JPH0631049A - Pinball game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the discharge efficiency of balls by connecting a ball counting means in a main body frame part and a replenishing pipe by a communicating member, and closing up the communicating member by interlocking with opening and closing of a front door part by a shutter plate of a shutter mechanism provided between the communicating member and the ball counting means or on the way of the communicating member. CONSTITUTION:A ball counting means 30 in a main body frame part 12 and a replenishing pipe 20 are connected by a communicating member 22, and between the communicating member 22 and the ball counting means 30, a shutter mechanism 40 is provided. Also, the shutter mechanism 40 is constituted of a shutter plate 41 for opening and closing the communicating member 22 and a shutter lever 45 which is interlocked with opening and closing of a front door part 11 and constituted so that the shutter plate 41 closes up the communicating member 22, when the front door part 11 is opened. Pinballs for flowing through the replenishing pipe 20 pass through the communicating member 22 and are fed to each pinball game machine 10, and fed to the ball counting means 30 in the main body frame part 12. In such a way, the balls for flowing through the replenishing pipe 20 are supplied directly to the ball counting means 30 in the game machine through the communicating member 22, therefore, the upper pan, etc., for storing temporarily the balls in the upper part of the game machine become unnecessary.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention has a main body frame portion to be mounted on a game machine island, and a front door portion including a game surface attached to the front side of the main body frame portion so as to be openable and closable. The present invention relates to a pachinko game machine in which a pachinko ball is supplied by a supply gutter to a ball counting means in the section.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional pachinko game machine, for example, an upper plate is arranged on the upper part of the game machine, and the upper plate is connected to a supply gutter in a game machine island through a communication member called a chute member or a bellows member. Some are supplied with pachinko balls. In such a pachinko game machine, after storing a certain amount of balls in the upper plate, if necessary, a ball counting means provided on the back side of the front door portion including the game surface via a chute extending downward from the upper plate. I was sending balls.

[0003]

However, in such a conventional pachinko game machine, the balls once lined up in a row from the supply gutter are stored in the upper plate in a scattered state, and then the balls are lined up again. Since the balls are aligned and sent to the ball counting means, it takes a double time to pay out the balls, and there are problems that the number of troubles such as ball clogging increases and the efficiency of paying out a large number of balls is not good. It was

The present invention has been made by paying attention to the problems of the prior art as described above, and an object thereof is to provide a pachinko game machine which can improve the payout efficiency of balls.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The gist of achieving the above object is as follows: 1 A main body frame part (12) to be mounted on a gaming machine island and a front side of the main body frame part (12) which can be opened and closed freely. And a front door portion (11) including a game surface attached to the ball, and a ball counting means (3
In a pachinko game machine (10) in which a supply gutter (20) is used to supply pachinko balls to (0), the ball counting means (30) is mounted in the main body frame (12), and the ball counting means (30) is installed. 30) and the supply gutter (20) are connected by communication members (21, 22), and the communication members (21, 2) are connected.
A shutter mechanism (40) for stopping the supply of balls is provided in the gap between the ball outlet (22a) of 2) and the ball inlet (33a) of the ball counting means (30), and the shutter mechanism (40) ) Is the ball outlet (2) of the communication member (21, 22).
2a) a shutter plate (41) mounted inside the body frame (12) so as to be displaceable between a closed position and an open position, and the front door part provided integrally with the shutter plate (41). The shutter plate (41) is displaced to the closed position when the front door (11) is opened in conjunction with the opening and closing of the shutter (11), while the shutter plate (41) is closed when the front door (11) is closed. ) Is a shutter lever (45) for displacing the) to the open position, and a pachinko game machine (10).

2 A holder member (3) in which the ball counting means (30) can be detachably mounted in the main body frame portion (12).
5) is fixed, and the holder member (35) is provided with a mounting portion (36) for connecting the ball outlet (22a) of the communication member (21, 22), and the shutter mechanism (40).
The pachinko game machine (10) according to claim 1, wherein the pachinko game machine is provided.

