JP2584216Y2 - Pachinko ball saucer - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a ball tray for a pachinko machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a pachinko ball is extracted from a ball tray of a pachinko machine, conventionally, a ball extraction lever is held in a state of being slid in the extraction direction against its return spring pressure.

[0003]

Therefore, it is necessary to return and release the ball release lever against the spring pressure until all the pachinko balls in the ball tray are discharged. An object of the present invention is to simplify the operation of extracting a pachinko ball from a ball tray.

[0004]

The ball tray of the pachinko machine according to the present invention has a ball release hole formed in the tray portion and a guide hole attached to the lower surface of the bowl portion of the ball tray body. It has a shutter plate that opens and closes the lower ball hole formed in the guide plate, and is urged in the return direction.
The ball-pulling operation member is slidably installed, and the ball-pulling operation member has a return biasing force for urging the ball-pulling operation member.
The guide plate is elastic due to the elastic locking force exceeding
The ball pull-out operation member is
A stopper is provided for holding the slide position in an open state, and a return operation force exceeding the elastic locking force is applied to the ball releasing operation.
When the stopper is applied to the working member, the stopper
The locked state is released .

[0005]

The pachinko machine having the above configuration has a ball tray.
And a ball removal operation member installed on the guide plate
Against the return biasing force applied to the ball removing operation member.
And remove the lower ball of the guide plate and the lower ball of the guide plate.
When the push operation is performed in the opening direction of the mouth, the ball
The stopper that has been elastically
Is elastically locked to the guide plate,
Is held at the slide position where the upper and lower ball holes are open.
Be held. In this state, the bullet
If a return operation force exceeding the locking force is applied, the stopper will
Releases the state of being locked to the id plate and removes the ball
The member slides in the return direction.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the ball removing operation member can be locked at the slide position where the ball removal opening is opened by pushing and releasing the ball removing operation member. The operation required to remove the pachinko balls can be completed with one touch, and it is not necessary to keep pushing the ball removal operation member until all the pachinko balls in the saucer are removed. The operation can be simplified. Also,
After pulling out the ball, the ball
The ball saucer can be returned to the original state with one touch.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. A decorative plate B having a square hole-shaped ball receiving port B1 is mounted on a lower portion of the front of the main frame of the pachinko machine. Is installed.

The ball tray body 1 of the ball tray A has an inner plate 2a and an outer plate 2b connected to the inner plate 2a with screws, and stores the pachinko balls that have passed through the ball receiving port B1. An ashtray 3 is provided on the side of the tray 2 so as to be rotatable in the front-rear direction.

At the bottom 4 of the tray 2, an upper hole 5 for extracting pachinko balls stored in the tray 2 is formed in a round hole shape, and a spring 7 is provided near the front end of the bottom 4. The loaded spring hole 6 is formed in a horizontally long shape along the left-right direction.

A front wall plate 8a is provided on the lower surface of the bottom portion 4 of the tray portion 2.
The rear plate 8b, the left and right side plates 8c, and the bottom plate 8d, which is provided horizontally below the bottom plate 4 with a gap therebetween, are connected to each other to form a guide plate 8 formed in a shallow box shape. Installed by.

A horizontally long insertion portion 10 is formed in the front wall plate 8a of the guide plate 8.

A bottom plate 8d of the guide plate 8 has a front guide hole 11 formed in the vicinity of the front end thereof and extending substantially horizontally along the left-right direction. An opening 12 and a rear guide hole 13 formed in parallel with the front guide hole 11 behind the front guide hole 11 through the lower ball hole 12 are provided through the opening 12.

The rear guide hole 13 of the guide plate 8 is formed in a shape in which the hole width at the lower ball hole 12 side is slightly larger than the hole width at the lower ball hole side.

In the vicinity of the center of the rear edge 13a of the rear guide hole 13 of the guide plate 8, a locking projection 14 protruding forward and a locking portion 15 recessed rearward are adjacent to the left and right. Is formed.

A front end portion of a ball removing operation member 16 installed on the guide plate 8 so as to be able to move inward and outward is inserted into the insertion portion 10 of the guide plate 8 so that a center portion and a front end portion are formed. An operation lever 17 protruding forward from the guide plate 8 is formed.

