JP5498053B2 - Game machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a gaming machine.

  For game machines such as pachinko machines, game balls are supplied from the island of the hole to a storage tank provided on the upper side of the inner frame. The game balls supplied to the storage tank are guided in alignment with the ball passages arranged vertically along the side of the inner frame through the tank rail, flow down in the ball passages, and supplied to the ball dispensing device. The The ball payout device pays out a predetermined number of game balls such as rental balls and prize balls to a ball receiving tray through a ball payout passage in accordance with a payout command.

  In recent game machines, the number of parts provided on the back side of the game board increases with the increase in the size of the symbol display device (liquid crystal display device) and the increase in the size of the center accessory. There is a demand to reduce the area of the mechanism portion on the side. In addition, a full switch is provided in the vicinity of the payout opening of the ball payout device. When the ball payout device is provided below the ball passage, when the game balls paid out to the ball tray are full, the game balls are loaded into the ball payout passage, the full tank switch is frequently turned ON, and the prize balls are paid out. Stops. For this reason, a player prepares a dollar box and is chased to discharge prize balls from the ball tray. In particular, in a game machine of the type in which a ball tray is integrally provided on the front frame, the time when the ball tray is full tends to be advanced. Further, when the ball dispensing device is on the lower side, a large number of balls are connected (standby), and the passage is complicated in order to disperse the ball pressure. Further, since the upstream side of the ball dispensing apparatus is often set to two strips and the downstream side is set to one strip, the installation area is increased. Also, the number of game balls for the entire hall must increase.

Therefore, in order to increase the storage amount of game balls stored in the ball tray and the ball passages connected thereto, it is preferable to provide the ball payout device as far as possible on the upstream side of the ball passage. The upper corner portion of the inner frame covered with the decorative member of the front frame has a relatively large space.
For this reason, a gaming machine in which a ball dispensing device is provided through a tank rail connected to a storage tank or in a part of a ball passage connected to a terminal end portion of a guide passage in the storage tank has been proposed (Patent Documents 1 to 3). reference). The ball dispensing device is provided with a rotating body such as a sprocket or a rotor provided with a ball receiving recess that is rotationally driven by a motor. The rotating body is arranged close to the storage tank so as not to be affected by the ball pressure.

JP 2003-284845 A JP 2005-124619 A JP 2005-137665 A

  In the gaming machines of Patent Documents 1 and 2 described above, when the ball payout device is disposed at the end of the guide path in the tank rail or the storage tank, the game ball sent out from the storage tank along the inclined surface is at the corner portion. Since the ball is guided in the direction of the falling ball path, the ball ball path changes in contact force (continuous ball pressure or friction force with the ball path) acting on the game ball. Balls are likely to be clogged due to a series of game balls, and there is a risk that a ball emptying in which a game ball is not paid out due to a ball bite occurring in a rotating body (sprocket, rotor) that is driven to rotate by a motor in a ball payout device. is there. In particular, since a ball-shaped passage is provided upstream of the rotating body in the ball passing direction to reduce the ball pressure, when a plurality of rows of ball passages are provided, the installation area of the ball dispensing device also increases.

  Further, in the gaming machine of Patent Document 3, the sprocket shaft core and the motor drive transmission mechanism are arranged in an overlapping manner to reduce the thickness in the axial direction. However, the drive transmission mechanism uses a planetary gear structure. Therefore, the number of parts is large, and the rotating body is enlarged in the radial direction, so that a space is required on the back side of the inner frame.

  The object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, have a small assembly area with respect to the gaming machine, and can pay out a lot of gaming balls from the storage tank in a short time, and there is no ball biting or empty feeding of the gaming balls It is to provide a gaming machine.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises the following configuration.
A gaming machine provided at a terminal end of a tank rail connected to a storage tank for storing game balls and having a ball payout portion for paying out a predetermined number of game balls, wherein the ball payout portion is connected to the storage tank And a plurality of inclined passages provided so as to flow down while the game ball rolls, a plurality of fall passages that are connected to the inclined passage and are formed to guide the ball to a ball payout position by dropping the game ball, and the falling In the vicinity of the connecting portion with the inclined passage on the upstream side of the passage, the inclined ball is disposed so as to protrude into the falling passage from the side wall surface opening portion of the falling passage continuous with the rolling bottom wall surface where the game ball rolls down. A game ball dropped from the passage is received by the outer peripheral surface, and the game balls are respectively accommodated in ball receiving recesses formed in different phases at predetermined positions on the outer peripheral surface, and the ball receiving recess and the wall surface of the drop passage Formed between A rotating body to flow down to the downstream side of the falling passage alternately in passageway, and a driving source for rotating drive the rotating body at a predetermined speed, the rotating body, the earliest dropped to the falling passage When the game balls are received on the outer peripheral surface, the subsequent game balls are arranged so that there is one succeeding game ball connected to the first game ball in each drop passage, and the first game ball is received by the ball receiver. Each time the next game ball is housed in the recess and paid out, the next game ball follows the earliest game ball, falls down the fall passage, is received by the outer peripheral surface of the rotating body, and the next game ball said fall to falling passage communicating with the game ball became earliest operation subsequent game balls had rolls and the inclined path with a time difference continuous are repeated, characterized in Rukoto.

