JP2002191820A - Ball tray for pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ball tray for pachinko machine capable of surely discharging pachinko balls without ball clogging even at the time of simultaneously discharging pachinko balls stored in a tray part and pachinko balls remaining inside a hitting ball supplier when a game is ended. SOLUTION: For this ball tray 6 of the pachinko machine, the tray part 9 storing the pachinko balls and the hitting ball supplier 21 for receiving the pachinko balls B of the tray part 9 and supplying them to the hitting position 5 of a shooting rail 3 one by one are provided, a ball discharge port 18 normally closed by a ball discharge plate 42 is provided on the lower surface of the flow-down end of the ball tray 9 and an opening 37 normally closed by a ball discharge member 24 linked with the ball discharge plate 42 is provided on one side of the hitting ball supplier 21. At the time of opening the ball discharge port 18 and discharging the pachinko balls B in the tray part 9 through the ball discharge port 18, the opening 37 is simultaneously opened and the pachinko balls B remaining inside the hitting ball supplier 21 are also discharged through the opening 37. A ball discharge passage 19 communicated with the ball discharge port 18 and the ball discharge passage 39 communicated with the opening 37 are respectively separately formed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ball tray of a pachinko machine capable of simultaneously removing pachinko balls stored in a tray at the end of a game and pachinko balls remaining in a hitting ball supply device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a ball tray of this kind of pachinko machine, there is one having the following configuration, for example. That is, it has a dish portion for storing pachinko balls, and a hit ball supply device for receiving the pachinko balls in the dish portion and supplying the balls one by one to the firing position of the firing rail. A ball outlet is always provided on the lower surface of the lower end of the ball plate, which is closed by a ball punching plate. The ball hitting supply device is provided on one side thereof with a ball punching member which is always interlocked with the ball punching plate. An opening to be closed is provided. In addition, a ball passage is formed by communicating with the ball outlet, and a ball passage is formed by communicating with the opening, and the ball passage merges with the ball passage on the way. The width of each of the ball passages is usually set to the same size as the diameter of the pachinko ball.

Therefore, when the ball outlet is opened and the pachinko ball in the dish portion is removed through the ball outlet, the pachinko ball remaining in the hitting ball supply device is simultaneously opened by opening the opening. The pachinko balls are merged at the merging point, flow down the ball passage, and are discharged.

[0004]

However, in the ball tray of the pachinko machine, the ball discharge passage communicating with the ball discharge opening and the ball discharge passage communicating with the opening merge into a single ball discharge passage. Therefore, there is a problem in that when the ball is removed, the pachinko balls flowing down the respective ball removal passages are brought together at the confluence point, possibly causing a serious accident such as ball biting and ball clogging.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem. Even if the pachinko balls stored in the dish portion at the end of the game and the pachinko balls remaining in the hitting ball supply device are simultaneously removed, the ball is not clogged. It is an object of the present invention to provide a ball saucer for a pachinko machine that can be reliably ejected without waking up.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a ball tray of a pachinko machine according to the present invention is provided with a tray for storing pachinko balls, a pachinko ball for the tray, and a single ball at a firing position of a firing rail. A ball ejection port which is always closed by a ball ejection plate on the lower surface of the lower end of the flow of the dish portion, and the ball ejection plate is always provided on one side of the ball ejection device. An opening that is closed by a ball-pulling member that is linked with the ball-pulling device. In a ball tray of a pachinko machine in which the pachinko balls remaining inside are also ball-pulled through the opening, a ball-pulling passage communicating with the ball-pulling hole and a ball-pulling passage communicating with the opening are separately formed. I did it.

As described above, by separately forming the ball-extraction passage communicating with the ball-extraction opening and the ball-extraction passage communicating with the opening, the pachinko balls flowing down do not merge on the way. This allows the ball to flow extremely smoothly without clogging.

