JPH09168663A - Grinding and lifting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and quickly change the entire unit with a new one, to eliminate the time and labor of changing only a belt inside a narrow island, to facilitate taking in and out of the island and to easily perform cleaning by turning the entire device to one unit. SOLUTION: A pair of endless belt-like grinding bands 30 are spread in the state of facing each other so as to be closer and being extended in a vertical direction inside a housing 21 and a take-in port 22 communicated between the lower ends of the respective grinding bands 30 is formed at the lower part of the housing 21. A discharge port 23 communicated between the upper ends of the respective grinding bands 30 is formed at the upper part of the housing 21, the driving motor 36 of the grinding bands 30 is integrally assembled to the appropriate part of the housing 21 and they are turned into the unit.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is erected on a gaming machine island in which a plurality of gaming machines are lined up, and islands are polished while polishing the gaming media discharged from each gaming machine and stored in the island lower tier. The present invention relates to a polishing and hoisting device for hoisting to the upper stage. Here, the game machine mainly refers to a pachinko machine, and the game medium is a pachinko ball.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a polishing and lifting device for washing a pachinko ball on a game machine island, a ball with dust, dust, and dirt such as hand dust attached is sandwiched between a pair of endless belts. There is already known a belt-type device in which the dirt is spun on the surface of the belt by the rotational driving of the above, and is lifted up while being abraded.

[0003] Such a polishing and hoisting device was usually installed upright in the central portion of the game machine island so as to be integrally incorporated into the island beforehand at the stage of island construction. By the way, the belt, which also serves as an abrasive constituting the polishing and lifting device, is naturally formed of a material that easily adsorbs the dirt on the ball, and the dirt on the ball continues to adhere to the surface of the belt during the operation of the device. It will be. Therefore, the dirty belt had to be replaced with a new belt from time to time.

[0004]

However, in the conventional polishing and lifting apparatus as described above, in order to replace the belt, first, a part of the island outer wall is removed, and then the old one is used in the island where space is not enough. The work of removing the belt and replacing it with a new one is very complicated and time-consuming.

Further, dirt that has not completely adhered to the belt surface accumulates as cotton dust on the back side of a pachinko machine, for example, on the island, but cleaning of such dirt cannot move the polishing and lifting device. It was very troublesome.

The present invention has been made by paying attention to the problems of the prior art as described above, and by unitizing the entire apparatus as one unit, each unit can be easily and quickly replaced with a new one. An object of the present invention is to provide a polishing and hoisting device that does not require the trouble of exchanging only the belt on a narrow island, and that can be easily put in and taken out from the island and can be easily cleaned.

[0007]

The gist of the present invention to achieve the above-mentioned object lies in the following items. 1 A gaming machine island (1) formed by lining up a plurality of gaming machines (11)
0), which is erected in the game machine (11) and is discharged from each gaming machine (11) and stored in the island lower tier (10C) while polishing and lifting the game medium to the island upper tier (10A). In the housing (21), a pair of endless belt-shaped polishing bands (30, 30) are stretched in a state of facing each other so as to be close to each other and extending in the up-and-down direction. Intake port (22) communicating between the lower ends of (30)
And each polishing strip (3
The discharge port (23) communicating with the upper end of (0) is formed, and the drive means (36) of the polishing band (30) is integrally assembled at an appropriate position of the housing (21) to form a unit. A characteristic polishing and lifting device (20).

2 On the lower end surface of the housing (21),
Item 2. The polishing and lifting apparatus (20) according to Item 1, further comprising a moving means (25) for moving the housing (21) in a substantially horizontal direction.

3. A door (13) that can be opened and closed is formed on a part of the outer wall of the gaming machine island (10), and the door (13) is set to be openable and retractable in the opened state. The polishing and lifting device (20) according to item 1 or 2.

Next, the operation based on the above-mentioned solving means will be described. According to the polishing hoisting device (20) of item 1, a pair of endless belt-shaped polishing bands (3) are provided in the housing (21).
0) is stretched, a game medium inlet (22) is formed in the lower part of the housing (21), and a game medium outlet (23) is formed in the upper part, and the housing (21)
The driving means (36) for the polishing band (30) is integrally assembled in a proper place to form a unit, and the entire apparatus can be easily and quickly replaced as a single unit. Of course, this device as one unit is easy to standardize and mass-produce in a factory or the like.

According to the polishing and hoisting device (20) of item 2, since the moving means (25) is provided on the lower end surface of the housing (21), the entire unitized device is substantially horizontal inside and outside the island. It can be easily moved in any direction. Further, according to the polishing and lifting device (20) according to item 3, the door (13) formed on a part of the outer wall of the gaming machine island (10) is opened and closed to easily install the device on the island, or the island. You can leave it outside.