  The ball payout portion is assembled to a case body that forms the inclined passage and a falling passage connected to the inclined passage so that a rotating body that is rotationally driven by the drive source can rotate at a predetermined position of the falling passage. It is characterized by being integrally formed as a ball dispensing device.

  The storage tank, the tank rail, and the ball dispensing device are integrally assembled as an inner frame upper side unit.

If the above-described gaming machine is used, a rotating rotator is arranged in a falling passage connected to the inclined passage as a ball paying portion, so that a rotatable rotating body is arranged, so that the game ball moves from the storage tank to the ball payout position. The path is short, and the rotational speed of the rotating body can be increased to pay out a large amount of game balls in a short time. In addition, since the rotating body rotates while the game ball is received in the ball receiving recess formed on the outer peripheral surface of the rotating body, the game ball is paid out to the downstream side of the falling passage. The rotating force can be smoothly rotated without the contact force acting as a load.
Further, only the game balls that fall second (next) while receiving the first (first) game ball that has fallen into the fall passage are separated from the third and subsequent game balls existing in the inclined passage, and the fall passage. It falls inside and continues with the first game ball. Therefore, a time difference between the rolling movement of the inclined path of the gaming ball and the falling movement of the falling path can be formed, so that the ball pressure acting on the rotating body is small and the contact force with the gaming ball is small. Can be driven to rotate, and power consumption can be reduced.

  The rotating body is disposed in the vicinity of the connecting portion with the inclined passage on the upstream side of the falling passage, and the first gaming ball is accommodated in the ball receiving recess and rotated with the second gaming ball connected to the first passage from the dropping passage. Each time the game ball is paid out, the third game ball falls from the inclined passage to the fall passage, and the operation connected to the second game ball is repeated. Therefore, the payout operation is repeated so that the number of subsequent game balls connected to the earliest game ball received by the rotating body in the falling passage is always one, so that the game balls are bitten or jammed by the rotating body. Can be suppressed.

  A plurality of drop passages connected to the inclined passage are formed, and a game ball is received by a ball receiving recess formed in a different phase on the outer peripheral surface of one rotating body, and the ball receiving recess and the wall surface of the drop passage Are alternately paid out in the passage formed between the two. Therefore, by alternately creating the time to receive the game ball on the outer peripheral surface of the rotating body, the game balls from each fall passage can be complemented by mutually complementing the delay of the rolling movement of the inclined passage relative to the fall movement of the fall passage of the game ball. Can be performed alternately and efficiently.

  Since the rotating body is arranged to project into the falling passage from the side wall surface opening portion of the falling passage that is continuous with the rolling bottom wall surface of the rolling ball, the rotating passage is formed without bulging outward. The ball dispensing device can be miniaturized and assembled compactly.

  The ball payout unit is a ball payout in which a rotating body that is rotationally driven by a drive source is rotatably mounted at a predetermined position of the drop passage in a case body that forms an inclined passage and a drop passage connected to the inclined passage. If formed integrally as a device, the assembly position to the gaming machine main body is determined simply by connecting the inclined passage of the case body and the terminal portion of the tank rail, so that the assembly becomes easy.

  Further, when the storage tank, the tank rail, and the ball dispensing device are integrally assembled as the inner frame upper side unit, the inner frame can be easily assembled.

