JPH063648Y2 - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objectives of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention is a game ball (hereinafter, "remaining ball") remaining at the end of the game.
It is related to a pachinko machine with an improved mechanism.

(Prior Art) The ball-removing mechanism for the remaining balls in a conventional general pachinko machine forms a ball-draining hole in the middle of a ball-down passage that guides the game ball in the ball-receiving tray to the launcher side, and closes this ball-drilling hole. It is configured to open and close by sliding the plate.

However, in this configuration, even if the ball-drilling hole is opened after the end of the game, some game balls remain on the downstream side of the ball-drilling hole, which is disadvantageous to the player.

Therefore, in recent years, in order to make it possible to extract all the remaining balls, the configuration shown in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 62-40614 has been devised. This is as shown in FIG.
The standby plate 2 is provided so as to be slidable right and left so as to face the lower end outlet 1a of the ball, and the game ball 3 is received on the standby plate 2 to prevent the game ball 3 from falling into the ball outlet 4, At the time of pulling out, the standby plate 2 is slid to the left from the position shown in the figure to open the ball outlet 4 and drop the game ball 3 into the ball passage 4a. On the other hand, when playing the game ball 3 on the standby plate 2, the electromagnet 5 on the left side
Is pushed rightward by the plunger 6 and the actuating lever 7 is rotated rightward so that the launch ball supply port 8
It is a configuration in which the game ball 3 is dropped inside.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) However, in the configuration described in the above publication, the ball down passage 1
Since the weight of a large number of game balls 3 stuck inside is added to the standby plate 2, it is necessary to slide the standby plate 2 against the heavy ball pressure, and the operating force becomes heavy and There was a problem of lack of smoothness and poor operability.

The present invention is intended to solve such a problem,
An object of the present invention is to provide a pachinko machine that can perform a ball-removing operation lightly and smoothly and can improve the ball-removing operability.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problem) The pachinko machine of the present invention has a launch ball supply port side and a ball removal passage that lead to the launching device in the direction in which a game ball falls from the lower end exit of the ball down passage. It is configured so that it can be selectively switched to the ball outlet side that leads to, and the game ball that is provided in a portion close to the lower end outlet of the ball flow passage is output from the lower end outlet to the ball outlet side. A receiving member that is supported from below in a rollable state, and a ball that is provided at the ball outlet side with respect to this receiving member and that prevents game balls on the receiving member from falling to the ball outlet side A ball-punching member that is movable between a pull-out preventing position and a ball-punching position that is displaced in a direction away from the receiving member and that allows the game ball to fall toward the ball-drain opening side, and the ball-punching member from the outside. Ball-sucking operation to displace the ball-spotting prevention position to the ball-spotting position by the operation Wood and are those formed by and a said firing shot ball supply mechanism one by one game balls on the receiving member in synchronization with the operation of the device is dropped on the shot ball supply port side.

(Operation) At the time of game, the first game ball (single) that exits the lower end outlet of the ball flow-down passage rides on the receiving member provided so as to be rolled to the ball outlet side, but at this time the ball is removed. Since the member is in the ball removal preventing position, it temporarily stands by on the receiving member without rolling to the ball removal port side. Then, one by one is dropped to the launch ball supply port side by a launch ball supply mechanism that operates in synchronization with the operation of the launch device.

In order to pull out the game ball that has not been fired after the game is stopped, when the ball pulling operation member is operated to displace the ball pulling member to the ball pulling position, the game ball waiting on the receiving member rolls to the ball pulling side. Since it is allowed to do, unreleased game balls upstream of this flow continuously into the ball outlet and all remaining balls can be extracted.

In this case, the game ball on the receiving member is to the side (ball exit side)
The ball pressure of the game ball applied to the ball-removing member is inherently small because it is received by the ball-removing member, and the ball-removing member is moved away from the receiving member during the ball-removing operation. Therefore, there is no need to perform a ball-pulling operation against the ball pressure of the game ball, and the operating force can be significantly reduced.

(Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5. Reference numeral 11 is an upper plate for storing the game balls 12, and the upper plate 11 is provided on the front surface of a base plate (not shown) of the pachinko machine. Then, on the downstream side (on the left side in the drawing) of the upper plate 11, there is provided a ball downflow passage 13 for flowing down the game balls 12 in a single row. The ball flow-down passage 13 is arranged along the board surface, and the lower end outlet 13a thereof is directed rearward (front in the drawing) at right angles to the board surface. 14
Is a ball discharge passage provided below the ball flow-down passage 13, and the ball discharge port 15 as an inlet thereof is a lower end outlet 13 a of the ball flow-down passage 13.
Is provided diagonally below. The outlet 14a of the ball passage 14 communicates with a lower plate (not shown) on the front surface of the base plate. On the other hand, 16 is a receiving member that supports the game ball 12a coming out from the lower end outlet 13a of the ball downward passage 13 below or below. Also, it is pivotable to the left and right around the shaft 17 between the ball sending stop position shown in FIG. 1 and the ball sending position shown in FIG. At the top of the receiving member 16, a narrow receiving surface 16a extending in the front-rear direction is formed.
Is formed, a concave surface portion 16b for falling balls is formed from the ball receiving surface 16a to the left side in the drawing, and a projecting piece portion 16c is further formed from the concave surface portion 16b to the left side in the drawing. In this case, when the receiving member 16 is at the ball sending stop position as shown by the solid line in FIG. 4, the ball receiving surface 16a is on the left side in the figure from the center of the game ball 12a immediately above it (ball outlet 1
5 is located on one side (opposite side to 5), and therefore, in this state, the player tries to roll the game ball 12a toward the ball outlet 15 side, but the rolling is performed by a ball removing member 22 described later. Blocked by. Then, as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 4, when the receiving member 16 is rotated to the ball sending position, the ball receiving surface 16a is displaced toward the ball outlet 15 side from the center of the game ball 12a. The game ball 12a rolls down along the concave surface portion 16b, and a launching device (not shown) is provided from the launch ball supply port 18 (see FIG. 5) facing the front surface of the concave surface portion 16b in the figure.
Is supplied to. At this ball-sending position, in order to prevent the following game ball 12 in the ball-down passage 13 from falling from the lower end outlet 13a, the end of the receiving member 16 on the lower end outlet 13a side has a projecting piece shape. The ball stopper 16d is formed upward, and as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG.
When 6 is rotated to the ball feeding position, the ball stopping portion 16d faces the lower end outlet 13a and prevents the following game ball 12 from falling. On the other hand, 19 is an operating lever of the launch ball supply mechanism 20, and the operating lever 19 is supported rotatably in the vertical direction via a shaft 21 and has a tip end portion thereof to receive the receiving member 16
The projecting piece portion 16c is supported from below. in this case,
The actuating lever 19 is configured to be pushed up by, for example, a projecting piece (not shown) fixed to the hitting mallet so as to move up and down in conjunction with the striking operation of the hitting mallet (not shown) of the launcher. By this, the operating lever 19 is moved up and down once every time the hitting mallet makes one hitting operation, and the receiving member 16 is moved.
Is reciprocated once from the ball sending stop position to the ball sending position. Therefore,
Reference numeral 22 denotes a ball removing operation member for removing the remaining balls, and the shaft 2
It is provided so that it can be pushed from above with 3 as a fulcrum. A ball removing member 24 is integrally formed on the ball removing member 22 so as to face downward. The ball receiving surface 24 at the lower end of the ball removing member 24.
a is located on the ball outlet 15 side with respect to the receiving member 16. In this case, the ball removing operation member 22 is attached to the spring 22a.
The ball catching member 24 is held in the ball catching preventing position shown by the solid line in FIG. 4 by being urged upward by the ball catching surface 24 of the ball catching member 24 at the ball catching preventing position.
The size of the gap between a and the ball receiving surface 16a of the receiving member 16 is set to be slightly larger than 1/2 of the ball diameter of the game ball 12. Then, as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 4, when the ball-pulling operation member 22 is pushed down, the ball-receiving surface 24 a of the ball-pulling member 24 moves in a direction away from the receiving member 16, and the ball-pulling member 24 and The gap between the receiving member 16 and the game ball 12a
It becomes larger than the ball diameter of, and this allows the game ball 12a on the receiving member 16 to fall into the ball outlet 15. Incidentally, 25 is a decorative cover for covering the front surface of the base plate, and 26 and 27 are stoppers for restricting the rotation amounts of the receiving member 16 and the operating lever 19. The back side of the ball flow-down passage 13 is covered with a back cover 28 (see FIG. 5).

