JP4400602B2 - Medal game machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a medal game machine capable of smoothly and surely pushing out a medal group on a medal placement surface of a medal placement body with a moving body moving on the medal placement surface.

  As shown in FIG. 18, a medal pusher 02 as a moving body is slid back and forth by a drive mechanism 03 on a field plate 01 as a medal placement body, and the medal 04 on the field plate 01 is moved to the near side. There was a medal game machine to push out.

  In this medal game machine, the presser fitting 07 is attached to the hanging piece 06 hanging from the cover 05 so that the lower surface of the medal pusher 02 does not float from the upper surface of the field plate 01.

  However, in the medal game machine shown in FIG. 18, when the medal pusher 02 slides on the field plate 01 continuously for a long time, the upper and lower surfaces of the medal pusher 02 are worn and the upper surface of the field plate 01 is also worn. However, a gap is generated between the lower surface of the tip of the medal pusher 02 and the upper surface of the field plate 01, and the medal pusher 02 may not be able to slide back and forth because the medal 04 is inserted into the gap.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 8-19661

  The present invention provides a medal pushing device for a medal game machine in which a medal is not sandwiched between a fixed member such as a medal placement body and a moving body.

The invention according to claim 1 is a medal game machine in which a player inserts a medal into an insertion slot and plays a game, and a medal placing body for placing a medal and a medal placing surface of the medal placing body A moving body that pushes the medal group on the medal placement surface by a reciprocating motion, a guide that is provided adjacent to both side portions of the moving body, and guides the moving body in a reciprocating direction; A reciprocating motion of the moving body along the reciprocating motion of the moving body, a medal falling space in which medals pushed out from the medal placement surface fall by reciprocating motion of the moving body by the driving mechanism, and the medal falling space And a payout port for paying out medals obtained by the player when the medal falls, and the movable body is configured to be able to place a plurality of medals on an upper surface, and the guide has a lower end portion of the movable body. Up A pair of left and right obscuration members that cover the gap between the moving body and the guide and prevent a medal placed on the upper surface of the moving body from being caught in the gap. The obscuration member is a medal game machine provided so as to be movable up and down with respect to the upper surface of the movable body.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a medal game machine in which a player inserts a medal into an insertion slot and plays a game, the medal placing body for placing a medal, and the medal placing surface of the medal placing body. A moving body that pushes the medal group on the medal placement surface by a reciprocating motion, a driving mechanism that performs the reciprocating motion of the moving body, and a reciprocating motion of the moving body by the driving mechanism. A medal drop space in which a medal pushed out from the placement surface falls; and a payout port for paying out a medal acquired by a player when the medal falls into the medal fall space, wherein the medal placement body moves the movement A movable body support member that supports the body movably in a reciprocating direction, and a front and rear reciprocating guide member provided on the movable body support member adjacent to both side portions of the movable body, , Each vertically movably provided on the side, a gaming machine, wherein a lower end portion to the left and right portions of the movable body upper surface is provided with obscuration member a pair of left and right that can abut.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a moving anti-friction means is provided on both side surfaces of the moving body, the moving body supporting member is a horizontal substrate, and the front-rear reciprocating guide member is a moving anti-friction of the moving body. A pair of left and right guide wall portions that contact the means, and a pair of left and right protruding wall portions that are located above the guide wall portion and project from the guide wall portion toward the center of the movable body width direction, 3. The medal game machine according to claim 2, wherein the pair of left and right obscuration members are provided on the pair of left and right protruding wall portions of the front and rear reciprocating guide member so as to be vertically movable.

