JPH08280944A - Shooting apparatus for ball body - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a shooting apparatus for ball bodies which enables supplying of the ball bodies housed in a housing section smoothly to a shooting body while allowing shooting of the ball bodies continuously with a simple operation. CONSTITUTION: This apparatus is provided with a rotary plate 2 arranged on the front of a toy body 1 free to rotate, a plurality of shooting bodies 3 having a flipping piece of ball bodies 6 arranged side by side on a concentric piercing the rotary plate 2, an engaging protruded part which is arranged behind the shooting bodies 3 and engaged with the shooting bodies 3 moving with the rotation of the rotary plate 2 so that the ball bodies 6 charged into the shooting bodies 3 are pushed forward to be shot from the shooting bodies 3, a housing section 4 which is arranged on the top surface of the toy body 1 to house the ball bodies 6 and a supply means 5 to supply the ball bodies 6 to the shooting bodies 3 subsequentially from the housing section 4.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sphere launching device capable of continuously launching spheres.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION As a sphere launching device, Japanese Patent Application No. 6-33
What is shown in the specification and drawing of No. 5611 is known. This sphere launching device accommodates a sphere between a pair of flipping pieces arranged on the toy body, and pushes out a pushing member arranged behind the flipping piece to the front side from the opening formed on the front surface of the toy body. It is designed to fire.

However, in order to fire the sphere, it is necessary to push the pushing member forward, and in order to continuously fire the sphere, the pushing member must be repeatedly operated and is housed in the supply section. There is a risk that the existing spheres may compete with each other on the supply path to cause clogging.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention was established under the above background, and it is possible to continuously shoot spheres by a simple operation and to smoothly supply the spheres housed in the housing portion to the barrel. An object is to provide a sphere launching device.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a sphere launching device according to the present invention is characterized by having the following requirements. (A) A rotating plate is freely rotatably fitted in an opening formed on the front surface of the toy body. (B) A plurality of barrels are concentrically arranged on the rotating plate, and a rear end of the barrel is arranged. Is placed inside the toy body by penetrating the rotating plate. (C) A flipping piece is placed along the circumferential direction near the rear end of each barrel, and a convex portion is formed inside the flipping piece. The diameter formed between the convex portions is smaller than the diameter of the sphere. (D) The toy body is provided with a sphere containing portion and the sphere is sequentially supplied to the rear end of each barrel from the containing portion. Supply means is provided so that the sphere is supplied so as to protrude from the rear end of the barrel. (E) The sphere is supplied to the barrel when the rotary plate rotates at a position facing a point on the movement path of the rear end of the barrel. Engage with the protruding part of the sphere that was pushed and forcibly push the sphere to the extent that it gets over the convex part. The engaging protrusion is formed

[0006]

According to the above construction, the rotary plate is loosely rotatably fitted on the front surface of the toy body, and a plurality of barrels are concentrically arranged on the rotary plate. Accordingly, each barrel moves along the same trajectory. The rear end of the barrel penetrates the rotating plate and is arranged inside the toy body, and a flipping piece is arranged along the circumferential direction near the back end, and a convex portion is formed inside the flipping piece. The diameter between the convex portions is formed to be smaller than the diameter of the sphere, and the toy body is provided with a sphere storage portion and a supply means for sequentially supplying the sphere from the storage portion to the rear end of each barrel. , Spheres are sequentially supplied to the rear end of the moving barrel. Since the sphere is supplied so as to extend to the rear end of the barrel and moves together with the barrel, it engages with an engaging protrusion formed at a position facing one point of the movement path of the barrel, and the sphere is forced to the convex portion. When the ball hits the convex part, it is pushed out to the extent that it can get over, and when the sphere gets over the convex part, it is flipped forward by the elastic restoring force of the ball and is fired from the barrel.

Since the spheres are sequentially supplied to the barrel, the spheres supplied to the barrel are sequentially engaged with the engaging projections by continuously rotating the rotary plate, and the spheres are continuously fired.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an operating state of a sphere launching device. Reference numeral 1 is a toy body, 2 is a rotating plate, 3 is a barrel, and 4 is a barrel.
Is a storage part, 5 supply means, and 6 is a sphere. Inside the toy body 1, a drive part 7 for driving the rotating plate 2 and the supply means 5 is arranged.

