JPH0715572Y2 - Tee-up feeder for golf balls - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention enables a golf ball to practice hitting by automatically supplying a ball to a tee-up machine from a ball box containing a large number of golf balls and teeing up each golf ball. The present invention relates to a tee-up supply device for a golf ball.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known a device that conveys balls from a ball box to a tee-up machine by using a belt conveyor, or a device that conveys the balls by a feed pipe and picks them up by a large tee-up machine. Has been.

[0003]

Both the structure in which the balls are conveyed by the belt conveyor described in the prior art and the structure in which the balls are conveyed by the feed pipe and picked up by a large tee-up machine are both constructed. However, there is a problem in that the equipment becomes complicated and large-scale, there are many malfunctioning members, and the equipment cost and the maintenance cost are high. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to solve these problems and to provide a golf ball tee-up supply device capable of tee-up by reliably supplying a single golf ball from a ball box to a tee-up machine with a simple structure. I am trying.

[0004]

To achieve the above object, a tee-up supply device for a golf ball according to the present invention is a vibrating bottom plate which oscillates in a lateral direction by a sliding roller eccentrically rotating in a ball box. A ball transfer gutter between the ball box and the tee-up machine, where the tip side swings up and down with the ball box side as the fulcrum, and one ball is separated by the separator and sent out. A pulling and raising member for raising and lowering the diagonal raising and lowering plate, pulling and moving the raising and lowering roller by a raising and lowering pulling rod having one end pivotally attached to the vibrating bottom plate and pushing it up from below to swing the transport gutter up and down. And a vertical cylindrical tee with a built-in optical sensor is attached to the tip of the rack tooth provided in the vertical direction, and it rotates on the rotating shaft of the pinion gear that meshes with the rack tooth. To provided a photoelectric switch for detecting the rotation amount control the height of the lifting tee.

[0005]

By vibrating the vibrating bottom plate which vibrates in the ball box, the balls in the ball box are sent to the ball transfer trough side while being swung, so that they are not clogged at the outlet. In addition, the elevating tow bar is pulled by the movement of the vibrating plate, the elevating roller ascends and descends diagonally on the oblique elevating plate, and at the same time raises and lowers the tip side of the upper ball transfer trough, and when the tip side of the ball transfer gutter descends, it moves the ball. The ball flows down to the tip of the gutter, and the ball B ₁ at the tip (see FIG. 1) is interrupted between the ball and the succeeding ball as the ball transfer trough rises, and only the ball B ₁ at the tip is outside the separator. When it rises in the state of being positioned on the left end side in FIG. 1 and reaches the same level as the slide table, the ball B ₁ naturally flows down the runoff gutter, moves toward the tee-up machine side, and falls on the tip of the lifting tee. Place.

When a ball is placed on the lift tee, an optical sensor in the lift tee senses this and sends a signal to the rotation drive unit of the rack and pinion shaft to rotate the rack and pinion shaft to a set rotation position, and the rack is rotated. Raise and tee up. Next, when the ball on the raised tee that has been teeed up disappears due to hitting, the optical sensor inside the lifted tee senses this and rotates the rotating shaft of the pinion gear in the opposite direction to lower the tee, A signal is sent to the drive part of the vibrating bottom plate, and the vibrating bottom plate is rotated once to lower the tip of the ball transfer trough to drop the succeeding ball B ₂ toward the tip side and repeat the above operation. Further, the number of golf balls delivered can be counted by a pulse counter in accordance with a ball passage detection signal from a micro switch provided on the slide table.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A vibrating plate 1 is provided on a bottom plate 3 of a ball box 2 so that it can vibrate laterally. The vibrating plates 4 and 4 are fixed to the lower surface side of the vibrating plate 1 in parallel in the longitudinal direction downwardly with an interval at which a sliding roller described later is loosely fitted. The sliding roller 5 is a rotary plate 7 which is attached to a rotary shaft of a vibration motor 6 provided below the vibration plate 1 and which rotates in a lateral direction.
Is eccentrically mounted and is loosely fitted in the sliding plates 4 and 4. The ball transfer gutter 8 is formed, for example, in a gutter shape having a V-shaped vertical section so that a golf ball can be loaded and flowed down, and one end side is pivotally attached to a lower end position of the communication port 9 of the ball box 2, and the pivot shaft 10 is pivotally attached. The shaft is mounted so that the tip end side (the left end side in FIG. 1) swings up and down about the center.

