JP3076294U - Ball entry device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] To prevent ball clogging in the vicinity of an entrance of a ball. Is provided with a chamfered portion 54, and the chamfered portion 5 of the front partition plate 52 is provided.
A guide rib 56 is connected to 4. Further, the rear end of the guide rib 56 is continuous with a guide surface 103 for guiding the game ball to the back side of the game board 25. Even if a part of the first game ball enters between the nail 50 and the entrance 53, the chamfered portion 54 promptly guides this downward.
Further, even if the second game ball comes after the first ball and pushes in the first ball, the chamfered portion 54 guides the first ball and quickly drops the ball, so that ball clogging does not occur. The entrance 5
Since the guide rib 56 is provided in the game board 3, even if the game balls 55 continuously enter the same entrance 53, the game board 2 can be smoothly played.
The game ball 55 can be guided to the rear side of the ball 5 to prevent ball clogging.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

[Technical field to which the invention belongs]

 The present invention belongs to the technical field of ball and ball game machines represented by pachinko machines.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 Ball game machines can be broadly classified into pachinko machines that can acquire game balls as prize balls when winning, and combination ball game machines that can acquire prize balls when a score is established by the combination of the ball entry position. A typical ball game machine is an arrangement ball type pachinko machine (for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-6861).

[0003] An arrangement ball type pachinko machine has a series of 16 entrances (16 consecutive chuckers) arranged in a row at the bottom of the game board surface, and entrances and character guides distributed on the game board surface. Combination display device that displays winning symbols (also referred to as numbers or entering symbols) corresponding to the entrances, etc., when there is a ball in the device, 16 consecutive chuckers, other entrances, or an accessory guiding device. When a score is established by a combination of winning symbols displayed by the combination display device, a game ball or the like according to the score is paid out. In general, game balls are paid out as prize balls, but coins may be paid out as metal pieces. In addition, a configuration in which a piece of paper or a card simply recording the number of points or balls is handed over has been proposed.

In the conventional 16-unit chucker, the first to sixteenth entrances are arranged on the front side of the game board, and the back entrances that are paired with the respective entrances are arranged on the back side. . In addition, a merging passage is provided below the rear entrance, and game balls entering the entrance and game balls guided to the rear entrance by the guiding gutter pass through the merging passage to the back of the game board. Was discharged to the side.

[0005]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

 In the arrangement ball type pachinko machine, most of the game balls fired by the firing device enter the entrance of any one of the 16-unit chuckers, but game nails or the like on the game board surface (hereinafter referred to as nails). As a result, two or more game balls may be guided to one entrance at a time, and at this time, the ball is often clogged with the conventional entrance opening of a 16-cell chuck.

The clogging of the ball at the entrance of the 16-piece chucker will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 5 (a) is a perspective view of a part of the 16-unit chucker, FIG. 5 (b) is a horizontal sectional view of FIG. 5 (a), and FIG. 5 (c) is FIG. 5 (b) 3 is a sectional view taken along line AA ′ of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 5, a 16-unit chucker 85 is provided below the game board 87. The 16-piece chucker 85 has 16 substantially rectangular entrances 84 defined by the front partition plate 83 and the horizontal partition plates 82a and 82b, and is provided above the horizontal partition plates 82a and 82b. Nail 81a, 81b hammered on game board 87 is arranged.

A game ball fired from a firing device (not shown) is guided to one of the entrances 84 by a nail of the game board 87, and two game balls are provided in one entrance 84. May be induced at the same time. At this time, one game ball 80a falls while rotating in the direction of arrow Q and tries to enter the ball entrance 84, and the other game ball 80b falls while rotating in the direction of arrow Q 'and enters the ball entrance. Attempts to enter 84.

However, since the rotation direction Q of the game ball 80a and the rotation direction Q 'of the game ball 80b are opposite, the brakes are applied to each other at the contact surfaces of the game balls 80a, so that the rotation is impossible. Further, starting from the contact surface between the game ball 80a and the game ball 80b, the force for moving the game ball 80a in the direction of arrow R is applied to the game ball 80b, and the force for moving the game ball 80b in the direction of arrow L. Force acts.