A rear end of the ball-pulling operation member 16 is connected to a rear end of the operation lever 17 and is horizontally slidably held between the bottom plate 4 of the pan 2 and the bottom plate 8d of the guide plate 8 in a horizontal state. A shutter plate 18 is formed to simultaneously open and close the upper ball hole 5 and the lower ball hole 12 by sliding operation. The outer edge of the shutter plate 18 has a curvature substantially equal to the radius of curvature of the opening edge of the upper ball hole 5. It is curved in an arc with a radius.

A spring 7 is inserted into the spring hole 6 of the pan 2 to urge the ball removing operation member 16 in the returning direction on the upper surface of the connecting portion between the operation lever 17 of the ball removing operation member 16 and the shutter plate 18. Pressure receiving piece 1 receiving the elastic force of
9 are protruded.

A guide piece 20 slidably engaged in the front guide hole 11 of the guide plate 8 is provided on a lower surface of a connecting portion between the operation lever 17 and the shutter plate 18 of the ball removing operation member 16. .

Shutter plate 1 of ball removing operation member 16
A stopper 21 that is displaced into the lower ball hole 12 and the rear guide hole 13 of the guide plate 8 by an inward / outward movement of the shutter plate 18 is connected to the lower surface of the shutter 8. A shutter plate 18 is provided in front of the stopper 21.
Of the rear guide hole 13 at the front side
A guide ridge 22 slidingly guided by the guide ridge 22 is formed, and a flexible portion 23 extending in the left-right direction in parallel with the guide ridge 22 is formed at a rear portion of the stopper 21. The stopper 21 is fixed to the lower surface of the shutter plate 18 at the inner end thereof so as to be elastically deformable in the front-rear direction while being separated from the inner end of the guide ridge 22 and the inner end of the flexible portion 23. Are formed with connection portions 26 connected to each other at right angles.

The stopper 21 has a substantially triangular planar shape near the center of the flexible portion 23 and is forcibly disengageable from the lock portion 15 of the guide plate 8 and elastically engages with the lock portion 15 in a meshing manner. A meshing portion 24 that protrudes the holding member 18 at a slide position where the ball removing port 5 is fully opened is provided.

The engagement portion 24 of the stopper 21 is slidably in contact with the locking projection 14 of the guide plate 8 when the shutter plate 18 is slid inward, and is pressed by the locking projection 14. When the shutter plate 18 is returned and slid outward, an outer slope 24b is formed which is slidably contacted with the locking projection 14 and pressed by the locking projection 14.

Shutter plate 1 of ball removing operation member 16
In the state where 8 is slid to the outgoing end, both ball extraction ports 5, 1
2 is held in the fully closed state, and the stopper 21 is
2 has entered.

In this state, when removing the pachinko balls stored in the tray 2, the operating lever 17 of the ball removing operation member 16 is pushed inward against the return spring pressure of the spring 7 to release the shutter. When the plate 18 is slid inward and the stopper 21 is advanced into the rear guide hole 13, the engagement portion 24 of the stopper 21 is engaged with the locking projection of the guide plate 8 while the shutter plate 18 is slid to the inner end. 14
And the flexible portion 23 of the stopper 21 is bent forward and deformed.

Pushing the operation lever 17 further inward,
When the shutter plate 18 is further slid inward, the engagement portion 24 rides over the locking projection 14 and elastically engages with the lock portion 15, so that the opening of the ball release ports 5 and 12 is fully opened. When the operation member 16 is locked by releasing the operation lever 17, the lock portion 15 and the stopper 23
And the return movement of the ball release lever is prevented, and the shutter plate 18 is held at the inner end position.

When the operation lever 17 of the ball removing operation member 16 is forcibly pushed in the returning direction, the locking portion 15 and the stopper 2
3 can be disengaged and the ball removing member 16 can be returned to the original position.

