JPH0648765U - Ball saucer for pachinko machines - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To simplify the operation of extracting pachinko balls from the ball saucer of a pachinko machine. [Structure] A lock portion 15 is formed on a guide plate 8 attached to the lower surface of the saucer portion 2 of the ball saucer main body 1, and the lock portion 15 is slidably installed on the guide plate 8 and the upper ball outlet 5 of the saucer portion 2 and A shutter plate 18 for opening and closing the lower ball removal opening 12 of the guide plate 8 and an operation lever 17 for moving operation are provided. The shutter plate 18 of the ball removal operation member 16 biased in the returning direction is elastically bent and deformed. It is possible to connect the stopper 21 having the meshing portion 24 formed therein, and when the shutter plate 18 is slid to the inward movement end, the meshing portion 24 is elastically engaged with the lock portion 15 so that both ball outlets 5, 12 are formed. Is held in the fully open state.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 This invention relates to a ball saucer for a pachinko machine.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 When removing a pachinko ball from the ball tray of a pachinko machine, conventionally, the ball releasing lever was held in a state of being slid in the extracting direction against the return spring pressure.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 Therefore, it was necessary to return the ball pull-out lever and continue to push against the spring pressure until all the pachinko balls in the ball tray are discharged. An object of the present invention is to simplify the operation of extracting a pachinko ball from a ball saucer.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 The ball saucer of the pachinko machine of the present invention is slidably installed on a guide plate attached to the lower surface of the saucer section of the ball saucer body, and is installed on the upper ball outlet and the guide plate provided on the saucer section. A shutter plate that opens and closes the lower ball removal port, and the ball removal operation member that is biased in the return direction is detachably elastically engaged with a lock portion formed on the guide plate to remove the shutter plate. It has a configuration in which stoppers are provided to hold the ball outlets at the slide positions where the openings are at desired openings.

[0005]

[Action]

 A ball removing operation member having a shutter plate horizontally slideable on a guide plate attached to the lower surface of the saucer portion of the ball saucer main body is provided with When the opening is pushed in the opening direction and then released, the stopper provided on the ball removing operation member elastically engages with the lock portion formed on the guide plate, and the shutter plate opens the both ball opening ports. The pachinko ball in the saucer part is pulled out by being locked at the slide position where the degree is the desired degree.

[0006]

[Effect of device]

 Since the present invention is configured as described above, when the ball-extraction operation member is pushed and then released, the ball-extraction operation member is locked at a position where the opening of the ball-extraction opening becomes a desired opening. The operation required to remove the pachinko balls from the saucer can be completed with one touch, and it is not necessary to press the ball removing operation member until all the pachinko balls in the saucer have been removed. It is possible to simplify the operation of extracting pachinko balls.

[0007]

【Example】

 Next, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. A decorative plate B having a square hole-shaped ball receiving port B1 is attached to the lower front part of the body frame of the pachinko machine, and a ball receiving plate A adjacent to the inside of the handle C is attached to the front surface of the decorative plate B. Is installed.

The ball tray body 1 of the ball tray A has an inner dish body 2a and an outer dish body 2b connected to the inner dish body 2a with screws, and stores the pachinko balls that have passed through the ball receiving port B1. A saucer part 2 is formed, and an ashtray 3 is installed on the side of the saucer part 2 so as to be rotatable in the front-rear direction.

An upper ball removal port 5 for extracting the pachinko balls stored in the saucer part 2 is formed in the bottom part 4 of the saucer part 2 in a round hole shape, and a spring 7 is provided near the front end of the bottom part 4. The inserted spring hole 6 is formed in a horizontally long shape along the left-right direction.

A front wall plate 8 a, a rear wall plate 8 b, left and right side wall plates 8 c, and a bottom plate 8 d installed horizontally below the bottom plate 4 with a gap therebetween are provided on the lower surface of the bottom part 4 of the tray 2. A guide plate 8 which is connected to each other and is formed in a shallow box shape is attached by screws 9.

The front wall plate 8 a of the guide plate 8 is formed with a horizontally long insertion portion 10.

The bottom plate 8 d of the guide plate 8 has a front guide hole 11 formed in a laterally elongated shape in the vicinity of the front end thereof along the substantially left-right direction, and a lower ball removing hole opened below the ball removing port 5 of the saucer part 2. A mouth 12 and a rear guide hole 13 that is formed in parallel with the front guide hole 11 and communicates with the lower ball outlet 12 and is formed behind the front guide hole 11.