In the first aspect of the present invention, a guide for guiding the movable body in the reciprocating direction, a drive mechanism for causing the movable body to reciprocate along the guide, and a reciprocating motion of the movable body by the drive mechanism, A medal drop space in which a medal pushed out from the medal placement surface falls; and a payout port for paying out a medal acquired by the player when the medal falls into the medal drop space. A plurality of medals can be placed on the upper surface of the movable body, the lower end of the guide abuts against the upper surface of the movable body, covers the gap between the movable body and the guide, and is placed on the upper surface of the movable body. A pair of left and right occulting members that prevent the medal that has been placed between the gaps, and the occluding members are provided so as to be movable up and down with respect to the upper surface of the movable body. Is a song Or, even if the mobile body is worn away locally during long-term operation, the lower end surface of the occluding member can be in close contact with the left and right portions of the upper surface of the mobile body. Thus, the medal is prevented from being sandwiched between the moving body and the guide, and in this state, the medal on the medal mounting surface of the medal mounting body is moved by the reciprocating motion of the moving body. It is pushed out from the surface, falls in the medal drop space, and is surely paid out to the payout opening.

In a second aspect of the present invention, a drive mechanism that causes the moving body to reciprocate, and a medal drop space in which medals pushed from the medal placement surface fall due to the reciprocating movement of the moving body by the drive mechanism. And a payout opening for paying out medals acquired by the player when the medals fall into the medal drop space, and the medal placement body supports the moving body so as to be movable in a reciprocating direction. And a front and rear reciprocating guide member provided on the moving body supporting member adjacent to both side portions of the moving body, and the front and rear reciprocating guide members are provided on both side portions so as to be movable up and down. Since the left and right portions of the upper surface are provided with a pair of left and right obscuration members that can contact the lower end, the medal placement surface of the medal placement body has irregularities and wear, and the guide surface of the front and rear reciprocating guide member Concave Even if there is wear, the gap between the movable body, the medal placement body, and the front and rear reciprocating guide member is sealed by the occulting member by the occulting members provided so as to be movable up and down on both sides of the front and rear reciprocating guide member The medal on the medal placement surface of the medal placement body falls into the medal drop space from the medal placement surface without being sandwiched by the gap, and the medal is surely paid out from the payout opening.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the second aspect of the present invention, movement anti-friction means is provided on both side surfaces of the movable body, the movable body support member is a horizontal substrate, and the front-rear reciprocating guide is provided. The members are a pair of left and right guide wall members that are in contact with the moving anti-friction means of the movable body, and left and right positions that are located above the guide wall portion and protrude from the guide wall portion toward the center in the width direction of the movable body. And a pair of protruding wall portions, and the moving body is guided by the front-rear reciprocating guide member by the anti-friction means provided on both side surfaces of the moving body, while moving back and forth on the moving body support member. It can be reciprocated easily. The pair of left and right obscuration members are provided on the pair of left and right protruding wall portions of the front and rear reciprocating guide member so as to be movable up and down, so that the medals on the medal placement surface of the medal placement body are The obscuring member can fall down the fall space without being sandwiched between the front and rear reciprocating guide member and the medal placement body, and be surely paid out to the medal payout opening.

  Hereinafter, the best mode of the present invention illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 17 will be described.

  The medal game machine 1 having a hexagonal plane shape is composed of satellite game units 2 divided into six at a plane connecting the center of the hexagon and each apex angle, and the player plays each satellite game unit 2 individually. It can be done.

  In each satellite game unit 2, as shown in FIG. 2, a medal slot 4 is provided at the upper part of the glass plate 3 on the front front side, and the rear side of the game space 5 partitioned by the glass plate 3 is 2 The back plate 6 and the transparent plate 7 are erected in a vertical direction with an interval through which the medal 8 can pass, and are sandwiched between the back plate 6 and the transparent plate 7 from the medal slot 4. A medal guide 10 is provided toward the top of the medal passage 9, and a large number of nails (not shown) such as pachinko nails are arranged on the front surface of the back plate 6, and a lower portion of the transparent plate 7 A medal sensor 11 is provided, and at the bottom of the game space 5, a medal placing body 12 is horizontally stretched, and a moving body 13 is placed thereon, and the player receives the medal 8 from the medal insertion slot 4. When inserted, the medal slot 4 passes through the medal guide 10 and enters the medal passage 9. When the medal 8 is dropped in the medal passage 9 while changing the route by a nail on the way and the medal 8 passes near the medal sensor 11, a predetermined number of medals 8 are paid out onto the medal placement body 12 or the moving body 13. It is like that.

