JP4386500B2 - Disc-shaped body transfer device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention, a pulley is rotatably supported on one end and the other end of a conveyance frame, an endless belt is wound around the pulley and stretched, and the endless belt is driven by a drive motor provided on the other end side. In more detail, it relates to a disk-shaped body transport device, and more specifically, a disk-shaped body (medals) discharged from a game table (for example, a pachislot table) or a disk-shaped body (coins) discharged from a game medium lending machine. Is a disk-shaped body transport device that collects the end of the endless belt by means of a disk-shaped body removing device provided at an arbitrary position (medals or coins). The present invention relates to a disk-shaped body conveyance device with a disk-shaped body removing means that can eliminate the above.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Usually, on a game island of a game store, a plurality of game machines and game medium lending machines are arranged adjacent to each other. Furthermore, various game facilities are provided inside the game island, which includes a game table and a game medium lending machine. For example, when a money lending machine is installed at a position adjacent to a gaming machine, a disk-shaped coin (for example, 100 yen or 500 yen) inserted into the money lending machine is amusement island. It is necessary to collect and convey it to the end, and a disk-shaped material conveyance device having various configurations is provided on the back of the interbank money lending machine. On the other hand, when the game stand installed on the game island is a pachislot stand, for example, when the medals storage unit inside the pachislot stand is replenished from the upper position or the medals of the disk-shaped body overflowing from the medal storage unit It is necessary to collect and convey at a lower position to the end of the island, and disk-shaped object conveyance devices having various configurations are provided in the vicinity of the pachislot base.
[0003]
The structure of the disc-shaped body transfer device provided on the back surface of the money linter ball lending machine generally includes a pulley rotatably supported at one end and the other end of the transfer frame, An island end is formed by winding and stretching a single endless belt made of a horizontal shape having substantially the same length, and driving the endless belt by a drive motor provided on the other end side. The disk-shaped coins are collected and transported to the disk-shaped body recovery box provided in the box.
[0004]
Also, provided in the vicinity of the pachi-slot base, replenish the medal storage section inside the pachi-slot base from an upper position, or lower the disc-shaped medals overflowing from the medal storage section to the end of the game island The configuration of the game medium transport device that collects and transports to a position is, for example, a pulley that rotatably supports one end and the other end of the transport frame, and a single horizontal shape having substantially the same length as the game island. The endless belt is wound and stretched, and the endless belt is driven by a drive motor provided at the other end side, and the disc-like body recovery box provided at the island end portion is disc-shaped. Of a game table unit configured to collect and convey medals of the body, and a pulley that rotatably supports a pulley at one end and the other end of the conveyance frame, and a game machine and a game medium lending machine mounted on the pulley. It has approximately the same length as the game table unit inside An endless belt having a horizontal or inclined state (for example, an upwardly inclined state) is wound and stretched, and the endless belt is driven by a drive motor provided on the other end side. . Since the disk-shaped body transport device here is substantially the same length as the game table unit, the disk-shaped body transport device sequentially connects the ends of the disk-shaped body transport devices of adjacent game table units. The disc-shaped medals are sequentially transferred (changed) to the downstream disk-shaped material transport device, and this is repeated and transported to the island edge, or each game table and each game from the island edge. Supplying to the media lending machine.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in any of the above-described disk-shaped body conveyance devices, the back surface of the endless belt on the side (upper side) on which the medals or coins, which are disk-shaped bodies, are erroneously mounted ( There was a problem that trouble occurred. In other words, a pulley is rotatably supported on one end and the other end of the transport frame, and a single endless belt having a horizontal or inclined shape is wound around the pulley and stretched. Misalignment adjustment of the endless belt by an operator or if the endless belt has been used for many years, the tension of the endless belt is gradually bent, and a gap may be formed between the endless belt and the conveyance frame.
