JP2009082218A - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve clogging of pachinko balls with a foreign material to prevent shooting intermittence of the pachinko balls. <P>SOLUTION: A ball passage 24 includes a pair of guide rails 31a and 31b provided to extend from the other end part of a ball receiving tray 22 toward a ball feeder 26 located below the ball receiving tray 22. The guide rails 31a and 31b are located between the ball receiving tray 22 and the ball feeding device 26, and disposed so as to be parallel to each other through a space matched to the diameter of a pachinko ball 21 and to have an inclination such that the pachinko ball fed from the ball receiving tray 22 flows down to the ball feeder 26. A foreign material recovery member 32 is provided below the guide rails 31a and 31b. A foreign material adhered to the pachiko ball 21 is fallen by contacting with the guide rails 31a and 31b, and received by the foreign matter recovery member 32. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a pachinko machine installed in a game hall such as a pachinko parlor.

In pachinko machines, it is necessary to rectify and transport pachinko balls in a single line, such as when sending out pachinko balls one by one to the launch position in the game area, or when counting and paying out prize balls, The prize ball rectifying and sending device described in Patent Document 1 rectifies and conveys a pachinko ball from a storage tank to a prize ball discharge device for paying out a prize ball, and is connected to two rows of rectification paths and these rectification paths. In addition, one row of delivery paths and a rotating pinwheel type ball feed rectifying member are provided, and the rectification path sequentially receives the pachinko balls sent from the storage tank and flows down naturally along a gentle slope. The aligned and ball-feeding rectification members alternately send pachinko balls arranged by the two rows of rectification paths one by one to the delivery path. As a result, the pachinko balls rectified in one row are sent out to the downstream prize ball discharging device.
Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 05-245257

  In this way, when pachinko balls are aligned and sent out, if the pachinko balls are flown down with foreign matter such as dust or dirt attached to them, the foreign matter will adhere to the rectifying member or the guide rail and the flow of the pachinko balls will flow. May be worse. In particular, when the pachinko ball is sent to the launch position, the pachinko ball may be intermittently fired when a foreign object is clogged.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a pachinko machine that can remove and collect foreign matters such as dust and moisture adhering to a game ball.

  In order to achieve the above object, a pachinko machine according to the present invention includes a ball tray that stores game balls, a ball feeding device that feeds the game balls one by one toward a launch position for launching the game balls into the game area, and the ball tray. In a gaming machine having a ball passage arranged toward the ball feeding device, the ball passages are positioned parallel to each other with a certain gap capable of supporting the game ball from both sides, and It consists of a pair of rod-shaped members arranged with an inclination to flow down the game balls sent from the ball tray to the ball feeding device, and receives and collects foreign matters falling from the rod-shaped members below the rod-shaped members. It is characterized by including a foreign material collecting member.

  The pair of rod-like members are attached movably between a normal position arranged at an interval at which the game ball can be supported from both sides and a discharge position having an interval larger than the normal position. It is preferable. Furthermore, it is preferable that the pair of rod-shaped members are rotatably attached around a central axis substantially parallel to the flow-down direction.

  According to the present invention, the ball passages arranged from the ball receiving tray toward the ball feeding device are located in parallel to each other with a certain gap capable of supporting the game ball from both sides, and from the ball receiving tray. Foreign matter collection that is composed of a pair of rod-like members arranged with an inclination to flow the game balls that have been sent down to the ball feeder, and that receives and collects foreign matter falling from the rod-like member below the rod-like member Since it has a member, it is possible to remove and collect foreign matter such as dust and moisture attached to the game ball, and to prevent the game ball from flowing down to the ball feeding device with the foreign matter attached thereto. it can.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a pachinko machine (game machine) 1 includes a main body base 2, and a front door 5 including an upper door 3 and a lower door 4 is attached to the front surface of the main body base 2 so as to be freely opened and closed. Yes. A storage tank 6 is provided on the back side of the main body base 2. A door opening 7 is formed at the center of the upper door 3, and a glass door 8 covering the door opening 7 is attached to the upper door 3 so as to be openable and closable with respect to the upper door 3. A game board 9 is provided on the back side of the upper door 3, and the game board 9 is visible through the glass door 8.

  On the front surface of the game board 9, a symbol display device 10, a start winning opening (hereinafter referred to as "start opening") 11, a normal winning opening (hereinafter referred to as "normal opening") 12, an attacker 13 and an out opening 14 are provided. It has been. Although not shown in detail, a game area 9 a is formed on the front surface of the game board 9. In the game area 9a, game nails, windmills and the like are provided.

  The lower door 4 has a pachinko ball (game medium) 21 paid out from the payout outlet 20, a ball tray 22 for storing the pachinko ball 21 lent by a ball lending machine (not shown), and the pachinko ball 21 in the game area 9a. A launching handle 23 is provided for launching and adjusting the launching strength.