[0010] Accordingly, the game ball 80b is pressed against the glass plate 86 and the front partition plate 83, and the game ball 80a is pressed against the game board 87 and the nail 81a. Could not avoid ball clogging. In addition, such a clogged ball at the entrance is not limited to the 16-cell chucker, but a ball having an entrance arranged on the front side of the game board with its axis parallel to the surface of the game board. This was a problem common to all devices.

[0011]

[Means for Solving the Problems and Effects of the Invention]

 2. The ball entry device according to claim 1, wherein the ball center is parallel to the surface of the game board and has a ball entry port arranged on the front side of the game board. It is characterized by having a section.

A ball entry device according to a second aspect of the present invention is a ball entry port arranged on the front side of the game board with its axis parallel to the surface of the game board, wherein the surface of the game board is In a ball entry device that is a part of a ball entry hole, a chamfered portion is provided on a periphery of the entry hole other than the surface of the game board.

[0013] Usually, a pair of nails are driven just above the entrance, but a ball entry device is attached to the game board, and a penetration for guiding the entered game ball to the back side of the game board. Since the hole is drilled, the nail is driven at least 7 mm away from the cutting surface of this through hole.

Accordingly, if the distance between the entrance and the cutting surface is 2 mm, the total distance between the entrance and the nail is 9 mm. If there is no chamfer at the tip of the entrance, the nail and The first game ball will be partially inserted between the entrance and the entrance, and the second game ball will be pushed into it, causing the ball to be clogged.

However, in the ball entry device according to the first aspect, a chamfered portion is provided on the entire circumference of the ball entrance, and in the ball entry device according to the second aspect, the game also serves as the edge of the ball entrance. Since the chamfered portion is provided on the periphery other than the surface of the board, even if part of the first game ball enters between the nail and the entrance, the chamfered portion guides this downward. Drop quickly. Also, even if the second game ball comes after the first ball and pushes in the first ball, the chamfered portion guides the first ball and drops quickly, so that no ball clogging occurs.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the ball entry device according to the first or second aspect, the ball enters the ball entry port from a vertical plane disposed along the axis of the ball entry port. A guide rib having an inclination such that the vertical surface is higher and the guide surface is lower is provided on a guide surface for guiding a game ball to the rear side of the game board.

Normally, the distance between the game board and the glass plate covering the game board is set at 19 mm, so that the size of the entrance hole is commensurate with this. In other words, the distance between the game board and the wall surface on the glass plate side of the entrance is about 17 mm. At this interval, if the first game ball enters the glass board side of the entrance and the second ball enters the game board side, the second ball will be replaced with the first ball on the glass board side. As a result, the ball may be clogged by a conventional ball entry device due to a biting phenomenon.

However, according to the configuration of the third aspect, since the guide rib quickly moves the first ball to the game board side, the above-described biting occurs even if the second ball continues. Absent . Therefore, ball clogging does not occur. A ball entry device according to a fourth aspect is the ball entry device according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein a plurality of the entrances are juxtaposed in a horizontal direction. This ball entry device is suitable for a multiple ball entry device having a structure in which a plurality of ball inlets are arranged side by side, such as a 16-ball chuck of an arrangement ball type pachinko machine.

A ball entry device according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is the ball entry device according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, wherein a length of the nail is set below each of the pair of nails hit on the game board. A region defined by a pair of horizontal partition plates arranged along the direction and a front partition plate arranged along a direction parallel to the surface of the game board is defined as the ball entrance. Features.

[0020]

[Embodiment of the invention]

 Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

[0021]

Embodiment 1 As shown in FIG. 1, a game board 25 is provided on a front portion of an arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10 as a ball game machine of the present embodiment. On the upper right side of the front of the game board 25, a lamp cover for the stop display section 11 and the double display section 12 is attached. On the upper left side of the front side, a score display 20 composed of two 7-segment LEDs is provided. Is provided.

