JP4579105B2 - Ball reduction machine for pachinko game machine and pachinko game machine having the same - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a pachinko game machine spheres reduction machine and pachinko gaming machine having the same.
More specifically, the present invention relates to a pachinko game machine having a good appearance. Further, a ball reduction machine for a pachinko game machine used in a pachinko game machine configured by attaching the pachinko machine to a machine for machine installation, the ball reduction machine for the pachinko game machine is a It can be manufactured and can be installed easily.

Conventionally, pachinko game machines in amusement parks, game centers, and the like are configured by attaching a pachinko machine to a dedicated housing. In this type of pachinko game machine, the upper and lower plates of the pachinko machine are covered so that the player cannot directly touch the ball. It is raised to the replenishment section and circulates through the pachinko machine.
As such a pachinko game machine, for example, the one shown in Patent Document 1 is known.

JP 2002-306815 A

However, the pachinko game machine shown in Patent Document 1 described above has the following problems.
In the pachinko game machine described above , a hole is made in the bottom of the lower plate of the pachinko machine, one end of the tubular circulation passage is connected to the hole, and the other end of the circulation passage is connected to a reduction machine installed in the housing. Thus, the pachinko ball paid out to the lower plate has a structure that is sent to the reducing machine through the circulation passage. In other words, they were connected by a circulation passage, and the circulation passage appeared on the front side, and the appearance was unsightly.

In the case of the above-mentioned pachinko game machine, as already described, it is necessary to provide a process for providing a circulation passage for sending a ball to the reducing machine so as to penetrate the inside and outside of the housing, and the pachinko machine and the reducing machine are integrated. It had to be manufactured so that it took a lot of work. For this reason, it was rare to replace the pachinko machine with another model after production.

An object of the present invention is to improve the appearance of a pachinko game machine.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a pachinko game machine configured by attaching a pachinko machine to a gaming machine installation facility such as a casing, and the ball reducer for the pachinko game machine is produced in advance regardless of the pachinko machine. Thus, the pachinko machine and the ball reducer for the pachinko game machine can be easily and separately installed.

Means taken by the present invention to achieve the above object are as follows.
In the first invention,
A ball reduction machine for a pachinko game machine configured by attaching a pachinko machine to a machine installation facility,
Has a ball collection part at the top of the case body ,
In the case body, there is provided a ball alignment portion that aligns the collected balls and sends them to the ball lifting means,
The ball collection unit includes a movable ball receiving unit that receives a ball that exits from the discharge port of the pachinko machine or a ball that drops and is attached to the movable body so that the angle of the movable ball receiving unit extends from the case body. ,
The ball lifting means includes a ball lifting case, and the ball lifting case houses a ball lifting rotor which is formed with a plurality of fitting recesses on the peripheral surface and is driven by a motor,
The sphere alignment unit is configured to operate when the weight of the collected spheres is applied to operate the switch means, and the motor is operated by the operation of the switch means,
The ball lifting case has a width wall formed in an arc shape along the peripheral edge of the ball lifting rotor,
An escape portion is provided between the width wall and the ball alignment portion to prevent the ball from being caught by the ball lifting rotor, and the escape portion includes a relief piece that rotates downward.
This is a ball reduction machine for pachinko game machines.

In the second invention,
A ball reducing machine for a pachinko game machine according to the first invention;
It is a pachinko game machine.

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The operation of the ball reducing machine for a pachinko game machine according to the present invention and the pachinko game machine including the same will be described. Note that, here, each constituent element of the present invention will be described in association with the reference numerals given to the respective parts in the embodiments described later, but the provision of these reference signs is only for the sake of easy understanding of the description. a and not meant to be limited to the various parts of each constituent in.

According to the pachinko gaming machine equipped with the ball reducing machine (K) for the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention, the out ball (the ball collected without winning a prize) or the ball paid out by the jackpot is the pachinko machine (1). out and out from the exhaust outlet (10) or fall, it is recovered in the pachinko game machine sphere reducing machine spherical collecting portion (K) (34). Then, the balls collected by the ball collecting unit (34) are raised by the ball replenishing unit (4) to the ball supply unit (11) provided on the upper back side.

