JP2016067591A5 - - Google Patents

Description

In solving the above-mentioned problems, a ball feeder for gaming machines according to the present invention, according to the description of claim 1,
A shall be disposed between the gaming machine ball receiving game balls from the dish side and spherical pan and outgoing morphism rails to send toward the firing rail side ball firing equipment.

In the ball feeder,
And casings grayed comprises a ball feeding member which is housed in the casing,
The casing is
A ball introduction section for introducing game balls from a ball tray;
A spherical guide through path for guiding the game ball to be introduced from the sphere inlet portion,
And the ball feed apertures for feeding on game ball origination morphism rail guided by the ball guide passage,
As contactable from the side portion or the lower side in the game ball that is introduced into the casing, collision force Prefecture of those the recreation spheres are supported until exiting from the ball feed apertures through the sphere guide passage Comprising
The ball feed member
A tilting base portion which is tiltably supported in the vertical direction in the casing,
Comprises a first and second ball receiving portion,
The first and second ball receiving portions are configured to move the game ball from the first ball receiving portion to the second ball receiving portion while being in contact with any of the ball guide passage, the tilting base portion, and the protrusion, As the tilting base portion tilts in one of the vertical directions, the game ball is stopped to be received at the first tilting end, and as the tilting base portion tilts in the other direction, the game ball is moved to the first direction. is moved from a tilted end stop to nest in the second tilt end, and the Yu Technical sphere with the tilting of the said one direction tilting base the to move toward the ball feed apertures It is characterized by that.

According to this, as described above , the first and second ball receiving portions move from the first ball receiving portion to the second ball receiving portion while bringing the game ball into contact with any of the ball guide passage, the tilting base portion, and the protrusion. The tilting base is stopped so as to receive the game ball at the first tilting end as the tilting base is tilted in one of the vertical directions, and the game is played as the tilting base is tilted in the other direction. spheres stopped to nest with the second tilting edge is moved from the first tilting end, and the game ball with the tilt in one direction of tilting the base is moved toward the ball feed apertures.
In other words, for each game ball introduced into the casing, the game ball moves toward the ball feed port portion while moving and stopping in the casing as the tilt base portion tilts in the vertical direction.
Here, as described above, until the game ball comes out from the ball feed opening portion through the ball guide passage so that the projection can contact the game ball introduced into the casing from the side portion side or the lower side thereof. Supported in between. As described above, since the protrusions can come into contact with the side or the lower side of the game ball, the stability of the game ball until it stops as described above can be increased.
Thus, the movement of the ball feed port of the game ball, which is introduced into the casing, extra mechanical components to that obtained smoothly made without depend of course, game balls, as described above The ball can be stably moved toward the ball feeding port while being stopped, and can be fed to the launching device as a stable game ball.

According to the present invention, as described above , the first and second ball receiving portions are moved from the first ball receiving portion to the second ball receiving portion while bringing the game ball into contact with any of the ball guide passage, the tilting base portion, and the protrusion. As the tilt base is tilted in one of the up and down directions, the game ball is stopped to be received at the first tilt end, and as the tilt base is tilted in the other direction. stop the game ball to nest in the second tilting edge is moved from the first tilting end, and Yu Technical sphere with the tilt in one direction of tilting base the toward the ball feed apertures move Let
In other words, for each game ball introduced into the casing, the game ball moves toward the ball feed port portion while moving and stopping in the casing as the tilt base portion tilts in the vertical direction.
Here, as described above, until the game ball comes out from the ball feeding port portion through the ball guide passage so that the projection can come into contact with the game ball introduced into the casing from the side or the lower side. Supported during. As described above, since the protrusions can come into contact with the side or the lower side of the game ball, the stability of the game ball until it stops as described above can be increased.
Thus, the movement of the ball feed port of the game ball, which is introduced into the casing, extra mechanical components to that obtained made in a circular smooth without depend of course, game balls, as described above The ball can be stably moved toward the ball feeding port under a steady stop and can be fed to the launching device as a stable game ball.

Thus, the guide rail 30, the game balls to Isa onset along from firing rail 70b of the sphere launcher 70 (described later) to the relay rails (not shown), between the inner rail 31 and an outer rail section 32 Guidance is made in the game area 21 a of the board surface 21 of the game board 20 by the formed guide passage 33.

The launch rail 70b is inclined between the relay rail and the striking position of the saddle member in the launch mechanism 70a so that a game ball can be launched through the relay rail toward the guide passage 33 of the guide rail 30. The main frame 10 is provided on the lower side wall 11. Thus, the launch rail 70b waits for a game ball sent from a ball feeder U (described later) on the launch base end. The launch rail 70b is positioned below the ball feed port 125 (described later) so as to incline downward in the opposite direction from the launch direction of the game ball along the rear wall 120b (described later) of the ball feeder U. Located at.

On the other hand, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the rear casing member 120 is also cut out in an L shape so as to correspond to the upper right corner cutout portion 110a at the upper right corner, It is formed as a corner cutout 120a. Incidentally, the upper right side corner cutout portion 110a and the right upper corner cutout 120a constitute a right upper corner cutout of the casings grayed K.