3 Body frame portion (12) to be mounted on the game machine island
And a front door portion (11) including a game surface which is attached to the front side of the main body frame portion (12) so as to be openable and closable, and a ball gating means (30) of the game machine is provided with a supply gutter (20) for pachinko. In a pachinko game machine (10) adapted to supply balls, the ball counting means (30) is provided in the main body frame (12).
Equipped with the ball counting means (30) and the supply gutter (20)
And a connecting member (21, 22), and a shutter mechanism (40) for stopping the supply of balls is provided in the middle of the connecting member (21, 22).
A shutter plate (41) mounted inside the main body frame (12) so as to be displaceable between a closed position that closes the ball passage of the communication member (21, 22) and an open position that opens, and the shutter plate (41).
Is provided integrally with the shutter plate (4) when the front door (11) is opened in association with opening and closing of the front door (11).
A pachinko game machine comprising: a shutter lever (45) for displacing 1) to a closed position and displacing the shutter plate (41) to an open position when the front door (11) is closed. It exists in (10).

[0008]

[Function] The pachinko balls flowing through the supply gutter (20) arranged on the game machine island are sent to the respective pachinko game machines (10) through the communication members (21, 22) and inside the main body frame (12). It is supplied to the ball counting means (30) mounted on. In this way, the balls flowing through the supply gutter (20) are connected to the communication members (21, 2).
Since it is directly supplied to the ball counting means (30) in the game machine via 2), an upper plate or the like for temporarily storing the balls in the upper part of the game machine becomes unnecessary.

Main frame portion (1) of the pachinko game machine (10)
In a normal state in which the front door part (11) on the front side of 2) is closed, between the ball outlet (22a) of the communication member (21, 22) and the ball inlet (33a) of the ball counting means (30). The balls can freely pass through the shutter mechanism (40) provided in the gap, and the balls are supplied to the ball counting means (30) at any time. That is, the shutter plate (41) displaceable between the closed position that closes the ball outlet (22a) of the communication member (21, 22) and the open position that opens is
The shutter plate (41) is displaced to the open position when the front door (11) is closed by the shutter lever (45) which is interlocked with the opening and closing of the front door (11).

On the other hand, when the pachinko game machine (10) is to be repaired or inspected for failure, it is necessary to open the front door (11) and look inside the body frame (12). In this case, since the ball counting means (30) for supplying the balls from the supply gutter (20) is mounted in the main body frame part (12), the supply gutter (2
0) and the ball counting means (30) connecting member (2)
1, 22) are not affected by opening and closing the front door part (11).

Further, when the shutter plate (41) of the shutter mechanism (40) opens the front door (11), the shutter lever (45) interlocked with the front door (11) causes the communication members (21, 22). The ball outlet (22a) is closed. Thereby, even if the front door portion (11) is opened and closed to inspect the inside of the game machine, the balls do not spill and the inside can be inspected quickly and easily.

If the shutter mechanism (40) is provided in the gap between the ball outlet (22a) of the communication member (21, 22) and the ball inlet (33a) of the ball counting means (30), The shutter mechanism (40) and the ball counting means (30) can be integrally manufactured, which enables highly accurate manufacturing. On the other hand, if the shutter mechanism (40) is provided in the middle of the communication members (21, 22), the supply gutter (2
It is possible to freely set the layout such as the relative positional relationship between 0) and the ball counting means (30).

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Various embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 6 show a first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the pachinko game machine 10 has a main body frame portion 12 to be assembled to a gaming machine island, and a front door portion 11 including a game surface attached to the front side of the main body frame portion 12 so as to be openable and closable. The supply gutter 20 supplies the pachinko balls to the ball counting means 30 of the game machine. More specifically, the balls thrown into the game surface 11 by the ball launching device 13 are the winning holes 19, 1 provided on the game surface 11.
9 is a game machine which pays out the prize-winning balls to the player by the ball counting means 30 according to a predetermined winning rate.