The present invention has the above-described configuration and has the following effects.
Since the circulation path of a ball provided in a conventional pachinko game machine does not appear on the front side of the pachinko machine, the appearance is good.

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Ball recovery unit is provided with the ball receiving part receiving the ball out by spheres or fall out from the exhaust outlet, for example, even when the change position of the discharge outlet by pachinko machine type, the installation position of the discharge outlet It can be moved to fit.

Since the ball aligning section that aligns the collected balls and sends them to the ball lifting means is provided, the balls can be aligned by the ball aligning section.

Is provided with the switch means for actuating the balls fried means by recovered spheres, it is possible to operate the ball fried means only when in the game.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention, and is a perspective explanatory view showing a state in which a pachinko machine attached to a housing is opened forward,
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a pachinko game machine,
FIG. 3 is a perspective explanatory view showing a ball reducer installed in the housing,
4 is a front view of the spherical reduction machine shown in FIG.
FIG. 5 is a plan view of the spherical reduction machine shown in FIG.
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the ball reducer shown in FIG.
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the spherical reduction machine shown in FIG.
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line CC of the spherical reduction machine shown in FIG.

  Symbol P indicates a pachinko game machine. The pachinko game machine P includes a pachinko machine 1 that is a gaming machine and a housing 2 that is a game machine installation facility for mounting the pachinko machine 1.

The pachinko machine 1 uses a commercially available product used in a pachinko parlor. The pachinko machine 1, the exhaust outlet 10 for discharging the ball is formed. Exhaust outlet 10 is in position the ball to be paid out by the out-ball or jackpot Ru is discharged, is formed by drilling from the lower surface side. Thus, the balls can not go to the lower tray 12, and is discharged from the exhaust outlet 10. In addition, the part provided in the back side of the pachinko machine 1 shown with the code | symbol 11 is a ball supply part for storing a ball | bowl.

The housing 2 is for allowing the pachinko machine 1 to be installed in an amusement park, a game center, or the like, and is formed to include a space portion 20 whose entire front surface is open at a required height.
The pachinko machine 1 is attached to one vertical edge which is an opening edge so as to close the opening of the space 20 via a hinge (not visible in the figure) so as to be rotatable in the horizontal direction (FIG. 1). reference). In the space part 20 of the housing 2, a ball reducing machine K, which is a ball reducing machine for a pachinko game machine, for collecting a ball from the discharge port 10 and lifting it to the ball supply unit 11 is installed.

The structure of the spherical reduction machine K will be described in detail mainly with reference to FIGS.
The ball reducer K is configured to include a case main body 3 that is formed in a box shape by standing wall portions on four sides, and a ball lifting mechanism 4 that is a ball lifting means. Specifically, the outer shape of the case body 3 is formed by assembling the wall portions 30 and 31 and the narrow wall portions 32 and 33 having a shorter lateral width so as to face each other. The ball lifting mechanism 4 is provided on the outer surface of the narrow wall 33.

At the upper part of the case body 3, a sphere collection unit 34 for collecting spheres is provided. Ball recovery unit 34 includes a movable ball receiving portion 35 is a ball receiving part receiving the ball leaving to fall from the exhaust outlet 10 of the pachinko machine 1, the spherical reservoir 343 for storing the ball received by the movable ball receiving portion 35 It has.

  The sphere storage part 343 is formed such that both ends of a rectangular thin plate are bent to form attachment parts 340 and 340, and a horizontal part 341 is provided between them. The horizontal portion 341 has a lateral width of the wall portions 32 and 33 so that a gap 38 through which the sphere can pass is formed between the horizontal portion 341 and the inner surface of the wall portion 30 when the sphere storage portion 343 is attached to the upper portion of the case body 3. It is formed slightly narrower.