  Further, the tip of the connecting rod 14 is pivotally attached to the movable body 13, and the drive motor 15 is installed on the main body of the satellite game unit 2 with the rotary shaft 16 of the drive motor 15 standing upright in the vertical direction. The rear end of the connecting rod 14 is pivotally attached to the front end of a crank 17 that is integrally attached to the upper end of the shaft. The drive motor 15 is in an operating state and the crank 17 is driven to rotate about the rotary shaft 16. Then, the movable body 13 is reciprocated back and forth.

The medal mounting body 12 includes a base support member 18 as shown in FIGS. 6 to 8, a base 25 (see FIGS. 3 and 4) integrally stacked on the top plate 19 of the base support member 18, and The side guide 26 shown in FIGS. 9 to 11 integrally mounted on both the left and right sides of the base 25 and the covering member holding protrusion 35 protruding from the inner side surface of the medal guide portion 32 of the side guide 26 are loosely fitted. The base support member is composed of a resin covering member 43 (see FIG. 5) rich in self-lubricating property and a pressing plate 44 (see FIG. 5) that presses the covering member 43 so as not to come off from the covering member holding protrusion 35. 18, both side portions of the steel plate top plate 19 are bent at a right angle downward to form a side plate 20, and a lower portion of the side plate 20 is bent outward at a right angle to form a bent horizontal piece 21. The both sides of the top plate 19 adjacent to the bent portion of the side plate 20 are punched upward to form the rising piece 22, and the top plate 19 The front part is bent downward at a right angle to form a hanging plate 23, and the lower part of the hanging plate 23 is bent forward at a right angle to form a folded horizontal piece 24.
The base 25 corresponds to the movable body support member in claims 2 and 3 , and the side guide 26 corresponds to the front and rear reciprocating guide member.

  The side guide 26 includes a guide plate 27 illustrated in FIGS. 9 to 11 and a reinforcing plate 36 illustrated in FIGS. 12 to 14. The guide plate 27 includes a bottom plate portion 28 and a bottom plate portion 28. Folded reinforcing piece 29 erected upward at the outer end, movable body guide part 30 erected upward from the inner side of bottom plate part 28, and bent at right angles from the upper part of movable body guide part 30 to the inside. A stepped portion 31, a medal guide portion 32 standing upward from the inner side of the stepped portion 31, a folded top plate portion 33 bent at a right angle from the top of the medal guide portion 32, and a medal guide portion 32. It consists of a front end reinforcing piece 34 bent inward at a right angle from the front part, and a covering member holding protruding piece 35 formed by punching the substantially central part of the medal guide part 32 inward.

  Further, the reinforcing plate 36 includes a main body portion 37 having the shape shown in FIG. 12, a bottom piece portion 38 and a top piece portion 39 that are bent at a right angle from the bottom portion and the top portion of the main body portion 37, and the main body portion 37. The guide plate holding pieces 40 and 41 are bent at right angles from the inner lower portion and the upper portion to the inner side, and the folded pieces 42 are bent at right angles from the outer lower portion of the main body portion 37 to the inner side. The guide plate holding pieces 40 and 41 of the reinforcing plate 36 are integrally joined to the moving body guide portion 30 and the medal guide portion 32 of the guide plate 27 respectively by an adhesive or welding.

  Furthermore, the substantially angle-shaped presser plate 44 shown in FIG. 5 has its top portion 45 overlapped with the folded top plate portion 33 of the guide plate 27 and is fixed integrally with a screw or the like penetrating both. A blocking portion 46 that is bent at a right angle outward is formed at the front end portion.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 3, a medal placing plate 47 is stretched and extended horizontally at the front end of the base 25 of the medal placing body 12.

