JPH061177Y2 - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a pachinko machine.

[Prior Art] As is well known, in a conventional pachinko machine, a prize ball in a prize ball tank is guided to a prize ball case via a gutter rail, and a certain number of prize balls are released every time a winning ball is generated. I am trying. On the other hand, recently, a pachinko machine in which the number of prize balls to be emitted is changed depending on the type of prize balls to enhance the enjoyment of the game has been proposed and put into practical use (for example, Japanese Patent Application No. 62-180301 by the present applicant). reference).

[Problems to be solved by the invention] Therefore, as a pachinko machine manufacturer, there is an inconvenience that two kinds of pachinko machines having different emission modes of the prize balls must be prepared at all times in order to receive an order for a hall.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to easily add to any of two types of models having different emission modes of prize balls to winning balls by adding a simple structure. It is to provide a pachinko machine that can be changed.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In a pachinko machine of the present invention, a first prize ball case that emits a fixed number of prize balls by a winning ball and a number of prize balls that is smaller than the first prize ball case are provided. A second prize ball case for discharging is provided, and a ball flow path for guiding a prize ball in the prize ball tank to the first prize ball case and an auxiliary ball flow path for guiding the second prize ball case to the second prize ball case are defined below the tank. Arrange the formed gutter rail. In addition, a slide member having a cover plate is provided on the side surface of the gutter rail so as to be movable in the length direction,
A detection member is provided at the bottom of each of the sphere flow path and the auxiliary sphere flow path and turns upward to turn on a switch for sphere breakage when the prize sphere in the prize sphere tank decreases. Then, by moving the slide member, the cover plate portion closes the outlet portion of the prize ball tank corresponding to the opening upper surface of the auxiliary ball passage, and the detection member of the auxiliary ball passage is rotated downward to cut the ball. It is configured so that the power switch can be held in the OFF state.

[Operation] By moving the slide member and closing the falling portion of the prize ball tank corresponding to the opening upper surface of the auxiliary ball passage by the cover plate portion, the prize ball in the prize ball tank causes the prize ball in the gutter rail ball passage. It is only guided to the first prize ball case via the, and the operation of releasing the prize ball by the second prize ball case cannot be performed. Further, the detection member provided in the auxiliary ball passage is rotated downward by the slide member, and the switch for cutting the ball is held in the OFF state.

Further, by moving the slide member to open the outlet portion of the prize ball tank corresponding to the upper surface of the opening of the auxiliary ball passage, the prize ball in the prize ball tank is a gutter rail ball passage and an auxiliary ball passage. Will be guided to the first and second prize ball cases respectively, and thereby the first and second prize ball cases will be introduced.
The prize ball case may perform the operation of releasing the prize ball.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First
FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Is a machine frame of a pachinko machine, and 2 is a front frame that is mounted on the front surface of the machine frame 1 so as to be openable and closable. On the front of the front frame 2 is a glass frame 3
The front plate 4 is mounted so as to be openable and closable, and an upper ball tray 5 is provided on the front face of the front plate 4. A lower ball tray 6 is formed below the front frame 2, and a handle 7 for hitting a ball and a variation time reduction button 8 are provided on the sides thereof. 9 is a game board located on the rear surface of the front frame 2,
A game section surrounded by a guide rail 10 on the surface thereof is provided with a plurality of general winning openings 11, a windmill 15, and the like, and a variable display device 12 is arranged in the central portion. Also, there are three starting winning openings for operating the variable display device 12 below the game section.
A variable winning device 14 is provided which opens according to the display mode of 13 and the variable display device 12 so that a winning ball can be easily entered.

The variable display device 12 includes three-digit segment display units 16a-1
It has 6c. The segment display parts 16a to 16c are
The operation starts when the game ball wins the start winning opening 13, and the update is stopped when the player presses the variable time reduction button 8 after or within a certain time set by the timer. Then, the segment display parts 16a to 16c at this time
It is determined whether or not the combination is determined by the determination circuit so as to give the specific game state (big hit) in which the game ball is easy to enter, and the change opening mode of the variable winning device 14 is determined by the determination result.