The rear guide hole 13 of the guide plate 8 is formed in such a shape that the hole width of the lower ball outlet 12 side portion thereof is slightly larger than the hole width of the lower ball outlet side portion.

In the vicinity of the central portion of the rear side hole edge 13a of the rear guide hole 13 of the guide plate 8, a locking protrusion 14 protruding forward and a lock portion 15 recessed rearward are adjacent to each other on the left and right. Has been formed.

A rear end portion is inserted into an insertion portion 10 of the guide plate 8 at a front portion of a ball removing operation member 16 installed on the guide plate 8 so as to be movable inward and outward, and a central portion and a front end portion thereof are inserted. An operation lever 17 is formed whose portion projects toward the front of the guide plate 8.

A rear end of the ball removing operation member 16 is connected to a rear end of the operation lever 17, and is sandwiched between the bottom plate 4 of the pan 2 and the bottom plate 8d of the guide plate 8 so as to be horizontally slidable inward and outward. The shutter plate 18 for simultaneously opening and closing the upper ball outlet 5 and the lower ball outlet 12 is formed by the sliding operation, and the outer edge of the shutter plate 18 is substantially equal to the radius of curvature of the opening edge of the upper ball outlet 5. It is curved in an arc shape with a radius of curvature.

A spring which is fitted into the spring hole 6 of the tray 2 on the upper surface of the connecting portion between the operation lever 17 of the ball removing operation member 16 and the shutter plate 18 to urge the ball removing operation member 16 in the returning direction. A pressure receiving piece 19 which receives the elastic force of 7 is projected.

A guide piece 20 slidably fitted in the front guide hole 11 of the guide plate 8 is provided on a lower surface of a connecting portion between the operation lever 17 of the ball removing operation member 16 and the shutter plate 18. There is.

A stopper 21 that is displaced into the lower ball removal port 12 of the guide plate 8 and into the rear guide hole 13 by the movement of the shutter plate 18 inward and outward is coupled to the lower surface of the shutter plate 18 of the ball removal operation member 16. Has been done. At the front part of the stopper 21, a guide projection 22 is formed which is joined and fixed to the lower surface of the shutter plate 18 and is slidably guided by the front hole edge 13b of the rear guide hole 13, and at the rear part of the stopper 21. The flexible portion 23 extending in the left-right direction in parallel with the guide protrusion 22 is formed so as to be elastically bendable in the front-rear direction in a state of being separated from the shutter plate 18, A connecting portion 26 fixed to the lower surface of the shutter plate 18 and connected to the inner end of the guide projection 22 and the inner end of the flexible portion 23 in an orthogonal manner is formed at the end.

A planar shape of a substantially triangular shape is formed in the vicinity of the central portion of the flexible portion 23 of the stopper 21, and the shutter can be forcibly disengaged with the lock portion 15 of the guide plate 8 and elastically engaged in a meshed shape. A meshing portion 24 that holds the plate 18 at the slide position where the ball outlet 5 is fully opened is provided in a protruding manner.

The engagement portion 24 of the stopper 21 has an inner sloped surface 24 a that is slidably contacted with the locking projection 14 of the guide plate 8 and is pressed by the locking projection 14 when the shutter plate 18 is slid inward. An outer inclined surface 24b is formed which is slidably contacted with the locking projection 14 and pressed by the locking projection 14 when the shutter plate 18 is slid back to the outside.

When the shutter plate 18 of the ball removing operation member 16 is slid to the outward end, both ball outlets 5 and 12 are held in a fully closed state, and the stopper 21 enters the lower ball outlet 12. ing.

In this state, when the pachinko balls stored in the pan 2 are to be removed, the operation lever 17 of the ball removing operation member 16 is pushed inward against the return spring pressure of the spring 7. When the shutter plate 18 is slid inward and the stopper 21 is inserted into the rear guide hole 13, the meshing portion 24 of the stopper 21 locks the guide plate 8 while the shutter plate 18 slides toward the inward travel end. The flexible portion 23 of the stopper 21 is bent and deformed forward by coming into contact with the projecting piece 14.

When the operating lever 17 is pushed further inward and the shutter plate 18 is slid further inward, the meshing portion 24 gets over the locking projection 14 and elastically engages with the lock portion 15, Even if the ball-removing operation member 16 is locked at a position where the opening degrees of both ball-removing ports 5 and 12 are fully opened and the operation lever 17 is released, the engagement of the lock portion 15 and the stopper 23 causes the ball-removing lever to move. The return movement is blocked and the shutter plate 18 is held at the inward travel end position.

