JP4077901B2 - Pachinko machine hitting tray - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a hitting ball supply tray of a pachinko machine provided with a ball leveling plate for preventing the pachinko balls flowing down a rectifying passage from being stacked one above the other.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, a smoothing plate has been provided in the straightening passage that allows the pachinko balls to flow in a line, and the end portion of the straightening passage can be easily wiped by sliding or rotating the straightening plate. A ball pan structure of a pachinko machine is known (see, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 6-210059).
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The ball pawl structure of the conventional pachinko machine described above is connected to a ball leveling plate and a ball release operation lever that opens and closes a ball release shutter plate provided at the end of the rectifying passage. The ball leveling plate is slid or rotated by operating the ball.
[0004]
For this reason, there is a problem in that the upper surface of the shutter plate cannot be wiped clean because the shutter plate is drawn into the decorative cover of the ball tray when the ball leveling plate is slid or rotated. In particular, the upper surface of the shutter plate is easily contaminated, and is the part where the smoothest flow is required to guide the pachinko balls in the rectifying passage to the supply port of the hitting ball supply device, and it is necessary to frequently wipe and clean.
[0005]
The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems. The object of the present invention is to easily wipe and clean the terminal portion of the rectifying passage including the upper surface of the shutter plate, and to facilitate the wiping work. Such a pachinko machine hitting tray is intended to be provided.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a dish part for storing pachinko balls, a rectifying passage for aligning the pachinko balls of the dish part in a line and leading to a supply port of a hitting ball supply device, and a terminal end of the rectifying path. In a ball supply tray of a pachinko machine having a ball outlet provided in the ball outlet, a shutter plate that opens and closes the ball outlet, and an operation member that moves the shutter plate to a closed position or an open position of the ball outlet, A spherical leveling plate is provided on the upper end surface of the rectifying passage so as to be pivotable upward, and an engaging portion is provided on the spherical leveling plate, and the shutter plate of the ball outlet is moved to the closed position on the operation member. Engaged with the engaging portion of the sphere equalizing plate and restraining the sphere equalizing plate to the rectifying position or the rotating position, and when the shutter plate of the ball outlet is moved to the open position, An engagement pin for releasing the restraint of the sphere equalizing plate is provided.
[0007]
The dish portion has a bottom surface that gently slopes downward from one end to the other end, and a ball pressure receiving portion formed in a stepped shape on the downstream side via a guide side wall, and a guide side wall of the ball pressure receiving portion. It is preferable that the rectifying passages are formed so that the pachinko spheres are arranged in a row and flow down, and the ball leveling plate is formed wide so as to cover the upper surfaces of both the ball pressure receiving portion and the rectifying passages. .
[0008]
In order to make it easier to insert a finger or a cleaning tool into the terminal portion of the rectifying passage, a concave portion communicating with the rectifying passage may be formed on the upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion covered with the sphere leveling plate.
[0009]
Further, in order to easily wipe and clean the flow path changing guide that guides the pachinko balls in the rectifying passage to the supply port of the hitting ball supply device, it is possible to integrally provide a sphere leveling plate and a flow path changing guide. preferable.
[0010]
Furthermore, in order to prevent pachinko balls from being caught between the lower surface of the ball leveling plate and the upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion, the bottom surface of the concave portion formed in the ball pressure receiving portion is formed in a round shape, It is preferable to form the lower surface of the substrate in a shape that matches the recess.
[0011]
For the same purpose, a ball dropping hole communicating with the lower ball tray on the front surface of the pachinko machine may be provided on the upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion.
[0012]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine. 1 is a machine frame of the pachinko machine, and 2 is a front frame that is attached to the front surface of the machine frame 1 so as to be freely opened and closed. The front frame 2 is formed in a frame shape with a window hole provided substantially at the center, and a glass door 3 and a front plate 4 are mounted on one side of the window hole so as to be freely opened and closed. In addition, a game board 5 is detachably mounted behind the glass door 3 and on the back surface portion of the window hole. Reference numeral 6 denotes a hitting ball supply tray attached to the front surface of the front plate 4, 7 denotes a lower ball receiving tray attached to the lower part of the front frame 2, and 8 denotes an operation handle for launching the hitting ball.
[0013]
2 is a perspective view of the hit ball supply tray 6, and FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view thereof. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the hitting ball supply tray 6 is integrally formed with a decorative base 9 that is attached to the front surface of the front plate 4 and a decorative portion 11 that covers a top of the front surface of the circular plate portion 10. It is assembled and configured.