[0006]
Disk-shaped medals or coins invade into the gap between the bent endless belt and the conveyance frame, and convey it to the vicinity of the pulley at the front end in the conveyance direction while entering the gap. Further, the medals or coins that have entered the pulley and the endless belt (bypass) are clogged and the endless belt cannot be driven normally. In this state, the endless belt and the drive motor are loaded, causing the endless belt to be damaged or cut, or to cause troubles (failures, etc.) of the drive motor, and the disk-shaped body conveyance device does not function normally. . As a result, if the disk transport device installed on the game island stops during business, the game machine or the game media lending machine will be suspended during that time, and customers will leave their seats for repair, etc. There was a problem that caused a great deal of inconvenience to customers, and there was a demand from the amusement store side to improve it quickly.
[0007]
In addition, in the case of a disk-shaped body transfer device provided on the back side of the money lending machine, there is a problem that the amount of money inserted and the sales amount of the recovered amount do not match due to coins that have entered the back side of the endless belt. Furthermore, although not shown, the transport frame of the disc-shaped transport device installed inside the game island is covered with a lid in consideration of theft prevention, etc., and the disc-shaped medal or the like in the gap of the endless belt It has been pointed out that it is difficult to find a state where coins are sandwiched and it is difficult to prevent (excavate the bending state of an endless belt).
[0008]
It is an object of the present invention to provide a disk-shaped medal or coin in a disk-shaped body transporting apparatus on a back surface from a gap of the endless belt when transported on an endless belt in a transport frame. Even if the medals or coins of the body enter and transport to the transport end, the disk-shaped body is removed by the disk-shaped body exclusion means provided at an arbitrary position immediately before the pulley on the other end side of the transport destination. Medals or coins are excluded outside (external) the disc-shaped body transport device main body, so that troubles such as endless belt damage or cutting, pulley damage, and drive motor burnout (failure, etc.) must be prevented. It is intended to provide a disk-shaped body transport device with a disk-shaped body removing means that can perform the above.
[0009]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the disk-shaped body conveyance device according to claim 1 is characterized in that the disk-shaped body conveyance device disposed on the game island in which the game tables are arranged side by side is connected to pulleys at one end and the other end of the conveyance frame. The endless belt is wound around an endless belt around a pulley, the endless belt is driven by a drive motor provided at the other end, and the endless belt is wound around and stretched between both pulleys on the transport surface of the transport frame. It is configured so that a disk-shaped body is mounted on and transported, and a disk-shaped body that eliminates the disk-shaped body that has entered the gap between the endless belt and the transport frame at any position on the transport surface of the transport frame is eliminated. The disk-shaped body transporting device is provided with a means , wherein the disk-shaped body removing means is provided with an opening at an arbitrary position on a transport surface of a transport frame having a cross-sectional H shape, and the opening has a mountain shape. A sloped part is formed and disc-shaped body discharge ports are provided on both side walls at the tip of the sloped part. , A structure that eliminates the back of the endless belt and the disc-shaped body that has entered the gap between the conveying surface of the conveyor frame, from one of the disc-shaped body outlet in sliding by the inclined portion provided in the opening It is a thing.
[0010]
For this reason, the discoidal medal or coin is inserted from the gap formed during the transfer of the discoidal medal or coin mounted on the transporting frame of the discoid transporting device. Discs provided on the side wall from the slope of the mountain-shaped inclined portion of the opening provided at an arbitrary position immediately before the pulley on the other end side in the conveyance direction even if the kind penetrates into the back surface of the endless belt (submerges) Since it slides down from the disk-shaped body discharge port and is discharged from the disk-shaped body discharge port to the outside of the disk-shaped body transport device, it is not transported to the pulley side. Therefore, due to the disk-shaped medals or coins that have entered the back of the endless belt, the endless belt is not damaged or cut, the pulley is not damaged, and the drive motor burns out (failure) ) Is prevented in advance. Therefore, troubles due to the disk-shaped body transport device are completely eliminated, and the customer may be inconvenienced such as having the customer leave for repair without stopping the use of the game machine or the game media lending machine. You can operate without any problems.