When the operation lever 17 of the ball removing operation member 16 is forcibly pushed in the returning direction, the engagement between the lock portion 15 and the stopper 23 is disengaged and the ball removing member 16 can be returned to the original position. it can.

Next, the operation and effect of the embodiment having the above configuration will be described. In this example, it is slidably installed on the guide plate 8 attached to the lower surface of the saucer portion 2 of the ball saucer body 1 and is opened on the upper ball outlet 5 and the guide plate 8 provided on the saucer portion 2. It has a shutter plate 18 for opening and closing the lower ball removal port 12 and an operation lever 17 for moving operation. The ball removal operation member 16 biased in the returning direction is disengaged from the lock portion 15 formed on the guide plate 8. A stopper 21 that has a meshing portion 24 that elastically engages as much as possible and that holds the shutter plate 18 in a sliding position where the opening degrees of both ball outlets 5 and 12 are fully opened is connected.

Therefore, when the ball removing operation member 16 is pushed and released in a direction in which both ball removing ports 5 and 12 are released, the ball removing operation member 5 is fully opened at a position where the ball removing operation member 16 is fully opened. It is possible to complete the operation required to remove the pachinko balls from the saucer part 2 by locking 16 and to remove all the pachinko balls in the saucer part 2 with the one-touch operation. Since it is not necessary to keep pressing, it is possible to simplify the operation of extracting the pachinko balls in the saucer section 2.

The ball removing mechanism of the above-described embodiment may be applied to the upper ball receiving plate installed above the ball receiving plate A.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 will be described. In this embodiment, a box-shaped stopper receiver 25 connected to the lower surface of the shutter plate 18A of the ball removing operation member 16A. A stopper 21A formed by elastically bending and deforming a spring material into a substantially mountain shape is inserted therein, and a substantially semicircular curved meshing portion 24A is formed at the top of this stopper 21A. ing.

On the other hand, the rear hole 13aA of the rear guide hole 13A of the guide plate 8A is arranged in the sliding direction of the shutter plate 18A, and the meshing portion 24A of the stopper 23A is selectively elastically engaged. The second and third lock portions 15A, 15B and 15C are provided as recesses.

Of the three lock portions 15A, the first lock portion 15A is the opening degree of both ball outlets 5A and 12A when the meshing portion 24A of the stopper 21A is elastically engaged with the first lock portion 15A. Is set so that the shutter plate 18A is held in the slide position where the shutter is fully opened, and the second lock portion 15B is provided with both balls when the engagement portion 24A of the stopper 21A elastically engages with the second lock portion 15B. The shutter plate 18A is set so as to be held at the slide position where the opening degree of the outlets 5 and 12 is an intermediate opening degree between the fully open state and the half open state, and the third lock portion 15C is the engagement portion 24A of the stopper 21A. It is set so that the shutter plate 18A is held at the slide position where the openings of both the ball outlets 5A and 12A are in a half-open state when is elastically engaged with the third lock portion 15C. Has been.

Therefore, in this example, the openings of both ball outlets 5 and 12 are selected according to the number of pachinko balls in the saucer 2, and the positions of both ball outlets 5 and 12 are optimized. The shutter plate 18A can be locked.

Since the other operations and effects of the second embodiment are similar to those of the first embodiment, the description thereof will be omitted.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a ball tray showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged arrow view taken along line X1-X1 of FIG.

3 is a sectional view taken along line X2-X2 of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a side view of a ball removing member.

FIG. 5 is a rear view of an essential part for explaining a meshing process between a lock part and a stopper.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a tray portion, a ball removing operation member, and a guide plate.

FIG. 7 is a rear view of an essential part showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a sectional view taken along line X3-X3 of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ball saucer body 2 saucer part 5,5A upper ball removal port 8,8A guide plate 12,12A lower ball removal port 15,15A, 15B, 15C lock part 16,16A ball removal operation member 18,18A shutter plate 21,21A Stopper 24, 24A meshing part

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. An upper ball outlet provided on the guide plate, which is slidably installed on a lower surface of a saucer portion of the ball saucer body, and which is provided on the saucer portion, and a lower ball outlet provided on the guide plate. A shutter plate that opens and closes the shutter, and a ball removal operation member biased in the return direction is detachably elastically engaged with a lock portion formed on the guide plate to open the shutter plate at both the ball removal ports. A ball saucer for a pachinko machine, which is provided with a stopper that holds the slide position at a desired degree of opening.