As shown in FIG. 2, the toy body 1 is formed in a substantially box shape divided into two parts from the center, and a partition plate 2 described later is provided inside.
A guide 10 for fixing 6 is formed, an opening 11 through which the sphere 6 passes, a fitting edge 12 for fixing the housing 4 and a bearing 13 of a drive unit 7 described later are formed on the upper surface, and a front surface is formed on the front surface. An arc-shaped opening 14 is formed in which the rotary plate 2 is loosely fitted, and is connected by appropriate means such as a screw.

The rotating plate 2 is loosely rotatably fitted in an opening 14 formed on the front surface of the toy body 1, and three barrels 3 are concentrically arranged side by side and fixed to the rotating plate 2. ,
A rotary shaft 15 is formed on the rear surface so as to project rearward, the rotary shaft 15 penetrates a bearing 27 formed on a partition plate 26 described later, and a bevel gear 16 is fixed to the rear end portion. This bevel gear is interlocked with a drive unit 7 described later.

The barrel 3 is formed in a cylindrical shape, and its rear end penetrates the rotary plate 2 and projects into the interior of the toy body 1. At the rear end 3a of the barrel 3, a synthetic resin flipping piece 17 is arranged in the circumferential direction. Located alongside. As shown in FIG. 3, this flipping piece 17 is cylindrical and has a notch 18 formed in the longitudinal direction.
8 are provided so as to spread, and substantially triangular projections 19 and 19 are formed on the inner surface so as to face each other. The distance T1 between the tips of the protrusions 19 is smaller than the maximum diameter (diameter) T2 of the sphere 6, and the distance T3 from the rear end is smaller than the radius of the sphere 6 (half or less of T2). As shown in FIG. 4A, the sphere 6 accommodated in the above is provided so as to protrude from the rear end of the barrel 3 (the flipping piece 17).

The storage part 4 is formed in a cylindrical shape with a bottom, a fitting edge 20 is formed on the bottom surface, fits into the fitting edge 12 formed on the upper surface of the toy body 1, and is fixed to the toy body 1. ing.
A discharge port 21 and a cover 22 for discharging the sphere 6 stored in the storage unit 4 are formed in front of the bottom of the storage unit 4, and a through hole 2 through which a drive shaft 34 of a drive unit 7 described later penetrates is formed in the center.
3 are formed.

The supply means 5 is composed of a disk having a raised central portion, and the disk 55 has nine arc-shaped notches 25 slightly larger than the diameter of the sphere 6 along the peripheral edge thereof, and the storage section 4 is provided. It is rotatably arranged inside.

A connecting hole 26 is formed at the center of the disk 5, and the tip of the drive shaft 34 of the drive unit 7 is connected to the connecting hole 26, so that the disk 5 rotates as the drive shaft 34 rotates. While rotating, the sphere 6 in the storage unit 4 is agitated and the cut portion 25 is stirred.
The spheres 6 are accommodated inside one by one, and the accommodated spheres 6 are provided so as to be conveyed to the discharge port 21.

The sphere 6 conveyed to the discharge port 21 is provided so as to drop from the discharge port 21 by its own weight, be guided by a guide groove 29 formed in a partition plate 26 described later, and be supplied to the flipping piece 17. There is.

The partition plate 26 is disposed behind the rotary plate 2 as shown in FIG. 2, and is fitted into the guide 10 formed on the toy body 1 and fixed in the toy body 1. A bearing 27 for the rotary shaft 15 of the rotary plate 2 is formed substantially in the center of the partition plate 26, and the rotary plate 2 is located at a position where one point of the movement trajectory of the rear end of the barrel 3 faces the lower front portion. The protrusion 6a (see FIG. 4 (a)) of the sphere 6 supplied to the flipping piece 17 of the barrel 3 that moves with the rotation of the sphere 6, and the sphere 6 is forced over the projection 19. An engaging protrusion 28 having a mountain-shaped cross section is formed to be pushed out. Further, a guide groove 29 of the sphere 6 is formed in the front upper part in a diagonally forward and downward direction.
It is provided so as to guide the sphere 6 supplied from the player to the flipping piece 17 of the barrel 3.