  The moving body 13 that reciprocates back and forth on the base 25 of the medal mounting body 12 is configured as shown in FIG.

  That is, the moving body 13 includes a moving body base 50, a medal support plate 57 that is mounted in an integrated manner on the upper surface of the moving body base 50, and a tip that is mounted integrally on the front end of the upper surface of the medal support plate 57. In the movable body base 50, the support roller 52 is placed on the left and right horizontal axes below the front part 51a and the rear part 51b of the side plate part 51 that is bent downward at right and left sides. The presser roller 53 is pivotally mounted on the left and right horizontal axes around the front part of the rear piece 51b of the side plate part 51 so as to be rotatable about the center. Guided between the front horizontal part 51c which is located between the pieces 51a and bent outward at a right angle, and the rear horizontal part 51d which is located behind the rear piece 51b and bent at a right angle outward. Each of the rollers 54 is pivotally mounted around a vertical axis, and the front center of the side plate 51 Connecting 杆枢 wear block 55 is integrally attached to the tip of the connecting rod 14 is pivotally connected to the connecting 杆枢 wear block 55.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 5, an attachment hole 59 is provided in the distal end plate portion 56 bent at a right angle downward at the distal end portion of the movable body base 50. The holes 61 of the pair of left and right mounting plates 60 shown in FIG. 17 are aligned, and the mounting plate 60 is attached to the tip plate portion 56 with screws (not shown) that are screwed through the mounting holes 59, 61. On the top of the mounting plate 60, a spacing member 62 having guide projections 62a at three lower portions is attached by screws (not shown). The mounting plate 60 is provided with two intermediate portions of the guide projections 62a and outer guide projections. Three stopper holes 63 are formed obliquely on the two outer sides of 62a, two protrusions (not shown) are formed on the bottom surface of the holding member 64, and the protrusions of the holding member 64 are three stopper holes. The holding member 64 is fitted and fixed in the holes 63a at both ends of the 63. A recess central hole 65, by three central hole 63b and a screw not shown is screwed through the of the stopper hole 63, the holding member 64 is fixed firmly to the mounting plate 60.

  Further, each of the movable pieces 66 is formed with a rectangular hole 67 at the center, and the body portion of the holding member 64 is loosely fitted into the rectangular hole 67, and blind holes 68 are formed at the two top portions of the movable piece 66, respectively. In addition, a blind hole (not shown) is formed on the lower surface of the spacing member 62 at a position corresponding to the blind hole 68, and the coil spring 69 is loosened between the blind hole 68 of the movable piece 66 and the blind hole of the spacing member 62. The movable piece 66 is always urged downward by the spring force of the coil spring 69.

  Furthermore, the main body 58a of the leading edge member 58 is applied to the front side surface of the spacing member 62, and when the spacing member 62 is screwed to the leading plate 56 of the movable body base 50 with a screw (not shown), The screw passes through a hole (not shown) in the main body 58a of the leading edge member 58, and the leading edge member 58 is fastened to the movable body base 50 and the leading plate portion 56 together with the mounting plate 60 and the spacing member 62. The distal end portion 58b of the distal end edge member 58 is inclined upward from the upper end edge of the distal end plate portion 56 of the movable body base 50 toward the front side.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 2, a wall portion 70 that can contact the upper surface of the medal support plate 57 of the moving body 13 is attached to the lower end of the back plate 6 so as not to move back and forth. When 13 moves backward, the medal 8 on the moving body 13 comes into contact with the wall portion 70 and is pushed forward.

  The configuration shown in FIGS. 1 to 17 is configured as described above. Therefore, when the player inserts the medal 8 from the medal insertion slot 4, the player falls through the medal guide 9 and moves through the medal guide 10. When placed on the medal support plate 57 of the body 13, the medal 8 on the medal support plate 57 is sequentially pushed forward by the reciprocating motion of the moving body 13, and the medal is placed from the leading edge member 58 of the moving body 13. The medals are dropped onto the medal placing plate 47 of the placing body 12, and a large number of medals 8 on the medal placing plate 47 are pushed forward little by little to fall from the edge body 48 of the medal placing body 12 and pay out. It is paid out to the payout port 49a via 49.