In the variable winning device 14, a horizontally long ball entrance 18 is formed on a mounting board 17, and a door-shaped ball receiving member 19 on the front surface of the ball entrance 18 is provided so as to be openable and closable to the front side. Both sides of the ball receiving member 19 are pivotally supported on the lower side of the ball inlet 18 by shafts 20, and the solenoid 21 fixed to the back surface of the mounting substrate 17 is driven to open or close the ball inlet 18. To do

FIG. 2 is a back view of a pachinko machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, and a mechanism plate 22 is rotatably mounted on the back surface of the game board 9. The mechanism plate 22 has a plate-shaped portion 22a which forms a winning ball space apart from the back surface of the game board 9 at regular intervals, and the plate-shaped portion 22a.
On the lower part of the front surface of the game machine, that is, on the surface opposite to the back surface of the game board 9, there is formed a first winning ball collecting portion 23 for collecting the winning balls that have entered the general winning opening 11 and the variable winning device 14. Then, the gutter member 24 is arranged on the back surface of the mechanism plate 22 side by side with the first winning ball collecting portion 23.
The gutter member 24 forms a second winning ball collecting portion 25 that collects the winning balls that have entered the starting winning opening 13.

A prize ball tank 26 is disposed above the back surface of the plate-shaped portion 22a of the mechanism plate 22. Below the prize ball tank 26 is the tank
A gutter rail 27 is formed that guides the prize ball in 26. The prize ball tank 26 is formed in a box shape with an open upper surface, and a free end 26b of the prize ball to the gutter rail 27 is provided at an inclined lower end of a bottom portion 26a thereof.
Are formed. In addition, the prize ball tank 26 is fixed by screws with a rear wall portion set in an installation recess 28 formed in the mechanism plate 22. The gutter rail 27 is formed in a gutter shape having an open upper surface, and a partition wall 29 defines a sphere flow passage 30 and an auxiliary sphere flow passage 31 in the front and rear. Then, the inclined lower end of the ball passage 30 is communicated with the first prize ball case 34 through the bent gutter 32 and the vertical gutter 33, and the inclined lower end of the auxiliary ball passage 31 is communicated with the second prize ball case 35, respectively. Has been done. still,
The sphere flow passage 30 has two rows of front and rear sphere flow passages 30a and 30b due to the intermediate wall 36.
It is divided into sections.

The outlet 26b of the prize ball tank 26 is, as shown in FIG.
The gutter rail 27 is formed to have a size extending over the upper opening surfaces of both the ball passage 30 and the auxiliary ball passage 31. The ball passage 30 located below the outlet 26b of the prize ball tank 26 is provided with a plate-shaped first detection member 37 forming a bottom portion, and two switches 38 and 39 are provided below the first detection member 37. ing. In addition, the auxiliary ball channel 3
A plate-shaped second detection member 40 is provided at the bottom of 1, and a switch 41 is provided below it. One end of each of the first and second detecting members 37 and 40 is rotatably supported on the gutter rail 27 by a shaft 42. Also, the switches 38, 4
Reference numeral 1 is connected to a ball-out display lamp 44 of a display unit 43 provided on the surface of the game board 9, and switch 39 is connected to a hall computer for supplying a replenishment command signal. These switches 38, 39 and 41 are of the type in which the contacts made by microswitches are normally open, and the first and second detection members 37, 4 are provided.
Its position is chosen so that it is held in the OFF state by a downward rotation of 0.

The first detection member 37 has a connecting arm 37b located above the switches 38 and 39 on the lower surface thereof, and an opening / closing lever 47 for opening and closing a supply port 46 communicating with the ball tray 6 and a shaft on the mechanism plate 22. It is linked through a link 49 supported 48 and an elevating rod 50 connected to one end of the link 49. When the prize balls in the ball passage 30 decrease and are released from the weight of the balls, the weight 51 provided on the link 49 causes the weight to rotate upward and the switches 38 and 39 to turn O.
At the same time, the lifting rod 50 is raised. As a result, the out-of-bulb display lamp 44 is turned on and the opening / closing lever 44 closes the supply port 46 and the game is stopped.

Further, on the lower surface of the second detection member 40, a contact arm 53 located above the switch 41 and a frame-shaped portion 54 in which a horizontally long guide structure 55 is formed are formed. Then, the second detecting member 40 urges the coil spring 52 wound around the shaft 42 when the prize balls in the auxiliary ball passage 31 decrease and are released from the ball weight as shown by the chain line in FIG. Rotate upwards and switch 41
It is turned on to turn on the out-of-ball indicator lamp 44.