It is a front view of a pachinko machine. It is a rear view of the pachinko machine of FIG. It is a disassembled perspective view of the inner frame unit which comprises the inner frame external shape of FIG. It is a disassembled perspective view of an inner frame upper side unit. It is a disassembled perspective view of a ball dispensing device. It is a schematic diagram which shows the change of the paying-out operation | movement of a ball paying-out apparatus. It is a rear view of a ball dispensing device, an arrow AA direction sectional view, and a partially cutaway perspective view.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the drawings.
A schematic configuration of the gaming machine according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. In this embodiment, a pachinko machine will be described as an example of a gaming machine.

  First, a schematic configuration of the pachinko machine 1 will be described. In FIG. 1, an inner frame 3 (see FIG. 2) is formed by an upper hinge portion 3a and a lower hinge portion 3b with respect to a side portion of a rectangular outer frame 2 forming the outer shape of the pachinko machine 1. The front frame (glass frame) 5 is attached to the side portion of the inner frame 3 by an upper hinge portion 4a and a lower hinge portion 4b.

  A game board 6 is provided on the front side of the inner frame 3, and a ball launcher (not shown) for launching a game ball toward the game area is assembled below the game board 6. In addition, the game board 6 is formed with a circular game area as a whole by the guide rail 7, and a prize display device such as a symbol display device (liquid crystal display device) 8, an electric tulip 9, and an attacker 10 is provided in the game region. It has been.

  In FIG. 1, a decoration device 11 is provided along the upper side of the front frame 5. In addition, a ball tray 12 is provided integrally below the front frame 5 for temporarily storing game balls and guiding the game balls to a ball launcher. On the right side of the ball tray 12, a launch handle 13 is provided for adjusting the launch force of the game ball launched into the game area by the ball launcher.

  In FIG. 2, a storage tank 14 is provided on the upper side of the back side of the inner frame 3, and game balls are supplied to the storage tank 14 from the island of the hole where the pachinko machine 1 is arranged. The storage tank 14 is formed so that the bottom part inclines downward toward the tank rail 15 provided on the downstream side in the ball supply direction. A ball payout device 16 serving as a ball payout portion is provided at a portion where the downstream end of the tank rail 15 and the ball payout passage 17 provided along the left side portion of the inner frame (front view) intersect. The game balls supplied to the storage tank 14 are supplied to the ball payout device 16 through the tank rail 15, and the ball payout device 16 pays out a predetermined number of game balls as rental balls or prize balls according to the payout command. The game balls paid out from the ball payout device 16 flow down through the ball payout passage 17 (including the upper payout passage 17a, the central payout passage 17b, and the lower payout passage 17c), and pass through the ball payout bowl 18 to the ball receiving tray 12 (see FIG. 1).

  On the back side of the game board 6, there are provided a main control board for overall control of game operations, an image processing board for controlling the symbol display device, etc. (not shown), and these are covered by a board cover 19. A control unit such as a power supply board that controls the power supply voltage of the pachinko machine 1 and a payout control board that controls the payout operation of the ball payout device 16 is covered by the board case cover 20 below the back cover 19.

Next, the configuration of the ball dispensing device 16 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5.
3, the outer shape of the inner frame 3 is formed by combining the inner frame upper side unit 21, the inner frame left side unit 22, the inner frame right side unit 23, and the inner frame lower side unit 24 in a rectangular shape. Specifically, the inner frame outer side unit 21 and the inner frame lower side unit 24 are sandwiched between the inner frame left side unit 22 and the inner frame right side unit 23 from both sides, and the outer shape of the inner frame is assembled into a rectangular shape.
As will be described later, the inner frame left side unit 22 is formed with a ball payout passage 17 (central payout passage 17b), and the inner frame right side unit 23 has a locking device 27 for locking the inner frame 3 to the outer frame 2. Is provided.

  In FIG. 4, the inner frame upper side unit 21 will be described. The inner frame upper side unit 21 is provided with an upper hinge portion 4a on the left shoulder portion (in front view) of the upper side unit main body 21a. The storage tank 14, the tank rail 15, the ball dispensing device 16, and the upper dispensing passage 17a are integrally assembled with the upper side unit main body 21a.

  The storage tank 14 is integrally assembled to the upper part of the upper side unit main body 21a. In addition, a tank rail 15 is integrally assembled to the lower part of the storage tank 14, and an inclined passage 15 a is formed at the terminal portion of the tank rail 15. In addition, the ball dispensing device 16 is pressed by the pressing member 25 and assembled integrally with the downstream end of the tank rail 15 (the rear side left end of the upper side unit main body 21a) (see FIG. 3).

