JPH06285238A - Prize medal dispenser for medal game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To achieve higher reliability of operation with the simplification of the entire construction by arranging a medal container above a pusher section to discharge medals in the container with a discharge mechanism rapidly. CONSTITUTION:A medal game machine has a pusher section 21 which reciprocates continuously by a specified stroke (d) longitudinally and with the action of the pusher section 21, medals stacked at random on a fixed table F4 are pushed and some thereof drop on a dispensing outlet F4a according to the stacking thereof to be dispensed to a dispensing tray 3. A medal drop surface 30 is arranged above the pusher section 21 with nails 31a for guiding, rotary blade 31b..., a liquid crystal display device 31c and prize ports 31d... on the surface thereof. In this case, a medal container 11 is arranged at a lower part of the medal drop surface 30 and above the pusher section 21 and the container 11 is turned when a medal enters the prize port 31d thereby discharging the medals inside rapidly.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a prize medal payout device for a medal game machine having a simple overall structure and excellent operation reliability.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is known a medal game machine having a medal dropping surface for dropping medals inserted from above and a pusher portion arranged below the medal dropping surface for accumulating medals from the medal dropping surface. (For example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 4-
No. 240467).

The pusher portion of this one is a combination of a fixed table and a slide table that reciprocates back and forth on the fixed table, and in front of the fixed table,
An exit for prize medals is opened. Therefore, it is possible to pay out an unspecified number of medals, which have fallen in front of the slide table, to the payout opening depending on the accumulation state of the medals as the slide table moves forward. However,
The slide table does not move forward to the payout opening, but repeats forward and backward movement at a position retracted by a predetermined distance from the payout opening.

In order to improve the playability of the medal game machine, it is possible to provide a winning opening on the medal falling surface and to provide another auxiliary pusher portion above the pusher portion (the same publication). When a medal falling on the medal falling surface wins the winning opening, an appropriate lottery mechanism is activated, and an appropriate number of medals are inserted into the auxiliary pusher section according to the lottery result of the lottery mechanism. . Also, if the lottery result is a special prize, all the medals accumulated in the auxiliary pusher section are discharged to the pusher section.
The number of medals paid out at that time may be unexpectedly large. An opening / closing door is mounted in front of the auxiliary pusher unit so that medals from the auxiliary pusher unit will not overflow into the pusher unit when the lottery result is not a special prize. Further, the auxiliary pusher portion is composed of a fixed table and a slide table for sweeping the upper surface of the fixed table forward, similar to the pusher portion.

[0005]

According to the prior art, since the auxiliary pusher portion has substantially the same structure as the pusher portion, an opening / closing door must be provided in front of the auxiliary pusher portion. , The whole structure becomes significantly complicated, and when closing the opening / closing door, a medal is caught between the door and the fixed table of the auxiliary pusher part, which may cause an unexpected malfunction. there were.

Therefore, in view of the problem of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a medal container with a discharging mechanism instead of the auxiliary pusher portion, thereby simplifying the entire structure and greatly improving the operational reliability. It is to provide a prize medal payout device for a medal game machine capable of playing.

[0007]

The structure of the present invention for achieving the above object is to continuously deposit a medal dropping surface on which a medal inserted from above is dropped and medals from the medal dropping surface, and to continuously perform front and back. In a prize medal payout device of a medal game machine having a pusher part for paying out an unspecified number of medals by reciprocating to, a medal container which is arranged above the pusher part and stores medals from a medal hopper, and a pusher. The gist of the present invention is to provide a fixed guide plate for sweeping the upper surface of the unit back and forth and a discharging mechanism for discharging the medals in the medal container in front of the fixed guide plate at once.

The medal container may be rotatably supported via the left and right support shafts, and the ejection mechanism may turn the support shaft to invert the medal container forward. May be rotatably supported via a front hinge, and the ejection mechanism may be configured to invert the medal container forward through the hinge.

Further, the medal container may have a bottom plate movable rearward, and the discharging mechanism may be configured such that the bottom plate is pulled out rearward.

[0010]

According to the structure of the present invention, the medal container is arranged above the pusher portion so that the medals from the medal hopper can be stored therein, and the discharging mechanism fixes the medals in the medal container as necessary. It can be discharged all at once in front of the guide plate. On the other hand, the fixed guide plate sweeps the upper surface of the pusher portion back and forth and drops the medal on the upper surface in front of the pusher portion, so that the pusher portion at this time can pay out an unspecified number of medals. .

The medal container rotatably supported by the left and right support shafts can eject the medals all at once by rotating the support shafts through the ejection mechanism, and rotatably supported by the hinges. The medal container to be ejected can be ejected all at once by tipping over the hinge by the ejection mechanism. Further, the medal container having the bottom plate movable rearward can eject the medals all at once by pulling out the bottom plate rearward via the ejection mechanism.