A large number of such pachinko game machines 10 are arranged in series on a game machine island, and a supply gutter 20 for supplying balls is arranged above each pachinko game machine 10. A chute member (communication member) 21 is connected to the supply gutter 20 corresponding to each game machine 10. A bellows member (communication member) 22 extending in the vertical direction is connected to the lower end opening of the chute member 21, and a ball outlet 22a of the bellows member 22 is opened to the ball counting means 30 side mounted on the inner wall 12a of the main body frame portion 12. is doing.

The ball counting means 30 is an inner wall 1 of the main body frame portion 12.
It is detachably attached to a holder member 35 fixed to 2a. The bellows member 2 is provided on the upper surface of the holder member 35.
A mounting portion 36 for connecting the two ball outlets 22a is provided. A shutter mechanism 40 for stopping the flow of balls is provided in the gap between the mounting portion 36 of the holder member 35 and the ball inlet 33a of the ball counting means 30.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, the shutter mechanism 40 has a shutter plate 41 pivotally attached to a holder member 35 so as to be swingable between a closed position for closing the ball outlet 22a of the bellows member 22 and an open position for opening it. And extends from the base end side of the shutter plate 41 by bending in a V shape, and swings the shutter plate 41 to the closed position when the front door part 11 opens in conjunction with opening and closing of the front door part 11, while A shutter lever 45 that swings the shutter plate 41 to the open position when the door 11 is closed.

More specifically, the shutter plate 41 and the shutter lever 45 are integrally formed, and the tip end portion 43 of the shutter plate 41 is closed below the upper surface of the holder member 35 via the pin member 44. It is pivotally pivoted between a position (shown in FIG. 2) and an open position (shown in FIG. 4). On the tip end 43 side of the shutter plate 41, a cutout groove 4 having a semicircular diameter smaller than the diameter of the ball outlet 22a of the bellows member 22 or the diameter of the ball.
Two are provided. On the other hand, an engaging portion 46 that comes into contact with the rear surface side of the front door portion 11 is provided on the front end side of the shutter lever 45.

Shutter plate 41 and shutter lever 45
Is a spring (not shown) in the direction of a closed position (shown in FIG. 2) where the cutout groove 43 of the shutter plate 41 narrows the opening of the mounting portion 36 of the holder member 35 to prevent passage of balls. Is urged by. As a result, the engagement portion 46 of the shutter lever 45 is always elastically engaged with the back surface side of the front door portion 11, and when the front door portion 11 is opened, the shutter plate 41 is closed by the biasing force of the spring. Swings to
When the front door 11 is closed, the shutter lever 45 is pushed back against the biasing force of the spring, whereby the shutter lever 45 is set to the open position.

As shown in FIG. 6, the ball counting means 30 is a ball counting machine capable of accurately and rapidly paying out an arbitrarily commanded number of pachinko balls. More specifically, a gear 31 having recesses 32 into which pachinko balls are inserted one by one is formed in a ball passage 34 formed in a ball guide 33 so that the gear 31 can be freely rotated. A ball, which is supplied from above and is about to fall under its own weight, engages with the concave portion 32 of the gear 31 and drops with rotation of the gear 31.

The ball counting means 30 allows the gear 31 to continuously rotate, leaving the weight of the pachinko balls to continuously discharge the pachinko balls until the number of paid out pachinko balls approaches the command value. Approaches the command value, the rotation of the gear 31 is switched to intermittent rotation in which minute angle rotation corresponding to one recess 32 of the gear 31 and stop are alternately repeated, and when the number of payout reaches the command value. The intermittent rotation of the gear 31 is stopped and the number of pachinko balls according to the command value is paid out.