  A guide wall 342 is erected on the upper surface of the horizontal part 341 so that the balls roll on the horizontal part 341 and are collected on the side of the wall part 32 near the wall part 30. The ball storage portion 343 is detachably attached to the case body 3 by placing the attachment portions 340 and 340 on the wall portions 32 and 33, respectively.

  On the upper edge side of the wall portion 31 constituting the case main body 3, a notch portion 310 is formed by cutting out so as to be substantially flush with the horizontal portion 341 when the ball storage portion 343 is attached to the case main body 3. It is. The movable ball receiver 35 is provided in the case body 3 so as to extend forward from the notch 310.

The movable ball receiving portion 35 includes a rectangular flat portion 350, and is formed by bending wall portions 351, 352, and 353 at the three edges around the rectangular flat portion 350, and the remaining portions without the wall portions 351, 352, and 353. and one edge, the horizontal portion 341 and the notch 310 is attached in a state of being associated to a continuous state. Specifically, the hinges T1 and T1 are interposed between the back surface of the flat portion 350 and the wall portion 31, and the attachment members 311 and 311 are fixed to the outer surface of the wall portion 31 on both sides of the notch portion 310, respectively. An arc-shaped through groove 354 is formed in the wall portion 352 and the wall portion 353 corresponding to the mounting member 311, and a bolt B is passed through the mounting member 311 and the through groove 354 so that a nut N is screwed. The movable ball receiving portion 35 is attached to the wall portion 31 so that the angle can be adjusted. In addition, although a code | symbol and illustration were abbreviate | omitted, on the surface of the horizontal part 341 of the bulb | ball storage part 343 and the plane part 350 of the movable ball | bowl receiving part 35, the sheet | seat made from a thin synthetic resin which has a soundproofing effect and a buffering property is provided. is there.

  The lower edge portions of the wall portions 31 and 32 are bent outward to form fixing portions 312 and 320. The ball reducer K is fixed by passing wood screws through the fixing portions 312 and 320 and screwing them into the housing 2.

Please refer to FIG. 6, FIG. 7 and FIG.
On the side of the wall 30 in the case body 3, there is provided a ball aligning portion 36 that allows the balls falling on the horizontal portion 341 and falling from the gap 38 to be sent to the ball lifting mechanism portion 4 in an aligned state. is there. The ball alignment unit 36 includes a movable guide unit 360 that receives a ball dropped from the gap 38, and a fixed guide unit 361 that receives the ball rolling on the movable guide unit 360 and sends it to the ball lifting mechanism unit 4.

  The movable guide portion 360 is formed in a bowl shape having a required depth in which the side walls 362 and 362 are opposed to each other so as to have an inner width slightly wider than the diameter of the sphere, and one end of the movable guide portion 360 is provided on the wall portion 32 via a hinge T2. It is attached to the inside. A sliding member 366 is provided at the bottom of the movable guide portion 360 to make it easier for the ball to roll. The sliding member 366 is composed of a synthetic resin thin plate extending in the length direction and having an uneven portion formed on the surface thereof, and also has a soundproofing effect and a buffering property.

  In addition, a guide piece 363 that guides the ball that has fallen from the gap 38 into the movable guide portion 360 is formed over the entire length of the side wall 362 that is disposed on the inner side of the case body 3. is there.

On the lower side of the bottom of the movable guide portion 360, a switch device 37, which is a switch means, is fixed to the inner surface of the wall portion 30. The switch device 37 normally protrudes upward from the case main body 370 and includes a switch portion 371 that retracts inward when a force is applied.
The movable guide portion 360 is provided with the switch device 37 on the lower side so that the upper portion of the switch portion 371 is in contact with the back surface of the bottom portion, and at this time, the other end side is slightly inclined toward the ball lifting mechanism portion 31 side. It is provided to be in a state. In this way, a ball enters the movable guide portion 360, descends due to the weight of the ball, and the switch portion 371 is pushed.