[0012]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 7 show one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the polishing and lifting device 20 according to the present embodiment has a gaming machine island 10 in which a plurality of pachinko machines 11 as gaming machines are arranged in a row.
Of the pachinko spheres, which are erected at substantially the center of the pachinko machine and are discharged from the respective pachinko machines and stored in the lower stage 10C of the island.
It is a device for polishing while holding it at 0, 30 and then pumping it to the upper island 10A.

As shown in FIG. 1, the polishing and lifting device 20 includes a pair of polishing bands 30 and 3 inside a housing 21.
0 are stretched so as to extend vertically while facing each other so as to be close to each other, and each polishing band
Of the polishing band 30 is formed at the upper end thereof, and a drive motor 36 as a driving means is integrally formed at the lower end of the housing 21. It is configured as an assembly unit.

As shown in FIG. 2, the housing 21 is erected on a pedestal 24, and a lower end surface of the pedestal 24 is a moving means for moving the housing 21, that is, the entire apparatus 20 in a substantially horizontal direction. A plurality of certain rollers 25 are provided. That is, the unitized polishing and lifting device 2
0 can move freely on the floor in the horizontal direction. Although not shown, the roller 25 may be provided with a simple lock mechanism for restricting rotation.

Each of the polishing bands 30 in the housing 21 is formed by processing a material such as 6 nylon or 66 nylon into an endless belt shape. A static electricity removing material or a polishing enhancing material is mixed in the material, Other synthetic resins, fiber materials, etc. may be used as the main material for molding. At least one of the polishing bands 30 is provided with a plurality of slit holes 31 through which dirt removed from the pachinko balls is inserted, as shown in FIG. A large number of such slit holes 31 are provided so as to be arranged in the width direction of the polishing band 30 and also in the longitudinal direction.

Another example of the polishing body 30 is shown in FIG.
A mesh-shaped slit hole 32 may be provided as shown in FIG.
Any of the slit holes 31 and 32, when the polishing band 30 rotates and presses against a pachinko ball, catches the ball and rolls the ball frequently, and also collects various dirt such as dust and dust adhering to the surface of the ball. It has a function of scraping off and discharging only dirt to the back side of the polishing body 30. The specific shape of the slit hole is not limited to the illustrated one. Of course, the same or different slit holes may be provided in both of the polishing bands 30 and 30 which are close to and face each other.

As shown in FIG. 5, a flexible elastic body 33 made of a porous material may be superposed on the back side of at least one of the polishing bands 30. Specifically, the flexible elastic body 33 is a sponge or the like formed to have the same width as the polishing band 30, and the surface of the polishing band 30 can be reliably pressed against the sphere by the elastic force of the flexible elastic body 33. Further, fine dirt inserted through the slit holes 31 of the polishing band 30 can be adsorbed to the flexible elastic body 33 and collected. The polishing body 30 on which the flexible elastic body 33 is superposed may or may not have the slit holes 31 and 32.

One of the polishing bands 30 as described above is stretched over a drive pulley 35 in addition to a plurality of pulleys 34 pivotally supported at the essential parts of the housing 21, and is driven by a drive motor 36. It is set to rotate. The other polishing band 30 is also stretched around a plurality of pulleys 38 so as to extend vertically in a predetermined shape. The drive motor 36 is also integrally mounted to the outer wall of the lower end side of the housing 21 via a mounting bracket 37 so as to form the entire device as a unit. In addition, Hausink 21
The drive motor 36 may be assembled so as to be housed in the housing 21 if there is a space in the interior.

The distance between the polishing bands 30 on the side of close proximity to each other is set to such a size that the pachinko balls can be sufficiently held, but a plurality of spring members 39 are provided continuously along the polishing bands 30 in the vertical direction. Due to this, a required portion is pressed so as to extend vertically while curving in a wave shape. The rotation direction and the number of rotations of each polishing band 30 can be arbitrarily set within a range that does not hinder the polishing and lifting of pachinko balls. For example, the polishing bands 30 may be configured to be rotated independently at different speeds.

As shown in FIG. 6 or FIG. 7, the gaming machine island 10 in which the above-mentioned polishing and lifting device 20 is arranged includes an island lower stage 10C in which a storage tank 15 for pachinko balls is provided, and each pachinko machine. It is constructed from an island middle tier 10B in which the machines 11 form a row and an island upper tier 10A in which a pachinko ball supply and distribution gutter 16 is installed. The gaming machine island 10 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, respectively.
Are different from the entire length of the island, for example, the presence or absence and the arrangement of the pachinko machine 11 and its related equipment 11A in the island middle tier 10B, to be exact, but the basic configuration is common. The common points will be described below.

