JP3043783B2 - Pachinko machine installation island - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial applications]

The present invention relates to an improvement of a pachinko machine installation island configured by arranging a number of pachinko machines in parallel.

[Prior art]

A conventional pachinko machine installation island has a number of pachinko machines arranged side by side and a ball supply gutter for supplying pachinko balls to each of the pachinko machines. The pachinko machine has a premium ball tank provided above. On the other hand, the ball supply gutter, which supplies pachinko balls to the premium ball tank, is installed at a higher position than the pachinko machine.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

As described above, in the conventional pachinko machine installation island, since the ball supply gutter is installed at a position higher than the upper edge of the pachinko machine, there are the following problems. Since the ball supply gutter is at a high place, it is difficult to maintain the ball supply gutter. The height of the island on which the pachinko machine is installed is increased, so that the assembling work takes time and the material cost increases. Since it is necessary to use a large pachinko ball lift for lifting pachinko balls, it consumes a lot of power and is uneconomical, and the bulky and heavy pachinko balls make the installation work difficult.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

In the pachinko machine installation island, which is provided with a number of pachinko machines, a ball supply gutter for supplying pachinko balls to each of the pachinko machines is provided above and a ball collection gutter for collecting pachinko balls is provided below, (1) To provide a pachinko machine installation island satisfying the requirements of (e) to (e). (B) The pachinko machine does not have the premium ball tank that was conventionally provided above. (B) In a pachinko machine, an automatic hit ball supply device is provided in a lower half area, and a ball supply port leading to the automatic hit ball supply device is provided on the back side. (C) Attach a flexible pipe to the ball supply gutter side,
The end of the pipe is connected to the ball supply port. (D) The ball supply gutter is provided within a height range between the upper end of the pachinko machine and the ball supply port. (E) The pachinko machine and the ball collecting gutter are not connected, and the pachinko balls discharged from the pachinko machine are dropped on the ball collecting gutter.

[Action]

The ball supply port is provided in the lower half area of the pachinko machine, and the ball supply port and the ball supply gutter are connected by a flexible pipe, so the ball supply gutter is installed within the height range of the upper half of the pachinko machine. Can be installed. This makes it possible to reduce the size of the pachinko ball lift or to reduce the height of the pachinko machine installation island.