The elevating tow bar 11 has one end pivotally attached to the vibrating plate 1 by means of a pivot 12, and the elevating roller 13 is pivotally attached to the other end so that the elevating roller 13 is the lower surface of the tip of the ball transfer trough 8. Provide it at the position where it touches the side from below. Diagonal lift plate 14
Is provided in an obliquely upward direction in which the elevating roller 13 rides and moves by pulling the elevating tow rod 11. More specifically, the diagonal lifting plate 14 is a ball transfer gutter 8 in which the lifting roller 13 pushes up from below at a position where the lifting roller 13 rolling on the diagonal lifting plate 14 is pulled up to the highest position by the pulling of the lifting tow rod 11. The oblique lifting plate 14 is installed obliquely at a position where it rises to the same level as the height position of a slide 16 which communicates with a downflow gutter 15 described later.

The slide table 16 is formed by an upright surface 17 and a transfer surface 18 which are provided adjacent to the tip side position where the tip end side of the ball transfer trough 8 swings up and down, and communicates with the slide table 16. Golf ball B toward the tee-up machine side, which will be described later.
A runoff gutter 15 is provided for draining. Tea up machine 19
Is a rack gear 21 that meshes with the pinion gears 20 and 20 to move in a vertical direction, a substantially bottomed cylindrical lifting tee 22 provided at the upper end of the rack gear, and an optical sensor 23 attached to the bottom of the lifting tee 22. The pinion gear 20
It is formed by a drive unit 25 for rotating the rotating shaft 24 and an optical sensor 27 for detecting the rotation angle of a pulse generator 26 attached to the rotating shaft 24.

The separator 28 is formed of, for example, an L-shaped iron plate having an upside-down vertical section, and the length of the ball transfer trough 8 extends downward from the tip of the ball transfer trough 8 above the retracted position corresponding to the diameter of one golf ball B. Install in the direction perpendicular to the direction. The micro switch 29 is attached to a position above the slide table 16 where the golf ball B can be detected when passing. One end of the contact spring 30 is attached to the side surface of the ball transfer gutter 8 and the other end side is attached to an oblique lifting plate so that the lower surface of the leading end of the transfer gutter 8 is constantly pressed downward against the lifting roller 13 to make the ball. The transfer gutter 8 can be smoothly rocked up and down.

Further, it is desirable to directly send out the golf balls with coins. In this case, the currency selector used in the ball box is, for example, the publicly known Japanese Patent Publication No. 48-219.
In addition to the coin sorter / actuator disclosed in No. 09, a relay type controller (sequence controller) used in a vending machine, a pulse counter (not shown), and the like are adopted, and coins can be obtained if condition control is performed. It is possible to automatically send out golf balls corresponding to the number.

[0012]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, it has the following effects. Since the vibrating plate rocks the golf balls in the ball box, the balls do not get clogged near the communication port, and each time the ball transfer gutter moves up and down, the balls are moved up and down, so the balls are reliably transferred one by one. In addition, the tee-up can be controlled by a simple combination of a pinion gear and a rack gear and the detection of an optical sensor. Can be expected to reduce significantly.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway front view of a tee-up supply device for a golf ball.

FIG. 2 is a plan view partially crossing a tee-up supply device for a golf ball.

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway front view of the tee-up machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Vibration Plate 2 Ball Box 3 Bottom Plate 4 Sliding Plate 5 Sliding Roller 6 Vibration Motor 7 Rotating Plate 8 Ball Transfer Gutter 9 Communication Port 10 Axis 11 Elevating Traction Rod 12 Axis 13 Elevating Roller 14 Diagonal Elevating Plate 15 Falling Down Gutter 16 Sliding Down Stand 17 Vertical surface 18 Transfer surface 19 Tee-up machine 20 Pinion gear 21 Rack gear 22 Elevating tee 23 Optical sensor 24 Rotating shaft 25 Drive part 26 Pulse generator 27 Optical sensor 28 Separator plate 29 Micro switch 30 Contact spring

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A ball box 2 is provided with a vibrating bottom plate 1 which is oscillated by a sliding roller 5 which rotates eccentrically, and is vertically moved diagonally up and down with a ball box side as a fulcrum and provided on the lower side of the tip side. A ball transfer gutter 8 whose push-up end side swings is provided by a lifting roller 13, and a separating plate 28 is attached to the rear position of one ball from the tip of the ball transfer gutter 8 so as to be adjacent to the tip of the ball transfer gutter 8. A slide table 16 with an upright surface 17 is provided, and an optical sensor 23 is built in the tip of a rack girder 21 vertically provided adjacent to the tip of a runoff gutter 15 communicating with the slide 16. A pinion gear 2 that attaches a tee 22 and engages with the rack gear 21.
A tee-up supply device for a golf ball, which comprises a tee-up machine 19 having an optical sensor 27 for detecting a rotation amount of 0.