JPH01141683A - Ball thinning apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To return not only balls on one hundred-ball plate but also all balls in ball passages to a ball receiver, by providing a ball-drawing passage connecting the waiting part and the ball receiver under a ball-drawing body and returning balls in passages to the ball receiver through the ball-drawing body and the balldrawing passage by manipulating a lever. CONSTITUTION: When a ball-drawing lever 93 is moved to the left side of the drawing by manipulating a lever 11, a ball-drawing slider 90 is also moved to the left. The ball-drawing body 80 swings around the ball-drawing axis 81 so that the slider body 83 is moved downward gradually along the slope 92 of the ball-drawing slider 90 by a ball-drawing weight 82, in accordance with the movement of the ball-drawing slider 90. In this way, when the ball-drawing body 80 is shifted, the balls in the ball passages 20 are guided to the ball- drawing passage 71 side, as the upper face of the ball-drawing body 80 is tilted to the left side and all balls remaining in the ball passages 20 are returned to the ball receiver 72 through the upper face of the ball-drawing body 80 and the ball-drawing passage 71.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application 1] The present invention relates to a ball extracting device, and more particularly to a ball extracting device for extracting game balls from a pinball game machine such as a pachinko machine.

[Prior Art] Many so-called pinball game machines that use game balls, such as Noguchinko machines, have been used.

In such pinball game equipment, taking Pachinko as an example, normally borrowed game balls are placed in a 100-shot tray, and the game balls in the 100-shot tray are sent to the firing device through a ball path. The game was played by sending a ball out from the firing device onto the board and causing the ball to fall through the board.

In such a pinball game machine, for example, there are cases where the player wants to end the game, or when the player wants to move to another game machine midway through the game and continue the game.

In such cases, in conventional pachinko machines, etc., the balls in the 100-shot tray are returned to the ball tray using an operating lever that is usually attached in front of the replay tray, and the balls held by the player are returned to the ball tray. [Problems that the invention aims to solve] However, with conventional pachinko machines, etc., there are times when the user wants to finish the game or move on to another machine to continue playing the game. 1. Although it was possible to pull out the balls accumulated in the 100-shot dish by operating a control lever, it was not possible to extract the balls that were in the ball path from the recycle dish to the firing device.

For this reason, it was common practice to hit the ball weakly on purpose and then return it to the ball plate.

Depending on the condition of the spring, etc., there is no ball that can return, and therefore the ball in the ball path is wasted.

Therefore, in the present invention, when collecting balls in a 100-shot dish,
By providing a ball extracting device that allows not only the balls in the 100-shot dish but also the balls in the ball path to be put into the ball dish at the same time, just by operating the operating lever provided on the replay dish U
The purpose of this is to eliminate the ball.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a method for sending the ball in the 100-shot dish to the firing device, which is equipped with an operating lever for returning the ball to the ball dish. A ball extractor is provided at the bottom of the standby section at the end of the ball passage, and a ball extractor is provided below the ball extractor to communicate the standby section and the ball tray. It is characterized in that the balls in the ball path are returned to the ball dish via the ball removal path.

[Function] According to the present invention, when you want to pull out a ball from a 100-shot dish,
By operating the operation 1/bar provided on the relapsed animal,
As before, the balls in the 100-shot dish will return to the ball dish.

At the same time, the V is formed so that the ball located in the two-ball passage returns to the ball tray via the ball removal body and the sparse removal passage when the operating lever is operated. Not only the balls in the ball tray, but all the balls in the ball path will return to the ball tray.

Therefore, in the present invention, all the balls in possession can be collected only by operating the operating lever.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below, taking as an example a case where a ball counting and feeding device 30 is also attached.

Figure 1 is an overall schematic diagram, and Figure 2 is a front view of the Recurrence +1110. By operating this operating lever 11, the balls accumulated in the recirculation tray 10 can be returned to the ball tray 72 by conventionally known means.

Moreover, the ball located in this relapse dish 10 is
0, passes through the ball passage 20, and waits in the standby section 21 until being sent out to the firing device 60.

The balls located in this standby section 21 are sequentially sent out to the back side of the board where the firing device 60 is provided by the ball counting and sending device 130, and are hit onto the board while being counted by -bonds.

Furthermore, this standby section 21 has a bulb removal body 80 at its lower part.
In the lower part of the ball extracting body 8o, a ball extracting passage 71 is further provided which communicates the standby part z1 at the lower part of the ball passage 20 with the ball tray 72, thereby forming a ball extracting device 70. There is.