【Example】

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The pachinko machine installation island 1 has a large number of pachinko machines 2A, 2A,. The pachinko machine installation island 1 has a pachinko ball lift 3 erected at the center thereof, ball supply gutters 4 and 4 are connected to the upper end of the pachinko ball lift 3, and a pachinko machine lift is provided at the lower end of the pachinko ball lift 3. The lower ends of the ball collecting troughs 5, 5 for collecting pachinko balls discharged from 2A are connected. The pachinko ball lift 3 is provided with a ball lifting coil (not shown) in a vertical lifting cylinder 3a, and the pachinko ball is stirred by rotating the coil by a lifting motor 3b with ball-polished pellets. Is well known. Since the pachinko ball lift 3 conventionally has to lift pachinko balls higher than the prize ball tank, a lifting cylinder 3a having a height higher than that of the pachinko machine has been used. In the present invention, the lifting motor 3b is used. The height may be approximately the same as the height of the pachinko machine 2A, including the height. The ball supply gutter 4 is an upward U-shaped gutter which is inclined downward toward both ends of the pachinko machine installation island 1, and has branch gutters 4 a, 4 a. Things. The ball supply gutter 4 is set so as to be inclined within the height range of the upper half of the pachinko machine 2A. The height of the ball supply gutter 4 is determined according to the arrangement of the ball supply port 16b described later. The height is as effective as possible as long as the pachinko ball is not guided to the ball supply port 16b. The pachinko machine 2A is a so-called card type pachinko machine that records the number of balls held by a player on a magnetic card instead of releasing pachinko balls to the player. As shown in FIG. 2, the pachinko machine 2A includes a front frame 2b
And a glass door frame 2d openably and closably provided in a window hole 2c opened in the front frame 2b, and a front plate 2e operably provided below the glass door frame 2d. The game section 6a of the game board 6 faces behind the glass door frame 2d. A large number of winning ball receivers 6b, 6b, etc., which accept pachinko balls, windmills 6c, 6c for changing the path of falling of the pachinko balls, and the like are attached to the game section 6a. An out ball opening 6d is provided. The front frame 2b has a card processing device 7 provided with a magnetic card insertion port 7a and a discharge port 7b, a ball number display section 8 for displaying the number of balls held by the player, There are provided amount select buttons 9, 9, 9 for selecting the amount to be used, a settlement button 10 for inputting the end of the game, an operation handle 11 for adjusting the firing force of the hit ball, and the like. As shown in FIG. 3, on the back side of the pachinko machine 2A, the pachinko machine 2A is installed so as to overlap with the back side of the game board 6, and is hinged to the game board 6 so that it can be opened and closed like a door. A mechanism plate 13 formed on the mechanism plate 13, a ball collecting gutter 13a formed on the mechanism plate 13, collecting a winning ball and an out ball and discharging the pachinko ball out of the machine, and above the ball collecting gutter 13a Control device installed in
14 and a hit ball launching device S for launching a pachinko ball to the game section 6a
Is provided. As shown in FIG. 4, the hitting ball launching device S includes an automatic hitting ball feeder 16 for supplying pachinko balls one by one to a firing portion 15a of a firing rail 15, and a rotating shaft 11 of the operating handle 11.
a pulley 11b fixed to the tip of a, a hitting hammer 17 pivotally supported, a firing motor 18 for repeatedly swinging the hitting hammer 17 through a cam 18a, and a hitting direction of the hitting hammer 17 , A spring force adjusting member 20 for locking one end of the spring 19, the spring force adjusting member 20, and the pulley 11b.
Are attached to a single mounting base 22 and the like. The automatic ball hitting supply device 16 is mounted on an upper plate portion 22a formed by bending a mounting base 22 into a crank shape, and is disposed on the game board 6 side with the firing rail 15 interposed therebetween. The automatic ball hitting supply device 16 has a box-shaped cover 16a in which a ball feeding port 16b and a delivery port 16c for pachinko balls are formed. The internal structure of the automatic hit ball supply device 16 is arbitrarily selected from those currently in use.
It incorporates a ball feed solenoid (not shown) that operates in synchronization with the swinging operation of the 17. In order to synchronize the solenoid with the swinging motion of the ball hammer 17, the cam 18a
An optical sensor 23 that is turned on immediately after leaving from 7 is installed on the mounting base 22 so as to face the cam 18a, and the solenoid is operated by an ON signal of the sensor 23. In addition to the above-described ball-feeding solenoid, a ball-feeding member supported by a ball-shooting automatic supply device 16 so as to be capable of seesaw operation in a ball-hitting automatic supply device 16 is also used. One that mechanically links with the hammer 17 to operate the ball feeding member in accordance with the swing of the hitting hammer 17 to thereby send out a pachinko ball, or one that uses an electric motor can be considered. Thus, the ball supply port 16b of the hit ball automatic supply device 16
Is connected to the ball supply gutter 4 via a flexible spiral coiled pipe 24. That is, the pipe 24 has an upper end connected to the diversion gutter 4 a of the ball supply gutter 4 and a lower end connected to the ball supply port of the automatic ball hitting supply device 16.
Connected to 16b. As shown in FIG. 4, a joint member 25 is attached to the tip of the pipe 24. The joint member 25
Has a rectangular tube shape, through which pachinko balls can pass freely. And joint members
The tip of 25 is fitted in a peripheral frame 26 protruding from the periphery of the ball supply port 16b of the automatic hit ball supply device 16, and communicates with the ball supply port 16b. Further, the joint member 25 is provided with a claw 27 of the locking arm 26a, 26a protruding from the peripheral frame 26, and a step 2 on the side surface of the joint member 25.
8 are engaged and held. Further, the joint member 25 is provided with an automatic hitting ball supply device as shown in FIG. 4 because the claw 27 is disengaged from the step portion 28 if the locking arms 26a, 26a are slightly expanded.
Easy to remove from 16. The joint member 25 is provided with a stopper member 29 for opening and closing the channel of the pachinko ball. The stopper member 29, a metal plate is pivotally mounted on the upper surface of the joint member 25 so as to be rotatable around the shaft 30, and the tip of the metal plate is bent downward,
The bent portion protrudes into the channel of the pachinko ball through the opening 31 formed in the joint member 25, and thereby closes the channel of the pachinko ball in a state in which the pachinko ball is in the falling posture shown by the solid line in FIG. It is. The stopper member 29 is slightly tightly fitted to the shaft 30, and maintains the lying posture or the standing posture without rotating naturally without providing any stopping means. Then, the switching operation is performed with a finger while holding the protruding piece 29h protruding from the stopper member 29. The pachinko balls in the pipe 24 flow down due to the height difference (fall) between the ball supply gutter 4 and the automatic hit ball supply gutter 16. Next, the operation will be described. When the player inserts the magnetic card into the card processing device 7, the ball holding data recorded on the magnetic card is read into the control device 14. Then, the player selects the amount select button 9
Is selected, the held ball corresponding to the amount is withdrawn from the magnetic card, and the number of balls that can be fired is displayed on the ball number display section 8. Then, when the player touches the operation handle 11, the firing motor 18 operates and the hitting hammer 17 repeatedly swings. In synchronization with the swing of the hitting hammer 17, the automatic hitting ball supply device 16 operates to send out pachinko balls one by one to the launching unit 15a. The ball feeding solenoid of the automatic hit ball supply device 16 includes a control device 14
And the ball data of the player is "0"
Stop when it becomes. Pachinko balls sent out from the automatic hit ball supply device 16,
The ball is hammered out by the hammer 17 and is sent to the game section 6a of the game board 6 along the guide rail. At this time, the firing unit 15
The pachinko ball is detected by the optical sensor 32 provided in a, and “1” is subtracted from the held ball data of the control device 14. Then, when the pachinko ball wins one of the winning ball receivers 6b, the value of the number of prize balls is converted into the ball holding data of the control device 14 by a signal from the detector 33 individually provided in the winning ball receiver 6b. Is added to. The winning ball thus won and the out ball that has not won flow into the ball collecting gutter 13a and join together to form a ball collection gutter 5a.
The ball is discharged upward to reach the pachinko ball lift 3, and is lifted while being polished by the pachinko ball lift 3, flows through the ball supply gutter 4 and is distributed to the diversion gutter 4a. Returning, it is sent again to the firing unit 15a, and circulates in this way.