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described. During the game stop, the receiving member 16 is held at the ball sending stop position (the position shown by the solid line in FIG. 4). And to play, game ball 1
When 2 is placed in the upper plate 11, the game balls 12 flow down in the ball flow-down passage 13 in a single row, and the leading game ball 12a
Rides on the ball receiving surface 16a of the receiving member 16 at the position where it exits the lower end outlet 13a. In this state, since the ball receiving surface 16a is located on the left side in the drawing (on the side opposite to the ball outlet 15) with respect to the center of the game ball 12a immediately above it, the game ball 12a is removed. Although it tries to roll to the mouth 15 side, the rolling is blocked by the ball-removing member 22 in the ball-removal blocking position, and thus the game ball 12a is received by the receiving member 16 and the ball-removing member 24. It becomes a state. After that, when the player turns the operation handle (not shown) to operate the launching device, each time the batting mallet of the launching device makes a hitting operation, the launching ball is supplied in conjunction with it. The operating lever 19 of the mechanism 20 moves up and down once to reciprocate the receiving member 16 from the ball sending stop position to the ball sending position (the position indicated by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 4). As a result, every time the receiving member 16 is rotated to the ball sending position, the ball receiving surface 16a of the receiving member 16 is displaced toward the ball outlet 15 side from the center of the game ball 12a, whereby the game ball 12a has a concave surface. It rolls down along the portion 16b and is supplied to the launch device from the launch ball supply port 18. At this ball-sending position, the ball stopping portion 16d of the receiving member 16 has the ball down passage 1
It faces the lower end outlet 13a of 3 to prevent the subsequent game ball 12 from falling, thereby reliably performing a launch ball supply operation of supplying one game ball 12a for each hitting operation of a hitting mallet.

On the other hand, when the game ends, the receiving member 16 is held at the ball sending stop position (the position shown by the solid line in FIG. 4). After this,
When the ball-removing operation member 22 is pushed down with a finger from above in order to remove the game ball 12 remaining in the ball-flowing passage 13 or the upper plate 11, as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. 4, the ball-removing member 24.
The ball receiving surface 24a of moves to a direction away from the receiving member 16, and the gap between the ball removing member 24 and the receiving member 16 becomes larger than the ball diameter of the game ball 12a. The game ball 12a is allowed to fall into the ball outlet 15. While maintaining this state, the game ball 12 flowing down in the ball flow-down passage 13 rolls on the ball receiving surface 16a of the receiving member 16 and falls into the ball discharge port 15 and passes through the ball discharge passage 14. It is stored in the lower plate. Then, if the pushing down of the ball removing operation member 22 is released after the ball removing is completed, the ball removing operation member 22 returns to the original position by the elastic force of the spring 22a,
Following this, the ball removing member 24 also returns to the ball removal preventing position.

According to the present embodiment described above, the leading game ball 12a of the game balls 12 waiting for supply to the launching device,
Since it is supported from below by the receiving member 16 in a state in which it can be rolled to the ball outlet 15 side, the rolling of the game ball 12a is blocked from the side by the ball removing member 24, so the ball removing operation member after the end of the game. If 22 is operated to move the ball-removing member 24 to the ball-removing position, all the remaining balls including the leading game ball 12a can be dropped into the ball-removing port 15 and the remaining ball is completely removed. Will be possible. Moreover, in this case, since the game ball 12a on the receiving member 16 is received by the ball removing member 24 from its side (ball removing port 15 side), the ball pressure of the game balls 12a, 12 added to the receiving member 24. Is inherently small, and moreover, at the time of the ball removing operation, this ball removing member 24 is moved away from the receiving member 16.
There is no need to perform the ball-pulling operation against the ball pressure of the game balls 12a, 12, and the operating force can be remarkably reduced and the ball-pulling operability can be greatly improved.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the ball-removing member 24 has the ball diameter of the game ball 12a between the ball-removing blocking position and the receiving member 16.
Since the gap is set to be slightly larger than 1/2, it is possible to remove the remaining balls by merely moving the ball-removing member 24 by about 1/2 of the above-mentioned ball diameter. The operation stroke of 24 (ball removal operation member 22) can be reduced, and operability can be improved also from this aspect. Note that the gap between the ball removing member 24 and the receiving member 16 may be any as long as it is smaller than the ball diameter. On the other hand, in the conventional structure shown in FIG. 6, the operation stroke of the standby plate 2 must be made larger than the ball diameter of the game ball 3, and the operability deteriorates in combination with the heavy operation force. It was a factor to make.

