JPH0647167A - Communicating passage device for hopper and discharging tray - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent illegal play by preventing a control rod from intruding toward a hopper from the direction of a discharging tray. CONSTITUTION:A hopper 30 and a discharging tray 40 are communicated with each other by a communicating passage and a valve 20 which allows movement of medals M from the hopper 30 toward the discharging tray 40 and disables intrusion toward the hopper 30 from the loading tray 40 is provided inside the communicating passage.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication device between a hopper and a discharge tray, and more specifically, a slot machine, a mahjong type pachinko machine, a combination type pachinko machine, an addition type pachinko machine, a flipper game machine, etc. Of the medal game machines that use a hopper to play medals and pay out medals to the discharge tray according to the game result, in a medal game machine that uses a hopper to pay out medals, a hopper that prevents fraud by operating from the direction of the discharge tray The present invention relates to a communication passage device between the discharge tray and the discharge tray.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a medal game machine, after inserting a medal, a medal game machine that simply enjoys the game, and when a medal is inserted and the result of a game is a predetermined prize, There was a medal game machine that paid out medals.
Among such medal game machines, in particular, in a medal game machine of a type that pays out medals in response to winning, a medal payout device for paying out medals has been indispensable.

Here, as a conventional medal payout device, a medal payout device of a type in which medals are stacked in a tubular shape and a predetermined number of medals are sequentially paid out from medals below the stacked medals. There was a so-called hopper type medal payout device. Here, like using a hopper to pay out medals,
In the medal payout device, it is necessary to pay out a predetermined number of medals by operating the hopper.

The hopper will be described in detail. Usually, a disc-shaped rotatable disc is provided in the lower portion of the medal storage portion, and a storage hole for storing medals is provided in the plate surface of the disc. It was Then, by rotating this disc, the medals housed inside the medal storage holes are sequentially dispensed from the discharge port of the hopper. However, here, in some cases, medals are not always stored in all of the medal storage holes provided on the disc, so in a hopper of this type, in order to discharge the medals from the hopper to the outside, By providing a moving body that moves by the passage of medals near the discharge port of and also providing a counter for counting the number of movements on this moving body, while trying to pay out in advance while counting the number of medals discharged at this counter It was formed so that the rotation of the disc would be stopped when the payout for the number of medals present was completed.

[0005]

Furthermore, in the hopper conventionally used as described above, the medals discharged from the discharge port of the hopper are generally discharged through the communication passage to the outside of the medal game machine. It was shaped to drain into a dish. In recent years, among various misconducts in such a medal game machine, an operation rod is intruded from the medal ejection tray toward the hopper through the communication passage, and the counter for counting the medals ejected from the hopper is illegally operated. By doing so, there is a case where fraud is performed in which a larger number of medals than the preset number is ejected.

[0006] To explain such fraud in more detail,
It seems that the counter was activated once by inserting the operation rod from the discharge tray toward the hopper through the communication passage and pressing the moving body provided at the discharge port of the hopper with the tip of this operation rod in the movement direction. It can be in a state.
By maintaining such a state, the hopper rotates and the medals are sequentially paid out, but since the moving body moves only once, the number of medals is counted as one. In addition, by performing such fraud, it is possible to pay out all the medals as long as they are inside the hopper.

[0007]

Therefore, according to the present invention, since such an irregularity is carried out by inserting an operating rod or the like into the hopper from the discharge tray direction through the communication passage, A valve is provided inside the passage, and with this valve,
Although the medals can be paid out, it is impossible to intrude the operating rod from the direction of the discharge tray toward the hopper, and the above-mentioned communication path device between the hopper and the discharge tray is designed to prevent fraud. It is intended to provide.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention according to claim 1 of the present invention is a medal game in which a game is played using medals and the medals are paid out to a discharge tray according to the game result. Among the machines, in a medal game machine that uses a hopper for paying out medals, it is possible to connect the hopper and the discharge tray with a communication passage, and move the medals from the hopper toward the discharge tray inside the communication passage. Though
It is characterized in that a valve that cannot enter from the discharge tray toward the hopper is provided.

According to a second aspect of the invention, in addition to the configuration of the first aspect of the invention, the communication passage is formed in a rectangular tube shape, the valve is formed in a plate shape, and one side of the valve is formed. It is characterized in that it is formed so as to be supported by a plate member on the hopper side of the communication passage, and the other side is pressed against the inner surface of the plate member facing the supported plate member.