  The fixed guide portion 361 is formed in a bowl shape with side walls 364 and 364 facing each other in the same manner as the movable guide portion 360, and is substantially continuous with the other end of the movable guide portion 360 when lowered. The ball lifting mechanism portion 4 is inclined so as to be fixed to the inner surface of the wall portion 30 by a fixing member 365 so as to penetrate the wall portion 33.

  Also, a buffer member 300 is provided on the inner surface of the wall portion 30 corresponding to the upper side of the movable guide portion 360 so that the sphere does not directly hit the wall portion 30. The buffer member 300 is made of a synthetic resin thin plate having fine irregularities formed on the surface, and has a soundproofing effect and a buffering property.

  The ball lifting mechanism 4 includes a motor attachment portion 40 to which the motor 5 is attached, and a ball lifting case 41 in which a ball lifting rotor 410 is accommodated.

  The motor attachment portion 40 is formed by bending a plate-like body substantially at a right angle, and is attached so that a vertical flat portion 400 protrudes from the outer surface of the wall portion 33. The motor 5 is attached to the front side of the plane part 400 so that the rotating shaft 50 penetrates the plane part 400 and protrudes to the back side.

  The ball lifting case 41 takes in the balls sent from the ball aligning portion 36 and sequentially lifts these balls to the ball replenishing portion 11 by the ball lifting rotor 410 accommodated therein. The ball lifting case 41 is provided with side walls 411 and 412 facing each other so as to have an inner width slightly wider than the diameter of the ball, and a ball lifting rotor 410 is provided between the side walls 411 and 412 so as to be rotatable by the rotary shaft 50. Further, a width wall 413 is provided between the side walls 411 and 412 around the ball lifting rotor 410.

  A guide cylinder portion 414 through which a ball sent by the ball lifting rotor 410 passes is provided at the upper end of the ball lifting case 41 so as to protrude upward. The guide cylinder part 414 is provided with a connection cap 43 to which one end of the transport pipe 6 whose other end is connected to the ball supply part 11 is connected. The transport pipe 6 has a movable part 60 that can be bent.

  The ball lifting rotor 410 has a thickness that is slightly thinner than the width of the width wall 413, and a plurality of substantially semicircular fitting recesses 415 are provided on the peripheral surface so that the balls can be fitted and transported. It is formed.

  The width wall 413 of the ball lifting case 41 is circular so that a part thereof is along the peripheral edge of the ball lifting rotor 410 so that the ball is fitted to the fitting concave portion 415 of the ball lifting rotor 410 and is sent to the guide tube portion 414. It is formed in an arc shape and is provided so as to follow the guide tube portion 414.

  On the side of the fixed guide portion 361 of the width wall 413, a gap is provided so that a sphere can pass through, and an escape portion 416 for preventing the sphere from being caught is provided at this portion so as to close the gap. The escape portion 416 includes a plate-like escape piece 417, and one end of the escape piece 417 is attached to the wall portion 33 via a hinge T3, and this is normally in contact with the width wall 413 slightly overlapping with the torsion coil spring 418. It is urged to maintain.

A circular opening 419 centering on the rotation shaft 50 is formed in a portion corresponding to the ball lifting rotor 410 of the side walls 411 and 412. Thereby, it can confirm that the ball | bowl is fitted in the fitting recessed part 415, and is conveyed at the time of an action | operation.
The motor attachment part 40 and the ball lifting case 41 are connected and integrated by a connecting part 42.

  In the state where the pachinko machine base 1 is provided in the housing 2, the ball reducing machine K can receive and collect the sphere dropped from the discharge port 10 by the movable sphere receiving portion 35 and is sent from the transport pipe 6. It is installed in the space part 20 so that a sphere can be put into the sphere supply part 11.

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The operation of the pachinko game machine shown in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
The pachinko game machine P is mainly installed in an amusement park, a game center, or the like. The pachinko game machine P contains a predetermined amount of balls in advance, and the balls circulate in the pachinko machine 1 as described later (the balls do not increase or decrease).