Further, if the width of the ball-extraction passage communicating with the ball-extraction opening is set to such a size that two pachinko balls are lined up, a large number of pachinko balls may normally remain in the dish portion. As a result, a large number of pachinko balls can be discharged through the ball passage at one time, and the pachinko balls can be discharged in a short time, thereby facilitating the discharge operation.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a ball tray of a pachinko machine according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a lower portion of the pachinko machine in a state where a glass door frame and a ball tray are released. In the figure, 1 is a front frame of a pachinko machine, 2
Is a game board detachably mounted on the rear side of the front frame 1, and a firing rail 3 is mounted on the lower right side of the game board 2. Reference numeral 4 denotes a striking rod whose tip faces the firing position 5 of the firing rail 3, and 6 denotes a ball tray that covers the front of the firing rail 3, and a window of the front frame 1 together with a glass door frame 7 that covers the upper part of the game board 2. It is attached to one side of the hole 8 so as to be openable and closable. The ball tray 6
Stores the pachinko balls dispensed from a ball dispensing device (not shown) and supplies the pachinko balls to a hit ball supply device 2 described later.
1 is provided. The front frame 1
On the lower front surface, a surplus ball receiving tray 10 for storing the overflowing pachinko balls by filling the plate portion 9 and an operation handle 11 for adjusting the resilience of the pachinko balls fired from the firing position 5 are mounted.

The bowl 6 is made of a synthetic resin, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, and has a side plate 12 having a pachinko ball stored therein and extending downward at a lower surface thereof. A decorative plate portion 13 surrounding the front upper edge portion and a substantially lower half portion 14a project forward, and the side plate portion 12 is interposed between the lower half portion 14a and the upper half portion 14b from above to be integrated with the plate portion 9. And a support plate portion 15 attached to the back side of the plate contact plate portion 14. The support plate 15 is made of metal.

The plate portion 9 has a bottom portion which is gently inclined downward to one side, and a ball down flow passage 16 in which pachinko balls are arranged in a line is formed at a lower portion of the slope, and a downstream end of the ball down flow passage 16 is a plate. It is connected to an outlet 17 opened in communication with the plate portion 14 and the support plate portion 15. In addition, a ball outlet 18 which is always closed by a ball punching plate 42 described later is opened on the bottom surface of the downstream end, and the ball outlet 18 is a first ball drain passage 19 which is a ball drain passage provided thereunder. It is designed to communicate with Reference numeral 20 denotes an opening formed in the support plate 15 at a position corresponding to the downstream end of the first ball passage 19. A hit ball supply device 21 is provided on the back surface of the support plate portion 15 so as to correspond to the outlet 17.

The hitting ball supply device 21 comprises a hollow box frame 22, a ball feeding member 23, and a ball punching member 24, as shown in FIG. The hollow box frame 22 is further divided into two parts, a front main body 22a and a rear main body 22b. The front main body 22a and the rear main body 22b may be formed integrally. A ball inlet 26 communicating with the outflow port 17 is provided at an upper portion of one side of the front main body 22a, and a horizontal slightly downward supply passage 27 communicating with the ball inlet 26 is provided inside the rear main body 22b. A ball feeding member 23 is disposed below the end of the supply passage 27 so as to guide the pachinko balls located at the earliest position in the supply passage 27 one by one to the firing position 5 of the firing rail 3.

The ball feeding member 23 has a three-dimensional ball feeding body 23a having a substantially circular shape as a whole and having a thickness substantially equal to the diameter of the pachinko ball, and a weight 28 provided inside the ball feeding body 23a. It is integrally provided with an engagement arm 23b protruding to one side, and is rotated by a rotation support shaft 29 projecting vertically from the rear surface of the front main body 22a to the rear, that is, in a direction orthogonal to the firing rail 3. It is freely supported.
Then, in the natural state, the ball feeding member 23 is rotated downward by the weight 28 around the rotation support shaft 29 and is at the stop position (solid line position in FIG. 6) on the upper surface of the side frame under the rear main body 22b.