  When the firing handle 23 is rotated, the ball launching device 28 (see FIG. 2) is actuated to launch a pachinko ball into the game area 9a of the game board 9. The pachinko ball 21 launched into the game area 9a enters one of the start port 11, the normal port 12, and the out port 14. The pachinko balls that have entered the out port 14 are treated as lost and discharged from the back side of the pachinko machine 1. When a pachinko ball wins at the start port 11 or the normal port 12, a predetermined number of award balls are paid out. In addition, when a pachinko ball wins at the start port 11, a winning lottery for determining a winning or losing is performed, and the symbol display device 10 is operated.

  The symbol display device 10 includes a display panel 25 composed of, for example, a liquid crystal panel. On the display panel 25, three symbols are displayed side by side in parallel. The symbols consist of 10 types of symbols indicating the numbers “0” to “9”. When the pachinko ball 21 wins at the start port 11, these symbols are displayed in a variable manner on the display panel 25, and whether the result of the winning lottery is a win or a loss depending on the combination of the symbols when the symbols displayed in a variable manner are stopped and displayed. Is displayed. A combination of symbols with three identical numbers is a win, and the other combinations are lost. Below the storage tank 6 is a prize ball payout device (not shown), and a pachinko ball 21 supplied from the storage tank 6 to the prize ball payout device is paid out from the payout outlet 20 to the tray 22 as a prize ball.

  As shown in FIG. 2, a ball passage 24 described later is provided on the back side of the ball tray 22. The pachinko balls 21 stored in the ball tray 22 are guided to the ball feeding device 26 through the ball passage 24. The ball feeder 26 throws the pachinko balls 21 one by one into the launch position of the ball launcher 28. The ball tray 22 is inclined from one end side where the discharge outlet 20 is located toward the other end side communicating with the ball passage 24, and the other end side is gradually narrowed toward the ball passage 24. The rolling pachinko ball 21 is guided to the ball passage 24.

  The operations of the ball feeding device 26 and the ball launching device 28 are controlled by a control board (not shown) including a CPU attached to the back surface of the main body base 2. The CPU operates the ball launching device 28 and the ball feeding device 26 in response to an operation signal input when the firing handle 23 is rotated.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the ball passage 24 is a pair of guide rails provided so as to extend from the other end of the ball tray 22 toward the ball feeding device 26 positioned below the ball tray 22. Rod-shaped member) 31a and 31b. These guide rails 31a and 31b are located between the ball receiving tray 22 and the ball feeding device 26, are located in parallel to each other with a certain gap that can support the pachinko ball 21 from both sides, and the ball The pachinko balls sent from the tray 22 are arranged with an inclination to flow down to the ball feeding device 26. Thereby, when the pachinko ball 21 passes through the ball passage 24, the foreign matter adhering to the pachinko ball 21 is detached by contact with the guide rails 31a and 31b and falls. Even when liquid such as moisture enters from the ball tray 22, since the ball passage 24 is constituted by the guide rails 31 a and 31 b, the liquid that has entered falls before reaching the ball feeding device 26. In the present embodiment, as the guide rails 31a and 31b, cylindrical rails having a diameter smaller than that of the pachinko ball 21 are used.

  Further, a foreign material collecting member 32 is provided below the guide rails 31a and 31b. The foreign material collection member 32 receives and collects the foreign material falling from the guide rails 31a and 31b. In the present embodiment, since the foreign material recovery member 32 is formed in a box shape, the foreign material and liquid dropped from the guide rails 31a and 31b can be reliably received and accommodated inside. In addition, the shape of the foreign material collection member 32 is not limited to a box shape, and may be any shape that can receive the foreign material and liquid falling from the guide rails 31a and 31b.

  The ball feeding device 26 has a well-known configuration that feeds pachinko balls one by one by operation of a piezoelectric plate (not shown) provided therein, and a receiving port 26a that receives the pachinko balls 21 that have flowed down. The pachinko ball 21 received in the inside is provided with a delivery port 26b for sending out the ball toward the launch position one by one. Further, a guide plate 26c that is inclined downward is provided at the lower part of the delivery port 26b, and guides the pachinko ball 21 delivered from the delivery port 26b to the launch position.

  A slide rail 33 is provided below the guide rails 31a and 31b. As shown in FIG. 4, the slide rail 33 includes a pair of cylindrical portions 33 a and 33 b and a connecting portion 33 c that connects them. The cylindrical portions 33 a and 33 b have substantially the same diameter as the guide rails 31 a and 31 b. It is formed in a cylindrical shape. The slide rail 33 is movably provided between a discharge position that exposes the gap between the receiving port 26a of the ball feeder 26 and the guide rails 31a and 31b and a normal position that closes the gap.