The tip 28a of the engaging projection 28 is arranged so as not to hit the repelling piece 17 of the moving barrel 3, and the height H is greater than the distance T3 of the projecting portion 19 of the repelling piece 17. The engagement protrusion 2 is formed to be large (see FIG. 4A).
The sphere 6 engaged with 8 is pushed forward to go up the slope,
When reaching the tip 28a, the maximum diameter of the sphere 6 is the flipping piece 17
It is provided so as to get over the convex portion 19 formed on.

The protruding portion 6a of the sphere 6 loaded on the flipping piece 17 moves in the direction of arrow a with the rotation of the rotary plate 2 and engages with the engaging projection 28 as shown in FIG. 4 (a). To do. Since the rotation plate 2 continues to rotate, the sphere 6 moves forward along the slope of the engaging projection 28 as shown in FIG. Lack 18
When the maximum diameter (diameter) of the sphere 6 gets over the apex of the convex portion 19, the elastic restoring force of the repelling piece 17 causes the sphere 6 to be repelled to the front and to be vigorously fired from the muzzle 3a. ing.

The drive unit 7 is composed of a drive gear 30 and a crown gear 31. The drive gear 30 is formed in a bevel shape and a pinion gear 32 is formed on the same shaft, the drive gear 30 meshes with the bevel gear 16 fixed to the rotary plate 2, and the pinion gear 32 meshes with the crown gear 31. are doing. The gear ratio between the drive gear 30 and the bevel gear 16 is set to 1: 1 and the gear ratio between the pinion gear 32 and the crown gear 31 is set to 1: 3.

A handle 34 is connected to the rotary shaft 33 of the drive gear 30 so that the drive unit 7 is operated when the handle 34 is rotated.

Since the gear ratio between the pinion gear 32 and the crown gear 31 is set to 1: 3 and the gear ratio between the drive gear 30 and the bevel gear 16 is set to 1: 1, when the handle 34 is turned. Since the rotating plate 2 makes one rotation and the disk 5 makes one third rotation by one rotation of the drive gear 30, the rotating plate 2
3 barrels attached to 3 and 9 formed on disk 5
The notch 25 of the disk 5 is synchronized with the notch 25 so that the notch 25 of the disk 5 is brought into the discharge port 21 of the housing 4 when the flipping piece 17 formed on the barrel 3 faces the guide groove 29 of the partition plate 26. Face to face,
It is provided so that the sphere 6 housed in the notch 25 is loaded into the barrel 3 via the discharge port 21.

The mode of operation of the sphere launching device configured as described above will be described.

The player turns the handle 34 after storing a large number of the spheres 6 in the storage unit 4. Since the drive gear 30 is connected to the handle 34, the bevel gear 16 meshed with the drive gear 30 and the crown gear 31 meshed with the pinion gear 32 rotate in association with each other. The rotating shaft 15 of the rotary plate 2 is fixed to the bevel gear 16, and the drive shaft 34 of the crown gear 31 is fixed.
Since the disk 5 is fixed to the tip of the disk, the spheres 6 are accommodated in the notches 25 one by one while being stirred by the rotating disk 5, and are conveyed to the discharge port 21. The sphere 6 conveyed to the discharge port 21 drops from the discharge port 21 and falls on the partition plate 26.
It is loaded in the flipping piece 17 of the barrel 3 which is guided by the guide groove 29 formed in the above and moves with the rotation of the rotary plate 2 (see FIG. 5).

