JP2002273023A - Combination structure of hand-rest for game player and ball-receiving box - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combination structure of a hand-rest for a game player and a ball-receiving box which can maintain the balance thereof even if a game player exerts forces on the structure when the player operates a ball shooting handle and which serves for the player as a convenient container and further can reduce labors at the time of storage and maintenance for a Pachinko game parlor. SOLUTION: The combination structure consists of a hand-rest 1 for a game player having a receiving member 2 forming a receiving surface 2a to support the hands of the player operating a ball shooting handle from below and a supporting member 3a to form a supporting part 3 supporting the member 2 on an island machine counter, and a ball receiving box 10, in which an engaging part 12 for engagement with the hand-rest 1 for the player is provided. Engaging parts 4, 5 are provided on a side of the hand-rest 1 for releasable engagement with the part 12 on a side of the box 10, thereby forming the combination structure.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a combination structure of a hand rest and a ball receiving box used by a player to prevent fatigue of a hand operating a hitting handle of a pachinko machine for a long time.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication Nos. Hei 8-332275 and Hei 8-332 aim to eliminate the accumulation of fatigue of hands and arms when a player operates a hitting handle.
There was an invention described in JP-A-47576. JP-A-8-
The invention described in Japanese Patent No. 332275 is an invention which aims to reduce the fatigue of the player by also using the handle of the ball receiving box as a player's hand rest. On the other hand, in the invention described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-47576, an uneven portion is provided on a handle of a ball receiving box,
It was an invention in which the functions of a hand rest and an accessory case were added to the ball receiving box.

[0003]

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-33227
No. 5, JP-A-8-47576, the ball receiving boxes according to the invention are not bilaterally symmetrical. Therefore, when stacking the ball receiving boxes at the time of storage thereof, the handle for the hand rest must be Since it was necessary to pay attention to the direction of each ball receiving box, such as always stacking to the left or right, or stacking the handles so that they were alternately positioned one by one, handling was complicated. Was. or,
Since the downward force acts because the hand is placed on the handle protruding outside the ball receiving box, the downward force is supported when the ball receiving box has no pachinko balls or when there are few pachinko balls. However, there is a disadvantage that the ball receiving box falls down in the direction in which the handle is lowered, and the balance as a hand rest becomes unstable. Furthermore, when a recess is provided in the handle of the ball receiving box to make a small case, the handle has only a limited narrow width, and therefore the volume of the small case has to be small, so that the small case is used as a small case. There is a disadvantage that the use is limited. On the other hand, when a player exchanges some pachinko balls in the ball receiving box for a prize, he or she will grab the required number of pachinko balls and carry it in the palm of the hand. The number is limited, which is inconvenient for the player, and the pachinko parlor has a drawback that the fat on the pachinko balls sticks to the pachinko balls and the maintenance burden of the pachinko balls increases.

The present invention has been made to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and is intended to be applied to a case where a player places his / her hand and a downward force acts on the player. An object of the present invention is to provide a combination structure of a player's hand rest and a ball receiving box in which the balance is not unstable. Another object is to make the hand-held table a small case that is easy for the player to handle, and that the player can measure the required pachinko balls and carry them without holding the pachinko balls in their palms. An object of the present invention is to provide a combination structure of a player's hand rest and a ball receiving box which can prevent fat from adhering to a pachinko ball. Still another object is to provide a combination structure of a player's hand rest and a ball receiver that can facilitate handling during storage of the ball receiver.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a receiving member having a receiving surface for supporting a hand for operating a hitting handle of a player from below, and a supporting portion for supporting the receiving member on an island stand counter. And a ball receiving box provided with an engaging portion with the player's hand rest having
It is a combination structure of a player's hand rest and a ball receiving box, wherein the hand rest is provided with an engaging portion on the hand rest side detachably engaged with the engaging portion on the ball rest box side. Features.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the player's hand rest is formed by laying down a bottomed container having an open upper end, and the receiving surface is formed by an upwardly directed bottom surface of the container. 2. A combination structure of a player's hand rest and a ball receiving box according to claim 1, wherein said supporting portion is constituted by a peripheral wall of said container. According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the player's hand rest according to the first aspect, wherein a handle is formed symmetrically on the left and right sides of an upper edge of the ball receiving box, and the box-side engaging portion is formed on each handle. It is characterized by a combination structure of a table and a ball receiving box.

[0007]

1 and 2 show a combination structure of a player's hand rest and a ball receiving box according to an embodiment of the present invention. This will be described below with reference to FIG. The hand rest 1 for a player is a plate-shaped receiving member 2 having a receiving surface 2a formed on an upper surface for supporting a hand from which a player operates a hitting handle.
And a support portion 3 for supporting the receiving member 2 at a predetermined height on an island stand counter at a lower part of the front of the pachinko machine.

[0008] The support portion 3 is opened up and down by surrounding the inner space with a support member 3a, which is a four trapezoidal plate.
It has the shape of a truncated pyramid. The receiving member 2 is integrally fixed to the upper end portion of the truncated pyramid, and the upper end opening is closed by the receiving member 2. Thereby, the hand placing table 1
Is a form in which a bottomed container having an open upper end is turned down. The height dimension of the hand placing table 1 is a height at which the player can naturally place his / her hand while holding the hitting handle.