[0010]

According to the present invention, although the medal can be moved from the hopper to the discharge tray in the communication passage, a valve that cannot enter from the discharge tray to the hopper is provided to prevent illegal operation. The operation rod and the like for performing the operation cannot be entered. Therefore, it is possible to prevent fraud caused by operating the hopper from the discharge tray direction through the communication passage.

The communication passage is formed in a rectangular tube shape, the valve is formed in a plate shape, and one side of the valve is supported by a plate member on the hopper side of the communication passage, and a plate material facing the supported plate material is provided. If the whole is formed so that the other side comes into pressure contact with the inner surface of the above, the above-mentioned fraud can be prevented with a very simple configuration.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the illustrated examples shown in FIGS. Here, what is shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 is the first embodiment of the present invention, and what is shown in FIGS. 4 to 6 is the second embodiment of the present invention. Furthermore, FIG.
3 is a perspective view showing the first embodiment, FIG. 2 is a sectional view, and FIG.
4 is a cross-sectional view showing a state where a medal passes, FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a second embodiment, FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view, and FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a state where a medal passes.

First, the first embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 will be described. The communication passage device 10 according to this embodiment connects the hopper 30 and the discharge tray 40, and the medals M of the discharge tray 40 are discharged from the discharge port 31 for paying out the medals M of the hopper 30. It is formed to be inclined downward toward the receiving port 41. Further, the medal M discharged from the discharge port 31 of the hopper 30 is guided to the receiving port 41 of the discharging tray 40 while sliding down inside the communication passage device 10, and this receiving port 41
Is discharged into the discharge tray 40 from the inside.

Now, the communication passage device 10 will be described more specifically. The communication passage device 10 is formed in a rectangular tube shape including a left side plate 11, a right side plate 12, an upper plate 13 and a bottom plate 14 as viewed from the front of the gaming machine, and the hopper 30 side serves as an entry port 15 for the medal M to be discharged. The plate 40 side is the payout opening 16 for the medal M. Further, from the end edges of the left side plate 11 and the right side plate 12 of the communication passage device 10 toward the inside of the game machine and the bottom plate 14 toward the inside of the game machine, a fixing portion 17 is vertically provided, and the fixing portion 17 allows the communication passage. The device 10 is formed so as to be fixed inside the gaming machine.

A valve 20 is supported on the upper plate 13 of the communication passage device 10 inward of the gaming machine through a support plate 18. Specifically, a support plate 18 is fixed to the upper plate 13 of the communication passage device 10, and a U-shaped support portion 19 is formed on the support plate 18 inward of the gaming machine. on the other hand,
A support shaft 21 is provided at a portion of the valve 20 corresponding to the support portion 19, and the valve 20 is rotatably supported by the support portion 19 by the support shaft 21. On the other hand, this valve 2
The front end of the gaming machine 0 is pressed against the inner wall of the bottom plate 14 of the communication passage device 10 by its own weight.

Therefore, when the communication passage device 10 according to such an embodiment is used, when the medal M discharged from the discharge port 31 of the hopper 30 reaches the inside of the communication passage device 10 from the entry port 15, the communication passage device 10 is connected. While pushing up the game machine front side of the valve 20 of the device 10 slightly against its own weight, along the inner wall of the bottom plate 14 formed in a downward slope, the receiving port 41 of the discharge tray 40 via the payout port 16 Will be guided to.

On the other hand, when an unillustrated operating rod or the like is inserted from the receiving port 41 of the discharge tray 40 to reach the hopper 30 via the communication passage device 10, the operating rod is used to make an illegal act. This operating rod is blocked by the valve 20 so that it cannot enter the hopper 30. Therefore, by using the communication passage device 10 as described above, although there is no hindrance in discharging the medal M, various tools such as an operating rod for performing illegal means from the receiving port 41 direction of the discharging tray 40. Therefore, it is possible to prevent fraud by operating from the direction of the discharge tray 40.

Further, when the valve 20 is constructed as in the first embodiment, the valve 20 supported by the upper plate 13 comes into pressure contact with the inner wall of the bottom plate 14 by its own weight, so that any other urging means is used. It is possible to achieve the purpose without requiring. In this description, the valve 20 has been described as being pressed against the inner wall of the bottom plate 14 by its own weight. However, a spring (not shown) is provided in the valve 20 so that the valve 20 is pressed against the inner wall of the bottom plate 14 by the force of the spring. You can also However, even when such a spring is used, the gaming machine front side edge of the valve 20 is pressed against the inner wall with a pressure that allows the medal M discharged from the discharge port 31 of the hopper 30 to pass through. Is required.