[0017]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a game island having game machine units arranged side by side and having a disk-shaped body transfer device having substantially the same length as the game machine unit. Here, the description has been made with the game unit having the game table and the game medium lending machine attached, but even if the game table and the game medium lending machine that are not attached to the game table unit are arranged on the game island. good.
[0018]
First, the structure provided in the disk-shaped body transfer apparatus 10 in the game stand unit 2 is demonstrated. First, the configuration of the game table unit 2 will be briefly described. As shown in FIG. 1, the gaming table unit 2 has a gaming table frame 4 made of a rectangular parallelepiped and a gaming table 1 (for example, a pachislot table) and a gaming medium lending machine 3 (for example, rental of inter-unit medals at the right position). And a size that can be provided as a pair. A connecting means (not shown) for connecting to the adjacent left and right game table units is provided on the side surface of the game table unit 2 so as to be freely laid out. When the gaming machine 1 is installed in the gaming machine frame 4 of the gaming machine unit 2, it is necessary to collect the disc-shaped medals M overflowing from the medal game storage part 1 a inside the gaming machine 1. As shown in FIG. 1, a disk-shaped body is transported to the lower inside of the game table frame 4 with the same width (length) as the game table unit 2 (game table frame) and in an inclined state (for example, an upwardly inclined state). The apparatus 10 is provided inside the lower part and is collected. The disk-shaped body transfer device 10 is mounted so as to be freely mounted by an L-shaped mounting bracket (not shown) provided on the side frame of the game platform frame 4.
[0019]
Although the disk-shaped body transport device 10 here is described as being adopted for the purpose of collecting the disk-shaped medals M overflowing from the medal storage section 1a inside the game table 1, A disk-shaped body transporting device 10 in an inclined state (for example, an upwardly inclined state) is provided in the upper inside of the frame 4, and each game stand unit 2 is connected to an island edge medal supply unit (not shown). You may employ | adopt for the use which replenishes the medal storage part 1a. Further, the disk-shaped body transfer device 10 is described as being formed to have substantially the same width (length) as the game table unit 2, but when it is a game table unit in which two game table units are arranged side by side, As a matter of course, the body transporting device 10 is formed to have a width (length) substantially the same as that of the two game table units.
[0020]
In mounting (attaching) the disk-shaped body transporting device 10 to the lower inside of the game table unit 2, the medal receiving port 16b of the disk-shaped body transporting device 10 is lowered and the medal discharge port 16a side is raised. In the state, the medal discharge port 16a side is mounted on the mounting bracket provided on the game stand frame 4 for mounting. The disc-shaped transport device 10 thus attached is connected to the adjacent disc-shaped transport device 10 and the medal receiving port 16b at the end of the adjacent disc-shaped transport device 10 has the medal discharge port 16a. Are sequentially connected in an inclined state.
[0021]
Next, the configuration of the disk-shaped body transfer device 10 will be described. The disk-shaped body conveyance device 10 rotatably supports a driven pulley 14, tension pulleys 14 a, 14 b, 14 c and a driving pulley 13 on one end and the other end of a conveying frame 12, and the driven pulley 14 and the driving pulley 13 are rotatably supported. An endless belt 15 having an inclined state (for example, an upwardly inclined state) having substantially the same length is wound and stretched inside the lower part of the gaming unit 2 to which the gaming machine 1 and the gaming medium rental machine 3 are mounted. The drive motor 17 provided at the other end is driven. In this way, the disc-shaped body transfer device 10 overflows from the medal storage part 1a because the medal inflow hose 1b provided in the substantially central part and the medal storage part 1a of the game table 1 are connected. The medals M flow down in the medals inflow hose 1b and are carried on the endless belt 15, and are sequentially transferred (changed) by the disk-shaped body conveying device 10 connected downstream. It is configured to be transported.