On the other hand, as illustrated in FIG. 9 , the rear casing member 120 includes a rear wall 120b and a peripheral wall 120c, and the peripheral wall 120c is bent in an L shape forward from the outer peripheral edge of the rear wall 120b. It extends to.

The left side wall part 112 and the lower side wall part 113 have the same width as the wide part 111a and extend from the left and lower edge parts of the front wall 110b so as to be bent backward in an L shape. Also, the right side wall portion 114 is a right edge of the front wall 110b extends as bent backward in an L-shape, the right side wall 114, upper right corner cut from the right end of the lower wall portion 113 It extends so as to be bent upward in an L shape toward the right end portion of the lower wall portion of the notch portion 110a.

Further, the front casing member 110, as shown in FIGS. 5 to 7 has a spherical inlet section 115, the sphere inlet opening 115, the left side preferred Ri site of the upper portion of the front wall 110b It is formed in a penetrating shape with a horizontally long rectangular shape.

Here, the ball inlet 115 ball supply passage 92 to the extended open end 92a is formed on the opposed to so that in (see FIG. 30), the ball inlet 115 ball supply A game ball guided by the passage 92 is introduced into the casing K through the extended end opening 92a.

The upper side wall portion 121, as illustrated hand in FIG. 5 or FIG. 9, left narrow portion 121a, the middle-side wide portions 121b, right narrow portion 121c, a crank-shaped wall portion 121d and the L-shaped wall portions 121e It will be.

Thereby, the rising end portion 132a of the rising wall portion 132 is V-shaped with respect to the inclined lower edge portion D of the tongue piece portion 115a of the ball introduction port portion 115 as viewed from the front side of the front wall 110b. you form the lower V-shaped cross-section intersect (see Figure 8).

In the present embodiment, a recess 129 (see FIG. 30) formed in the rear wall 120b of the rear casing member 120 so as to guide the game ball introduced from the ball introduction port portion 115 onto the ball guide passage 131 . The bottom wall is formed as a guide wall 129a at the left side portion so as to be inclined rearward from the left wall portion 122 of the peripheral wall 120c to the right side. Here, the recess 1 29, at the guide wall 1 29a of that, and is formed so as to face both the angled end portion of the ball inlet 115 side and the sphere guide passage 131.

Above projections Q is as shown Te 12-14 noise Rekani, so as to be accommodated in the concave wall portion 162 of the upper curved wall 160a, the lower and the ball guide channel member of the sphere feed apertures 125 The rear casing member 120 protrudes from the rear wall 120b of the rear casing member 120 toward the front wall 110b of the front casing member 110 between approximately 130 in the vertical center.

Thus, when the ball feeding member 140 is at the lower tilt end, the projection Q moves the game ball onto the wall portion 161b between the projection portion Q and the wall portion 161a of the front ball receiving portion 161 by the left side surface Qa. maintain. When the ball feeding member 140 is tilted from the lower tilt end toward the upper tilt end, the game ball maintained on the wall portion 161b of the front ball receiving portion 161 is moved by the front ball receiving portion 161 to the wall portion 161a. It is sent on the upper side Qb of the collision caused Q at.

Is the metal plate 170, 11, 18, 19, as shown in either FIGS. 23 and 24, has a blade 173, the blade 173 is sent out sphere of the metal plate 170 Rikuchi It is formed by raising a corresponding plate portion with respect to the inner region of the hollow portion of the rectangular concave cutout portion 125e (described later) of the portion 125 to the rear (toward the firing rail 70b) in a narrow shape.

As described above, in this embodiment, the ball feeding device U performs a ball feeding operation from the ball introduction port portion 115 to the ball feeding port portion 125 through the following steps.
(1) Initial stage When the ball feeding member 140 is maintained at the upper tilted end by the drive mechanism 180 and the game ball is not yet introduced into the casing K as shown in FIG. When X is introduced from the ball supply passage 92 through the ball inlet 115 into the casing K, the game ball X is guided by the guide wall 129a and the ball guide passage 131 of the ball guide passage member 130 as described above. Then, the left curved wall 160c of the ball feeding member 140 is maintained on the inclined end portion of the ball guide passage 131 at the upper end portion thereof (see FIG. 25). At this time, similarly to the game ball X, the game ball X1 following the game ball X is also introduced from the ball supply passage 92 through the ball introduction port 115 into the casing K, and together with the game ball X, onto the ball guide passage 131. Maintained (see FIG. 25).
(2) First stage When the ball feeding member 140 positioned at the upper tilting end in the initial stage is tilted toward the lower tilting end by the drive mechanism 180, the initial stage is set as described above. As described above, the game ball X maintained on the inclined end portion of the ball guide passage 131 is moved from the left curved wall 160c of the ball feeding member 140 as the ball feeding member 140 is tilted to the lower tilting end. It is released and moved onto the wall portion 161b of the front ball receiving portion 161 of the ball feeding member 140 and is received and maintained by the wall portion 161a and the projection Q (see FIG. 26).
(3) Second Stage When the ball feeding member 140 tilted to the lower tilt end in the first stage is tilted again toward the upper tilt end by the drive mechanism 180, the first stage is used. The game ball X maintained by the wall portion 161a and the projection Q on the wall portion 161b (see FIG. 16) of the front ball receiving portion 161 of the ball feeding member 140 is accommodated in the concave wall portion 162 of the projection Q. in with, move along the upper wall portion 16 1b on the side surface Qb on the protrusions Q with the projection Q and the ball feeding member projections Q and rear ball reception portion 163 moves to the side ball receiving unit 163 side after 140 (See FIG. 27).

