 2 and 3 is driven by a set of a power device 4 which can be rotated forward and backward. The ball is received from the introduction passages 5 and 6 by the rotating action, and the ball is transferred to the lead-out passages 7 and 8 and sent out, counted by the ball counters 9 and 10, and then sent out to the ball tray as a prize ball or a lending ball. Is what you do. In addition, the ball sending members 2 and 3 include rotating bodies 2a and 3a.
Ball holders 2b, 2c, 3b, 3 for receiving balls on the outer periphery of
This is a rotor type in which a plurality of balls c are provided and balls are taken in and out in the radial direction of rotation. In addition, the ball holding unit may be a single ball holding unit.

A pair of braking members 1 for preventing the row of balls from flowing down are provided on the side walls of the introduction passages 5 and 6 from the ball sending members 2 and 3.
In FIG. 1, the ball holding portion 3b of the ball sending member 3 has just received the ball from the introduction passage 6, and the braking member 11 is provided with a driving piece 13 below the support shaft 12. Swings to the left and swings the upper ball engaging piece 14 to the right to prevent the ball row following the receiving ball from flowing down. In addition,
As shown in FIG. 4, steps 15 and 16 are provided on the side wall by increasing the width of the introduction passages 5 and 6, and the steps 15 and 16 and the braking member 11 prevent the ball row following the receiving ball from flowing down. Is also possible. It is not always necessary to prevent the flow of balls from flowing down to the ball immediately after the receiving ball, and it is possible to prevent the flow of the next ball as shown in the figure, or to prevent the flow of several balls after that. Even so, the downflow pressure of the ball train can be made sufficiently small.

The details of the ball delivery member will be described with reference to FIGS. The ball sending member 2 has the same structure as the ball sending member 3, and has upper and lower two ball holding portions 2b and 2c for receiving a ball and a passive gear portion 17 on the outer periphery of the rotating body 2a, and a shaft hole 18 at the center. The cam portion 1 that swings the driving piece 13 of the braking member 11 is provided on the side of the ball holding portions 2b and 2c.
9 and a pair of upper and lower coupling projections 2 near the center.
There is provided a connecting portion composed of 0 and a connecting concave portion 21 orthogonal thereto. And the ball sending member 2 is a ball sending member 3
And the connecting protrusions of the ball sending member 2 are fitted into the connecting recesses of the ball sending member 3, and the connecting protrusions of the ball sending member 3 are connected to the connecting recesses 21 of the ball sending member 2. The ball holding portions 2b, 2c and the ball holding portion 3
(b) and (3c) can be formed as an integrated body alternately arranged on the left and right at every 90 °. Note that, naturally, the cam portions 19 are alternately arranged at 90 ° intervals by this connection.

[0011] Then, as shown in FIG.
The drive gear 23 mounted on the output shaft 22 of the first gear meshes with the passive gear portion 17 of the one ball sending member 2, so that when the power unit 4 is driven, the ball sending members 2, 3 also rotate. The power unit 4 is rotatable in forward and reverse directions.
When the driving device 4 rotates in one direction, the ball sending members 2, 3
Also rotates in one direction to pay out a prize ball or lending to one of the lead-out passages 7 and 8, and when the driving device 4 rotates in the opposite direction, the ball sending members 2 and 3 also rotate in the opposite direction to rotate the lending or lending. By paying out a prize ball to the other of the lead-out paths 7 and 8, the prize ball and the lending can be paid out separately.

The braking member 11 provided above the ball sending members 2 and 3 corresponding to the paying out of the balls, causes the cam portion 19 to swing the driving piece 13 rightward or leftward every time one ball is paid out. As a result, the upper ball locking piece 14 is swung in the opposite direction to prevent the ball row following the receiving ball from flowing down. The drop trajectory of the ball in conjunction with the swing of the braking member 11 will be described with reference to FIG. (A) is a front view of the ball dispensing device 1, (b) is a side view thereof, and (c) is a diagram showing a falling trajectory of the ball and a swinging trajectory of the driving piece 13. As shown in the figure, the ball sending member 3 on the right side receives the ball E in the ball holding portion 3b, and the driving piece 13 of the braking member 11 is pushed leftward,
The ball locking piece 14 is tilted to the right and protrudes into the ball introduction passage 6 to prevent the ball A following the ball E from flowing down.

(B) The ball holding section 3b shown in FIG.
In the illustrated step, that is, in the step in which the ball A is prevented from flowing down by the ball locking piece 14, when the ball holding portion 3b rotates counterclockwise by about 75 °, the driving piece 13 sends the ball to the left side. Since the ball locking piece 14 is swung to the left by being pushed by the cam portion 19 of the member 2, the ball A is separated from the ball A in a step.
Flows downward, and at a rotation angle of 90 °, the ball holding portion 2c moves the ball D
And the flow-down of the ball following the ball B is prevented. Further, when the ball sending members 2 and 3 rotate to rotate the ball holding portion 3b to about 160 °, the cam portion 19 of the right ball sending member 3 pushes the driving piece 13 to the left and the ball locking piece. The ball C flows into the ball holding portion 3c in a step while swinging 14 to the right to prevent the subsequent ball of the ball A from flowing down. Then, the ball A rides on the outer periphery of the ball sending member 3 while sliding on the ball C in the step.

When the rotation further advances, the ball locking piece 14 is swung to the left again by the cam portion 19 of the ball sending member 2 at around 250 °, and the ball is held at the 270 ° rotation position of the ball holding portion 3b. When the ball B flows into the portion 2b, the ball A further flows and the ball holding portion 3b rotates 360 °, that is, when the ball A returns to the initial position after one rotation, the ball A can flow into the ball holding portion 3b in steps. When possible, return to the original state.

