JPH0796077A - Japanese pinball game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically obviate a run-out state caused by a ball jam in a tank rail by providing a vibration means in the tank rail for guiding falls for playing a Japanese pinball (PACHINKO) machine contained in a ball tank to a premium ball discharge device, operating the vibration means by a ball run-out signal and vibrating the tank rail. CONSTITUTION:A tank rail 5 like a pipe provided in the lower part of a ball tank 4 is provided in order to align and lead out PACHINKO balls, and its down-steam end is provided in a premium ball discharge device through a bend rail 6 for weakening ball pressure. In this case, in the upstream side of the bend fail 6, a detecting lever 9 which is oscillated, when a ball jam is generated in the tank rail 5 and balls in the bend rail 6 are gone is provided, a ball run- out detector 10 is turned ON by an oscillating operation of this detecting lever 9, and a ball run-out signal is sent out to the premium ball discharge device. Also, when this ball run-out detector 10 is turned ON, a vibration motor 13 of a vibrating means 11 is driven, and vibration is given to the tank rail 5 through a base plate 12, by which the ball jam of the tank rail 5 is obviated.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko machine capable of surely supplying a pachinko ball in a ball tank to a prize ball dispensing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional pachinko machine, a ball tank is provided on the upper back surface of a game board, and the pachinko ball in the ball tank is guided to a prize ball payout device through a tank rail and a bending rail, and a prize is awarded. Every time a sphere is generated, the prize sphere dispenser is operated to dispense a fixed number of prize spheres to the sphere tray in front of the machine.

[0003]

By the way, in a conventional pachinko machine, a large number of pachinko balls overlap each other in the upstream part of the tank rail where the ball drop port of the ball tank faces or the downstream part connected to the bending rail. Occasionally, clogging occurred and pachinko balls could not be supplied to the prize ball dispensing device.

On the other hand, as is well known, in recent pachinko machines, a ball burnout detection switch is provided above the prize ball payout device, and when the pachinko ball is not supplied to the prize ball payout device and the ball is out of play, a lamp or the like is turned on. However, the clerk had to open the front frame of the pachinko machine each time to fix the ball clogging condition, which was very troublesome and annoying to the player.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to solve the above problems, and a tank rail for aligning pachinko balls in a ball tank provided on the upper rear surface of a game board and guiding them to a prize ball payout device. In addition, a vibrating means for vibrating the tank rail by operating in response to a ball out signal of the prize ball dispensing device is provided.

[0006]

In the present invention, when the tank rail is clogged and the pachinko ball is no longer supplied to the prize ball dispensing device and the ball is out of ball, a ball out signal is sent to the vibrating means.
Then, the vibrating means is activated by the out-of-ball signal to vibrate the tank rail. As a result, the ball clogging of the tank rail is automatically resolved, and the pachinko balls are supplied to the prize ball payout device.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a rear view of a pachinko machine according to the present embodiment, where 1 is a front frame of the pachinko machine, 2 is a game board detachably attached to the back surface of the front frame 1, and 3 is an openable and closable back surface of the game board 2. It is a mechanism plate made of synthetic resin to be attached to.

A ball tank 4 is fixed to the upper part of the back surface of the mechanism plate 3. Below the ball tank 4, there is provided a gutter-shaped tank rail 5 that aligns and guides the pachinko balls, and
At the downstream end, a prize ball payout device 7 is arranged via a bent rail 6 that weakens the ball pressure. In addition, the prize ball dispensing device 7
A discharge passage 8 for guiding the paid-out prize balls to a ball receiving tray (not shown) on the front surface of the front frame 1 is provided below.

An upstream portion of the bending rail 6 is a detection lever 9 which swings when a ball jam occurs in the tank rail 5 and the pachinko balls in the bending rail 6 disappear, and a swinging operation of the detection lever 9 An out-of-ball detector 10 is provided which is turned on and sends out the out-of-ball signal of the premium ball payout device 7.

Therefore, in the present invention, as shown in FIG. 2, the tank rail 5 is provided with the vibrating means 11. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the vibrating means 11 is used for the tank rail 5
The substrate 12 is detachably attached to the outer side wall 5a, and the vibration motor 13 is attached to the substrate 12.
That is, the vibration motor 13 is fitted into the L-shaped receiving frame pieces 14, 14 formed on the front surface side of the substrate 12 from above, and the vibration motor 13 is brought into close contact with the substrate 12 to be integrally configured. Then, the board 12 is attached to the tank rail 5 by engaging the L-shaped engaging pieces 15, 15 formed downward on the back surface side of the board 12 with the upper edge of the outer wall 5a of the tank rail 5, and The tank motor 5 is configured to vibrate through the substrate 12 by driving the vibration motor 13.

The vibration motor 13 is driven so that the detection lever 9 provided on the bending rail 6 swings to turn on the ball break detector 10, and is controlled to stop when the ball break detector 10 turns off. Has been done.

In the pachinko machine of the present invention constructed as described above, the tank rail 5 is clogged and the bent rail 6
When there is no pachinko ball inside and the out-of-ball detector 10 is turned on, the detection signal is sent to the vibration means 11 and the vibration motor 1
Drive 3 By driving the vibration motor 13, the substrate 1
Vibration is applied to the tank rail 5 via 2, so that the ball clogging of the tank rail 5 is automatically eliminated and the pachinko ball is supplied to the bending rail 6.

[0013]

As described above, the pachinko machine of the present invention is provided with the vibration means on the tank rail that aligns the pachinko balls in the ball tank and guides them to the prize ball payout device, and outputs the ball out signal of the prize ball payout device. Since the tank rail is vibrated by operating the vibrating means, even if a ball clogging occurs in the tank rail and the prize ball dispensing device is in a ball out state, the tank rail is vibrated to cause the ball clogging state. Can be eliminated automatically, and the inconvenience of having to bother a store clerk as in the conventional case can be eliminated. Further, since the ball clogging of the tank rail can be surely eliminated, there is a special effect that the reliability of the payout operation of the prize balls is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a back view of a pachinko machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a main part of this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a vibrating means of this embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing a mounting state of a vibrating means.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 game board 4 ball tank 5 tank rail 7 prize ball dispensing device 11 vibrating means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A tank rail that aligns pachinko balls in a ball tank disposed on the upper rear surface of a game board and guides them to a prize ball payout device, which is operated by a ball out signal of the prize ball payout device. A pachinko machine characterized by being provided with a vibrating means for vibrating.