JPH0429636Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (Industrial application field) The present invention opens a ball inlet provided on a mounting plate by forward tilting motion, captures a ball flowing down the front surface of the mounting plate, and captures the ball that flows down the front surface of the mounting plate. An opening/closing plate that is erected and closed by the inflow of balls from the front ball inlet, a locking piece that operates when the opening/closing plate is raised to hold the plate in an upright state, and a ball weight sensing piece located at the ball inlet. Let me,
In the ball processing device, the lever is equipped with a lever having a heavier weight and the other end facing the lower side of the unlocking protrusion of the locking piece, and a lever formed of transparent or colored transparent synthetic resin on the front surface of the mounting plate. A lamp house is provided, a lamp is installed inside the lamp house, and the lever swings when the ball weight sensing piece detects the ball flowing into the ball inlet, and the unlocking protrusion is pushed up from the locked position. This invention relates to a ball processing device for a pachinko machine, which is provided with a switch that is opened and closed by the locking piece that moves to the unlocked position, and which controls the blinking of a lamp in the lamp house.

(Prior art) A ball inlet provided on a conventional mounting plate is opened by a forward tilting motion to catch a ball flowing down the front surface of the mounting plate, and the ball is raised up by the flow of the captured ball from the front ball inlet. an opening/closing plate that closes when the opening/closing plate is raised; a locking piece that operates when the opening/closing plate is raised to hold the plate in an upright position; a ball weight sensing piece that faces the ball inlet; The ball disposer is equipped with a lever that faces the bottom of the unlocking protrusion of the locking piece.
There has never been a device in which a lamp house is provided in front of the mounting plate so that the player can see the light by illuminating it with a lamp only when necessary.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) Conventionally, there was no lamp house provided in front of the mounting plate as described above, and this created an opportunity for the ball handler to tilt the opening/closing plate forward and capture the ball. However, the interest in pachinko games has decreased because the illumination effect produced by the light emitted from the lamp in the lamp house unique to the ball processing device does not make it possible for players to strongly recognize the advantageous situation individually. I couldn't get any excited.

(Means for solving the problems) The purpose of the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional ball processing device described above, and its specific configuration is described in the section (Industrial Application Field). As stated above.

(Example) An example of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Reference numeral 1 refers to a mounting plate that is fixed to the front surface of the plywood board of a pachinko machine, and a horizontally long ball inlet 2 into which several balls can be inserted in parallel is provided on this mounting plate.
Close it by standing up as shown in Figures 1 and 3, or open it by tilting forward by about 85 degrees as shown in Figure 4 to catch the ball flowing down the front of the mounting plate 1. The opening/closing plate 3 to be captured is supported by a shaft 10.

The opening/closing plate 3 is provided with catching surfaces a, b, and c divided in parallel by a protrusion 4 on the front side of the shaft 10, and a ball receiving surface b' is provided on the rear side of the axis of the central catching surface b. An abutment wall 5 is formed and stands up almost at right angles at the rear end.
Further, at the left and right ends, there is formed a projecting piece 6 which projects rearward from the shaft 10 and has an arcuate sliding surface 7 at the top and rear, and an upright locking edge 8 at its front end. However, a lock protrusion 9 having a low rearward slope is provided in contact with the protrusion 4 on one side of the central catching surface b. The opening/closing plate 3 has a structure shown in FIG. 5, with the front side heavier than the shaft 10, and the angle shown in FIG. 2 is maintained by a stopper (not shown).

A peripheral frame plate 11 that protrudes to the rear side of the plywood plate is provided on the rear side of the mounting plate 1, and the capture surface a of the opening/closing plate 3,
Outflow ports a -2 , b -2 , which cut out the ball drop areas a _-1 , b _-1 , c _-1 separated by partition walls at the bottom _of each of the rear sides _of b and c.
c _-2 are formed respectively. The ball receiving surface b' and the abutting wall 5 swing within the ball drop part b _-1 , and when the opening/closing plate 3 is erected as shown in FIG.
becomes horizontal with a slight downward slope.