The ball tray of a pachinko machine having the above-described configuration.
In A, the ball removing operation set on the guide plate 8
The working member 16 is returned to the ball removing operation member 16.
Upper ball ejection port 5 and guide for receiving pan 2 against the urging force
Pushing operation in the direction in which the lower ball hole 12 of the plate 8 is opened
And the stopper 21 provided on the ball removing operation member 16
Guide plate 8 by the elastic locking force exceeding the biasing force.
The ball removing operation member 16 is resiliently locked to
Holder 5 and 12 are held at the slide position where they are opened.
It is. In this state, the bullet
When a return operation force exceeding the locking force is applied, the stopper 21
Is released from the state locked by the guide plate 8 and
The operating member 16 slides in the return direction.

According to the above embodiment, the ball removing operation member 16
By pressing and releasing the ball, the upper and lower ball holes 5,
Since the ball removing operation member 16 can be locked at the slide position where the 12 is opened, the operation required to remove the pachinko ball from the receiving portion 2 can be completed with one touch, and the inside of the receiving portion 2 can be completed. Since it is not necessary to keep pressing the ball removing operation member 16 until all the pachinko balls are removed, the operation of removing the pachinko balls in the receiving tray 2 can be simplified. Also, pull out pachinko balls
Then, the ball is operated with one touch by operating the ball removing operation member 16.
The pan A can be returned to the original state.

It should be noted that the ball removing mechanism of the above embodiment is a ball receiving tray A
May be applied to the upper ball saucer installed above.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 will be described.
A stopper 21A is formed in a box-shaped stopper receiver 25 connected to the lower surface of the shutter plate 18A. Has a meshing portion 24A which is curved in a substantially semicircular shape.

On the other hand, the rear guide hole 1 of the guide plate 8A
The rear edge 13aA of the shutter 3A is arranged in the sliding direction of the shutter plate 18A so that the engagement portion 2 of the stopper 23A
First, second, and third lock portions 15A, 15B, and 15C in which 4A alternatively elastically engages are recessed.

The first lock portion 15A of the three lock portions 15A is configured such that when the engagement portion 24A of the stopper 21A elastically engages with the first lock portion 15A, the two ball release ports 5A,
The shutter plate 18A is set so as to be held at the slide position where the opening of the shutter 12A is fully opened, and the second lock portion 15B is engaged with the engagement portion 24A of the stopper 21A.
When the ball is elastically engaged with the lock portion 15B,
The shutter plate 18A is set to be held at a slide position where the opening of the shutter 12 is intermediate between the fully open state and the half open state, and the third lock portion 15C is connected to the stopper 21A.
The shutter plate 18A is set so that the shutter plate 18A is held at a slide position where the opening of the ball release ports 5A and 12A is in a half-open state when the engagement portion 24A is elastically engaged with the third lock portion 15C.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, the opening of the ball ejection ports 5 and 12 is selected in accordance with the number of pachinko balls in the receiving portion 2 so that the opening of the ball ejection ports 5 and 12 is optimized. The shutter plate 18A can be locked.

The other functions and effects of the second embodiment are the same as those of the first embodiment, and the description thereof will be omitted.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view taken along line X1-X1 of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line X2-X2 of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a side view of the ball removing member.

FIG. 5 is a rear view of a main part for explaining a meshing process between a lock portion and a stopper.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a receiving portion, a ball removing operation member, and a guide plate.

FIG. 7 is a rear view of a main part showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a sectional view taken along line X3-X3 in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Ball receiving tray main body 2 Receiving part 5,5A Upper ball removing port 8,8A Guide plate 12,12A Lower ball removing port 15,15A, 15B, 15C Lock part 16,16A Ball removing operation member 18,18A Shutter plate 21,21A Stopper 24, 24A Meshing portion

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] The method according to claim 1 Sphere pan body guide plate attached to the underside of the pan portion of the shutter for opening and closing the lower ball vent port which is opened in said guide plate has been above ball vent port and opening in the pan section has a plate, placed the ball vent control member which is urged to the return direction slidably, this sphere vent operating member, the return biasing the ball vent operating member
The guide plate is formed by an elastic locking force exceeding the urging force.
Resiliently locked by providing a stopper for holding the ball vent operating member to the slide position where the state of the two spheres vent port is opened, the ball operations return force exceeds the elastic locking force
When the stopper is applied to the removal operation member, the stopper
A ball tray of a pachinko machine configured to be released from a state in which the ball is locked by a port.