[0022]
And the medals overflowing from the medal storage part 1a of each game table 1 in the disk-like body recovery box 30 provided at the lower part of the medal discharge port 16a of the disk transport device 10 provided on the most downstream side. M is collected here (collected). Here, the disk-like body transport device 10 is described to collect the medals M overflowing from the medal storage part 1a of the game table 1, but the game table 1 (for example, pachinko machine) and the game medium rental You may employ | adopt as what collect | recovers the coins (for example, a 100 yen coin, a 500 yen coin) of the disk-shaped object thrown into the machine (for example, a coin lending machine). When the medals M overflowing from the medal storage part 1a in the game table 1 is placed on the endless belt 15 by the medals inflow hose 1b, the driven pulley 14 side of one end is lowered, so that the driven pulley side Although the medals M remain in the standing state near the 14 end, a medal standing prevention member (not shown) is provided at one end to prevent the remaining.
[0023]
Next, the disk-shaped body removing means 11 provided at an arbitrary position on the other end side of the disk-shaped body transporting apparatus 10 will be described. It is effective to provide the disk-like body removing means 11 at an arbitrary position immediately before the drive pulley 13 near the other end of the disk-like body conveying apparatus 10, but the position to be provided is not particularly limited. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the disk-like body removing means 11 has an endless belt 15 on one end of a driven pulley 14 and a driving pulley 13 on the other end on a conveying surface 12 a in a conveying frame 12 having a H-shaped cross section. It is wound and stretched. A rectangular opening 11A is provided at an arbitrary position on the conveying surface 12a in the conveying frame 12, and the opening 11A is formed in a mountain shape including a top portion 15a and an inclined portion (inclined surface) 11a. The side wall 12b at the tip of the inclined portion is provided with a disk-shaped body discharge port 11b having an elongated hole shape. The disk-shaped medals M that have entered the back surface in the transport direction of the endless belt 15 are formed in the opening 11A. In the vicinity of the top 15a (conveying surface center), the balance (solid state to the downward inclined state) is lost, and it falls while sliding in the direction of any inclined part 11a, and then the disk-like body conveying device 10 from the disk-like body discharge port 11b. It is excluded outside (outside) the main body. In addition, it is not limited to the structure of the above-mentioned discoid body exclusion means 11.
[0024]
Therefore, even if the medals M enter the back surface of the endless belt 15, the medals M are eliminated at the immediately preceding position, so that they are not transported to the drive pulley 13 side. Therefore, the trouble (failure) that the endless belt 15 is not damaged or cut, the drive pulley 13 is not damaged, and the drive motor 17 is burned out is prevented in advance. The trouble is completely eliminated, and the customer can be operated without inconvenience to the customer, such as having the customer leave his / her seat for restoration without stopping the use of the game machine 1. Although not shown, the medals M excluded to the outside (externally) from the disk-like body discharge port 11b of the disk-like body removing means 11 provided in the main body of each disk-like body conveying device 10 are connected via bellows or the like. Since it is collected in a disk-like body collection box or the like (not shown), it is not scattered in the game table unit 2. Further, if a detection sensor (not shown) of the detection means is provided in the vicinity of the disk-shaped body discharge port 11b and connected to an external notification means, the medals M are excluded from the disk-shaped body discharge port 11b to the (outside). You can see that That is, it can be found that the endless belt 15 stretched on the disk-shaped body conveyance device 10 is bent because the fact that the medals M are excluded by being notified to the outside can be grasped. The timing for early repair can be achieved.
[0025]
Next, the structure provided in the disk-shaped body conveyance apparatus 20 of the other Example in the game stand unit 2 is demonstrated. Since the configuration of the game table unit 2 has been described above, a description thereof is omitted here. When the gaming machine 1 is installed in the gaming machine frame 4 of the gaming machine unit 2, it is necessary to collect the disc-shaped medals M overflowing from the medal game storage part 1 a inside the gaming machine 1. As shown in FIG. 5, a horizontal circle in which a single endless belt 25 stretches from one end of the island end to the other end of the gaming island 5 in which the gaming table 1 and the game medium lending machine 3 are arranged. The plate-like body conveyance device 20 is provided inside the lower part and is collected. The disk-shaped body transfer device 20 is mounted so as to be freely mountable by mounting brackets (not shown) provided on the side frames of the game stand frame 4 on both ends.