56 is a slide member arranged on the side surface of the gutter rail 27,
Side plate 56a located on the side of the gutter rail 27 and the prize ball tank 2
6 by the lid plate portion 56b facing the outlet 26b Formed into a shape. Then, as shown in FIG. 7, the side plate portion 56
The horizontal elongated hole 57 formed in a is inserted into the guide shaft 58 protruding outward from the side surface of the gutter rail 27, and both front and rear ends of the lid plate portion 56b are provided on the lower front surface and the lower bottom surface of the prize ball tank 26. By being inserted into the grooves of the formed groove members 59 and 60, the first position for opening the prize ball tank 26b as shown by the solid line in FIG. 5 and the second position for closing the outlet 26b as shown by the chain line in FIG. It is mounted movably in position and. The lateral width of the cover plate portion 56b is selected to be equal to the lateral width of the auxiliary ball channel 31, and a part of the upper surface thereof, that is, a portion corresponding to the outlet 26b of the prize ball tank 26, is an inclined surface toward the ball channel 30. Formed as 61. Further, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, an engaging projection 62 is formed at the rear end of the cover plate portion 56b to hold the slide member 56 at the first position and the second position, and the groove member 60 is formed. Are formed with engaging holes 63, 64 into which the engaging protrusions 62 can fit.

Further, the lid plate portion 56b is formed with a protrusion 65 projecting downward on the left side thereof, and a pin 66 is provided on the protrusion 65 to project the pin 66 as shown in FIG. The tip is the second detection member
It faces the guide groove 55 of 40. This pin 66 is provided with a guide groove when the slide member 56 is at the first position shown in FIG.
It is located at the right end of 55 and has a free relationship with the second detection member 40, and moves horizontally in the guide groove 55 to the left as the slide member 56 moves from the first position to the second position. The detection member 40 is forcibly rotated downward.

The first prize ball case 34 and the second prize ball case 35 have the same structure, and as shown in FIG. 10, vertically fixed fixing case portions 34a and 35a having upper and lower ends opened, and the fixing parts 34a and 35a. Upper valves 34b, 3 facing the upper and lower ends of the case portions 34a, 35a, respectively
5b and lower valves 34c, 35c, discharge actuating members 34d, 35d movably provided up and down, and lateral actuating rods 34f, 35f whose one end faces engaging recesses 34e, 35e of discharge actuating members 34d, 35d. Generally composed. The fixed case portion of the first prize ball case 34
The ball passages 30a and 30b of the gutter rail 27 communicate with each other in 34a to accommodate 13 prize balls in two rows in a row, and the auxiliary ball passage 31 is provided in the fixed case portion 35a of the second prize ball case 35. In communication, seven prize balls are stored in a row in a row. The fixed case 34a,
A prize ball discharge gutter 74 is provided below the 35a.

Further, a first winning ball discharging processing device 67 and a second winning ball discharging processing device 68 are provided in communication with the outlets of the first winning ball collecting portion 23 and the second winning ball collecting portion 25. These first and second winning ball discharge processing devices 67 and 68 are, as shown in FIG. 11, cams 67a and 68a which rotate at a constant speed by a motor 69, and a ball feed which swings in contact with the cams 67a and 68a. Arm 67b, 68b
With the ball feeding arms 67b and 68b, the winning ball discharge passage 70,
Swing member 67c that is pushed and rotated by the winning ball discharged to 71,
The rocking members 67c, 68c are connected to the operating rods 34f, 35f of the first and second prize ball cases 34, 35 by vertical rods 72, 73, respectively.

The pachinko machine according to the present embodiment having the above-described configuration has the prize ball tank when the slide member 56 is placed at the first position for opening the outlet 26b of the prize ball tank 26 as shown by the solid line in FIG. The prize balls in 26 are led out to both the ball flow path 30 and the auxiliary ball flow path 31 of the gutter rail 27, and the first and second prize ball cases 34 and 35 are fixed through the bent gutter 32 and the vertical gutter 33. They are guided to the case portions 34a and 35a, respectively. At this time, the first and second detection members 3
7, 40 is rotated downward by the weight of the prize ball on its upper surface, and pushes the push buttons of the switches 38, 39 and 41 by the connecting arm 37a and the contact arm 53 to turn them off.