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the ball dispensing device 16.
On the back side of the base portion 25, a stepping motor 26 (drive source) is integrally assembled by inserting the motor shaft 26a forward. A motor gear 26b is fitted into the motor shaft 26a. On the front surface side of the base portion 25, the first case body 16a and the second case body 16b are overlapped and integrally assembled via a partition plate 16c.

In the first case body 16a and the second case body 16b, there are an inclined passage 16d connected to the inclined passage 15a of the tank rail 15, and a falling passage connected vertically from the inclined passage 16d along the left side of the inner frame (front view). 16e is formed so as to cross each other.
Rotating body accommodating portions 16f (wall surface opening portions) are formed at the ball payout positions of the drop passages 16e provided in the first case body 16a and the second case body 16b, respectively. The columnar rotators 16g are arranged such that their rotation trajectories enter the fall passage 16e. The rotating shaft 16h of the rotating body 16g is supported between the base portion 25 and the second case body 16b. A transmission gear 16i is fitted into the rotary shaft 16h extending to the base portion 25 side. The transmission gear 16i meshes with the motor gear 26b. The bearing portion 16j of the transmission gear 16i is disposed in the rotating body accommodating portion 16f of the first case body 16a, and rotates together with the rotating body 16g extending in the first case body 16a in the axial direction. .

  In FIG. 5, ball receiving recesses 16k1 and 16k2 are formed in two portions in the circumferential direction on the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g, with the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g partially cut away. The game balls are sent to the downstream side by rotating with the ball receiving recesses 16k1 and 16k2 being accommodated. In the present embodiment, since two ball discharge passages 17 are formed (see FIG. 3; FIG. 17B), the first case body 16a and the second case body 16b are phased on the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g. The ball receiving recesses 16k1 and 16k2 are formed differently. Specifically, a ball receiving recess 16k2 formed on the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g of the second case body 16b, and a ball receiving recess 16k1 formed on the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g of the first case body 16a Is formed at a position where the phase is 90 degrees different in the circumferential direction. In the present embodiment, the ball receiving recess 16k1 and the ball receiving recess 16k2 are formed on the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g over the two strips of the drop passage 16e in the axial direction (see FIGS. 7A and 7B). ), The outer peripheral surface 16m that receives the game ball is formed so that the arc surface protrudes from the axial position corresponding to each drop passage 16e at a position that is 90 degrees out of phase in the circumferential direction (see FIG. 7C). Further, the transmission gear 16i is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the bearing portion 16j facing the drop passage 16e of the first case body 16a at two locations in the circumferential direction in the same phase as the ball receiving recess 16k1 of the rotating body 16g. (See FIG. 7C).

  In FIG. 2, the ball dispensing device 16 (falling passage 16e; see FIG. 5) is connected to the upper dispensing passage 17a. The upper payout passage 17a is connected to a central payout passage 17b provided on the downstream side thereof. The lower end side of the upper payout passage 17a is curvedly connected to the central payout passage 17b in order to reduce the flowing down ball pressure. The central payout passage 17b is connected to the lower payout passage 17c. The lower payout passage 17 c is formed in a curved shape and is connected to the payout bar 18.

  As shown in FIG. 6A, the game ball that has fallen from the inclined passage 16d to the drop passage 16e is temporarily received by the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g that is arranged with the rotation path entering the drop passage 16e. As the rotating body 16g rotates in the clockwise direction in the drawing, the game ball is accommodated in the ball receiving recesses 16k1 and 16k3 (see FIGS. 5 and 7C) or the ball receiving recess 16k2 and the wall with the drop passage 16e. The ball passages formed between them are alternately paid out. The game balls paid out from the rotating body 16g are paid out to the ball tray 12 through the upper payout passage 17a, the central payout passage 17b, the lower payout passage 17c, and the ball payout basket 18 (see FIG. 2).

  As shown in FIG. 6 (a), the rotating body 16g has a single gaming ball Y2 waiting on the upstream side in the fall passage 16e when the earliest gaming ball Y1 is received by the outer peripheral surface 16m. It is disposed in the middle of the drop passage 16e upstream of the ball payout passage 17 and in the vicinity of the connecting portion with the inclined passage 15. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6B, when the rotating body 16g accommodates the earliest game ball Y1 in the ball receiving recess 16k2 (or 16k1, 16k3) (when paying out to the downstream side of the drop passage 16e). ) Since a time difference can be formed between the rolling movement of the inclined path 16d of the subsequent game ball Y3 and the falling movement of the fall path 16e of the game ball Y2, only the next game ball Y2 is the only game ball Y1. Accordingly, the ball pressure acting on the rotating body 16g is small, the stepping motor 26 can be driven to rotate at a low torque, and the power consumption can be suppressed. Further, since the contact force with the game ball is small and the ball pressure is also small, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of ball biting and ball clogging in the drop passage 16e and the ball payout passage 17 connected thereto.

