JPH045623B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention provides, for example, a game machine row in which a plurality of pachinko machines as game machines are arranged side by side in the horizontal direction,
Every other place between adjacent pachinko machines,
A bill insertion machine such as a pachinko ball lending machine that accepts banknotes from the front side of the game machine row and sends them out to the back side of the game machine row with the paper side vertically aligned is installed, and a bill insertion machine such as a pachinko ball lending machine is installed on the back side of the game machine row. The present invention relates to a gaming facility that is provided with a conveyance device that conveys sent out banknotes to a specific position so that banknotes received by a banknote insertion machine can be efficiently collected.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional gaming facilities, an automatic ball lending machine that operates when a coin is inserted is installed between the pachinko machines, and the coins dropped from the automatic ball lending machine are received on the back side of the row of pachinko machines, and the machine is placed at one end of the row of pachinko machines. There are coins that are equipped with a transport device to efficiently collect the inserted coins.
-Refer to Publication No. 14637), in gaming equipment in which a bill insertion machine such as an automatic ball lending machine that is activated by the insertion of bills is installed between game machines, the bills are larger and thinner than coins, and are also lighter. Because of their flexibility, they are difficult to handle like coins, so each banknote insertion machine is equipped with a safe (stacker), and the banknotes received at each banknote insertion machine are stored in the safe of the banknote insertion machine that accepted them. (Refer to Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 53-3399).

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Therefore, according to the conventional gaming equipment in which a bill insertion machine that operates by inserting banknotes is installed between the game machines, when collecting the banknotes inserted into each bill insertion machine, a collector needs to touch the front side of each bill insertion machine. Since the banknotes in the safe must be retrieved from the safe, it is not only impossible to efficiently collect the banknotes from each banknote input machine, but also the operation of the game machines. When the safe is full, it may be necessary to go between the players to collect the safe, which also lacks consideration for the players.

Therefore, in the same way as the conventional gaming equipment in which an automatic ball dispensing machine that operates by inserting coins is installed between pachinko machines, a bill insertion machine that accepts bills from the front side of the gaming machine row and sends them out to the back side of the gaming machine row is installed. A conveying device is installed between the game machines and conveys the banknotes sent out from each banknote input machine to a collecting position at one end of the game machine line, so that the banknotes do not get in the way of players. However, in this case, the banknotes sent out from the banknote insertion machine are simply allowed to fall under their own weight onto the conveyance surface of a conveyor or other conveyor, and are then collected at a collection position at one end of the row of gaming machines. In order to reliably catch banknotes falling in irregular positions under their own weight on the conveying surface of the conveying device, it is necessary to install a large conveying device with a wide conveying surface. Since it is necessary to secure a large installation space on the back side of the row of game machines, there is a risk that the installation space for the game machines will be reduced accordingly.

In addition, since the length of the rows of gaming machines usually differs depending on the installation location and arrangement of the gaming equipment, when installing such gaming equipment, it is necessary to determine the dimensions corresponding to the rows of gaming machines of various lengths. transport equipment has to be manufactured each time, making it difficult to complete the game equipment in a short construction period.As the transport equipment itself becomes large, it requires a great deal of labor and effort to transport and install it, making the equipment as a whole difficult to complete. There is a drawback that it tends to lead to a rise in costs.

Furthermore, even after installing such gaming equipment, it is common practice to leave the transport equipment as is and only replace obsolete gaming machines with new ones, and in such cases, the existing equipment is replaced. It is necessary to quickly and accurately combine the conveyance device and the replaced game machine, but there is a problem in that it is difficult to do such a precise combination due to the accuracy of the installation of the game machine.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and effectively utilizes the characteristics of banknotes to efficiently collect banknotes inserted into a banknote insertion machine without interfering with players. The purpose of the present invention is to provide gaming equipment that is unlikely to cause a rise in equipment costs.

[Means to solve the problem]

The characteristic configuration of the present invention for achieving the above object is as follows: A. A plurality of gaming machines are arranged side by side in the horizontal direction to form a gaming machine row, and a plurality of specific locations between the plurality of adjacent gaming machines are provided. , a bill insertion machine capable of accepting bills from the front side of the game machine row and feeding them to the back side of the game machine row with the paper side vertically aligned, and on the back side of the game machine row, A clamping and transporting device is provided that receives the banknotes sent out from each of the banknote insertion machines, clamps the banknotes in a posture such that the paper surface is aligned in the vertical direction, and transports the banknotes along the row of game machines to a specific position where they merge, B. The clamping and transporting device A gaming facility in which the clamping conveyance path is configured by connecting a plurality of conveyance units in series along the row of game machines, wherein the total length of the conveyance unit is equal to the arrangement pitch of the banknote insertion machine. or D. A game equipment in which the lengths are set to be approximately equal, and each of the transport units is formed with an opening for receiving the banknotes sent out from the banknote insertion machine.