[0014]
The dish portion 10 is inclined downward from the one end facing the prize ball discharge port 12 opened on the decoration base 9 toward the other end, and is stepped through the guide side wall 13 on the downstream side. A ball pressure receiving portion 14 formed in a shape and a guide wall 15 of the ball pressure receiving portion 14 is formed with a rectifying passage 15 which is formed in a narrow width sequentially and allows pachinko balls to flow in a line. A flow path changing guide 16 is formed at the end of the rectifying passage 15, and a pachinko ball of the rectifying passage 15 is decorated from a supply port 17 of the base 9 to a not-shown hitting ball supply device provided on the back side of the front plate 4. It is supposed to lead. Further, a ball outlet 18 is formed at the bottom end of the rectifying passage 15, and a ball outlet passage 19 communicating with the lower ball tray 7 is provided below the ball outlet 18.
[0015]
The ball outlet 18 is provided with a shutter plate 20 that opens and closes the ball outlet 18 so as to be slidable in the lateral direction. In addition, a through hole 22 is formed in the upper surface wall 10a portion of the dish part 10 positioned closer to the front than the ball outlet 18, and an operation member 21 for ball extraction is provided in the through hole 22. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the operation member 21 has a pressing portion 21 a protruding upward from the through hole 22, and a lower side piece 21 b facing a hollow portion located on the front side of the dish portion 10. The lower side piece 21b is provided with a protrusion 21c and a shaft hole 21d. The shaft hole 21d is inserted into a shaft 23 projecting from the plate portion 10 so as to be pivotable in the vertical direction. Has been.
[0016]
An upper end of an operating lever 24 is pivotally supported via a shaft 25 in a hollow portion below the operation member 21 and located on the back side of the dish portion 10. The slide pin 27 of the shutter plate 20 is engaged with the vertically long hole 26. Further, a pressing arm portion 28 protrudes from the upper and lower sides of the operating lever 24. The pressing arm portion 28 faces the front side from the opening hole 29 so as to contact the lower end of the protruding portion 21c of the operating member 21. It is located. Further, one end of a spring 30 is connected to the operating lever 24, and the urging force of the spring 30 always urges the shutter plate 20 in a direction to close the ball outlet 18, and the operation member 21 is rotated upward. It comes to be energized.
[0017]
For this reason, when the player presses the operating member 21 as shown in FIG. 6 by the chain line, the pressing arm portion 28 of the operating lever 24 is pressed from above by the projection 21c, and the operating lever 24 receives the biasing force of the spring 30. The shaft 25 is turned against the fulcrum, and the slide pin 27 of the shutter plate 20 is slid in the lateral direction through the vertically long hole 26. As a result, the shutter plate 20 is drawn from the ball outlet 18 as shown by a chain line in the figure to open the ball outlet 18, and the pachinko ball of the dish portion 10 flows out to the lower ball receiver 7 through the ball passage 19. All can be extracted.
[0018]
Thus, on the downstream side of the dish portion 10, a ball leveling plate 33 is provided to prevent the pachinko balls flowing down the rectifying passage 15 from being stacked up and down. As shown in FIG. 4, the sphere leveling plate 33 is formed wide so as to cover the upper surfaces of both the ball pressure receiving portion 14 and the rectifying passage 15, and a cylindrical portion 34 having a shaft insertion hole 32 at one end thereof. Is formed. The ball leveling plate 33 is pivotally supported so as to be pivotable in the vertical direction by inserting the shaft insertion hole 32 of the cylindrical portion 34 through the rotation support shaft 35 provided in the dish portion 10.
[0019]
The other end of the spring 30 having one end connected to the actuating lever 24 is connected to the sphere leveling plate 33, and the urging force of the spring 30 always urges the sphere leveling plate 33 to rotate downward. It is positioned in contact with the upper surface of the ball pressure receiver 14. Further, on the lower surface of the sphere leveling plate 33, there is formed a sphere leveling protrusion 31 which has a downwardly inclined surface facing the flow direction of the pachinko sphere and faces the upper surface of the rectifying passage 15. Even if the pachinko balls flow in the stacked state as shown in FIG. 6 due to the inclined surface of the portion 31, the stacked pachinko balls can be returned to the rectifying passage 15 and correctly aligned in a line.
[0020]
An engaging portion 36 is integrally projected from the cylindrical portion 34 of the spherical leveling plate 33 in the opposite direction to the spherical leveling plate 33. An arc-shaped opening groove 37 centering on the rotation support shaft 35 is formed.