[0026]
Although the disk-shaped body transport device 20 here is described as being used for the purpose of collecting the disk-shaped medals M overflowing from the medal storage section 1a inside the gaming table 1, 4. A horizontal disc-like body transport device 20 is provided inside the upper part of 4 to supply the medal storage part 1a of each gaming unit 2 from an island edge medal supply part (not shown). May be adopted.
[0027]
In mounting (attaching) the disk-shaped body transporting device 20 horizontally below the game table unit 2, a mounting bracket (one figure) provided with one end of the disk-shaped body transporting device 20 on the game table frame 4. On the other hand, the other end side is attached to a mounting bracket (not shown) provided on an island-end mounting frame with an endless belt 25 depending on the island length so as to maintain a horizontal state.
[0028]
Next, the configuration of the disk-shaped body transfer device 20 will be described. The disk-shaped body conveyance device 20 rotatably supports a driven pulley 24, tension pulleys 24a, 24b, 24c, and a driving pulley 23 at one end and the other end of the conveying frame 12, and the driven pulley 24 and the driving pulley 23 are rotatably supported. A horizontal endless belt 25 having substantially the same length as the game island 5 is wound and stretched, and driven by a drive motor 27 provided on the other end side. In this way, the disc-shaped body transfer device 20 overflows from the medal storage part 1a because the medal inflow hose 1b provided in the substantially central part and the medal storage part 1a of the game table 1 are connected. The medals M flow down in the medal inflow hose 1b, are carried on the endless belt 25, and are sequentially conveyed to the downstream side. Then, the medals M overflowing from the medals storage unit 1a of each gaming table 1 are collected in a lump in the disk-like body collection box 30 provided in the lower part of the disk-like body conveyance device 20 provided on the most downstream side. (Accumulated). Here, the disk-shaped body transfer device 20 is described to collect the medals M overflowing from the medal storage part 1a of the game table 1, but the game table 1 (for example, pachinko machine) and the game medium rental You may employ | adopt as what collect | recovers the coins (for example, a 100 yen coin, a 500 yen coin) of the disk-shaped object thrown into the machine (for example, a coin lending machine). In addition, it is not limited to the structure of the above-mentioned discoid conveying device 10 and the discoid conveying device 20.
[0029]
Next, the disc-like body removing means 11 provided at an arbitrary position on the other end side of the disc-like body transporting device 20 will be described. It is effective to provide the disk-like body removing means 11 at an arbitrary position or number (here, one place) immediately before the drive pulley 23 near the other end of the disk-like body conveying device 20, although it is effective. It does not limit the position and the number to be provided. When the long endless belt 25 is wound and stretched as in the case of the disk-shaped body conveying device 20, the disk-shaped body removing means 11 is provided in two places (for example, near the center and near the island edge). If so, the medals M can be eliminated. The disk-like body removing means 11 removes medals M and coins which are disk-like bodies that have entered the back surface of the endless belt 25. Foreign matter or the like may also enter, but is excluded by the disk-like body removing means 11. Since the detailed description of the discoid body removing means 11 has been described above, the description thereof is omitted here.