It has the configuration of ABCD above, and the following effects are achieved from this configuration.

[Effect]

a With the configuration of A above, the bills sent out from each bill insertion machine can be easily collected at a specific position without any effort and without getting in the way of players by transporting them along the back side of the gaming machine row. In particular, since banknotes are clamped and conveyed with the paper surface aligned in the vertical direction, the width of the clamping and conveyance device must be narrower than when the paper is conveyed with the paper surface aligned in the horizontal direction. It can be installed efficiently even in narrow spaces.

c With the configuration B above, the length of the clamping conveyance path of the clamping conveyance device can be easily changed by changing the combination of the conveying units.

d With the configurations C and D above, the length of the clamping conveyance path of the clamping conveyance device can be changed in units of the arrangement pitch of the bill insertion machine, and e Moreover, each conveyance unit is arranged at one location in its longitudinal direction. Since it is only necessary to assemble it in a predetermined posture relative to the banknote insertion machine, even if the arrangement pitch of the banknote insertion machine is slightly different due to the installation accuracy of the game machine, each transport unit can be assembled in a predetermined posture relative to the banknote insertion machine. For example, it is possible to reliably assemble a single conveyor unit in a predetermined posture with respect to multiple bill insertion machines arranged at multiple locations along its longitudinal direction. This has the advantage that high installation precision is not required when installing the game machine.

〔Effect of the invention〕

Due to the effect of a above, the banknotes inserted into the bill insertion machine can be efficiently collected without getting in the way of the player, but due to the effect of b, the installation space for the conveyance device is small, and due to the effect of c above, The transport device can be manufactured and transported easily, and furthermore, the transport device and the game machine can be installed efficiently due to the effects of d and e, so that it is possible to suppress the increase in equipment costs as a whole.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

9 and 10 show a pachinko gaming facility in which a plurality of pachinko machines A are arranged in a row in the horizontal direction, and the pachinko machines A arranged in the row are adjacent to each other. Pachinko machine A, A
In each of the spaces, a banknote a is placed every other space.
Two rows of pachinko machines are arranged at a small interval (for example, about 20 cm), and each row has a banknote insertion machine B that can be fed out at the back. A banknote clamping and conveying device D is arranged back-to-back with the machines separated from each other, and between both rows of pachinko machines is a banknote clamping and conveying device D that transports bills a sent out from each banknote input machine B to a storage section C provided at one end of the table row. It is set up and configured.

Note that the bill insertion machine B has a function of identifying whether the bill a is good or bad, and sends the bill a to the back only if the bill a is good, and if the bill a is defective, it sends the bill to the back. It is configured to be returned to entrance b.

As shown in FIG. 10, the clamping and conveying path of the clamping and conveying device D has a length that spans the installation range of the left and right pachinko machines A and A that are adjacent to each other with the banknote insertion machine B in between.
In other words, it is constructed by connecting a plurality of conveyance units d in series, each unit having a total length equal to the arrangement pitch of the banknote insertion machine B, and each conveyance unit d is connected in a series as shown in FIGS. As shown in FIG. 5, FIG. 7, and FIG. 8, an endless rotary belt that clamps and conveys the banknote a in a posture in which the opposite long sides are located above and below, while holding the banknote a from the thickness direction. 1 and a clamping wheel 2 are arranged in a conveyance case 3 in a state of being lined up in the conveyance direction, and on both sides of the conveyance case 3 and approximately at the center in the conveyance direction, An opening 3A is formed to receive the banknote a sent out from the banknote insertion machine B, and the banknote a from the banknote insertion machine B is transported by a nipping conveyance body located on the upper side of the transport from the opening 3A. A banknote supply guide section 4 passes between the terminal end and the conveyance start end of the nip conveyance body located adjacent to the downstream side of the conveyance, and guides the banknote supply guide 4 to merge between the conveyance start ends of the nip conveyance body located on the downstream side of conveyance. It is set up and configured.

The banknote supply guide section 4 includes a pair of guide plates 4A and 4B screwed to the transport case 3.

A pair of regulating plates 5, 5 are provided in the conveyance case 3 along the conveyance direction, for regulating the collapse of the non-pinched portion of the pinched and conveyed banknote a from both sides in the thickness direction and maintaining the conveyance posture of the banknote in a predetermined posture. A plurality of pulleys 6 are pivotally supported on one of the pair of regulating plates 5, 5, and the endless rotary belt 1, which is composed of a narrow round belt for conveyance, carries the banknote a. It is wound around these pulleys 6 so as to be in contact with the upper and lower center portions.