According to the experiment, when the installation position of the rotating body 16g of the ball dispensing device 16 is arranged at the outer corner (the corner opposite to the rolling surface of the game ball) where the inclined passage 16d and the falling passage 16e intersect, Alternatively, when it is provided at a position that goes back to the inclined passage 16d side from the outer corner portion, there is a state where the game balls flowing down the inclined passage 16d are not connected to each other, and therefore, an appropriate ball pressure does not act, so the rotating body 16g and the game It has been found that the sphere is likely to bite or to be preferentially fed.
In consideration of reducing the rotational torque and power consumption of the rotating body 16g, it is desirable that the number of game balls received by the rotating body 16g in the drop passage 16e is two (Y1 and Y2).

  The rotating body 16g is disposed in the rotating body accommodating portion 16f provided in the side wall surface opening portion of the falling passage 16e that is continuous with the rolling bottom wall surface of the rolling down ball 16d. The passage 16e does not swell outward, and the ball dispensing device 16 can be downsized to reduce the installation area and be compactly assembled.

  The inclined passages 15a and 16d, the drop passage 16e, and the ball discharge passage 17 are formed in two strips (see FIG. 2), and are formed at positions that are 90 degrees out of phase on the outer peripheral surface 16m of one rotating body 16g. The game balls are alternately received by the ball receiving recesses 16k1, 16k3 or the ball receiving recesses 16k2, and the ball passages formed between the ball receiving recesses 16k1, 16k2, 16k3 and the wall surface of the drop passage 16e are paid out alternately. .

  Here, the payout operation of the game ball Y in the inclined passage 16d and the drop passage 16e formed in the first case body 16a and the second case body 16b will be described with reference to FIGS. Hereinafter, the payout operation of the game ball Y in the inclined passage 16d and the drop passage 16e in the second case body 16b on one side will be described, and the first case body 16a is the same, and the description thereof will be omitted.

  FIG. 6A shows a state where the rotating body 16g is in the initial position (stop position). At this time, since the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g is provided with a rotating track entering the falling passage 16e, the game ball Y flowing down from the inclined passage 16d to the dropping passage 16e once reaches the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g. It is accepted. At this time, the first game ball Y1 and the subsequent game ball Y2 are the only game balls that fall into the fall passage 16e. At this time, in the drop passage 16e in the first case body 16a, the phase of the rotating body 16g is 90 degrees different as shown in FIG. 6B.

  FIG. 6B shows a state in which the rotating body 16g is rotated 90 degrees clockwise from the initial position shown in FIG. The top game ball Y1 is sent out in the drop passage 16e toward the downstream side while being accommodated in the ball receiving recess 16k2. Accordingly, the subsequent game ball Y3 flows down from the inclined passage 16d toward the drop passage 16e. At this time, in the drop passage 16e of the first case body 16a, the phase of the rotating body 16g is different by 90 degrees as shown in FIG. 6A, that is, the game ball is received by the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g. It is in the state.

  FIG. 6C shows a state in which the rotating body 16g is further rotated clockwise by 45 degrees (135 degrees from the initial position) from the rotational position shown in FIG. The top game ball Y1 accommodated in the ball receiving recess 16k2 flows down toward the ball payout passage 17. Further, the subsequent game ball Y2 remains received by the rotating body 16g.

  FIG. 6D shows a state in which the rotating body 16g is further rotated clockwise by a predetermined angle from the rotational position shown in FIG. A state in which the succeeding game ball Y3 falls on the game ball Y2 received by the rotating body 16g is shown. In addition, since the falling speed is faster than the rolling speed of the game ball, the subsequent game ball Y3 does not immediately drop from the inclined path 16d to the drop path 16e, but falls with a slight time difference. Accordingly, the subsequent game ball Y4 further flows down the inclined passage 16d. Further, when the rotating body 16g rotates and rotates 180 degrees from the initial position, the state shown in FIG. 6A is obtained, and the leading game ball Y2 is started to be sent out.