  The pachinko game machine P starts moving by turning the handle 13 of the pachinko machine 1. By turning the handle 13, the ball is thrown into the board surface of the pachinko machine 1, and enters the accessory or is collected as an out ball.

Balls to be paid out by the out-ball or jackpot, falls onto the movable ball receiving portion 35 out of the discharge outlet 10 formed on the lower surface side of the housing portion in the housing 2 of the pachinko machine 1. Since the sheet is provided on the surface of the movable ball receiving portion 35, the sound when the ball hits the movable ball receiving portion 35 can be reduced, and rebound can be prevented.
The angle of the movable ball receiving portion 35 can be adjusted by loosening the nut N, and the position of the movable ball receiving portion 35 can be changed depending on the type of the pachinko machine 1.

  The balls that have fallen on the movable ball receiving portion 35 roll while being stored on the horizontal portion 341 of the ball storage portion 343, are collected by the guide wall 342 toward the wall portion 32 near the wall portion 30, and pass through the gap 38. The movable guide 360 is entered. In this way, the movable guide part 360 is lowered by the weight of the sphere, and the switch part 371 is pushed.

  The switch device 37 is set so that the motor 5 is activated when the switch unit 371 is pressed, and the ball lifting rotor 410 starts to rotate when the ball enters the movable guide unit 360. That is, the motor 5 and the ball lifting rotor 410 operate only when the pachinko machine 1 is playing. The ball lifting rotor 410 rotates counterclockwise in the state shown in FIGS.

As described above , the ball that has entered the movable guide portion 360 pushes the switch portion 371 and is guided by the fixed guide portion 361, passes through the wall portion 33, and enters the ball lifting case 41 of the ball lifting mechanism portion 4. The movable guide portion 360, the fixed guide portion 361, and the ball lifting case 41 are formed so that the portion through which the inner ball passes has an inner width that is slightly wider than the diameter of the ball, so that the ball lifting rotor 410 is in a state where the balls are aligned. Can be sent to the ball, making it difficult to clog the ball.

  The balls that have entered the ball lifting case 41 are conveyed to the guide tube portion 414 in a state of being fitted one by one in each fitting recess 415 and sandwiched between the width walls 413 by the rotation of the ball lifting rotor 410. Is done. In this way, the balls are sequentially transferred to the guide tube portion 414 and sent to the ball supply portion 11 through the transfer pipe 6 connected thereto and the movable portion 60 thereof. In this way, the ball circulates in the pachinko machine 1 during play.

  Since the escape case 416 is provided in the ball lifting case 41, if the ball does not fit into the fitting recess 415 and is likely to engage with the ball lifting rotor 410, the escape piece 417 is pushed by the ball lifting rotor 410. And rotate downward about the hinge T3. The balls that are about to engage with each other can escape from the hoisting rotor 410, and the hoisting rotor 410 can be prevented from stopping. Note that the escape piece 417 returns to the state where it overlaps and contacts the width wall 413 again by the torsion coil spring 418.

No longer emitted sphere from the exhaust outlet 10 of the pachinko machine 1, the sphere in the movable guide portion 360 is reduced, the movable guide portion 360 is returned back to the original state rotated is pushed up by the switch unit 371. Thus, the motor 5 and the ball lifting rotor 410 are also stopped.

  The pachinko game machine P has a good appearance because the circulation path of the balls provided in the conventional pachinko game machine does not appear on the front side of the pachinko machine 1.

Pachinko game machine P is, for pachinko machine 1, it is only the sphere to be paid by the out bulb, a jackpot to form a discharge outlet 10 at a position that will be discharged, A discharge outlet 10 and the movable ball receiving portion 35 and Since the ball replenishing unit 11 and the transport pipe 6 are not connected, the ball reducing machine K can be manufactured in advance regardless of the pachinko machine 1. Moreover spheres reduction machine K can collect in the pachinko machine movable ball receiving portion 35 balls falling from the discharge outlet 10 of 1, and the space portion 20 so that the ball sent by the conveying pipe 6 is transmitted to the ball supply portion 11 Since it only needs to be installed inside, the pachinko machine 1 and the ball reducer K can be easily installed separately. Therefore, in the pachinko game machine P, it is easy to replace the pachinko machine 1 with a different model after production and newly install it.