FIGS. 8 to 17 show that the ball holding portion 3b has an angle of 0 ° to 90 °.
FIG. 8 is a view showing a state in which the rotation is performed up to °, and FIGS.
Although there is no particularly large change up to 5, the driving piece 13 begins to be pushed by the cam portion 19 of the left ball sending member 2 slightly before 70 °, comes off the ball A, and in the state of 80 ° shown in FIG. Completely deviate from ball A and place ball A on ball C,
At this time, the ball E comes out of the ball holding portion 3b and is sent out to the lead-out passage 7. Then, at the rotation angle 90 ° shown in FIG. 17, the ball is stopped from flowing down the ball following the ball B. At this time, the ball counting device 9 counts the ball E and the next ball holding unit 2
c comes to the position for receiving the ball from the introduction passage 5.

As described above, when the ball counting device 9 detects the ball sent from the ball holding portion 3b of one ball sending member 3, the next ball holding portion 2c of the other ball sending member 2 moves the introduction passage. Ball counting device 9 so as to come to the position for receiving the ball from
And 10 are arranged in each of the two rows of outlet passages 7 and 8, so that the ball can be continuously received and sent out smoothly.
Can be done.

In the ball dispensing device for a pachinko machine according to the present invention, each time a ball holding unit provided on the outer periphery of a ball sending member receives and sends out a ball, the ball row following the ball to be received and sent out. By providing a braking member that repeatedly blocks the flow-down and the release of the flow-down prevention on the introduction passage side wall upstream of the ball delivery member, it is possible to shut off a large downstream pressure of the ball row applied to the ball delivery member from above. it can.

[0018]

As described above, in the ball dispensing device of the pachinko machine according to the present invention, the ball holding portion provided on the outer periphery of the ball sending member receives and sends out the ball every time it receives and sends out the ball. By providing a braking member for repeatedly blocking the flow of the ball row following the ball to be flown and releasing the blocking of the flow on the side wall of the introduction passage upstream of the ball delivery member, the ball row hung on the ball delivery member from above. Large down pressure can be cut off, the load on the power unit can be reduced, and its life can be extended. In addition, there is an advantage that a large driving force is not required for paying out balls, and the power device can be reduced in size.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a ball payout device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of an AA part of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side view of a portion BB in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a front view of a ball payout device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front front view of the ball sending member.

FIG. 6 is a rear front view and a side view of the ball sending member.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining a falling trajectory of a ball.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a state where a ball is received in the ball holding unit 3b.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a state in which the ball holding unit 3b is rotated left by 10 °.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a state in which the ball holding unit 3b is rotated left by 20 °.

FIG. 11 is a view showing a state in which the ball holding unit 3b is rotated left by 30 °.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a state where the ball holding unit 3b has been rotated left by 40 °.

FIG. 13 is a view showing a state in which the ball holding unit 3b is rotated left by 50 °.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a state in which the ball holding unit 3b has been rotated to the left by 60 °.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a state in which the ball holding unit 3b has rotated left by 70 °.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a state in which the ball holding unit 3b is rotated left by 80 °.

FIG. 17 is a view showing a state in which the ball holding unit 3b is rotated to the left by 90 °.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Body of ball dispensing device 2, 3 Ball sending member 2a, 3a Rotating body 2b, 2c, 3b, 3c Ball holding part 4 Power device 5, 6 Introductory passage 7, 8 Outgoing passage 9, 10 Ball counting device 11 Braking member 12 Support shaft 13 Drive piece 14 Ball locking piece 15, 16 Step 17 Passive gear section 18 Shaft hole 19 Cam section 20 Coupling convex section 21 Coupling concave section 22 Output shaft 23 Drive gear

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A ball delivery member for receiving a ball from an introduction passage by a rotating action and delivering the ball to a lead-out passage, a power unit for giving a rotating action to the ball delivery member, and a ball delivered from the ball delivery member. In the ball dispensing device of a pachinko machine including a ball counting device for counting, a ball holding unit provided on an outer periphery of a ball sending member receives and receives a ball every time the ball is sent out.
A ball dispensing machine for a pachinko machine, wherein a braking member for repeatedly stopping the flow of a ball row following a ball to be discharged and releasing the blocking of the flow is provided on a side wall of an introduction passage upstream of the ball sending member. apparatus. 2. A driving member provided at a lower portion of a support shaft orthogonal to a ball introduction passage direction and swinging in synchronization with rotation of a ball delivery member, and a braking member provided at an upper portion of the support shaft. The ball dispensing device of a pachinko machine according to claim 1, further comprising a ball engaging piece that projects or retreats into the ball introduction passage in response to the swing of the driving piece. 3. A set of braking members is provided between two rows of introduction passages, and two sets of a ball holding portion, a passive gear portion, a cam portion for swinging the braking members, and a connecting portion. The drive gear mounted on the output shaft of the power unit is mounted on the output shaft of the power unit after the ball sending member is shifted in the ball holding portion so as to alternately perform the ball sending and the coupling portion is fitted, and is attached below the braking member. The cam portion swings the driving piece of the braking member to the left and right by rotating the ball sending member by meshing with the passive gear portion, and the ball locking piece alternately projects into the two rows of introduction passages. Claim 1
Or a ball payout device for a pachinko machine according to 2. 4. When the ball counter detects a ball sent from the ball holding portion of one ball sending member, the next ball holding portion of the other ball sending member comes to a position for receiving the ball from the introduction passage. 4. The ball dispensing device of a pachinko machine according to claim 3, wherein the ball counting device is arranged in each of the two rows of lead-out passages.