A first engaging portion 4 and a second engaging portion 5 are protruded from one side surface of the support portion 3 as engaging portions on the side of the hand rest.
Each of the engaging portions 4 and 5 protrudes from the supporting portion 3 in a plate shape in the horizontal direction, and the tip is bent upward and rises. Reference numerals 4a and 5a indicate the rising portions. The engaging portions 4 and 5 differ only in the vertical position at the height protruding from the support portion 3.
They have the same size and shape.

The above-mentioned receiving member 2, supporting portion 3, engaging portion 4,
The engaging portion 5 is integrally formed of a synthetic resin or the like. On the other hand, the ball receiving box 10 has a conventional size and shape that can be loaded on the island stand counter. Ear-shaped handles 11 project outward from the left and right sides of the upper edge of the ball receiving box 10. The upper surfaces of the ball receiving box 10 and the handle 11 form a continuous plane, and the handle 11
The shape of the ball receiving box 10 is symmetrical. The ball receiving box 10 and the handle 11 are also integrally formed of synthetic resin or the like.

A long hole is formed in the handle 11 of the ball receiving box 10 so as to penetrate up and down, and the hole forms an engaging portion 12 on the ball receiving box side. One of the engaging portions 4 and 5 on the side of the hand-held table enters and engages with the engaging portion 12. Therefore, the length of the hole of the engagement portion 12 is
Are slightly larger than the length of the rising portions 4a and 5a, and the width of the hole of the engaging portion 12 is slightly larger than the thickness of the rising portions 4a and 5a of the engaging portions 4 and 5.

When the hand holding the hit ball handle is placed on the receiving surface 2a of the hand rest 1, the rising portion 4a of the first engaging portion 4 of the hand rest 1 with the receiving surface 2a facing upward.
Is engaged with the engaging portion 12 of the ball receiving box 10 from below as shown by a chain line in FIG. As a result, the ball receiving box 10 and the hand placing table 1 on the island stand counter are engaged with the engaging portions 4, 12 of the both.
They are engaged and connected between each other. Therefore, even if a horizontal force acts on the hand rest 1 on the island stand due to the movement of the hand, the static force of the load acting on the ball receiving box 10 and the entire hand rest 1 causes the island rest of the hand rest 1 to move. Movement on the counter is suppressed. In particular, as the amount of pachinko balls in the ball receiving box 10 increases, the load acting on the ball receiving box 10 increases correspondingly, so that the static friction force between the ball receiving box 10 and the island stand counter increases. The movement of the hand rest 1 engaged with the ball receiving box 10 is further suppressed.

Further, since the supporting portion 3 of the hand rest 1 is in the shape of a truncated pyramid surrounded by a supporting member 3a which is a four trapezoidal plate, the lower area is larger than the upper area. Widened,
The stability when placing a hand on the receiving surface 2a is good. In addition, the load placed from the hand of the player holding the hitting handle is received by the hand rest 1, and the ball receiving box 10, especially the handle 11
The load applied from the hand does not work. For this reason, regardless of the number of pachinko balls in the ball receiving box 10, the ball receiving box 10 does not tilt or fall due to the load applied from the player's hand.

The hole forming the engaging portion 12 of the ball receiving box 10 has a quadrangular horizontal cross section.
The rising portion 4a of the first engaging portion 4 is also a quadrilateral whose horizontal cross section is slightly smaller than the aforementioned quadrilateral. Therefore, the rising portion 4a of the engaging portion 4 does not rotate in the hole forming the engaging portion 12. Therefore, the hand placing table 1 does not rotate on the island stand counter about the rising portion 4a of the engaging portion 4.

The first engaging portion 4 of the hand rest 1 and the ball receiving box 10
Since the engaging portion 12 has the above-mentioned action,
When the receiving surface 2a is oriented upward, the height of the engaging portion 4 is set to a height at which the rising portion 4a can be engaged with the engaging portion 12 of the ball receiving box 10. Desirably, the rising portion 4 a is engaged with the engaging portion 12, and the upper end of the rising portion 4 a is preferably located at a height such that it does not project upward from the engaging portion 12.

Next, the hand placing table 1 can be used for other purposes. That is, since the hand-held table 1 has a form in which the bottomed container is turned down as described above, as shown in FIG.
If you turn it upside down and place it on the island counter, it will look as if the container is placed upwards. Therefore, familiar small articles can be stored in this. For example, if you insert a mobile phone and point the LCD screen or light emitting part toward the player, even if you cannot hear the ringing sound due to the noise in the pachinko parlor or the manner mode setting, the game will be played by the light emission of the liquid crystal screen or light emitting part. People can recognize the incoming call, and having a cigarette and lighter saves them from having to search for them when smoking. In addition, if a container for a drink that is easy to overturn is put, it is possible to prevent overturning.

