JP5234617B2 - Hopper device that can pay out two medals at the same time - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a hopper apparatus that can transfer two medals that have been transferred and paid out one by one by a conventional hopper in a stacked manner and can pay out two medals simultaneously.

  In a medal game machine, a hopper device that moves a medal upward in order to pay out a medal is generally installed. Various proposals have been made for the hopper device in the conventional medal game machine in order to smoothly carry the medal.

Patent Document 1 proposes smooth medal conveyance by a twin hopper type medal throwing device that reliably controls the rotary disk that rotates forward and reverse, and that has two types of transfer routes directly connected from the hopper device main body. is there.
In this method, a rotary disk and a transfer route mechanism are installed in each, and payout to another route is performed.

Patent document 2 arranges two hopper devices in parallel, shortens the time until payout is completed, and even if a problem occurs on one side, payout can be made on the other side, so that it is not necessary to interrupt the game. It is what we propose.
This doubles the payout speed by arranging two hopper devices in parallel.
In the prior art, as described above, medals to be paid out to the player are transferred to the payout port one by one by one hopper device, and are paid out one by one. Also, by switching the payout port, one hopper device pays out medals one by one from different payout ports.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228620 proposes to transfer medals to each payout route by switching the rotation direction of one rotary disk. According to this, by switching the rotation direction of one rotary disk, it is possible to provide transfer of medals to each payout route connected from the hopper device.
JP 2007-241551 A JP 2001-112925 A JP 2002-222446 A

  The present invention has been made in view of the above situation, and its purpose is to allow two medals to be stored in each hole of a rotary disc and to transfer medals to each payout route by rotating in only one direction. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a hopper device that can simultaneously transfer two medals with one hopper.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a medal is dropped into a hole for receiving a medal, the dropped medal is pushed to guide the medal into the medal guide passage, and the beads in the medal guide passage are connected together. A hopper device that pays out medals from the payout opening of the medal guide passage by pushing up the medals, and has a medal guide passage having a depth equivalent to two medals, and splits and transfers two medals to the end portion A medal transfer unit having a plate disposed thereon, a rotating plate installed in the medal stacking unit, having a medal dropping hole, and having a push pin provided beside the medal dropping hole, a lower surface of the rotating plate, and a surface receiving the medal And a bottom plate having a guide pin and a drive source for rotating the rotating plate, and the medal is rotated by the rotation of the rotating plate. The medals accumulated in the stacking part are dropped into the medal dropping hole, the medals stacked on the bottom plate through the medal dropping hole are moved in the rotating direction of the rotating plate by the push pin, and the rotation is performed. The two medals moved according to the rotation of the plate are abutted against the guide pin to guide the two medals to the entrance of the medal guide passage, and the medal guide passage is pushed up in units of two medals. Two medals are paid out simultaneously from the end of the guide passage.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the rotating plate is a disk having a plurality of medal drop holes along the periphery.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, a dividing plate is disposed at a terminal portion of the medal guide passage, and two overlapping medals are vertically branched by the dividing plate. It is characterized by guiding the medals in different directions.

As described above, since the two medals can be paid out simultaneously, the medal payout time can be shortened. Also, the payout can be made efficiently, and the payout effect can be increased.
According to the present invention, the medal transfer time in the conventional hopper device can be reduced by half, and a space for storing two medals can be stored without installing a plurality of mechanisms necessary for paying out to a plurality of routes. By providing it, the operation and effect of a plurality of mechanisms can be realized.
Further, according to the present invention, the medals can be divided and paid out by the dividing plate. Therefore, by restricting the payout route to one direction without branching, two medals can be paid simultaneously from one payout port. It is also possible to put out.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a front view showing an appearance of a medal game machine using a hopper device according to the present invention.
This medal game machine 1 is a medal pusher game, and a medal slot 2 is arranged at the front of the panel. Further, a play area 7 in which a checker 6, a moving plate 8, a slide 5 and the like are arranged on the upper surface of the housing is installed. When the player inserts a medal into the medal slot 2, a color medal is fired from the color medal outlet 4 toward the checker 6.