Next, when the ball feeding member 140 shifts from the first stage to the second stage as described above, the game ball Y is accommodated in the concave wall portion 162 of the projection Q as in the case of the game ball X. As a result, the projection moves from the wall 161a along the upper side surface Qb of the projection Q to the rear ball receiving portion 163 side of the projection Q and the ball feeding member 140, and the projection Q and the rear ball receiving portion 163 are moved. Maintained between. In this case, as from the first stage of the sphere feeding member 140 to transition to the second stage, the retraction rod portion 150d is moved upward, the yarn t is released from the Osaekomi that by the pull rod portion 150d .

At this time, as the ball feeding member 140 shifts from the second stage to the third stage, the thread t is again restrained from above by the pull-in rod portion 150d in the same manner as described above. based frictional contact by a strong engagement between the right inner edge 115b of the inlet portion 115, that could be suppressed by the game ball Y guide can pull rod portion 150d of the ball feed apertures 125.

As described above, in the process in which the game ball Y with a thread is guided from the ball introduction port portion 115 into the ball feed port portion 125, the thread t is connected to the right inner edge portion 115b of the ball introduction port portion 115 as described above. with in holding down from above side by strong engagement frictional contact and retraction rod portion 150d by engagement between the guide from the sphere inlet portion 115 of the game ball Y to the spherical feed apertures 125 can be greatly suppressed. This means that it leads to suppression of the fraudulent act using the game ball Y with a thread | yarn by a player.

Further, in the present embodiment, the firing rail 70b is so inclined to downwardly from the firing direction of the game ball along the wall 120b (to be described later) after the ball feeder U as described above to the opposite direction, the sphere feed It is located below the mouth part 125 (described later). Therefore, the angle between the direction in which the thread t is pulled toward the ball feeding port 125 along with the game ball Y and the launch direction of the game ball Y along the launch rail 70b is very small.

Accordingly, when the thread t is engaged with a portion of the right edge portion 174 of the metal plate 170 that is located within the rectangular concave cutout portion 125e of the ball feeding port portion 125, the thread t is fired by the game ball Y. While being pulled in the direction, it moves in the direction of the same inclined line while making frictional contact along the lower portion 174b, the tip 173d of the blade 173 or the upper portion 174c.

Here, the guide wall portion 127 is an inclined guide surface portion formed in an inclined shape so as to face both the rear ball receiving portion 163 and the ball feeding port portion 125, and moves from the rear ball receiving portion 163. The game ball to be played may be formed to have an inclined guide surface portion 127b that guides the game ball along the upper surface portion of the rear ball receiving portion 163 into the ball feeding port portion 125.
(4) In carrying out the present invention, the protrusion Q is not limited to the structure protruding from the rear wall 120b of the rear casing member 120 toward the front wall 110b of the front casing member 110 as described in the above embodiment. The projecting rail 70b may project toward the ball tray 90 side.
(5) In implementing the present invention, the metal member is adopted in place of the metal plate 170, the metal member, corresponding plates against the interior region of the hollow portion of the rectangular concave cutout portion 125e of Tamaoku Rikuchi 125 You may be comprised so that it may have the blade 173 formed by cutting and raising to the firing rail 70b side in a narrow shape at the part.

Claims (1)

In ball feeder which is disposed between the ball pan before Symbol onset morphism rails to send toward the firing rail side ball launcher game balls from ball pan side of the gaming machine,
A casing and a ball feeding member accommodated in the casing;
The casing is
A ball introduction section for introducing game balls from the ball tray;
A ball guide passage for guiding a game ball introduced from the ball introduction section;
And the ball feed apertures for feeding the game balls guided by the ball guide passage before Symbol onset morphism on the rail,
As contactable from the side portion or the lower side in the game ball that is introduced into the casing, those the recreation spheres are supported until exiting the ball feed apertures through the ball guide passage With protrusions,
The ball feeding member is
A tilt base supported to be tiltable up and down in the casing ;
Comprising first and second ball receivers ,
The first and second ball receiving portions move the game ball from the first ball receiving portion to the second ball receiving portion while contacting the game ball with any of the ball guide passage, the tilting base portion, and the protrusion. The tilting base is tilted in one of the up and down directions and stopped so as to receive the game ball at a first tilting end, and the tilting base is tilted in the other direction. the game balls are moved from the first tilting end stop to nest in the second tilting edge with and the Yu Technical sphere with the tilting of the said one direction of the tilting base feed the ball with A ball feeder for a gaming machine, which is moved toward the mouth.

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