The clamping wheel 2 is composed of a plurality of rollers arranged along the conveying direction to clamp and convey the banknote a in cooperation with the round conveying belt 1, and among the pair of regulating plates 5, 5, is attached to the other regulating plate 5.

Among the pulleys 6, a plurality of pulleys 6 located in the middle in the conveying direction are urged to move in the clamping direction via a spring 7, and the regulating plate 5 is moved upwardly and downwardly via stays 8a and 8b, respectively. It is attached to the transport case 3, and these upper and lower stays 8a,
The upper stay 8a of the upper stay 8b is swingably attached to the regulating plate 5.
a is connected to the transport case 3 by swinging and elastically engaging with the leaf spring 18 attached to the transport case 3 (see Fig. 3), and a state in which the transport case 3 is engaged with the leaf spring 18. A passage 9 that allows the round conveyor belt 1 to be reattached to the pulley 6 from above between the regulating plate 5 and the conveyor case 3 by releasing the connection.
(see FIG. 4).

Among the rollers 2, a plurality of rollers 2 located in the middle in the conveying direction are urged to move in the clamping direction via a spring 10, and the regulating plate 5 is swingable around a lower fulcrum P. It is attached to the transport case 3, and by swinging this regulation plate 5,
It is configured to be changeable between a clamping action position (see FIG. 3) in which the banknote a is clamped and a non-clipping position (see FIG. 4) in which the clamping action is released.

Reference numeral 11 shown in FIG. 3 is a leaf spring that elastically engages and holds a fixing piece 12 attached to the upper end of the regulating plate 5 to connect the regulating plate 5 to the transport case 3.

As shown in FIGS. 2, 5, and 6,
The spindle 13 of the first pulley 6 located at the terminal end of the plurality of pulleys 6 that rotatably guides the round belt 1 located on the upper side in the transport direction in each transport unit d, and the spindle 13 of the first pulley 6 located on the lower side in the transport direction The spindle 14 of the second pulley 6 located at the starting end of the plurality of pulleys 6 that rotationally guides the round belt 1 is
The gear mechanism 1 is connected to the drive shaft 15a of the electric motor 15.
6, the two round belts 1, 1 can be rotated by driving one electric motor 15.

In addition, 17 shown in FIG. 2 is a solenoid,
When the bill a inserted into the bill insertion machine B is defective, the defective bill a is sent to a return device (not shown).
When it is returned, the solenoid 17 is activated to automatically change the position of the starting end roller 2 of the nipping conveyance body located on the downstream side in the conveying direction to the non-nipping position shown by the imaginary line in FIG.
It is configured so that the defective banknote a will not be damaged due to the return device operating while the defective banknote a is held between the starting ends of the nipping and conveying body located on the downstream side in the conveyance direction.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the gaming equipment according to the present invention,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the conveyance unit, Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional plan view of the main part showing the joining part of banknotes, Figs. 3 to 5 are longitudinal sectional views of the transport unit, and Fig. 6 is a schematic plan view of the main part. Figures 7 and 8 are a cross-sectional plan view and a vertical side view showing the connecting portion of the conveyance unit, and Figures 9 and 10 are a side view and a schematic cross-sectional plan view of the pachinko game equipment. 3A...opening, A...gaming machine, a...banknote,
B...Banknote insertion machine, D...Pinching conveyance device, d...
Conveyance unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 A game machine row is configured by arranging a plurality of game machines A in parallel in the horizontal direction, and banknotes a are received from the front side of the game machine row at a plurality of specific locations between the plurality of game machines A adjacent to each other. A banknote insertion machine B is provided that can feed out the paper money to the back side of the game machine row with the paper surface aligned in the vertical direction, and a banknote insertion machine B that can feed out the banknotes from each of the banknote insertion machines B to the back side of the game machine row is provided. A clamping and conveying device D is provided which receives the bill a, clamps it with the paper surface aligned in the vertical direction, and conveys the same along the gaming machine row to a specific position, and the clamping and conveying device D has a plurality of clamping and conveying paths. The gaming equipment is constructed by connecting conveyance units d in series along the gaming machine row, and the total length of the conveyance unit d is equal to or approximately equal to the arrangement pitch of the bill insertion machine B. The gaming equipment is configured such that each of the transport units d is provided with an opening 3A for receiving banknotes a sent out from the banknote insertion machine B.