  Normally, the slide rail 33 is in the normal position, and the pachinko ball 21 is caused to flow down and guided to the receiving port 26a (the state shown in FIG. 5A), similarly to the guide rails 31a and 31b. When a ball clogging occurs near the receiving port 26a, the gap is exposed when the slide rail 33 is manually moved from the normal position to the discharging position, and the pachinko ball 21 clogged near the receiving port 26a is released, It can be dropped (state shown in FIG. 5B). In addition, a discharge passage 34 is provided below the slide rail 33, and the fallen pachinko ball is received and discharged to the outside.

  The operation of the above configuration will be described. The pachinko balls 21 stored in the ball tray 22 roll toward the ball passage 24, flow down the guide rails 31a and 31b, and are fed into the ball feeding device 24. At this time, as described above, the foreign matter attached to the pachinko ball 21 is detached and dropped and is received by the foreign matter collecting member 32. Therefore, it is possible to remove and collect foreign matters such as dust and moisture adhering to the pachinko balls 21, and it is possible to prevent the pachinko balls 21 from being fed into the ball feeding device 26 with the foreign matters attached. The clogging of foreign matters in the ball feeding device 26 and the launching device 28 can be prevented, and intermittent firing of the pachinko balls 21 can be prevented. In addition, since liquid such as moisture that has entered from the ball tray 22 can be dropped from the gap between the guide rails 31a and 31b, the liquid can be prevented from entering the ball feeding device 26 and the ball launching device 28 ahead. It is possible to prevent the influence on precision parts and complicated mechanisms. Furthermore, the foreign matter that has fallen from the guide rails 31a and 31b and the liquid that has entered the ball tray 22 are collected by the foreign matter collecting member 32 located below, so that it affects other devices provided in the pachinko machine 1. Can be prevented.

  In the above embodiment, a slide rail is provided below the guide rail, and the clogging is eliminated by moving the slide rail, but the present invention is not limited to this, as shown in FIG. Of the guide rails 31a and 31b, one of the guide rails 31b is slidable in a direction perpendicular to the flow-down direction of the pachinko ball 21, and is parallel to each other with a certain gap that can support the pachinko ball 21 from both sides. You may make it move between the arrange | positioned normal position (state shown to FIG. 6 (A)), and the discharge position (state shown to FIG. 6 (B)) which expanded the space | interval from this normal position. In this case, the guide rails 31 a and 31 b are arranged so as to reach the receiving port 26 a of the ball feeding device 26. Further, not one of the guide rails 31a and 31b but both may be slidable. And when a ball clogging occurs, if the guide rail 31b is moved manually from the normal position to the discharge position, the distance between the guide rails is increased, and the jammed pachinko balls can be detached and dropped.

  In the above embodiment, the guide rails 31a and 31b are provided in a fixed state. However, the guide rails 31a and 31b are not limited to this, and as shown in FIG. The guide rails 31a and 31b may be supported so as to be rotatable about a central axis substantially parallel to the flow-down direction. By setting it as such a structure, the guide rails 31a and 31b rotate by the contact when the pachinko ball 21 flows down. Therefore, each time the pachinko ball 21 flows down, the guide rails 31a and 31b come into contact with the pachinko ball 21 at different portions, so that the foreign matters attached to the pachinko ball 21 can be more reliably removed.

It is a front side perspective view of a pachinko machine. It is a top view which shows arrangement | positioning of a saucer and a ball path. It is the perspective view which looked at the lower door from the back side. It is a perspective view which shows the structure of a guide rail and a ball feeder periphery. It is a side view which shows operation | movement of a guide rail and a ball feeder periphery. It is a top view which shows the structure of the guide rail periphery of the Example different from what is shown in FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the structure of the guide rail of another Example different from what is shown in FIG. 4, FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pachinko machine 21 Pachinko ball 22 Ball tray 24 Ball passage 26 Ball feeder 31a, 31b Guide rail (bar-shaped member)
32 Foreign material receiving member

Claims (3)

A ball tray that stores game balls, a ball feeding device that feeds the game balls one by one toward a launch position for launching the game ball to the game area, and a ball passage that is arranged from the ball tray toward the ball feeding device. In gaming machines,
The ball path is positioned parallel to each other with a certain gap capable of supporting the game ball from both sides, and is inclined to allow the game ball sent from the ball tray to flow down to the ball feeder. A pachinko machine comprising a pair of rod-shaped members arranged so as to have a foreign material collecting member that receives and collects foreign matter falling from the rod-shaped member below the rod-shaped member.   The pair of rod-shaped members are attached movably between a normal position arranged at an interval at which the game ball can be supported from both sides and a discharge position having an interval larger than the normal position. The pachinko machine according to claim 1.   The pachinko machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the pair of rod-shaped members are rotatably mounted around a central axis substantially parallel to a flow-down direction of the game ball.

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