An upper entrance 26, a windmill 13, an entrance chucker 15, an entrance indicator 14, and an electric tulip entrance 16 are arranged in the game area of the game board 25 and cross the lower part of the game area. Along the direction of movement, a 16-unit chucker 24, which is a multiple-entry ball device, is arranged.

A coin insertion slot 21 for inserting a coin for starting a game is provided on the left side of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10, and a coin return button 22 and a coin return slot 23 are provided below the coin insertion slot 21. Is provided. In the center of the lower part of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10, a coin tray 19 is provided, and on the right side thereof, a manual handle 18 and a balance 17 are provided.

Here, the structure of the ball entry chucker 15 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the ball entry chucker 15 has a ball entrance 100 formed by a chucker base 90 and a filter lens 98 disposed on the front side thereof, and a chamfered portion 100a is formed around the periphery of the ball entrance 100. ing.

A lamp house 97 is arranged on the back side of the chucker base 90. A guide surface 101 for guiding the entered game ball to the back side of the game board 25 is provided to protrude from the back of the filter lens 98 to the back side of the chucker base 90. An inclined guiding rib 99 is provided in which the filter lens 98 is higher and the guiding surface 101 is lower.

In the ball entry chuck 15, chamfers 100 a are provided at three edges of the entrance 100, and the chamfer base 90 is also provided with chamfers. That is, since the chamfered portion is provided on the entire edge of the entrance 100, even if a part of the first game ball enters between the nail above the entrance 100 and the entrance 100, Since the chamfered portion 100a guides this downward, it falls quickly. Further, even if the second game ball comes after the first ball and pushes the first ball, the chamfered portion 100a guides the first ball and drops it quickly, so that ball clogging does not occur.

In addition, since the guiding rib 99 quickly moves the first game ball to the game board 25 side, even if the second ball continues, no biting occurs and no ball clogging occurs. A lamp 91 is inserted into the lamp house 97. As shown in FIG. 3C, the lamp 91 is pressed into a resilient lamp socket 92 made of silicone rubber and held by the elastic force of the lamp socket 92. Since the lamp socket 92 is made of silicon rubber, it has excellent heat resistance.

The lamp socket 92 is further inserted into a lamp housing 93, and a W contact 94 for supplying power to the lamp 91 is inserted through the lamp housing 93. The wire mounting portion 94a of the W contact 94 is configured such that two KV wires 95 can be mounted. A lock pin (not shown) is provided on the rear side of the W contact 94. It is a structure that disappears.

When two KV electric wires 95 are crimped to the electric wire mounting portion 94 a of the W contact 94, one of the shots is connected to the HF connector 96, and the other one is connected to another W contact 94. By connecting, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), the left and right lamps 91 can be connected in parallel, and one HF connector 96 connected to the power supply source simultaneously supplies power to the left and right lamps 91. Can be supplied.

When the lamp housing 93 is inserted into the lamp house 97 together with the lamp 91 in this structure, the lamp 91 can be easily attached to the ball-entering chuck 15 without providing a lamp board as in the related art. Further, since the lamp 91 is not provided, the lamp 91 can be pushed all the way down (to the vicinity of the filter lens 98), and light can be directly applied to the vicinity of the surface of the filter lens 98. It can shine clearly. In addition, there is an excellent effect that when the filament of the lamp 91 is broken and replacement is required, replacement can be easily performed.

Next, the details of the 16-unit chucker 24 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, the 16-piece chucker 24 has 16 substantially rectangular entrance holes 53 defined by a front partition plate 52 and a horizontal partition plate 51. Since it passes through the board 25, a part of the surface of the game board also serves as one edge of the entrance 53. A nail 50 driven into the game board 25 is disposed above the horizontal partition plate 51.