Next, first, details of the ball counting and feeding device 30 will be explained.

This ball counting/feeding device 30 is for distributing the balls in the standby section 21 at the lowest end of the five-ball passage 20 into m balls at a time and sending them to the firing device 60. The ball is sent out by actuation.

More specifically, this ball counting feeding device! 30 is.

It is formed by a counting body 40, a ball feeding body 50, and a sensor 45.

The counting body 40 is pivotally supported by a counting shaft 41 and has a counting weight 42.
Therefore, the detection section 43 provided on the counting weight 42 side is normally located at the sensor 45 portion. Furthermore, the side of this counting shaft 41 opposite to the detection part 43 is formed as a contact part 44, and when one ball is fed into the ball feeder 50, this contact occurs! 44, when the contact part 44 of the ball comes into contact with the ball, the detection part 43 protruding from the counter body 40 detects the sensor by oscillating around the counter feed 41. It will cross 45.

Further, the ball feeding body 50 has one end supported by a ball feeding shaft 51, and a ball feeding weight 52 provided on the other side. and,
The standby section 21 is constructed so that the balls are sequentially sent out in the direction of the firing device 60 by the operation of the interlocking crank 61.

These counting bodies 40 and ball feeding bodies 50 are connected to the first
As shown in the figure 1. As described above, when sending out a ball in the standby section 21, first, the interlocking crank 61 causes the single ball sending body 50 to swing slightly in the direction of the waiting needle around the ball sending vehicle 51.

Then, as a result of this shaking, a standby section z is created in the ball sending body 50.
1 The ball at the bottom will enter. When the ball at the lowest end of the standby section 21 enters the ball feeder 50, it contacts the contact portion 44 of the counting body 40 and is located in the technique feeder 50 which slightly rotates the counting body 40 in the direction of the half-hour hand. , then interlocking crank 6
By swinging the ball sending body 50 in a clockwise manner due to the rotation of the ball 1, a ball is sent out from the firing device 60. Furthermore, even if the ball feeding body 50 oscillates due to the oscillation of the interlocking crank 61, the vibration should not exceed the extent of the oscillation.
It is designed to come into contact with the pressure contact portion 53.

That is, with this counting ball feeding v needle, the emitted wave M6
0 is operated and the interlocking crank 61 is performing the crank [&.

The ball feeding body 50 always oscillates M9 around the ball feeding shaft 51.
This means that jJ is repeated. However, the oscillating motion of the ball sending body 50 at this time is a movement that has nothing to do with the counting body 40, and the counting body 40 only oscillates when the ball enters the ball sending body 50.

Therefore, when there are balls in the standby section 21 and the balls are being sent out in the direction of the firing device 16.0 and the balls are being fired one after another, each ball entering the ball sending body 50 will be Each counting body 40 is slightly shaken, and this counting body 4o
Since the detection part 43 of the counting body 40 crosses the sensor 45 due to the oscillation, the balls sent out by the sensor 45 can be counted.

In addition, if there are no balls in this waiting section zl, as long as the firing device 60 is operated, the interlocking crank 61 will always oscillate, and although the ball sending body 50 will oscillate, the counting body will not work. Since there is no swing of 40, the count of 5 balls will not be performed.

Therefore, when this ball counting and feeding device 30 is used, the J! ! ! !
! Even if there is +, the number of oscillations of the ball sending body 5G accompanying the movement of the interlocking crank 61 will not be detected as the number of ball feeding times, and the number of ball feeding times will be detected as the counting body moved by one ball. There are only 40 moves.

Therefore, regardless of whether or not the emitted wave fi60 is activated, it is possible to accurately count the balls actually sent out to the firing device 60 and to send out the balls one by one one by one.

Next, the nine-ball extraction device 70 will be explained.

This ball extracting device 70 removes not only the balls located in the standby part zl but also all the balls located in the ball passage 20 by operating the operating lever 11 provided in the replay tray 10.
72.

More specifically, this ball extracting device M70 includes a ball extracting body 80 that is pivotally supported by a ball extracting vehicle 81 at the lower part of the standby section 21, and a ball game slider 9090 for shaking this ball extracting body 80. , With the shaking of the ball removal slider 90, the ball passage? It is formed of a ball removal passage 71 for guiding the ball in θ to the ball ff1172, and a spring 91 for preventing the ball from being pulled out to the ball removal passage 71 side by the ball removal body 80.