[0012]

Embodiments Embodiments will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The prize medal payout device of the medal game machine is
A medal container 11 arranged above the pusher portion 21 of the medal game machine and a discharging mechanism 12 for driving the medal container 11.
And (FIGS. 1 and 2).

The medal game machine is provided with a medal dropping surface 30 above the pusher portion 21 (FIGS. 1 and 3), and is incorporated in a casing frame F having a front glass F1 as a whole. The medal insertion openings F2, F2, ... Are opened above the front glass F1, and the payout tray F3 is arranged below the front glass F1.

The medal dropping surface 30 is provided on the front surface of the substrate 31,
A transparent plate 32 made of glass or synthetic resin is arranged in parallel. However, the transparent plate 32 is attached to the substrate 31 via the spacers 32a, 32a on both sides which also serve as decoration. A large number of guide nails 31a, 31a ..., Rotating blades 31b, 31b ..., A liquid crystal display 31c, and winning openings 31d, 31d. The liquid crystal display 31c is connected to a control device 31c1 containing a microcomputer. A guide gutter 30a having medal insertion openings F2, F2 ... Is connected to the upper portion of the medal dropping surface 30, and the lower end of the transparent plate 32 is slightly shorter than the substrate 31.

The pusher portion 21 is composed of a slide table disposed on a fixed table F4 which is integral with the housing frame F. The pusher portion 21 can be continuously reciprocated forward and backward by a predetermined stroke d by a drive device (not shown) (solid line and chain double-dashed line in FIG. 1). Further, a dispensing outlet F4a communicating with the dispensing tray F3 is opened in front of the pusher portion 21, and recovery ports F4b, F4b are opened on both sides of the pusher portion 21. The substrate 3
The lower end of 1 is a fixed guide plate 31f that is substantially in contact with the upper surface of the pusher portion 21.

The medal container 11 is housed in a small chamber 31e formed on the back surface of the lower portion of the substrate 31 and having an open front surface (FIG. 1). However, in the plate member 33 forming the small chamber 31e, the lower end portion is obliquely bent to the front side and becomes the inclined guide plate 33a, which is continuous with the fixed guide plate 31f which is a part of the substrate 31. A guide cylinder 34a connected to the medal hopper 34 is opened downward on the upper surface of the small chamber 31e.

The medal container 11 is formed in a substantially semi-cylindrical shape (FIG. 2) and is rotatably supported in the small chamber 31e via the left and right support shafts 11a, 11a. One support shaft 11a projects outside the small chamber 31e, and a timing pulley 11b is attached to the shaft end of the one support shaft 11a. A timing belt 12c is wound around the timing pulley 11b and a timing pulley 12b fixed to the shaft end of the motor 12a. Therefore, if the timing belt 12c is driven in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 2 via the motor 12a, the medal container 11 will move to the arrow K11 in the figure.
By rotating in the direction (two-dot chain line in FIGS. 1 and 2), the medals inside can be ejected at once in front of the fixed guide plate 31f. That is, the motor 12a and the timing belt 12
c is an ejection mechanism 12 for driving the medal container 11.

Now, when a medal is inserted through an arbitrary medal insertion port F2, the inserted medal is guided by the guide gutter 30.
After passing through a, it reaches above the medal drop surface 30 and falls inside the medal drop surface 30. At this time, the dropping path of the medal changes randomly due to the nails 31a, 31a ... On the substrate 31, the rotary blades 31b, 31b ...
It is possible to fall on the pusher portion 21 below without passing any of the 1d, 31d, ... Or pass through any of them, and deposit on the pusher portion 21.

On the other hand, the upper surface of the pusher portion 21 is swung back and forth by the fixed guide plate 31f as the pusher portion 21 reciprocates back and forth, so that the medals that fall on the upper surface of the pusher portion 21 are fixed. It is pushed forward of the pusher portion 21 by the plate 31f, and at this time,
Depending on the accumulation state of the medals accumulated on the pusher portion 21, some medals may drop on the fixed table F4. Also, in this way, the fixed table F
There is a possibility that some of the medals that have dropped onto the table 4 will be paid out to the payout tray F3 via the payout opening F4a depending on the state of the medals that have accumulated on the fixed table F4.
Therefore, the pusher unit 21 can pay out an unspecified number of medals to the payout tray F3 by inserting medals from the medal insertion slot F2.

When the pusher section 21 operates in this way, the medals that have fallen into the recovery ports F4b, F4b are stored in the medal hopper 34 or the medal stocker (not shown) as they are.

On the other hand, when a medal falling on the medal falling surface 30 passes through one of the winning openings 31d, the winning opening 31d
Via a sensor (not shown) attached to the medal hopper 3
4 is activated. That is, the medal hopper 34 can insert a new medal into the medal container 11 via the guide tube 34a, corresponding to a medal passing through one of the winning openings 31d.