  When the moving body 13 is driven back and forth by the drive motor 15, the moving body 13 is driven back and forth with less resistance by the support roller 52, and the support roller 52 that rolls in contact with the moving body guide portion 30 of the side guide 26. Can be moved back and forth without shifting left and right, and can be stably reciprocated without being lifted upward by the presser roller 53 that rolls in contact with the step portion 31 of the side guide 26.

  Further, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the obscuring member 43 is stably held in the front / rear and left / right directions by the obscuring member holding protrusion 35, the guide plate 27 and the holding plate 44, as shown in FIG. In addition, since it can always contact the medal support plate 57 of the mobile body base 50, the medal 8 enters and is sandwiched between the guide plate 27 of the side guide 26 and the side edge of the medal support plate 57 of the mobile body base 50. There is nothing at all.

  Further, a large number of movable pieces 66 branch in the left-right direction and are attached to the medal support plate 57 of the movable body base 50 so as to be movable up and down, and are always urged downward by the coil spring 69. Since the lower end surface of the movable piece 66 is in contact with the base 25 without any gaps regardless of the wear of the lower end surface and the upper surface of the base 25 and the wear of the outer peripheral surface of the support roller 52, the medal 8 Is prevented from being sandwiched between the base 25 and the movable piece 66 or between the base 25 and the tip plate portion 56.

  Furthermore, since the rectangular hole 67 is formed in the movable piece 66 and the holding member 64 having a rectangular cross section is fitted into the rectangular hole 67, the holding member 64 can be moved up and down stably.

  Moreover, since the holding member 64 is formed with the folded portion 64a, the longitudinal direction of the holding member 64 is stable without tilting left and right even if the spring force of the spring 69 is shifted to either the left or right portion. And is held in the horizontal direction.

In the present invention, in order to reduce the frictional resistance of the movable piece 66 that is a movable portion with respect to the base 25 that is the medal mounting body, the movable piece 66 is made of a resin having a high self-lubricating property. May be formed on an inclined surface like a blade with a low tip end and a high rear end, or the lower edge of the movable piece 66 may be formed in a wave shape when viewed from the front.
Further, the movable pieces 66 may be arranged in a staggered manner in a planar arrangement state without arranging them in a row in the horizontal direction.
Further, the arrangement gap between the movable pieces 66 may not be narrow, but may be a gap smaller than the diameter of the medal 8.