If it enters the hole of the checker 6, it becomes a prize and the game by winning is displayed on the display 9, and the displayed game is played. If it does not enter, it hits the wall on the back of the checker 6 and rebounds, slides on the transparent moving plate 8 forward, falls from the end of the moving plate 8 to the slide 5, and slides down the slide 5.
A medal tray 11 is provided on the side of the medal slot, and the medal tray 11 is configured to receive medals paid out from the medal outlet 3.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining an arrangement example of the hopper device in the medal game machine. This figure is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of the medal game machine of FIG. 1 provided with a hopper device.
The medals 13 falling on the receiving unit 15 that receives the parental medal are collected in the medal accumulating unit 16 through the medal guide 18. A rotary disk 21 of the hopper device 20 is installed on the bottom surface of the medal accumulating unit 16, and a medal is ejected to the medal transfer unit 31 by the medal pushing mechanism, and the medal discharge port 3 disposed at the end of the medal transfer unit 31. Medals are pushed out from. The push-out mechanism is operated based on the progress of the game under the control of the control device 14.
When two overlapping medals enter the medal transfer unit 31, the same number of medals are discharged from the medal discharge port 3.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the hopper device according to the present invention.
A medal stacking unit 16 (not shown) is disposed on the rotary disk 21. The rotating shaft 23 is fixed at the center of the rotary disk 21. The rotating shaft 23 is fixed to the output shaft of the motor 22 through a reduction gear group. When the motor 22 is driven under the control of the control device 14, the motor rotation speed is reduced by the gear group, and the rotary disk 21 is rotated counterclockwise.
The rotary disk 21 has five medal dropping holes 21a to 21e that are slightly larger than the outer shape of the medal along the circumference. A disc bottom plate 33 is disposed under the rotary disc 21, and a gap between the lower surface of the rotary disc 21 and the disc guide groove of the disc bottom plate 33 is slightly larger than two medals, and from the medal drop holes 21a to 21e. Two falling medals can be stacked and stored. While the rotary disk 21 is rotating, the medals in the medal stacking unit 16 are agitated and the medals fall into the respective medal dropping holes 21a to 21e.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing a partial cross section for explaining the medal pushing mechanism.
The center of the rotary disk 21 is fixed to the rotary shaft 23, and the end of the rotary shaft 23 is attached to the gear 36d. The output shaft 22a of the motor 22 controlled by the control device is fixed to the gear 36a. The gear 36a meshes with the gear 36b, the gear 36b is coupled with the gear 36c by a shaft, and the gear 36c meshes with the gear 36d, so that the rotational driving force of the motor is decelerated and transmitted to the rotational shaft 23. The motor 22 rotates when a bonus is generated in the medal game, etc., and rotates and stops by a corresponding angle amount, so that medals are simultaneously placed in the payout openings A (26) and B (27) shown in FIG. The predetermined number of medals can be paid out.

  The dimension R between the lower surface of the rotary disk 21 and the medal guide groove 33a for receiving a medal is 2 × H + α if the medal thickness is H. α is a dimension that takes a margin so that the upper part of the medal B does not rub against the lower surface of the rotary disk 21 when two medals overlap. A state in which medals B and A are stacked in a state where the medals B and A overlap each other in the medal guide groove 33a on the right side of the disc bottom plate 33 is shown.

FIG. 5A is a detailed view of the rotary disk.
The rotary disk 21 is provided with five medal drop holes 21a to 21e at equal intervals along the circumference, and presses the side surfaces of two overlapping medals on the side of each medal drop hole on the lower surface of the rotary disk 21. Push pins 34a to 34e are provided.
FIG. 5B is a detailed view of the disk bottom plate.
The disc bottom plate 33 is provided with medal guide grooves 33a for receiving medals falling into the respective medal dropping holes 21a to 21e of the rotary disc 21. The medal guide groove 33a is connected to a guide passage 36 provided in the guide bottom plate 24 of the transfer route.
A guide pin 32 for guiding the two-layered medal conveyed to the guide passage 36 in the vicinity of the connection portion of the medal guide groove 33a to the guide passage 36 is provided.