As described above, every time the rotating body 16g rotates 180 degrees, the leading game ball Y is accommodated in the ball receiving recess 16k2 and is paid out downstream. The game ball payout operation is alternately performed on the second case body 16b and the first case body 16a side. Accordingly, by alternately creating a time for receiving the game ball on the outer peripheral surface 16m of the rotating body 16g, each fall passage can be complemented by mutually compensating for the rolling movement delay of the inclined passage 16d with respect to the fall movement of the fall passage 16e of the game ball. The game ball payout operation from 16e can be performed alternately and efficiently.
Further, since there are only two game balls received by the rotating body 16g in the drop passage 16e, the ball pressure acting on the rotating body 16g is small, so that the ball biting and the idle feeding do not occur.

In the above-described embodiment, the inclined passage 16d is formed in the first and second case bodies 16a and 16b. However, only the dropping passage 16e connected to the inclined passage 15a of the tank rail 15 may be formed. Although the inclined passage 16d, the falling passage 16e, and the ball payout passage 17 are formed in two strips, three or more strips can be provided.
Moreover, although the diameter of the rotary body 16g becomes large, the number of the ball receiving recesses 16k is not limited to two in the circumferential direction, and three or more can be provided.
Further, although a pachinko machine has been described as an example of a gaming machine, the present invention may be applied to other gaming machines such as a sparrow ball gaming machine and an arrangement ball gaming machine.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pachinko machine 2 Outer frame 3 Inner frame 3a, 4a Upper hinge part 3b, 4b Lower hinge part 5 Front frame 6 Game board 7 Guide rail 8 Symbol display device (liquid crystal display device)
9 Electric tulips 10 Attacker
11 Decoration device
12 ball tray
13 Launch handle
14 Storage tank
15 Tank rail
15a, 16d Inclined passage
16 Ball dispenser (ball dispenser)
16a first case body
16b Second case body
16c partition plate
16e Fall passage
16f Rotating body housing (wall surface opening)
16g Rotating body
16h rotation axis
16i transmission gear
16j Bearing part
16k1, 16k2, 16k3 ball receiving recess
16m outer peripheral surface 17 ball payout passage
17a Upper payout passage
17b Central payout passage
17c Lower payout passage
18 ball payout basket
19 Back cover
20 PCB case cover 21 Inner frame upper side unit
22 Inner frame left side unit
23 Inner frame right side unit
24 Inner frame lower side unit
25 Base part
26 Servo motor
26a Motor shaft
26b Motor gear 27 Locking device

Claims (3)

A gaming machine provided at a terminal end of a tank rail connected to a storage tank for storing game balls and having a ball payout portion for paying out a predetermined number of game balls, wherein the ball payout portion is
A plurality of inclined passages that are connected to the storage tank and flow down while the game ball rolls;
Which is connected arranged to inclined path, a falling passage, which is plural rows formed to induce said game balls to fall into the sphere dispensing position,
Located in the vicinity of the connecting portion with the inclined passage on the upstream side of the falling passage, the game ball rolls down the side wall surface opening of the falling passage that is continuous with the rolling bottom wall surface of the inclined passage, and is disposed in the falling passage. A game ball dropped from the inclined passage is received by the outer peripheral surface, and the game balls are respectively accommodated in ball receiving concave portions formed in different phases at predetermined positions on the outer peripheral surface, and the wall surfaces of the ball receiving concave portion and the falling passage A rotating body that alternately flows down in the passage formed between and to the downstream side of the dropping passage;
A drive source for rotating the rotating body at a predetermined speed,
When the first game ball that has fallen into the drop passage is received by the outer peripheral surface, the rotating body is configured so that there is one subsequent game ball that is connected to the first game ball in each drop passage. Each time the earliest game ball is received and dispensed in the ball receiving recess, the next game ball follows the earliest game ball and falls down the fall passage to The succeeding game ball that was received on the outer peripheral surface and continued to the next game ball rolls along the inclined passage with a time difference and falls to the fall passage and continues to the first game ball gaming machine according to claim Rukoto operation is repeated. The ball payout portion is assembled to a case body that forms the inclined passage and a falling passage connected to the inclined passage so that a rotating body that is rotationally driven by the drive source can rotate at a predetermined position of the falling passage. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the gaming machine is integrally formed as a single ball dispensing device . The gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the storage tank, the tank rail, and the ball dispensing device are integrally assembled as an upper unit on the inner frame .

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