In the pachinko game machine P, Yes and configured to collect receiving balls falling from the discharge outlet 10 of the pachinko machine 1 in the movable ball receiving portion 35, exhaust outlet 10 and the movable ball receiving portion 35 and the spherical supply unit 11 Since the transport pipe 6 is not mechanically connected, clogging does not occur between them.

  The terms and expressions used in this specification are merely explanatory and are not limiting at all, and exclude terms and expressions equivalent to the features described in this specification and parts thereof. There is no intention to do. It goes without saying that various modifications are possible within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

The perspective explanatory view which shows one Embodiment of the pachinko game machine which concerns on this invention, and shows the state by which the pachinko machine attached to the housing | casing was opened ahead. The longitudinal cross-sectional explanatory drawing of a pachinko game machine. The perspective explanatory view which shows the spherical reduction machine installed in a housing | casing. The front view of the ball reducer shown in FIG. The top view of the spherical reduction machine shown in FIG. FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the ball reducer shown in FIG. FIG. 6 is a BB cross-sectional view of the spherical reduction machine shown in FIG. 5. CC sectional drawing of the spherical reduction machine shown in FIG.

P pachinko game machine K spheres reduction unit B bolts N nuts T1, T2, T3 hinge 1 pachinko machine 10 discharge outlet 11 ball supply portion 12 lower tray 13 the handle 2 housing 20 space 3 the case body 30, 31, 32 wall Part 300 Buffer member 310 Notch part 311 Attachment member 312 Adhering part 34 Ball collection part 340 Mounting part 341 Horizontal part 342 Guide wall 35 Movable ball receiving part 350 Flat part 351, 352, 353 Wall part 354 Through groove 36 Ball alignment part 360 Movable guide portion 361 Fixed guide portion 362 Side wall 363 Guide piece 364 Side wall 365 Fixing member 37 Switch device 370 Case main body 371 Switch portion 38 Clearance 4 Ball lifting mechanism portion 400 Planar portion 40 Motor attachment portion 41 Ball lifting case 410 Rotor 411, 412 Side wall 413 Width wall 414 Guide tube portion 415 Fitting recess 416 Escape portion 417 Escape 418 torsion coil spring 419 opening 42 connecting portion 43 connecting the cap 5 the motor 50 rotates shaft 6 conveying pipe 60 movable portion

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A ball reduction machine (K) for a pachinko game machine configured by attaching a pachinko machine (1) to a gaming machine installation facility (2),
A ball collecting part (34) on top of the case body (3),
In the case body (3), there is provided a ball alignment section (36) for aligning the collected balls and sending them to the ball lifting means (4),
The ball collection unit (34) includes a movable ball receiving unit (35) that receives a ball that exits from the discharge port (10) of the pachinko machine (1) or a ball that falls and falls, and the movable ball receiving unit (35) Is attached to the case body (3) so that the angle of extension can be adjusted,
The ball lifting means (4) includes a ball lifting case (41), and the ball lifting case (41) has a plurality of fitting recesses (415) formed on the peripheral surface, and is driven by a motor (5). The ball-lifting rotor (410) is housed,
The ball aligning part (36) is configured to operate when the weight of the collected balls is applied to operate the switch means (37), and the motor (5) is operated by the operation of the switch means (37). Yes,
The ball lifting case (41) has a width wall (413) formed in an arc shape along the peripheral edge of the ball lifting rotor (410),
Between the width wall (413) and the ball alignment portion (36), there is provided a relief portion (416) for preventing the ball from being caught by the ball lifting rotor (410). ) Is provided with a relief piece (417) that pivots downward,
Ball reduction machine for pachinko game machines. A ball reducer (K) for a pachinko game machine according to claim 1 is provided.
Pachinko game machine.

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