When the rotary disk 21 rotates counterclockwise, the two stacked medals are pushed by, for example, the push pin 34a and conveyed to the connecting portion to the guide passage 36. The two stacked medals that have been conveyed abut against the guide pin 32 and are pushed out into the guide passage 36 as indicated by 13a.
Since the medals dropped into the medal guide groove 33a by the respective medal drop holes 21a to 21e are guided from one to the next by the guide pin 32 and guided to the guide passage 36, two medals are stacked on the medal transfer route as shown in FIG. Medals are pushed out in a daisy chain.

FIG. 6 is a longitudinal sectional view near the end of the medal transfer section.
A dividing plate 30 is provided in the guide passage near the end of the medal transfer section. The distance between the guide bottom plate 24 and the guide presser plate 25 is obtained by adding the thickness of the dividing plate 30 to the thickness of the two medals and adding a dimensional margin for moving the medals. The front end 30a of the dividing plate 30 is pointed, and the rising two-layered medals, that is, the medals B and A are branched into two passages, respectively. As shown in FIG. 3, the payout port can be divided into separate payout routes A (28) and B (29). Further, if the dividing plate 30 is not provided, it is possible to pay out two medals simultaneously from one payout port.

  In the above embodiment, the rotary disk is rotated counterclockwise to guide the two stacked medals to the guide passage of the medal transfer unit. However, the position of the guide pin is changed and the push pin 34 is moved to the medal. Even if it is provided at a position on the opposite side of the drop holes 21a to 21e and is rotated in the clockwise direction, the two-layered medals can be similarly guided to the medal transfer section.

  This is a hopper device used in a medal game machine installed in an event venue or game center.

It is a front view which shows the external appearance of the medal game machine using the hopper apparatus by this invention. It is sectional drawing of the medal game machine for demonstrating the example of arrangement | positioning of the hopper apparatus in a medal game machine. It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of the hopper apparatus by this invention. It is the side view which showed the rotary disk part for demonstrating a medal | token extrusion mechanism in the partial cross section. It is a detailed view of a rotary disk. It is detail drawing of a disk bottom plate. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view near the terminal end of the medal transfer part.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Medal game machine 2 Medal insertion port 3 Medal discharge port 4 Color medal discharge port 5 Slide 6 Checker 7 Play area 8 Moving board 9 Display 10 Speaker 11 Medal plate 13 Medal 14 Control device
15 medal receiving part 16 medal accumulating part 18 medal guide 20 hopper device 21 rotary disk 22 motor 23 rotating shaft 24 guide bottom plate
25 Guide holding plate 25a Window 26 Dispensing port A
27 Outlet B
28 Payment route A
29 Payout Route B
30 Dividing plate 32 Guide pin 33 Disc bottom plate 33a Medal guide groove 34 Push pin 35 Motor

Claims (3)

A hopper device that drops a medal into a hole for receiving a medal, pushes the dropped medal, guides the medal to the medal guide passage, and pushes up the medal in the medal guide passage to raise a medal from the outlet of the medal guide passage. In
A medal transfer portion having a medal guide passage having a depth equivalent to two medals, and a dividing plate for dividing and transferring two medals at a terminal portion;
A rotating plate that is installed in the medal stacking unit, has a medal hole, and has a push pin beside the medal hole;
A bottom plate having a guide pin, which is arranged so that there is a gap of approximately two medals between the lower surface of the rotating plate and the surface receiving the medals;
A drive source for rotating the rotating plate,
The medals accumulated in the medal accumulating unit by the rotation of the rotating plate are dropped into the medal dropping hole, and the medals stacked on the bottom plate through the medal dropping hole are stacked on the rotating plate with the push pin. The double medals are moved in the direction of rotation, and the double medals moved according to the rotation of the rotating plate are abutted against the guide pin, thereby guiding the double medals to the entrance of the medal guide passage. A hopper device capable of simultaneously paying out two medals, wherein the medal guide passage is pushed up and two medals are paid out simultaneously from a terminal portion of the medal guide passage.   The hopper device according to claim 1, wherein the rotating plate is a disk having a plurality of medal dropping holes along a peripheral edge.   3. A dividing plate is disposed at a terminal portion of the medal guide passage, and two overlapping medals are vertically branched by the dividing plate to guide the two medals in different directions. Hopper device that can pay out two medals at the same time.

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