A chamfered portion 54 is provided on the upper edge of the front partition plate 52 and the horizontal partition plate 51 forming the entrance 53. That is, the entrance 53 has chamfers 54 at three edges other than the surface of the game board 25. In addition, guide ribs 56 are continuously provided on the chamfered portion 54 of the front partition plate 52. Further, the rear end of the guide rib 56 is continuous with a guide surface 103 for guiding the game ball to the back side of the game board 25.

In the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10, the course of a game ball fired on the game board 25 is changed by a nail 50 driven into the game board 25. A game ball that has not entered the upper entrance 26, the windmill 13, the entrance chucker 15, the electric tulip entrance 16, or the like must enter any one of the entrances 53 of the 16-unit chucker 24. However, the chamfered portions 54 provided on the front partition plate 52 and the horizontal partition plate 51 guide the game balls 55. Therefore, even if a part of the first game ball enters between the nail 50 and the ball entrance 53, the chamfered portion 54 promptly guides this downward. Further, even if the second game ball comes after the first ball and pushes in the first ball, the chamfered portion 54 guides the first ball and quickly drops it, so that no ball clogging occurs.

Since the guiding rib 56 is provided in the entrance 53, even if the game balls 55 continuously enter the same entrance 53, the game balls 55 are smoothly placed on the back side of the game board 25. Can be induced to prevent ball clogging. Next, the structure of the rear side of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10 will be described with reference to FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, a control device 40 is provided on the upper rear surface of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10, and a ball entry indicator 14 is provided below the control device 40. On the left side of, a ball-discharge solenoid 41 is installed. A selector 30 is provided on the back side of the coin insertion slot 21 shown in FIG. 1, and a coin chute 31 is disposed below the selector 30. A lower end of the selector 30 and one end of the coin chute 31 are connected. I have. A start switch 32 is attached to the coin chute 31, and the other end is connected to a coin case 42 provided at the lower center of the rear surface of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10.

A coin box 33 having an upper end connected to the coin chute 31 and a lower end connected to the payout device 38 is provided on the right side of the coin case 42, and a stop switch 34 is provided on the coin box 33. Installed. The coin box 33 is for storing prize coins. The coins inserted from the coin slot 21 can be supplied to the coin box 33 as long as coins can be supplied to the coin box 33 when flowing down the coin chute 31. When the coin box 33 is full and the coin box 33 is full, it flows down and is stored in the coin case 42.

The payout device 38 connected to the coin box 33 introduces a prize coin from the coin box 33 every time the prize coin payout solenoid 35 operates, and discharges the prize coin to a bucket 39 connected to the lower part. Structure. The lower end of the bucket 39 is connected to the coin tray 19 shown in FIG. 1, and the prize coins discharged from the payout device 38 to the bucket 39 flow down the bucket 39 and are discharged to the coin tray 19.

Further, a prize coin payout solenoid 35 is provided on the right side of the payout device 38, and a fuse 36 and a power switch 37 are provided below the prize coin payout solenoid 35. Next, the operation of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10 will be described. When a coin is inserted from the coin insertion slot 21, the selector 30 determines whether or not the coin is the coin of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10. If it is a bad coin, it is returned from the coin return slot 23. In addition, if a coin jam or the like occurs even with the coin of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10, the coin can be returned from the coin return slot 23 by pressing the coin return button 22.

When the inserted coin is determined by the selector 30 to be the coin of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine 10, the coin flows down the coin chute 31. At this time, it passes over the start switch 32 and turns on the start switch 32. Then, the signal is input to the control device 40.

The control device 40 controls various operations throughout the game, such as starting and ending the game, calculating the number of effective launch balls, displaying a ball, displaying a winning score, and paying out prize coins. When an ON signal of the start switch 32 is input to the control device 40, the control device 40 activates the ball-wiring solenoid 41 by control not described in detail.