As shown in FIG. 1, a pachinko game machine 10
On the lower side of the game surface 11 of, the front plate 14 for storing the balls paid out from the ball counting means 30 and the lower plate 15 for storing the balls overflowing from the front plate 14 are provided. As shown in FIG. 1, the ball counting means 30 includes an overflow passage member 6
0 is connected. The overflow passage member 60 is
It is fixed to the rear surface side of the front door portion 11 via a fixing bracket 64. The overflow passage member 60 is branched from the front plate supply path 61 connecting the ball counting means 30 and the front plate 14 and the middle part of the front plate supply path 61 to be connected to the lower plate 15.
It comprises a lower plate supply path 62 for introducing balls overflowing from the front plate supply path 61 into the lower plate 15 when the front plate 14 is filled with balls.

More specifically, at the upper part of the front plate supply passage 61, when the front plate supply passage 61 overflows, the pachinko balls flow to the lower plate supply passage 62, so that the lower plate supply passage 62 is provided. A communication hole 63 that communicates with the. The outlet 61a of the front plate supply passage 61 is opened in the front plate 14, and similarly, the outlet 62a of the lower plate supply passage 62 is opened in the lower plate 15.

A ball lending machine 70 is interposed in the gap between the adjacent pachinko game machines 10 and the ball lending machine 70 is provided.
Include a high-value bill validator 71 and a coin selector 72 at the top and bottom.
And are provided.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, a pachinko ball flowing through a supply gutter 20 arranged on a gaming machine island is sent to the pachinko game machine 10 through a chute member 21 and a bellows member 22 extending in the vertical direction, and a ball inside the game machine is provided. It is supplied to the counting means 30. As a result, the balls of the supply gutter 20 are directly supplied to the ball counting means 30 in the game machine through the chute member 21 and the bellows member 22, so that an upper plate or the like for temporarily storing the balls in the upper part of the game machine is unnecessary.

In a normal state in which the front door portion 11 on the front side of the main body frame portion 12 of the pachinko game machine 10 is closed in this manner, the ball outlet 22a of the bellows member 22 and the ball counting means 30.
Shutter mechanism 40 provided in the gap between the ball entrance 33a
The balls can freely pass through, and the balls are supplied to the ball counting means 30 at any time.

That is, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, when the front door portion 11 is closed, the engaging portion is formed on the back side of the front door portion 11 against the biasing force of the spring (not shown). The shutter lever 45 abutting at 46 is pushed back, so that the shutter plate 41 integrated with the shutter lever 45 is located at the open position, and the ball can freely pass through the opening of the mounting portion 36 of the holder member 35.

On the other hand, when the pachinko game machine 10 is to be repaired or inspected for failure, it is necessary to open the front door 11 and look inside the body frame 12. In this case, the ball counting means 30 for supplying balls from the supply gutter 20 is the inner wall 12 of the main body frame portion 12.
Since it is attached to the ball counting means 30 fixed to a,
The bellows member 22 that connects the supply trough 20 and the ball counting means 30 does not cause a problem such as expansion and contraction due to opening and closing of the front door 11.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, when the front door 11 is opened, the shutter lever 45 which is elastically engaged with the front door 11 by the urging force of the spring is interlocked with the front door 11. Following this, the shutter plate 41, which is integrated with the shutter lever 45, swings about the pin member 44 to the closed position. Therefore, the place where the cutout groove 42 of the shutter plate 41 is located narrows the opening of the mounting portion 36 of the holder member 35 to prevent the ball from passing.

As a result, even if the front door 11 is opened and closed to inspect the inside of the game machine, the balls do not spill and fall.
The internal inspection can be performed quickly and easily. Further, since the shutter mechanism 40 and the ball counting means 30 can be integrally manufactured, highly accurate manufacturing is possible.

In a normal state in which the front door portion 11 on the front side of the main body frame portion 12 of the pachinko game machine 10 is closed, the balls that have passed through the shutter mechanism 40 and are supplied to the ball counting means 30 are as necessary. A predetermined number is counted and discharged to the front plate 14 and the lower plate 15 through the overflow passage member 60.

The balls paid out from the ball counting means 30 are first paid out to the front plate 14 through the front plate supply passage 61 of the overflow passage member 60. When the front plate 14 is full of balls, the balls overflowing from the front plate supply path 61 are the front plate supply paths 6
It is introduced into the lower plate supply passage 62 from the communication hole 63 in the middle of 1, and is discharged to the lower plate 15 through the lower plate supply passage 62.