Inside the surrounding frame plate 11, above the ball receiving surface b',
Attach the lock piece 12 supported by the shaft 16. As shown in FIG. 5, the lock piece 12 has a weight 13 provided on the rear side of the shaft 16, which is adapted to lock onto the stop edge 17 of the peripheral frame plate 11.
The lock projection 14 is provided with an abutment piece 14 which projects from the upper surface of the central part of the ball receiving surface b' with the direction 0 directed, and a lock protrusion 15 which projects from the rear side of the lock protrusion 9 directly above it.

A locking piece 18 for holding the opening/closing plate upright is pivotally supported on the peripheral frame plate 11 by a shaft 23 corresponding to the upper rear side of the projecting piece 6. The locking piece 18 is in contact with the sliding surface 7 of the projection piece 6 when the opening/closing plate 3 is tilted forward as shown in Figure 4, and when the plate 3 is upright as shown in Figures 1 and 3. A locking protrusion 19 that locks onto the locking edge 8
When the unlocking protrusion 20 protruding rearward from the hole in the surrounding frame plate 11 is lifted in the direction of the arrow y in FIG. 3, the locking protrusion 19 swings in the direction of the arrow z and the locking edge 8 is released and the opening/closing plate 3 is tilted forward by its own weight as shown in FIG. 4 to open the ball inlet 2.

A lever 26 supported by a shaft 25 is provided on the rear side of the surrounding frame plate 11 as shown in FIG. , the other end contacts the lower surface of the unlocking protrusion 20 of the locking piece 18, and the weight 2
8, the weight sensing piece 27 side is raised against the stopper 30 such as the ball inlet 29, and the weight sensing piece 27 is raised against the locking protrusion 19 as shown in FIG. They are almost touching from below.

In the above, the weight sensing piece 27 is pushed down by the weight of the safe balls flowing through the hitting ball inlet 29, and the other end of the lever 26 is thereby moved to the unlocking protrusion 20 of the locking piece 18.
is pushed up, and the locking protrusion 19 moves to the unlocking position in the direction of the arrow z in FIG.
The opening/closing plate 3, which has been engaged by the locking protrusion 19, automatically tilts forward as shown in FIG. 4 (if it is already tilted forward, the swinging of the lever 26 is disabled). Further, when the opening/closing plate 3 is tilted forward, the balls caught by the catching surfaces a, b, and c are caught by the ball falling parts a _-1 ,
c _-1 and flows out from the outlets a _-2 and c _-2 , but when it is caught by the catching surface b, the ball hits the lock piece 1.
Push the hitting ball abutting piece 14 of No. 2, and while removing the lock protrusion 15 from the lock protrusion 9, hit the abutting wall 5 of the ball hitting surface b', and the weight of the ball will raise the opening/closing plate 3 as shown in Fig. 3. Then, the ball inlet 2 is closed, and the ball falls into the ball falling part b _-1 and then flows out from the outlet b _-2 . On the other hand, since the lever 26 has returned to the position shown in FIG. 2, the locking protrusion 19 of the locking piece 18 slides on the sliding surface 7 and moves to the locking position where it engages with the locking edge 8 as shown in FIG. to maintain the opening/closing plate 3 in the upright position.

Such a configuration is known from Utility Model Application No. 58-13287.

The present invention provides the above-mentioned ball processing device,
A symmetrical lamp house 31 made of transparent or colored transparent synthetic resin is provided on the left and right sides of the opening/closing plate 3 on the front side of the mounting plate 1,
A lamp 32 is faced inside from the back side and fixed with a fixing piece 33. A plaque 34 on the front side of the lamp house 31 is provided with a plaque corresponding to the lamp 32.
A light transmitting window 35 is formed, a pattern or the like is displayed on the area other than the window 35, and the other area is painted with opaque paint to make it opaque. 36 is a chucker integrally formed on the upper part of the lamp house 31, and the chucker 36
A ball entrance 37 formed on the mounting plate 1 to receive a ball that enters the
We are trying to have it flow out from behind the aircraft.