Further, although the illustrated valve 20 is shown as being formed in a flat plate shape, if the medal M can be passed and the operation rod or the like can be prevented from entering.
For example, it may be formed in a corrugated shape or the like to facilitate passage of the medal M. Further, in the illustrated example, the valve 20 is described as being supported by the support plate 18 fixed to the upper plate 13, but the valve 20 is directly supported by the inner wall of the upper plate 13 and the other end is provided by the bottom plate 14.
It can also be formed so as to be pressed against the inner wall of the.

Next, the second embodiment shown in FIGS. 4 to 6 will be described. However, in the second embodiment, only the mounting method of the valve 20 is different from that of the first embodiment. Therefore, only the mounting method of the valve 20 and the payout method of the medal M will be described. The valve 20 in the second embodiment is the same as the valve 20 in the first embodiment.
The support plate 18 provided on the upper plate 13 is horizontally supported, and the rotary shaft for the passage of the medal M of the valve 20 is not formed in the horizontal direction but is provided in the substantially vertical direction. This is a specific example.

In this second embodiment, the valve 20 has the upper plate 1
3 and the end of the bottom plate 14 on the right side plate 12 side are rotatably supported by the rotary shaft 22, and the side opposite the rotary shaft 22 is pressed against the inner wall of the left side plate 11. Further, as a method of press-contacting the inner wall of the left side plate 11 of the valve 20 in the second embodiment, a spring 23 is locked to a protruding portion from the inner wall of the right side plate 12 of the valve 20, and this spring 23
The tip of the valve 20 is formed so as to come into pressure contact with the inner wall of the left side plate 11.

When formed in this manner, the medal M discharged from the discharge port 31 of the hopper 30 swings the valve 20 along the rotary shaft 22 while the surface of the valve 20 on the back side of the gaming machine and the left side plate 11 are swayed. 20 while passing between the inner wall of the valve
The front end portion of is discharged forward to the receiving port 41 of the discharge tray 40. Even if formed in this manner, the medal M can be reliably sent out, and the operation rod or the like for performing various illegal acts cannot be entered from the receiving port 41 direction of the discharge tray 40. is there.

In the above description, the plate-shaped valve 20 is used as the valve 20, but the valve 20 having another shape is used.
Even if the valve 20 is used, the shape of the valve 20 does not matter as long as the operation rod or the like for performing various fraud can be prevented from entering from the receiving opening 41 of the discharging tray 40 toward the discharging opening 31 of the hopper 30. . Further, although the valve 20 has been described as a single valve 20, the valve 20 is configured in the shape of, for example, a double door, and the medal M can be paid out from the center of the valve 20, but the operation rod or the like can be prevented from entering. It is also possible to have any shape.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, the valve is provided inside the communication passage, and although the medal M can be paid out by this valve, the operating rod is made to enter from the discharge tray direction toward the hopper. It is intended to prevent fraud by making it impossible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a state where a medal passes in the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a second embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of a second embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing a state where a medal passes in the second embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

M medal 10 Communication passage device 11 Left side plate 12 Right side plate 13 Upper plate 14 Bottom plate 15 Entry port 16 Discharge port 17 Fixed part 18 Support plate 19 Support part 20 Valve 21 Support shaft 22 Rotation shaft 23 Spring 30 Hopper 31 Discharge port 40 Discharge tray 41 Receiving point

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A medal game machine for playing a game using medals and paying out medals to a discharge tray according to a game result,
In a medal game machine that uses a hopper for paying out medals, the hopper and the discharge tray are connected by a communication passage, and inside the communication passage, medals can be moved from the hopper toward the discharge tray, but from the discharge tray. A communication passage device between the hopper and the discharge tray, which is provided with a valve that cannot enter the hopper direction. 2. A plate member having a communication passage formed in a rectangular tube shape, a valve formed in a plate shape, one side of the valve being supported by a plate member on the hopper side of the communication passage, and a plate member facing the supported plate member. 2. The communication passage device between the hopper and the discharge tray according to claim 1, wherein the other side is pressed against the inner surface of the plate.