The ball feeding main body 23a has an engagement arm 23 formed on the outer peripheral surface located below the end of the supply passage 27.
The support surface 3 which tilts down to the b side and supports the pachinko ball from below.
0 and a semicircular ball receiving recess 31 into which a pachinko ball supported by the support surface 30 can be fitted.
The bottom 31a is formed as an inclined surface such that the fitted pachinko ball rolls toward the supply port 32 provided in the rear main body 22b in correspondence with the firing position 5 of the firing rail 3. On the other hand, the upper surface of the engaging arm 23b has an area on which the pachinko ball can ride, and furthermore, is gently downwardly inclined forward.

The front main body 22a has a ball feeding main body 23a.
When the ball feeding member 23 is pivoted downward on the surface opposite to the guide projection 33 that the pachinko ball received in the ball receiving recess 31 can contact, and the guide protrusion 35 that faces the concave groove 34 formed in the ball feeding main body 23a. Is provided.

On the side of the engagement arm 23b inside the hollow box frame 22, a vertical ball passage 36 is formed above and above the supply passage 27, and the front body portion corresponds to the ball passage 36. An opening 37 is provided in 22a. As a result, the ball passage 36 communicates with the second ball passage 39 which is a ball passage connected to the communication port 38 via the opening 37 and the communication port 38 provided in the support plate portion 15. 40 is the supply passage 2
7 is a guide groove provided in the front main body portion 22 a for fitting the ball removing member 24. One end of the guide groove 40 communicates with the opening 37.

The ball removing member 24 has an upright plate portion 24a arranged in parallel contact with the front surface of the front main body portion 22a, and a ball stopper plate portion projecting from the rear surface of the upright plate portion 24a and orthogonal to the supply passage 27. 24b, and a ball receiving plate portion 24c that extends from the ball retaining plate portion 24b so as to be separated from the ball exit 41 through which the pachinko ball can pass and that is extended substantially in parallel with the supply passage 27 on the rear surface of the standing plate portion 24a. The ball receiving plate portion 24c is fitted into the guide groove 40 from the front side of the front main body portion 22a, and slides left and right along the guide groove 40.

In a normal state, the ball drop 41 is located above the support surface 30 of the ball feeding member 23 as shown in FIGS. Road 3
The pachinko ball B1 supported on the upper surface of the support surface 30 on the sixth side is located at a ball-pulling-out preventing position for preventing the pachinko ball B1 from falling to the ball-pulling path 36 side. Also, from this position, the ball stopper plate portion 24b is displaced in a direction away from the ball feeding member 23 as shown by the chain line in FIG. The ball can be moved to a position where the ball can be dropped to allow the ball to fall. In addition, at this time, the upper surface of the ball sending main body 23a is covered with the ball receiving plate portion 24c.

Further, as shown in FIG. 8, a ball punching plate 42 is integrally provided on the front surface of the ball punching member 24 by screwing. The ball punching plate 42 is slidably held in a guide frame 43 provided on the side plate portion 12 of the plate portion 9, and is provided with an engaging groove 44 penetrating up and down on the rear side.
A lateral pin 45 protrudes from the inside. The ball punch 4
A closing plate 46 for opening and closing the ball outlet 18
Are protruded horizontally.

On the other hand, a substantially L-shaped lever member 47 is pivotally supported by a shaft 48 at the rear side of the side plate portion 12, and an operation member 49 is supported by a shaft 50 so as to be vertically pressed. Have been. The lower end of the lever member 47 is inserted through a long hole 52 provided in the side plate portion 12 to remove the ball.
The horizontal pin 45 in the second engaging groove 44 is engaged with the engaging hole 51. Further, the operation member 49 is located in contact with the upper surface of the receiving portion 53 at the upper end of the lever member 47,
The operation member 49 protrudes upward from the through hole 54 of the dish portion 9, and further prevents the pachinko ball flowing into the ball outlet 18 above the ball outlet 18 of the ball flow passage 16 from being caught by the ball. A ball leveling member 55 for leveling is arranged, and the ball leveling member 55 and the lever member 47 are connected by a coil spring 56. As a result, the ball ejection plate 42 is constantly urged to a position where the closing plate portion 46 blocks the ball ejection port 18.