It is a front view of a medal game machine provided with a medal pushing device of the present invention. It is a vertical side view of FIG. It is the principal part perspective view which partly cut away FIG. It is a whole perspective view of a medal mounting body. FIG. 5 is a front view of FIG. 4. It is a top view of the base support member of a medal mounting body. FIG. 7 is a front view of FIG. 6. FIG. 8 is a side view of FIG. 7. It is a side view of a guide plate. FIG. 10 is a plan view of FIG. 9. FIG. 10 is a front view of FIG. 9. It is a side view of a reinforcement board. It is a front view of FIG. FIG. 13 is a plan view of FIG. 12. It is the perspective view which looked at the moving body from diagonally downward. It is a perspective view of the state which attached the movable piece to the attachment plate. FIG. 17 is an exploded perspective view of FIG. 16. It is a vertical side view of the conventional medal pushing device.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Medal game machine, 2 ... Satellite game unit, 3 ... Glass board, 4 ... Medal insertion slot, 5 ... Game space, 6 ... Back board, 7 ... Transparent board, 8 ... Medal, 9 ... Medal passage, 10 ... Medal Guide, 11 ... Medal sensor, 12 ... Medal mounting body, 13 ... Moving body, 14 ... Connecting rod, 15 ... Drive motor, 16 ... Rotating shaft, 17 ... Crank, 18 ... Base support member, 19 ... Top plate, 20 ... Side plate, 21 ... Folded horizontal piece, 22 ... Rising piece, 23 ... Drop board, 24 ... Folded horizontal piece, 25 ... Base, 26 ... Side guide, 27 ... Guide plate, 28 ... Bottom plate, 29 ... Folded reinforcement piece , 30 ... Moving body guide part, 31 ... Step part, 32 ... Medal guide part, 33 ... Folded top plate part, 34 ... Front end reinforcement piece, 35 ... Cover member holding projection piece, 36 ... Reinforcement plate, 37 ... Body part, 38 ... bottom piece, 39 ... top piece, 40 ... guide plate holding piece, 41 ... guide plate holding piece, 42 ... folded piece, 43 ... covering member, 44 ... presser plate, 45 ... top, 46 ... Stop part, 47: Medal placing plate, 48 ... Edge body, 49 ... Discharge chute, 50 ... Moving body base, 51 ... Side plate part, 52 ... Support roller, 53 ... Presser roller, 54 ... Guide roller, 55 ... Connecting rod Pivot block, 56 ... tip plate, 57 ... medal support plate, 58 ... tip edge member, 59 ... mounting hole, 60 ... mounting plate, 61 ... hole, 62 ... spacing member, 63 ... stopper hole, 64 ... holding Member, 65 ... hole, 66 ... movable piece, 67 ... rectangular hole, 68 ... blind hole, 69 ... coil spring, 70 ... wall.

Claims (3)

A medal game machine in which a player inserts a medal into an insertion slot and plays a game,
A medal placement body for placing medals;
A movable body that is disposed on a medal placement surface of the medal placement body and pushes a medal group on the medal placement surface by a reciprocating motion;
A guide that is provided adjacent to both sides of the moving body, guides the moving body in a reciprocating direction, and a drive mechanism that causes the moving body to reciprocate along the guide;
A medal drop space in which medals pushed out from the medal placement surface fall due to the reciprocating motion of the moving body by the drive mechanism;
A payout port for paying out a medal acquired by a player when the medal falls in the medal drop space;
The moving body is configured to be able to place a plurality of medals on the upper surface,
The lower end of the guide is in contact with the upper surface of the moving body to cover and conceal the gap between the moving body and the guide, and a medal placed on the upper surface of the moving body is prevented from being caught in the gap. A pair of left and right obscuration members that
The medal game machine, wherein the occulting member is provided so as to be movable up and down with respect to the upper surface of the movable body. A medal game machine in which a player inserts a medal into an insertion slot and plays a game,
A medal placement body for placing medals;
A movable body that is disposed on a medal placement surface of the medal placement body and pushes a medal group on the medal placement surface by a reciprocating motion;
A drive mechanism for reciprocating the movable body;
A medal drop space in which medals pushed out from the medal placement surface fall due to the reciprocating motion of the moving body by the drive mechanism;
A payout port for paying out a medal acquired by a player when the medal falls in the medal drop space;
The medal mount is
A movable body support member that supports the movable body in a reciprocating direction; and
A front and rear reciprocating guide member provided on the movable body support member adjacent to both sides of the movable body;
The medal game machine, wherein the front and rear reciprocating guide members are provided on both side portions so as to be movable up and down, and have a pair of left and right obscuration members whose lower ends can come into contact with left and right portions of the upper surface of the movable body. Moving anti-friction means is provided on both sides of the moving body,
The movable body support member is a horizontal substrate,
The front-rear reciprocating guide member is
A pair of left and right guide walls contacting the moving anti-friction means of the moving body;
A pair of left and right protruding wall portions that are located above the guide wall portion and protrude from the guide wall portion toward the center of the movable body width direction,
3. The medal game machine according to claim 2, wherein the pair of left and right obscuration members are provided on the pair of left and right protruding wall portions of the front-rear reciprocating guide member so as to be vertically movable.

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