When the ball dispensing solenoid 41 is activated, a game ball is sent to a firing unit (not shown) so that the game can be started. Therefore, the player can use the right hand to support the tongs 17 and play the manual handle 18 with a finger. Thereby, a game ball can be fired aiming at a desired position of the game board 25. The launched game balls enter one of several entrances provided in the game board 25, and most of them enter the 16-cell chucker 24.

A switch (not shown) for detecting the entered ball is incorporated in the 16-piece chucker 24 in correspondence with each entry port 53. It is connected to the display unit and to the control device 40. The number is displayed on the ball entry display 14 by a signal from the switch, and if the combination is a preset combination, the control device 40 gives a score corresponding to the combination, stores the score in the storage circuit, and , The score is displayed on the score display 20.

When the score is displayed on the score display 20, the number of prize coins corresponding to the score is paid out at the end of the game. The payout of the premium coin is performed by the control device 40 controlling the payout device 38. The premium coins paid out from the payout device 38 are discharged to the coin tray 19 via the bucket 39.

As described above, the embodiments of the present invention have been described according to the embodiments. However, the present invention is not limited to such embodiments, and various modifications may be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. Needless to say, it can be implemented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an arrangement ball type pachinko machine according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine of the first embodiment.

FIGS. 3A and 3B are explanatory diagrams of the structure of a ball input chucker of the arrangement ball type pachinko machine according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3A is a plan view, FIG. 3B is a cross-sectional view, and FIG. FIG.

FIG. 4 shows an arrangement ball type pachinko machine according to the first embodiment.
4A and 4B are explanatory views of the structure of a six-stage chucker, where FIG. 4A is a partial perspective view, FIG.
(C) is a partial sectional view in the vertical direction.

5 (a) is a partial perspective view, FIG. 5 (b) is a partial cross-sectional view in a horizontal direction, and FIG. 5 (c) is a vertical view. It is a partial sectional view in the direction.

[Explanation of symbols]

10. Arranged ball pachinko machine (ball game machine), 1
5: ball entry chucker (ball entry device, issuing device), 16: electric tulip entrance port, 24: 16-cell chucker (ball entry device), 25: game board, 26: upper ball entry port, 40: control device, 50: nail, 51: horizontal partition, 52: front partition, 5
3 ... entrance, 54 ... chamfered part, 55 ... game ball, 56 ... guide rib, 90 ... chucker base, 91 ... lamp, 92
... lamp socket, 93 ... lamp housing, 94 ... W
Contact, 94a: wire attachment part, 95: KV wire, 9
6 HF connector, 97 lamp house, 98 filter lens, 99 guide rib, 100 ball entrance, 100
a: chamfered portion, 101: guide surface, 103: guide surface.

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Takahiro Uchigashima 1-3-3 Taiheidori, Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture Takaonai Co., Ltd. (72) Makoto Omura 1-3-3 Taiheidori, Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture Address Takaonai Co., Ltd.

Claims (5)

[Utility model registration claims] 1. A ball entry device having a ball entry port arranged on the front side of a game board with its axis parallel to the surface of the game board, wherein a chamfer is provided around the entire circumference of the ball entry port. A ball entry device characterized by the above-mentioned. 2. A ball entry port having an axis parallel to the surface of the game board and arranged on the front side of the game board, wherein the surface of the game board is a part of the ball entry port. A ball entry device, wherein a chamfered portion is provided on a periphery of the entry hole other than the surface of the game board. 3. The ball entry device according to claim 1, wherein a game ball that has entered the ball entry port from a vertical plane disposed along the axis of the ball entry port is placed on the back of the game board. A ball entry device, wherein a guiding rib having an inclination such that the vertical surface side is higher and the guiding surface side is lower is provided over a guiding surface that guides to the side. 4. The ball entry apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the entrances are arranged in a horizontal direction. 5. The ball entry device according to claim 1, wherein a pair of nails arranged along the length direction of the nails below each of the pair of nails hammered on the game board. A ball entry device, wherein a region defined by a horizontal partition plate and a front partition plate arranged along a direction parallel to a surface of the game board is defined as the entrance.