In such a case, the second engaging portion 5 of the hand rest 1 with the open end at the bottom is turned upside down with the top and bottom reversed, as shown by a chain line in FIG. What is necessary is just to engage with the part 12. By doing so, the hand placing table 1 used as a container is located on either the left or right of the ball receiving box 10. In many cases, it is more convenient to position the hand rest 1 as a container on the left side of the ball receiving box 10. The player can operate the hitting handle with his right hand and reach his / her small hand in the container with his eyes looking at the pachinko board. Further, the stability of the hand-held table 1 as a container is also improved by the engagement, so that even when small items having an unstable shape are stored, it is possible to prevent falling.

Accordingly, in order to use the container as a container by turning the table 1 upside down, the rising portion of the second engaging portion 5 of the table 1 is turned upside down with the table 1 turned upside down. The rising portion 5a is provided at a height position at which the engaging portion 5a can be engaged with the engaging portion 12 of the ball receiving box 10 downward from above. Further, the hand placing table 1 can be released from the ball receiving box 10 and used independently. For example, when the pachinko balls in the ball receiving box 10 are scooped and a predetermined number are transported to the prize exchange, if the hand-held table 1 is used as a container for the pachinko balls, it is possible that the fat of the hands adheres to the pachinko balls. As a result, the maintenance effort of the pachinko parlors is reduced, and the player does not need to directly touch the pachinko balls touched by others. In the case where the hand placing table 1 is a measuring box for pachinko balls, a scale of the number of balls may be provided on the inner surface of the support member 3a.

The above embodiment has been described on the premise that the receiving member 2 of the hand rest 1 is a plate-like member.
In order to improve the feel, the receiving surface 2a may be depressed according to the shape of the part in contact with the hand, or may be elastically deformable. Further, the receiving member 2 has a quadrangular shape and the supporting portion 3 has a pyramid shape with a truncated head. However, the receiving member 2 has another shape such as a circle, and the supporting portion 3 has a head corresponding to the shape. It can also be in the shape of a cut cone or tube. In this case, the first and second engagement portions 4 and 5 of the hand rest 1 are
The rising portions 4a and 5a are formed as described above,
The shape of the portion projecting horizontally from the support portion 3 may be changed according to the outer shape of the support portion 3. Further, the rising portions 4a and 5
Although the shape of a was a single plate surface, instead of using this as two pillars and the engaging portion 12 of the ball receiving box 10 as a quadrangular hole, the same as the center interval between the two pillars was used. It is also possible to provide two circular holes slightly larger than the circular cross section of the pillar having a center interval. Furthermore, the hand-held table 1 may be provided with a display of an advertisement on at least one of the inside and outside surfaces.

[0020]

According to the present invention, the combination structure of the player's hand rest and the ball receiving box as described above has the following effects. According to the invention of claim 1, even if a horizontal force acts on the hand rest on the island stand counter due to the movement of the hand, the static friction force due to the load acting on the entire ball receiving box and the hand rest will cause the hand rest to move. Movement on the island stand counter is suppressed, and it becomes difficult to move on the island stand counter. Also, the load placed on the ball holder by the hand of the player holding the hit ball handle is received by the hand rest, and the load applied by the player's hand to the ball receiving box, especially the handle, does not work. Regardless of the magnitude, the ball receiving box does not tilt or fall due to the load applied from the player's hand, and the balance is less likely to be lost.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the player's hand rest is made up of a bottomed container having an open upper end, the hand rest can be used as a container. . For this reason, a multipurpose container that can store canned drinks, small items, etc., and that can measure and carry the required pachinko balls is provided to the player's immediate area. By doing so, it is possible to improve the convenience of the player and reduce the maintenance labor of the pachinko parlor.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the left and right outer sides of the upper edge of the ball receiving box are formed with symmetrical handles. Therefore, when the ball receiving boxes are stacked and stored, they can be easily handled without being aware of the left and right directions of each ball receiving box.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a combination structure showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view when a hand-held table is used as a container.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Player's hand rest 2 Receiving member 2a Receiving surface 3 Support part 3a Support member 4 Hand rest side engaging part 4a Standing part of hand rest side engaging part 5 Hand rest side engaging part 5a Hand rest Rising part of side engaging part 10 Ball receiving box 11 Handle 12 Ball receiving box side engaging part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A hand rest for a player, comprising: a receiving member having a receiving surface for supporting a hand for operating a hitting handle of a player from below; and a supporting portion for supporting the receiving member on an island stand counter. A ball receiving box provided with an engaging portion with a player's hand rest, and a player's hand removably engaged with the player's hand rest on the engaging portion on the ball receiving side. A combination structure of a player's hand rest and a ball receiving box, wherein an engaging part on the stand side is provided. 2. The player's hand rest, wherein a bottomed container having an open upper end is in a prone configuration, and the receiving surface is constituted by an upwardly facing bottom surface of the container, and 2. The structure of claim 1, wherein the supporting portion is constituted by a peripheral wall of a container. 3. The player according to claim 1, wherein grips are formed symmetrically on the left and right sides of an upper edge of the ball receiving box, and the box-side engaging portions are formed on the respective grips. Combination structure of hand rest and ball receiving box.