[0021]
On the other hand, an engaging pin 38 projects from the lower side piece 21 b of the operating member 21 and at a position below the shaft 23. When the shutter plate 20 of the ball outlet 18 is in the closed position, the engaging pin 38 engages with the lower surface of the engaging portion 36 as shown in FIG. Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 8, it is provided so as to engage the upper surface of the engaging portion 36 and restrain the sphere leveling plate 33 at the rotational position. Further, as shown in FIG. 9, the operation member 21 is pushed to move the shutter plate 20 of the ball outlet 18 to the open position so that it is positioned on the rotation locus of the opening groove 37 of the engaging portion 36. .
[0022]
The hitting ball supply tray 6 of the pachinko machine according to the present invention configured as described above has a pachinko ball stored in the tray portion 10 and the pachinko balls stored in the tray portion 10 are gradually lined up in the rectifying passage 15 by the downward inclination of the bottom surface. To the hitting ball supply device from the supply port 17. In this state, as shown in FIG. 7, the engaging pin 38 of the operating member 21 is engaged with the lower surface of the engaging portion 36 of the spherical leveling plate 33 so that the spherical leveling plate 33 cannot be rotated upward. As a result, the ball leveling plate 33 is not unnecessarily rotated upward by the ball pressure of the pachinko ball flowing down the rectifying passage, and the ball leveling operation is performed reliably.
[0023]
Next, the case where the terminal portion of the rectifying passage 15 is wiped and cleaned will be described. In order to wipe and clean the end portion of the rectifying passage 15, first, the operating member 21 is pushed downward in the same manner as when the ball is removed. When the operating member 21 is pushed, the engaging pin 38 is disengaged from the lower surface of the engaging portion 36 of the spherical leveling plate 33 and moves to a position facing the opening groove 37 as shown in FIG. Next, when the sphere leveling plate 33 is rotated upward with a finger as shown by a chain line in FIG. 9 while the operation member 21 is kept pressed, the engagement pin 38 passes through the opening groove 37 and the engagement pin 38 is moved. Will face the upper surface of the engaging portion 36.
[0024]
Next, when the pressing of the operation member 21 is released while the spherical leveling plate 33 is rotated upward, the operating lever 24 is returned by the urging force of the spring 30, and the shutter plate 20 is moved to move the ball outlet 18. At the same time, the operating member 21 is returned to the original horizontal state, and as a result, the engaging pin 38 is engaged with the upper surface of the engaging portion 36 as shown in FIG. Restrain the state as it is.
[0025]
For this reason, the upper end surface of the rectifying passage 15 is kept open, and the ending portion of the rectifying passage 15 can be easily wiped and cleaned. At this time, since the shutter plate 20 is moved to a position where the ball outlet 18 is closed, the upper surface of the shutter plate 20 can be easily wiped and cleaned.
[0026]
Then, after wiping and cleaning the end portion of the rectifying passage 15, when the operation member 21 is pushed again, the engaging pin 38 is disengaged from the upper surface of the engaging portion 36 and at the same time, the sphere leveling plate 33 is moved by the urging force of the spring 30. 9 is rotated from the chain line position to the solid line position, and the operation lever 24 and the shutter plate 20 are restored to the original state by releasing the pressing of the operation member 21.
[0027]
In the case of this embodiment, a concave step portion 39 is formed on the side surface of the ball pressure receiving portion 14, and a passage wall 40 that matches the concave step portion 39 is integrally formed on the lower surface of the sphere leveling plate 33. When the spherical leveling plate 33 is rotated upward by the formation of the concave step portion 39, the passage width of the rectifying passage 15 is increased when the concave step portion 39 is formed, so that wiping can be further facilitated.
[0028]
In the embodiment shown in FIG. 10, a concave portion 41 communicating with the rectifying passage 15 is formed on the upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion 14 covered with the sphere leveling plate 33. By forming the concave portion 41 in the ball pressure receiving portion 14 in this way, it becomes easy to insert a finger, a cleaning tool or the like into the end portion of the rectifying passage 15 when the sphere leveling plate 33 is rotated upward, and wiping and cleaning are very easy. It can be carried out. Further, as shown in the figure, the bottom surface of the recess 41 is formed in a round shape, and the lower surface of the sphere leveling plate 33 is formed in a shape that matches the recess 41, so that the sphere leveling plate 33 is rotated upward. Even if the pachinko ball enters the recess 41, the ball leveling plate 33 is returned to the upper surface position of the rectification passage 15 and is naturally pushed out by the rounded bottom surface into the rectification passage 15. The pachinko ball will not bite in between.