The sphere 6 loaded on the flipping piece 17 is the barrel 3
The engaging protrusion 2 formed on the partition plate 26 by moving with
8 (see FIG. 4A). As the rotation of the rotary plate 2 further advances, the movement of the barrel 3 also advances, so that the ball 6 is engaged with the engaging projection 28.
It is pushed forward along the slope of. When the maximum diameter of the sphere 6 gets over the apex 12a of the convex portion 19, the elastic restoring force of the repelling piece 17 causes it to be repelled forward and fired from the muzzle 3a (see FIG. 4B).

When the handle 34 is continuously rotated, the spheres 6 in the storage section 4 are agitated by the disk 5 and are housed one by one in the notches 25, and are sequentially moved to the discharge port 21 as the disk 5 rotates. To be On the other hand, the barrel 3 passes in front of the guide groove 29 of the partition plate 26 as the rotary plate 2 rotates, so that the sphere 6 dropped from the discharge port 21 is guided by the guide groove 29.
The barrels 3 are sequentially loaded through the barrels 3, and the loaded balls 6 move together with the barrels 3. The spheres 6 loaded on the barrel 3 are successively engaged with the engagement projections 28 formed on the partition plate 26, so that the spheres 6 are pushed by the engagement projections 28 and are fired one after another.

As described above, the spheres 6 accommodated in the accommodating portion 4 are agitated by the disk 5 and are orderly conveyed by the notch 25, so that the spheres 6 may compete with each other and become jammed on the way. Instead, it is smoothly discharged from the storage section 4. Further, since the disk 5 and the rotary plate 2 are synchronized with each other, the sphere 6 is loaded onto the barrel 3 at the same time as it is ejected, and the loaded sphere 6 is pushed by the engaging projection 28 and fired from the barrel 3. The player can continuously shoot the sphere 6 simply by rotating the handle 34 continuously.

Since the engaging projections 28 are formed symmetrically with respect to the moving direction of the barrel 3, even if the handle 34 is rotated in the reverse direction, the sphere 6 can be continuously fired in the same manner as the forward rotation. .

Further, the storage unit 4 is formed by the head of the robot, the toy body 1 is formed by the body of the robot, and the sphere 6 is fired by operating the handle 34 imitating the arm of the robot. The device may be formed.

[0030]

[Effect] According to the sphere launching device of the present invention, the spheres housed in the storage section are sequentially supplied to the barrel by the supply means, so that the spheres do not clash due to competition with each other, and the spheres smoothly move from the storage section. Supplied to the barrel. The sphere supplied to the barrel engages with the engaging protrusion formed on the movement path of the barrel,
Since the sphere is pushed by the engaging projection and is fired from the barrel, the sphere can be continuously fired by continuously rotating the rotary plate.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a usage state of a ball launching device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing a configuration of the launching device.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the essential parts of a flip piece showing the relationship between a sphere and the flip piece.

4 (a) and 4 (b) are explanatory views showing a state in which a sphere housed in a flipping piece is engaged with an engaging projection and is fired.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of essential parts for explaining a state in which the sphere stored in the storage section is loaded into the barrel.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Toy main body 2 Rotating plate 3 Barrel 4 Storage part 6 Sphere 5 Supply means 14 Opening part 17 Flipping piece 28 Engaging projection part

Claims (1)

． [Claims] 1. A ball launching device having the following requirements. (A) A rotating plate is freely rotatably fitted in an opening formed on the front surface of the toy body. (B) A plurality of barrels are concentrically arranged on the rotating plate, and a rear end of the barrel is arranged. Is placed inside the toy body by penetrating the rotating plate. (C) A flipping piece is placed along the circumferential direction near the rear end of each barrel, and a convex portion is formed inside the flipping piece. The diameter formed between the convex portions is smaller than the diameter of the sphere. (D) The toy body is provided with a sphere containing portion and the sphere is sequentially supplied to the rear end of each barrel from the containing portion. Supply means is provided so that the sphere is supplied so as to protrude from the rear end of the barrel. (E) The sphere is supplied to the barrel when the rotary plate rotates at a position facing a point on the movement path of the rear end of the barrel. Engage with the protruding part of the sphere that was pushed and forcibly push the sphere to the extent that it gets over the convex part. The engaging protrusion is formed