When the medal passes through the winning opening 31d, the liquid crystal display 31c is further activated. That is, it is assumed that the liquid crystal display 31c is displaying the design of the rotating slot of the slot machine via the control device 31c1, and the design is automatically stopped after a certain period of rotation, and the lottery result is displayed. indicate. However, the lottery result at this time is programmed by the control device 31c1 so that the winning probability is appropriate as a whole. The control device 31c1
According to the lottery result, a predetermined number of medals are additionally inserted into the medal container 11 via the medal hopper 34.

When the lottery result becomes a special prize, the control device 31c
1 starts the motor 12a of the ejection mechanism 12. That is, the motor 12a moves the medal container 11 to the arrow K11 in FIG.
Since the medals in the medal container 11 are swung in the direction to be ejected at once in front of the fixed guide plate 31f, the pusher portion 21 at this time has an unspecified number of medals through the payout opening F4a and the payout tray F3. Can be paid out. In addition,
After ejecting the medals in the medal container 11 in this way, the ejection mechanism 12 returns the medal container 11 to the original posture. However, if a new medal passes through the winning opening 31d before the medal container 11 returns to its original posture, the liquid crystal display 31c and the control device 31c1 at that time will be used.
The winning probability of the lottery by will be significantly higher than in other cases.

[0025]

[Other Embodiments] The medal container 11 has a hinge 11 on the front side.
It can be rotatably supported via c (FIG. 4).

The discharging mechanism 12 at this time is composed of the motor 12a.
12d fixed to the shaft end of the rack, vertically movable rack 12e meshing with the pinion 12d, and medal container 11
And a long hole member 12f connected to the rear end. The long hole member 12f can move up and down in parallel when the rack 12e moves up and down by the pin 12e1 standing upright on the rack 12e engaging with the long hole 12f1. The side plate 11d on the front side of the medal container 11 is assumed to be swingably suspended via an upper hinge 11d1.

The discharging mechanism 12 starts the motor 12a to drive the rack 12e upward, thereby causing the medal container 11 to fall forward through the hinge 11c (direction of arrow K11 in FIG. 4B). The medals in the medal container 11 can be ejected to the front of the fixed guide plate 31f all at once through the side plate 11d that opens downward.

The medal container 11 can be provided with a bottom plate 11e which can be moved rearward (FIG. 5). However, the medal container 11 at this time is formed integrally with the small chamber 31e, and the side plate 11d on the front side is a transparent plate. A rack 12e is attached to the lower surface of the bottom plate 11e, and a pinion 12d at the shaft end of the motor 12a meshes with the rack 12e. By activating the motor 12a, the bottom plate 11e is pulled out backward ((B) in the figure).
The medals in the medal container 11 can be ejected at once.

In the above description, the medal container 11 and the ejection mechanism 12 may be further modified. For example, in Figure 2.
The medal container 11 of, instead of the timing belt 12c, via a rack and pinion mechanism or an appropriate link mechanism,
It can be rotated by the motor 12a. Also,
The slot machine type lottery mechanism using the liquid crystal display 31c can be changed to another arbitrary lottery mechanism by replacing the program software executed in the control device 31c1. Furthermore, the fixed guide plate 31f
Is the substrate 31 at least in the lower part of the small chamber 31e.
Instead of using the lower end of the plate, it can be formed by bending the plate member 33 forming the small chamber 31e downward.

[0030]

As described above, according to the present invention, the medal container is provided by providing the medal container arranged above the pusher portion and the ejection mechanism for ejecting the medals in the medal container all at once. Since the medal from the medal hopper can be securely stored and held without providing an opening / closing door on the front side, the operation structure can be greatly improved while the overall structure is simple. effective.

[Brief description of drawings]

[Figure 1] Overall configuration diagram

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a main part (1)

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a main part (2)

FIG. 4 is a main part configuration diagram showing another embodiment (1)

FIG. 5 is a main part configuration diagram showing another embodiment (2)

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 ... Medal container 11a ... Support shaft 11c ... Hinge 11e ... Bottom plate 12 ... Ejection mechanism 21 ... Pusher part 30 ... Medal falling surface 31f ... Fixed guide plate 34 ... Medal hopper

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A pusher unit for dropping an unspecified number of medals by depositing medals dropped from above and depositing medals from the medals dropping surface and continuously reciprocating back and forth. In a prize medal payout device of a medal game machine having a, a medal container disposed above the pusher section, for storing medals from a medal hopper, a fixed guide plate for sweeping the upper surface of the pusher section back and forth, A prize medal payout device for a medal game machine, comprising: a discharging mechanism for discharging the medals in the medal container in front of the fixed guide plate at once. 2. The medal container is rotatably supported via left and right support shafts, and the ejecting mechanism tilts the medal container forward by rotating the support shaft. Item 1. A prize medal payout device for a medal game machine according to Item 1. 3. The medal container is rotatably supported via a front hinge, and the ejection mechanism tilts the medal container forward through the hinge. Prize medal payout device of the medal game machine. 4. A prize medal payout device for a medal game machine according to claim 1, wherein the medal container has a bottom plate movable rearward, and the discharging mechanism pulls out the bottom plate rearward.