[0030]
Therefore, even if the medals M enter the back surface of the endless belt 25, the medals M are eliminated at the immediately preceding position, so that they are not transported to the drive pulley 23 side. Therefore, the trouble (failure) in which the endless belt 25 is not damaged or cut, the drive pulley 23 is not damaged, and the drive motor 27 is burned out is prevented in advance, and the trouble of the disk-shaped body transport device 20 is prevented. Thus, without using the game machine 1, it is possible to operate without inconvenience to the customer, such as having the customer leave the seat even when repairing. Although not shown, the medals M excluded to the outside (externally) from the disk-shaped body discharge port 11b of the disk-shaped body removing means 11 provided in the disk-shaped body transporting device 20 main body are circled via bellows or the like. Since it is collected in a plate-like body collection box or the like (not shown), it is not scattered in the game island 5. Further, if a detection sensor (not shown) of the detection means is provided in the vicinity of the disk-shaped body discharge port 11b and connected to an external notification means, the medals M are excluded from the disk-shaped body discharge port 11b to the (outside). You can see that That is, it can be found that the endless belt 25 stretched on the disk-shaped body transport device 20 is bent because it is possible to grasp the actual state in which the medals M are excluded by being notified to the outside. The timing for early repair can be achieved.
[0031]
【The invention's effect】
As is apparent from the above description, according to the disk-shaped body transport device of claim 1 of the present invention, the disk-shaped medal or coins are placed in the transport frame of the disk-shaped body transport device. Even if a disk-shaped medal or coin enters the back surface of the endless belt from the gap that has been bent during the transportation, it is immediately before the pulley at one end or the other end in the transport direction. From the slope of the mountain-shaped inclined portion of the opening portion provided at an arbitrary position of the disc, and slides down from the disc-like body outlet provided on the side wall, and is discharged from the disc-like body outlet to the outside of the disc-like body transport device. Therefore, it is not transported to the pulley side. Therefore, due to the disk-shaped medals or coins that have entered the back of the endless belt, the endless belt is not damaged or cut, the pulley is not damaged, and the drive motor burns out (failure) ) Is prevented in advance. Therefore, troubles due to the disk-shaped body transport device are completely eliminated, and the customer may be inconvenienced such as having the customer leave for repair without stopping the use of the game machine or the game media lending machine. It has the effect of being able to operate without any problems.
[Brief description of the drawings]
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a front view of a game island having game machine units arranged side by side with a disk-shaped body transfer device having substantially the same length as the game machine unit.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a disk-like body removing means provided in the disk-like body conveying apparatus.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state of a disk-like body removing means provided in the disk-like body conveying apparatus.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the disk-shaped body conveyance device other than the disk-shaped removing means.
FIG. 5 is a front view of a game island having game stand units arranged side by side with a disk-shaped body transfer device having substantially the same length as the game island.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Game stand (for example, pachislot stand)
2 Game stand unit 3 Game media lending machine (for example, inter-medal medals lending machine)
4 Game frame 10 Disc-like body transport device 11 Disc-like body removing means 11A Opening portion 11a Inclined portion 11b Disc-like body discharge port 12 Conveying frame 12a Conveying surface 13 Drive pulley (the other end side)
14 Driven pulley (one end side)
15 Endless belt 17 Drive motor 20 Disk-shaped body conveying device 25 Endless belt M Disk-shaped body (for example, medals)

Claims (1)

A disk-shaped body transfer device disposed on an amusement island in which game machines are arranged side by side,
A pulley is rotatably supported on one end and the other end of the conveyance frame, an endless belt is wound around the pulley, the endless belt is driven by a drive motor provided on the other end, and the conveyance surface of the conveyance frame is interposed between both pulleys. It is configured to carry a disk-like body on an endless belt that is wound and stretched .
A disk-shaped body conveying device provided with a disk-shaped body removing means for removing a disk-shaped body that has entered the gap between the endless belt and the conveying frame at an arbitrary position on the conveying surface of the conveying frame ,
The disk-like body removing means includes
An opening is provided at an arbitrary position on the transport surface of the transport frame having a cross-sectional H shape,
Forming a mountain-shaped inclined part in the opening and providing disc-like body outlets on both side walls at the tip of the inclined part,
The disc-shaped body that has entered the gap between the back surface of the endless belt and the transport surface of the transport frame is configured to be excluded from any disc-shaped body discharge port by sliding with an inclined portion provided in the opening. A disk-shaped body conveyance device characterized by that.

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