In this state, when the winning ball is sent from the first winning ball collecting section 23 to the first winning ball discharging processing device 67, the operating rod 34f of the first prize ball case 34 is moved by the rocking of the rocking member 67c. It pivots upwards through a vertical rod 72, which causes the discharge actuator 34d
Is moved upward, and the upper valve 34b and the lower valve 34c are alternately opened and closed to discharge the 13 prize balls in the fixed case portion 34a to the prize ball discharge trough 74. In addition, the second prize ball collecting section
When the winning balls are sent from the 25 to the second winning ball discharge processing device 68, the swinging member 68c swings to move the second prize ball case 35.
The operating rod 35f of the above-mentioned pivots upward through the vertical rod 73, thereby moving the discharge actuating body 35d upward, and by alternately opening and closing the upper valve 35b and the lower valve 35c, the fixed case portion 35a.
It discharges the seven prize balls inside to the prize ball discharge gutter 74. Then, as described above, the prize balls in the prize ball tank 26 decrease due to the release of the prize balls with respect to the winning balls, and the first and second detection members 37, 40 are released from the ball weight and rotate upward, Along with this, the connecting arm 37a and the contact arm 53 have switches 78, 79 and 40.
And the switch is turned on, and the lamp indicator 44
Light up.

On the other hand, when the slide member 56 is moved from the above-described first position to the second position shown by the chain line in FIG. 5, the lid plate portion 56b of the slide member 56 corresponds to the opening upper surface of the auxiliary ball passage 31 and the outlet of the prize ball tank 26 corresponding thereto. The portion 26b will be blocked, and as a result, the prize sphere in the prize sphere tank 26 is only led out to the sphere flow path 30,
The supply of the premium ball to the second premium ball case 35 is stopped, and the operation of releasing the premium ball becomes impossible. Further, as the slide member 56 moves, the pin 66 provided on the slide member 56
Moves together with the guide groove 55 formed in the second detection member 40 to forcibly rotate the second detection member 40 downward against the bias of the coil spring 52. As a result, since the push button of the switch 40 is pressed by the contact arm 53 and the switch 40 is always kept in the OFF state regardless of the decrease of the prize balls in the prize ball tank 26, the auxiliary ball flow path 31 is formed. Even in the empty state, the out-of-ball indicator lamp 44 will not be turned on. Therefore, all the winning balls are the first winning ball collecting unit 23.
In this case, it is possible to easily change to an ordinary pachinko machine having only one prize ball case.

[Advantages of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, a regular number of prize balls are released to all prize balls by a simple operation of moving the slide member to the left and right. It is possible to easily change to any of the machines or the pachinko machines in which the number of prize balls released varies depending on the type of prize balls. Therefore, there is no need to prepare two types of pachinko machines as in the past, and the economic effect is extremely great.

In addition, since the movement of the slide member and the detection member provided in the auxiliary ball flow path are made to operate in association with each other, the lamp display mechanism when the ball in the prize ball tank runs out is also reliable according to the model change. Can be operated in conjunction with.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine, Fig. 2 is a rear view of the pachinko machine, Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a prize ball tank portion, and Fig. 4 is a gutter. FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the rail portion, FIG. 5 is a front view of a main portion of the slide member in the first position, and FIG. 6 is a partial cross-sectional view of the slide member in the first position. The front view shown in FIG. 7, FIG. 7 is a sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG. 5, FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along the line BB in FIG. 5, and FIG. FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the first and second prize ball cases, and FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the first and second prize ball discharge processing device portions. 26 ... Gift ball tank, 26b ... Outlet, 27 ... Gutter rail, 30 ... Ball flow path, 31 ... Auxiliary ball flow path, 34 ... First prize ball case, 35 ...
Second prize ball case, 40 ... Detection member, 41 ... Switch, 56
… Sliding member.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A first prize sphere case that discharges a fixed number of prize spheres by winning balls, and a second prize sphere case that discharges a smaller number of prize spheres than the first prize sphere case, Below the prize ball tank, there is provided a gutter rail which defines a ball passage for guiding the prize balls in the tank to the first prize ball case and an auxiliary ball passage for guiding the prize ball to the second prize ball case. A slide member having a cover plate portion is provided on the side surface of the rail so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction, and is rotated upward when the prize balls in the prize ball tank decrease at the bottoms of the ball passage and the auxiliary ball passage. A detection member for turning on the ball breaking switch, and by moving the slide member, the cover plate closes the outlet of the prize ball tank corresponding to the upper opening of the auxiliary ball passage and the auxiliary ball passage. Rotate the detection member of the Pinball machine, characterized by being configured so as to hold the switch OFF state.