FIG. 7 shows a second embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 7, a shutter mechanism 40 for stopping the supply of balls is provided in the middle of the bellows member 22 extending in the pachinko game machine 10a. The same types of parts as those in the first embodiment are designated by the same reference numerals, and a duplicate description will be omitted. According to this embodiment, the shutter mechanism 40 can be provided at an arbitrary position in the middle of the bellows member 22, and the layout can be freely set such as the relative positional relationship between the supply gutter 20 and the ball counting means 30. It will be possible.

In the various embodiments described above, the shutter plate constituting the shutter mechanism is pivotally mounted so as to be swingable between the closed position and the open position. However, the manner in which the shutter plate is displaceably mounted is not limited to this. Instead, for example, it may be slidably mounted in the closed position and the open position.

[0034]

According to the pachinko game machine of the present invention, the ball counting means in the main body frame portion and the supply gutter are connected by a communication member, and the shutter is provided between the communication member and the ball counting means or in the middle of the communication member. A mechanism is provided, and the shutter plate of the shutter mechanism can block the communication member when the front door is opened in association with the opening and closing of the front door, thereby improving the ball payout efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic rear view of a pachinko game machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a shutter mechanism that constitutes the pachinko game machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory view of the pachinko game machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a shutter mechanism that constitutes the pachinko game machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an operation explanatory view of the pachinko game machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a front view of the ball counting means that constitutes the pachinko game machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic rear view of a pachinko game machine according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10, 10a ... Pachinko game machine 11 ... Front door part 12 ... Main body frame part 14 ... Front plate 15 ... Lower plate 21 ... Shoot member (communication member) 22 ... Bellows member (communication member) 30 ... Ball counting means 35 ... Holder member 40 ... Shutter mechanism 41 ... Shutter plate 45 ... Shutter lever

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A replenishment gutter for a ball counting means of a game machine, which has a main body frame part to be mounted on a game machine island and a front door part including a game surface which is attached to the front side of the main body frame part so as to be openable and closable. In a pachinko game machine configured to supply pachinko balls by means of, the ball counting means is mounted in the main body frame portion, and the ball counting means and the supply gutter are connected by a communication member, and a ball outlet of the communication member A shutter mechanism for stopping the supply of balls is provided in the gap between the ball inlet of the ball counting means, and the shutter mechanism can be displaced between a closed position that closes the ball outlet of the communication member and an open position that opens. A shutter plate mounted in the main body frame part, and integrally provided on the shutter plate, displacing the shutter plate to a closed position when the front door part is opened in association with opening and closing of the front door part. , Open the shutter plate when the front door is closed Pachinko game machine which is characterized by being configured and a shutter lever to displace the. 2. A holder member to which the ball counting means can be detachably mounted is fixed in the main body frame portion, and a mounting portion for connecting a ball outlet of the communication member is provided to the holder member, and the shutter mechanism is provided. The pachinko game machine according to claim 1, wherein the pachinko game machine is provided. 3. A supply gutter for a ball counting means of a game machine, which has a main body frame part to be assembled to a game machine island, and a front door part including a game surface which is openably and closably mounted on the front side of the main body frame part. In a pachinko game machine configured to supply pachinko balls by means of the above, the ball counting means is mounted in the main body frame portion, the ball counting means and the supply gutter are connected by a communication member, and a ball is provided in the middle of the communication member. A shutter mechanism for stopping the supply of the shutter plate, the shutter mechanism being displaceably mounted in the main body frame part between a closed position that closes the ball passage of the communication member and an open position that opens, and the shutter plate. Is provided integrally with the front door portion, the shutter plate is displaced to the closed position when the front door portion is opened in conjunction with the opening and closing of the front door portion, and the shutter plate is opened to the open position when the front door portion is closed. Composed of a shutter lever that can be displaced to Pachinko game machine, wherein the door.