Further, in the present embodiment, the advantage that the operation stroke is small is utilized, and the ball-removing member 24 of the push button type is integrally formed with the ball-removing member 24. Therefore, the number of parts can be reduced, and Therefore, the component cost and the assembly cost can be reduced. On the other hand, the conventional structure has a structure in which a link mechanism is interposed in order to secure a large operation stroke, so that the number of parts is large and the cost is high.

In addition, in this embodiment, in order to supply the game ball 12 on the receiving member 16 to the launching device, the operating lever 19 of the launching supply mechanism 20 is moved up and down in conjunction with the operation of the launching device, whereby the receiving member 16 Since it is configured to reciprocally rotate, it is not necessary to separately provide a drive source such as the electromagnet 5 for the launch ball supply operation as in the known example of FIG. 6, and this also contributes to cost reduction. However, in the present invention, the receiving member 16 is driven by a dedicated drive source such as an electromagnet, or the receiving member 16 is used.
May be fixed to the ball sending stop position and the game ball 12a on the receiving member 16 may be pushed out to the launch ball supply port 18 side by a plunger of an electromagnet, for example. The purpose of the period can be fully achieved.

In addition, in the present embodiment, in order to create a state in which the game ball 12a on the ball receiving surface 16a of the receiving member 16 can be rolled to the ball outlet 15 side, the ball receiving surface 16a is positioned more than the center of the game ball 12a. The left side (the side opposite to the ball outlet 15) shown in FIG. 4 is biased, but for example, the ball receiving surface of the receiving member is set to the ball outlet 1
It may be configured such that the 5 side is formed in an inclined surface shape and the rolling direction of the game ball 12a is directed to the ball outlet 15 side by the action of the inclined surface.

In addition, the present invention has a ball-excluding operation member 22 (ball-excluding member 24).
Is slid in the left-right direction, or the ball-removing operation member and the ball-removing member are separately configured to be connected by a connecting member, or the shapes of the receiving member, the ball-removing member, etc. are appropriately set. Various modifications are possible, such as changeable.

[Effects of the Invention] As is apparent from the above description, the present invention is capable of rolling the leading game ball among the game balls waiting for supply to the launcher to the ball outlet side. It is supported from below by the receiving member, and the rolling of the game ball is blocked from the side by the ball-removing member, so the ball-removing member can be moved to the ball-removing position by operating the ball-removing operating member after the end of the game. For example, all the remaining balls including the leading game ball can be dropped into the ball outlet, and the entire remaining balls can be extracted. Moreover, since the game ball on the receiving member is received by the ball removing member from the side (ball removing port side), the ball pressure of the game ball added to the ball removing member is originally small, and in addition, the ball At the time of the withdrawal operation, since this ball removal member is moved away from the receiving member, there is no need to perform the ball removal operation against the ball pressure of the game ball, and the operation force can be remarkably reduced. The pulling operability can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 to 5 show an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an essential part showing a back cover removed, and FIG.
The figure is a perspective view showing a state when the receiving member is rotated to the ball sending position, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state when the ball removing member is displaced to the ball removing position, and FIG. 4 is a main part. Longitudinal section rear view, No. 5
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional plan view of the same, and FIG. 6 is a vertical cross-sectional front view of a main part showing a conventional example. In the drawing, 12 and 12a are game balls, 13 is a ball flow passage,
14 is a ball passage, 15 is a ball outlet, 16 is a receiving member, 16
a is a ball receiving surface, 16d is a ball stopper, 18 is a launch ball supply port,
Reference numeral 19 is an actuating lever, 20 is a firing ball supply mechanism, 22 is a ball removing operation member, and 24 is a ball removing member.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A direction in which a game ball that has exited from a lower end outlet of a ball flow passage can be selectively switched between a launch ball supply port side that communicates with a launching device and a ball discharge port side that communicates with a ball discharge passage. A receiving member, which is provided in a portion close to the lower end outlet of the sphere flow-down passage, supports the gaming ball coming out of the lower end outlet from the lower side in a state in which it can be rolled to the ball outlet side, and this receiving member In contrast to the ball removal blocking position which is provided at the ball outlet side and prevents the game ball on the receiving member from falling to the ball outlet side, and the ball is displaced in the direction away from the receiving member. A ball-removing member that can move between a ball-removing position that allows the game balls to fall toward the outlet side, and a ball that displaces the ball-removing member from the ball-removing blocking position to the ball-removing position by an external operation. The pull-out operation member and the receiving member on the receiving member are synchronized with the operation of the launching device. Pachinko machine formed by and a shot ball supply mechanism for dropping the shot ball supply port side tricks balls one by one.