A door 12 that can be opened / closed is formed on the outer wall of the approximately central portion of the gaming machine island 10 so as to correspond to the entire height of the island.
There is a storage space for setting 0. That is, the polishing and lifting device 20 is set so that it can be freely moved in and out of the island with the door 12 of the game machine island 10 opened. A prize ball counter 13 is provided on the outer surface side of the door 12. The prize ball counting machine 13 counts the prize balls thrown by the player with an internal counting machine or a computer, and visually displays the result, or a receipt printed with the counted number of balls or a recycling card. It is a related device to be paid out. The prize ball counter 13 is also arranged at both ends of the island.

At the lower part of the storage space inside the door 12, there is provided a lower tank 14 to which the intake port 22 of the polishing and lifting device 20 installed in the storage space is connected. The inlet 22 of the polishing and lifting device 20 is the lower tank 1
4 is set so as to be connected to the vicinity of the bottom portion thereof, and although not shown, the tank-side connection port is automatically closed when the intake port 22 is removed from the lower tank 14. In addition,
The balls introduced into the prize ball counter 13 are directly introduced into the lower tank 14 after being counted.

As shown in FIG. 7, storage tanks 15 and 15 extending symmetrically in the longitudinal direction of the island with the lower tank 14 therebetween are provided in the lower island 10C.
Each storage tank 15 is formed in a box-shaped frame shape that is inclined downward toward one end side (center side of the island), a substantially horizontal upper surface side is largely opened, and a ball discharged from each pachinko machine 11 can be received. It is like this.

At the one end side where the balls in the storage tank 15 naturally flow down, there is provided a ball outlet for communicating with the lower tank 14. A shutter that can be opened and closed may be provided at the ball outlet. On the other hand, on the island upper end 10A, a pair of supply and distribution gutters 16 and 16 for distributing the balls discharged from the discharge port 23 of the polishing and lifting device 20 to the respective pachinko machines 11 are obliquely provided so as to extend in the island longitudinal direction. Has been done. As shown in FIG. 1, the discharge port 23 of the polishing and hoisting device 20 installed in the storage space is set so as to face the upstream end of each supply and distribution gutter 16.

In addition, a cleaner 40 is provided in the lower part of the inside of the door 12, mainly for inserting dirt through the slit holes 31 and 32 of the polishing band 30 and dropping downward. The purifier 40 is configured using, for example, a suction centrifugal pump, a suction pipe 42 connected to a casing body 41 thereof is extended to be inserted into a lower end portion of the housing 21, and a suction port 42a is As shown in FIG. 1, it is arranged so as to face the lower end of the back side of the polishing band 30 (having the slit holes 31 and 32). The purifier 40 may be integrally assembled with the housing 21 in advance, or may be externally attached to form a part of the unit.

Next, the operation will be described. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the components of the polishing and lifting device 20 are substantially housed in the housing 21, and the drive motor 36 is also housed in the housing 21.
Is integrally assembled to the outer wall of the lower end of the device, and the entire device 20 is unitized. That is, the polishing and lifting device 20 is convenient to handle as a single unit. For example, when consumable parts such as the polishing band 30 inside become dirty or old, only those parts are difficult to remove in a narrow island space or new. This device 20 can be easily and quickly replaced with a new one without replacement. Of course, the device 20 as one unit can be standardized and mass-produced easily in a factory or the like.

When exchanging the polishing and lifting device 20, it is unnecessary to first remove a part of the outer wall of the island as in the conventional case, and the door 13 formed on a part of the outer wall of the gaming machine island 10 is opened and closed. By simply doing this, the device 20 can be easily installed on the island or taken out of the island. Further, since the pedestal 24 fixed to the lower end surface of the housing 21 has a plurality of rollers 25, 25, ..., This device 20 can be moved extremely easily in the horizontal direction on the floor.

The function of the polishing and lifting device 20 actually installed in the game machine island 10 will be described below. Polishing and lifting device 20
When installed upright in the storage space inside the island inside the door 12, the intake port 22 in the housing 21 is just connected to the bottom of the lower tank 14 so as to communicate therewith. The pachinko balls stored in the lower tank 14 are taken in through the take-in port 22 as needed, and are held between a pair of polishing bands 30, 30 which are close to and face each other.