Reference numeral 38 is a reed switch that controls the flashing of the lamp 32, and it moves from the locked position (solid line in Figures 2 and 3) where the unlocking protrusion 20 of the locking piece 18 is connected to the unlocking position (dashed line in the same figure). The reed switch 38 is fixed to the back surface of the mounting plate 1 so as to be activated by the movement of the reed switch 38.
0 into the cap 41 and attach it by screwing. A proximity switch can also be used as the reed switch. Further, while the opening/closing plate 3 is tilted forward to open the ball entrance 2, the lamp 32 can continue to blink.

(Operations and Effects of the Invention) As explained in the above embodiment, in the present invention, the unlocking protrusion 20 of the locking piece 18 that holds the opening/closing plate 3 in an upright position in the locking position is located at the ball inlet. Lever 26 that swings when the ball weight sensing piece 27 detects the ball that has entered the ball.
When pushed up by the other end and moved to the unlocked position, the opening/closing plate 3 tilts forward due to its own weight, and at the same time, the magnet 40 of the locking piece 18 turns on the reed switch 38 and the front surface of the mounting plate 1 is turned on. When the lamp 32 of the lamp house 31 lights up and illuminates the light transmitting window 35, and the opening/closing plate 3 returns from the forward leaning position to the upright position, the locking piece 18 moves to the locking position and turns off the reed switch 38. The function of turning on and extinguishing the lamp 32 is added to the conventional ball processing device, and the forward tilting of the opening/closing plate 3 creates an opportunity to catch the ball flowing down the front surface of the mounting plate 1. This can be strongly made known to the player by the illumination effect of lighting up the lamp in the lamp house uniquely provided in the ball processing device, and the advantageous situation for the player continues. This has the effect of making the pachinko game even more interesting by letting you know by lighting the lamp.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The accompanying drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a partially cutaway front view, Fig. 2 is a back view, and Fig. 3 is a partially cutaway front view.
Figure 4 is a side view taken along line B-B, Figure 5 is a side view taken along line C-C, Figure 6 is a partially separated perspective view, and Figure 7 is a side view taken along line C-C. FIG. 4 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view showing a state in which the magnet 40 is attached. a _-2 , b _-2 , c _-2 ... Outlet, 1 ... Mounting plate, 2
...ball entrance, 3...opening/closing plate, 6...protrusion, 7...
Sliding surface, 8... Locking edge, 12... Lock piece, 13
... Weight, 14 ... Ball abutment piece, 15 ... Lock protrusion, 16 ... Shaft, 17 ... Stop edge, 18 ...
... Locking piece, 19 ... Locking projection, 20 ... Unlocking projection piece, 21 ... Weight, 22 ... Stop projection, 23
...axis, 24...stop edge, y, z...arrow line,
25... shaft, 26... lever, 27... weight sensing piece, 28... weight, 29... hitting ball inlet, 30...
...Stopper, 31...Lamp house, 32...Lamp, 38...Reed switch.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] A ball inlet provided on a mounting plate is opened by a forward tilting motion to catch a ball flowing down the front surface of the mounting plate,
An opening/closing plate that is erected and closed by the inflow of captured balls from the front ball inlet, a locking piece that operates as the opening/closing plate is raised to hold the plate in an upright state, and a ball weight at the ball inlet. In the ball processing machine, the lever is equipped with a lever with a sensing piece facing and the other end of which has a larger weight facing below the unlocking protrusion of the locking piece, wherein the front surface of the mounting plate is transparent or colored transparent. A lamp house made of a synthetic resin is provided, and a lamp is mounted inside, and the ball weight sensing piece senses the ball flowing into the ball inlet, and the unlocking protrusion is pushed up by the lever that swings. A hitting ball for a pachinko machine, characterized in that a switch is provided which is operated to open and close by the locking piece that moves from a locked position to an unlocked position, and the switch controls blinking of a lamp in the lamp house. Processor.