The ball extracting body 80 is pivotally supported at the lower part of the standby part 21, and a ball extractor weight 82 is provided on the opposite ball feeder 50 side of the standby part 21, and further in front of the ball extractor weight 82 is a slider. An integral part 83 is provided.

The ball removing slider 90 is provided with an inclined surface 92 on the side of the ball removing body 80, and a ball removing lever 93 is provided on the opposite side of the ball removing body 80, and this ball removing lever 93 is operated by the operating lever 11. The entire ball extracting slider 90 is moved in accordance with the movement. Further, the ball removing slider 90 is normally located on the ball sending body 50 side due to the elastic force of the spring 91.

Also, in this way, the one-ball slider 90 is connected to the ball feeder 50.
When it is located on the side, the slider assembly 83 of the ball removing body 80 is positioned above the inclined surface 92 of the 5 ball removing slider 90, and at this time, the upper surface of the ball removing body 80 is biased toward the ball sending body 50. It is tilted slightly.

At this time, if the ball removal lever 93 is moved to the left in the drawing by operating the operating lever 11, the ball removal slider 90 will also be moved to the left along with the movement. Then, as the ball removal slider 90 moves, the ball removal body 8
0 is caused to swing around the ball extracting vehicle 81 so that the slider unit 83 sequentially moves downward along the inclined surface 92 of the ball extracting slider 90 due to the weight of the one ball extracting weight 82.

In this way, when the ball removing slider 90 moves to the left and the ball removing body 80 swings downward to the left around the ball removing shaft 81,
The ball located in this ball passage 20 has a shape in which the upper surface of the one-ball extraction body 80 is inclined to the left, so that the ball extraction passage 20 is
All the balls remaining in the one-ball passage 20 are guided in one direction and are returned to the ball tray 72 by passing through the ball extraction passage 71 via the upper surface of the ball extraction body 80.

Therefore, when this ball extraction device fi70 is used, the balls in the relapse tray 10 are returned to the ball tray 72 through the same path as in the past by operating the operating lever 11 similar to the conventional one, and the balls in the ball path 20 are also returned. As the ball extractor 80 swings, the five balls are taken out into the ball extracting passage 71 and returned to the ball @72 as they are.

Therefore, if you want to stop the game midway through or continue the game on a different game machine, you can restart the game by operating the operating lever 11.
Not only can the balls inside be removed, but also all the balls located in the ball path 20 can be removed, so there are no wasted balls.

In the above explanation, the ball removing body 80 is oscillated about the ball removing shaft 81 by the movement of the ball removing slider 90, but the ball removing body 80 is moved by the movement of the ball removing slider 90, and as a result of the movement, the ball removing body 80 It is also possible to form the ball in the passage 20 so that it falls into the ball removal passage 71.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention enables the recovery of not only the balls in the 100-shot dish by simply operating the operation lever provided on the re-shot dish when collecting the balls in the 100-shot dish. By providing a ball extraction device capable of simultaneously returning the balls in the ball path to the ball tray, wasted balls are eliminated and the game becomes smoother.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the whole, and FIG. 2 is a front view of a relapse plate. 10... Re-update 11... Operation lever 20
... Ball passage 21 ... Standby section 30 ... Ball counting and feeding device M 40 ... Counting body 41 ... Counting axis
42... Counting weight 43... Detection section
44...Contact part 45...Sensor 50
...Ball feeding body 51...Ball feeding vehicle 52...
Ball feeding weight 53... Pressure contact part 60... Launching device 61... Interlocking crank 70... Ball extracting device 71... Ball extracting passage 7z... Ball plate 80...
-Ball removing body 81...Ball removing shaft 82...Ball removing weight 83...Slider integrated 90...Ball removing slider 91...Spring 92...Slanted surface 93...
・Ball removal lever

Claims (1)

[Claims] A ball extractor is provided at the bottom of the standby section, which is the lowest end of the ball passage for sending the balls in the hundred-shot tray to the firing device, and is equipped with an operating lever for returning the ball to the ball tray. A ball extracting passage is provided below to communicate the standby part and the ball tray, and the balls in the ball passage are returned to the ball tray through the ball extracting body and the ball extracting passage by operating the operating lever. Ball extraction device.