According to the present invention, the first ball discharge passage 19 communicating with the ball discharge port 18 and the second ball discharge passage 39 communicating with the opening 37 are separately formed. That is,
As shown in FIGS. 7 to 10, the first ball discharge passage 19 is formed on the back side of the side plate portion 12, and the discharge port 19 a at the lower end of the flow faces the communication port 20 opened in the support plate portion 15. ing. The second ball ejection passage 39 is located below and substantially parallel to the first ball ejection passage 19, and a discharge port 39 a at the lower end of the flow is similarly arranged in line with the communication port 20. The outlets 19a and 39a communicate with the surplus ball tray 10.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 10, an upper passage wall portion 57 and a lower passage wall portion 58 which are vertically positioned and bent rearward are formed at a lower portion of the front surface of the side plate portion 12, while a plate contact plate portion is formed. A support side 60 that is bent rearward is provided at a part of the upper edge of the upright wall 59 that forms the lower half portion 14a of the 14. The upper passage wall 57 and the support side 60 form the first ball passage 19, and the lower passage wall 58 and the upright wall 59.
Thus, the second ball passage 39 is formed.

The first ball passage 19 and the second ball passage 39
Is set to have the same width as the diameter of the pachinko ball, but in the first ball passage 19, the width is set to a size such that two pachinko balls are lined up as shown in FIG. You may do it. This usually means that many pachinko balls may remain in the dish portion 9, but in this case, many pachinko balls can be discharged at once through the first ball discharge passage 19, and the discharge operation can be performed in a short time. Is easier.

Next, the operation of the ball tray of the pachinko machine constructed as described above will be described. The pachinko balls stored in the plate portion 9 enter the outlet 17 of the support plate portion 15 as shown in FIG. 6 while being aligned in a line, and flow into the supply passage 27 in the hollow box frame 22 through the ball inlet 26. And the earliest pachinko ball B1
The ball stop plate portion 2 moves into the ball exit 41 and rides on the support surface 30 of the ball feed member 23 and simultaneously rolls toward the ball escape path 36.
The pachinko ball is stopped in a state blocked by 4b, and the following pachinko ball is also continuously waiting.

On the other hand, in this state, when the hitting rod 4 is turned to the firing preparation position by the handle operation of the player as shown by the chain line in FIG. 6, the lever portion 62a of the interlocking lever 62 is pulled by the hooking rod 61. The interlocking lever 62 rotates upward with the shaft 63 as a fulcrum, and its push-up portion 62b pushes the engaging arm 23b of the ball feeding member 23 upward. For this reason, the ball feeding member 23 rotates upward with the rotation support shaft 29 as a fulcrum as shown by the chain line in FIG. 6, and the earliest pachinko ball B1 is received in the ball receiving recess 31.

When the ball 4 is rotated to the firing position shown by the solid line in FIG. 6, the ball feeding member 23 is released from the pushing-up operation of the engaging arm 23b and is turned downward by its own weight of the weight 28. The pachinko ball B <b> 1 received in the ball receiving concave portion 31 is sent out from the supply port 32 to the firing position 5 of the firing rail 3. At the same time, the subsequent pachinko ball B2 in the supply passage 27 is received by the support surface 30 of the ball feeding main body 23a. Each of them is supplied to the firing position 5 of the firing rail 3 one by one.

When the pachinko ball B remaining in the tray 9 at the time of the end of the game is to be extracted into the surplus ball tray 10, the operating member 49 is pressed downward as shown by the chain line in FIG.
7 is turned against the bias of the coil spring 56. As a result, the ball removing plate 42 slides together with the lever member 47, and the closing plate portion 46 opens the ball removing port 18, and the pachinko ball B in the dish portion 9 falls into the first ball removing passage 19. Then, it is discharged to the surplus ball tray 10 through the discharge port 19a at the lower end.