[0029]
In the embodiment shown in FIG. 11, the flow path changing guide 16 is formed integrally with the sphere leveling plate 33. With this configuration, the flow path changing guide 16 can be easily wiped and cleaned.
[0030]
Further, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 12, a ball dropping hole 42 communicating with the lower ball receiving tray 7 through the ball extraction passage 19 is formed on the upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion 14. In the case of this embodiment, even if a pachinko ball enters between the lower surface of the ball leveling plate 33 and the concave portion 41, it falls into the ball drop hole 42 and is discharged to the lower ball tray 7. It is possible to prevent a situation in which a pachinko ball bites into the lower surface of the plate 33.
[0031]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, the hitting supply tray of the pachinko machine according to the present invention can easily remove and clean the terminal portion of the rectifying passage including the shutter plate that opens and closes the ball outlet of the tray portion.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a hit ball supply tray.
FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a main part of a hit ball supply tray.
FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a related configuration of a ball removing mechanism and a ball leveling plate.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of an action when a ball is removed.
FIG. 7 is a front view showing a partial cross-section of a state in which a sphere leveling plate is constrained to a rectifying position.
FIG. 8 is a front view showing a partial cross-section of a state in which a sphere leveling plate is constrained to a rotational position.
FIG. 9 is an operation diagram for explaining an engagement relationship between a sphere leveling plate and an engagement pin.
FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a main part of another embodiment in which a concave portion is formed on the upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion.
FIG. 11 is a perspective view of an essential part of another embodiment in which a flow path changing guide is integrally provided on a sphere leveling plate.
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of a main part of another embodiment in which a ball dropping hole is formed in the ball pressure receiving portion.
[Explanation of symbols]
6 Strike ball supply tray 7 Lower ball tray 10 Plate portion 13 Guide side wall 14 Ball pressure receiving portion 15 Flow path 16 Flow path changing guide 33 Spherical leveling plate 36 Engaging portion 38 Engaging pin 41 Recess 42 Ball falling hole

Claims (6)

A tray part for storing pachinko balls, a rectifying passage for aligning the pachinko balls of the dish part in a line and leading to the supply port of the hitting ball supply device, a ball outlet provided at the end of the rectifying passage, In a hitting tray for a pachinko machine having a shutter plate that opens and closes a mouth, and an operation member that moves the shutter plate to a closed position or an open position of a ball outlet,
A spherical leveling plate is provided on the upper end surface of the rectifying passage so as to be rotatable upward, and an engaging portion is provided on the spherical leveling plate,
When the shutter plate of the ball outlet is moved to the closed position, the operation member engages with the engaging portion of the ball leveling plate and restrains the ball leveling plate to the rectifying position or the rotation position. A pachinko machine hitting plate provided with an engaging pin for releasing the restraint of the ball leveling plate when the shutter plate of the ball outlet is moved to the open position. The pan portion has a bottom surface that gently slopes downward from one end to the other end, and has a ball pressure receiving portion formed in a stepped shape on the downstream side through a guide side wall, and a width by the guide side wall of the ball pressure receiving portion. 2. The rectifying passage formed narrowly and formed to flow the pachinko spheres in a line, and the sphere equalizing plate is formed wide so as to cover the upper surfaces of both the ball pressure receiving portion and the rectifying passage. A ball supply tray for pachinko machines. The hitting ball supply tray for a pachinko machine according to claim 2, wherein a concave portion communicating with the rectifying passage is formed on an upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion covered with the ball leveling plate. 4. A hitting ball supply tray for a pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein a ball leveling plate and a flow path changing guide for guiding the pachinko balls in the rectifying passage to the supply port of the hitting ball supply device are integrally provided. A concave portion communicating with the rectifying passage is formed on the upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion covered with the spherical leveling plate, the bottom surface of the concave portion is formed in a round shape, and the lower surface of the spherical leveling plate is formed in a shape matching the concave portion. The hitting tray for a pachinko machine according to claim 2, 3 or 4. 6. A hitting ball supply tray for a pachinko machine according to claim 2, 3, 4 or 5, wherein a ball dropping hole communicating with a lower ball tray on the front surface of the pachinko machine is provided on the upper surface of the ball pressure receiving portion covered by the ball leveling plate.

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