In FIG. 1, the polishing band 30, which is wound around the drive pulley 35, is rotated by the drive of the drive motor 36 so that the tension side is fed from the bottom to the top. Therefore, the pachinko balls taken between the lower ends of the polishing bands 30 and 30 are held between the polishing bands 30 that are closely opposed to each other as the polishing band 30 rotates, and are carried upward while being polished. It

Dirt adhering to the pachinko balls being pumped is scraped off by scraping off the edges of the numerous slit holes 31 and 32 provided in at least one of the polishing bands 30. It is evenly polished. The dirt removed from the pachinko balls is not excessively fixed on the polishing band 30, and most of it is discharged to the back side of the polishing band 30 through the slit holes 31 and 32.

As shown in FIG. 3, the slit holes 31 and 32 of the polishing band 30 are arranged in the width direction of the polishing band 30 and in the longitudinal direction, or as shown in FIG. A large number of meshes are provided, and when the polishing band 30 is pressed against the pachinko sphere while rotating, the sphere is often caught by rolling the sphere, and dust, dust, etc. adhering to the sphere surface The dirt is scraped off and only the dirt is discharged to the back side of the polishing body 30.

According to the polishing mode using the slit holes 31 and 32, the dirt removed from the pachinko balls is removed by the polishing band 3.
It is possible to maintain a sufficient and stable polishing efficiency for a long period of time without excessively fixing to 0. When the pachinko balls polished in this way are pumped to the island upper end 10A, they are supplied to the upstream end of the distribution trough 16 from the discharge port 23 in the upper part of the housing 21, and are supplied again to each pachinko machine 11.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, since the suction port 42a of the cleaning device 40 is arranged so as to face the lower end of the back side of the polishing band 30 having the slit holes 31, 32, the cleaning device 40.
If, for example, it is controlled to operate every predetermined time, it is possible to efficiently collect the dirt that has fallen on the back surface side of the polishing band 30 each time without being dispersed in the gaming machine island 10.
Thereby, various game-related facilities in the gaming machine island 10 can be kept in a clean state.

In the dirt island that has not been completely processed by the cleaning machine 40, dust and the like are inevitably accumulated on the back side of the pachinko machine 11. For cleaning such dirt, the door 12 is opened to remove the polishing and lifting device 20. It can be done easily by temporarily moving.

[0035]

According to the polishing and lifting apparatus of the present invention, the components are housed substantially in the housing, and the driving means is integrally assembled to the essential parts of the housing, so that the entire apparatus is unitized. It is easy to handle, and if consumable parts such as the inner polishing band become dirty or old, it is easy to replace the parts with new ones without having to remove them or replace them with new ones in the narrow island space. And it can be replaced quickly. Moreover, it is easy to put the device in and out of the island, and cleaning can be performed easily.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view schematically showing a state where a polishing and lifting device according to an embodiment of the present invention is erected inside a gaming machine island.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a polishing and lifting device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view showing a polishing band having slit holes, which constitutes a polishing and lifting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged view showing a polishing band having another slit hole which constitutes the polishing and lifting apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which a soft elastic body is superposed on a polishing band which constitutes a polishing and lifting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a state where the polishing and lifting device according to one embodiment of the present invention is installed inside the island by opening the door of the gaming machine island.

FIG. 7 is a front view showing a state where the polishing and lifting device according to the embodiment of the present invention is installed inside the gaming machine island.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 ... Gaming Machine Island 11 ... Pachinko Machine (Gaming Machine) 12 ... Door 14 ... Lower Tank 20 ... Abrasive Lifting Device 21 ... Housing 22 ... Intake Port 23 ... Discharge Port 30 ... Polishing Bands 31, 32 ... Slit Holes 33 ... Flexible elastic body 40 ... Purifier

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A polishing machine, which is erected on a gaming machine island formed by arranging a plurality of gaming machines in a row, polishing the game medium discharged from each gaming machine and stored in the island lower stage, and pumping it to the island upper stage. In the lifting device, a pair of endless belt-shaped polishing strips are stretched inside the housing so as to face each other and extend in the up-and-down direction, and the lower part of the housing communicates with the lower end of each polishing strip. A port is formed, a discharge port that communicates between the upper ends of the polishing bands is formed on the upper part of the housing, and the polishing band driving means is integrally assembled at a proper position of the housing to form a unit. Polishing and lifting device. 2. The polishing and lifting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said housing is provided at its lower end surface with moving means for moving said housing in a substantially horizontal direction. 3. A door which can be opened and closed is formed on a part of an outer wall of the game machine island, and the door is opened and closed so that the player can freely enter and leave the island. Polishing and lifting device.