At the same time, the ball stopper 24b of the ball removing member 24
Move in a direction away from the ball feeding main body 23a as shown by the chain line in FIG. As a result, the pachinko ball B in the supply passage 27 flows into the ball ejection path 36 through the ball dropout 41, and flows out of the opening 37 through the communication port 38 to the second ball ejection path 39. At this time, the first ball passage 1
Since the ball 9 and the second ball passage 39 are formed separately without merging in the middle, the pachinko balls flowing down in the ball passages 19 and 39 flow smoothly without being disturbed by each other.

Since the ball sending main body 23a is covered with the ball receiving plate portion 24c above the ball sending main body 23a, the ball sending main body 23a does not collide with the ball sending main body 23a while the pachinko balls B are being extracted. Protected.

Since the upper surface of the engaging arm 23b is formed to be inclined downward toward the opening 37, the pachinko ball B
Flows down smoothly. Further, since the ball feeding member 23 cannot rotate downward any more, the pachinko ball is moved to the ball feeding member 23.
Even if the pachinko ball collides from above, the collision arm 23b does not jump upward due to the collision, so that the pachinko ball flows smoothly without dancing. In this way, all the pachinko balls in the hit ball supply device 21 are extracted without remaining.

[0031]

As described above, the ball receiving tray of the pachinko machine according to the present invention is a ball of a pachinko machine capable of simultaneously removing the pachinko balls stored in the tray portion at the end of the game and the pachinko balls remaining in the hitting ball supply device. In the saucer, the ball-extraction passage communicating with the ball-extraction opening of the plate portion and the ball-extraction passage communicating with the opening of the hitting ball supply device are formed separately, so that the pachinko balls flowing down respectively join in the middle. As a result, there is an effect that the fluid can be discharged very smoothly without causing ball clogging. Also,
This does not detract from the interest of the game and leads to a part of the service to the player.

If the width of the ball-extraction passage communicating with the ball-extraction opening is set to such a size that two pachinko balls are lined up, usually many pachinko balls remain in the plate portion. A large number of pachinko balls can be discharged at once through the ball passage, which has the effect of discharging the pachinko balls in a short time and facilitating the discharge operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a lower portion of the pachinko machine showing a state where a glass door frame and a ball tray are opened.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a ball receiving tray.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the same.

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the hit ball supply device.

FIG. 6 is a partial sectional view showing the operation of the hit ball supply device.

FIG. 7 is a partial cross-sectional view of the ball feeding device on the back surface of the ball tray with the support plate removed.

FIG. 8 is a partial front sectional view of a ball tray.

FIG. 9 is a plan cross-sectional view of a ball passage portion of the ball tray.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional plan view of a ball passage passage according to another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 3 launch rail 5 launch position 6 ball receiving tray 9 dish portion 18 ball outlet 19 ball removal passage (first ball removal passage) 21 hit ball supply device 24 ball removal member 37 opening 39 ball removal passage (second ball removal passage) 42 balls Blanking B, B1, B2 Pachinko ball

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A plate portion for storing pachinko balls, and a hitting ball supply device for receiving the pachinko balls of the plate portion and supplying the balls one by one to a firing position of a firing rail. A ball outlet closed by a ball punching plate is provided, and the hitting ball supply device is provided on one side thereof with an opening which is always closed by a ball punching member interlocking with the ball punching plate, and the ball outlet is opened. A ball of a pachinko machine in which when the pachinko ball of the dish portion is removed through the ball outlet, the opening is simultaneously opened and the pachinko ball remaining in the hitting ball supply device is also removed through the opening. A ball tray for a pachinko machine, wherein a ball drain passage communicating with the ball outlet and a ball drain passage communicating with the opening are separately formed in the tray. 2. The ball tray of a pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein the width of the ball-extraction passage communicating with the ball-extraction opening is set to a size such that two pachinko balls are lined up.