【The invention's effect】

As described above, according to the present invention, the ball supply port is provided in the lower half area of the pachinko machine, and the ball supply port and the ball supply gutter are connected by a flexible pipe. It can be installed in the upper half height range.
As a result, there are many effects that are excellent in practicality as described below. Since the ball supply gutter is located at a low place, it is possible to clear ball
In addition, maintenance of the ball supply gutter such as inspection can be easily performed. The height of the island where the pachinko machine is installed is reduced, which facilitates the assembling work and reduces material costs. Since the pachinko ball lift for lifting the pachinko balls can be reduced in size, it consumes less power and is economical, and has a small bulk and light weight, thereby improving the workability of the installation work. The connection between the ball supply gutter and the pachinko machine can be adjusted by the length and slackness of the flexible pipe attached to the ball supply gutter side, so that the pachinko machine can be freely arranged and the pachinko machine installation island can be easily assembled. It is also possible to freely exchange the front frames.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine installation island showing a partial cross section, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a pachinko machine used in the first embodiment,
FIG. 3 is a rear view of the same, and FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a hit ball launching device. 1 ... Pachinko machine installation island, 2A ... Pachinko machine, 4 ... Ball supply gutter, 5 ... Ball collection gutter, 16 ... Ball automatic supply device, 16b ... Ball supply port, 24 ... Pipe.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A pachinko machine installation island comprising a plurality of pachinko machines arranged side by side, a ball supply gutter for supplying pachinko balls to each of the pachinko machines, and a ball collection gutter for collecting pachinko balls below. The pachinko machine installation island characterized by having the following requirements (a) to (e). (B) The pachinko machine does not have the premium ball tank that was conventionally provided above. (B) In a pachinko machine, an automatic hit ball supply device is provided in a lower half area, and a ball supply port leading to the automatic hit ball supply device is provided on the back side. (C) Attach a flexible pipe to the ball supply gutter side,
The end of the pipe is connected to the ball supply port. (D) The ball supply gutter is provided within a height range between the upper end of the pachinko machine and the ball supply port. (E) The pachinko machine and the ball collecting gutter are not connected, and the pachinko balls discharged from the pachinko machine are dropped on the ball collecting gutter.