JPH0970469A - Pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recover all pachinko balls inside a ball supplier and in a ball supply tray by providing an inclined path for supplying the pachinko balls from the ball supply tray to a hitting rail with a ball draw-out port and a movable bottom body for opening and closing the ball draw-out port. SOLUTION: So as to draw out the pachinko balls inside the ball supply tray 8 to a lower storage tray, an operation member 42 is pressurized shown by the chain lines and a lever member 40 is turned against the pressing of a coil spring 48. By that, the movable bottom body 26 is moved through a projection part engaged with the oblong hole 44 of the lever member 40 and opens the ball draw-out port. Thus, the pachinko balls made standby on the movable bottom body 26 at the first ball stopping part of a supply control member fall down to the ball draw-out port, the following pachinko balls inside the ball supply tray 8 are made to flow down the inclined path further and they are made to flow out from the ball draw-out port through an opening part 27 and the lower through hole 28 of the lower storage tray to a ball draw- out path 50 and discharged from a flow-out hole 51 to the lower storage tray. Thus, the pachinko balls inside the ball supplier and the pachinko balls inside the ball supply tray 8 are all drawn out to the lower storage tray.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention provides a batting ball supply tray and a lower storage tray on the front surface side of a front frame, and one pachinko ball of the batting ball supply tray on the back surface side of the front frame. The present invention relates to a pachinko machine provided with a batting ball supply device for supplying a ball to a ball, and more particularly to a pachinko machine capable of preventing a pachinko ball from remaining in the batting ball supply device when the ball is removed from a batting ball supply tray.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional pachinko machine, a batting ball supply tray and a lower storage tray are provided on the front side of a front frame, and the pachinko balls of the batting supply tray are guided to a batting ball supply device provided on the back side of the front frame. It is designed to supply one each to the launching part of the launch rail. On the other hand, a ball punching hole is provided at the bottom of the hitting ball supply tray, and a slide plate is disposed in the ball punching hole.By moving the slide plate to open the ball hitting hole, the pachinko ball of the ball hitting tray can be opened. It can be pulled out to the lower storage tray.

[0003]

In the pachinko machine described above, since the pachinko ball of the hitting ball supply tray is directly pulled out to the lower storage tray from the ball hole at the bottom, it is guided to the hitting ball feeder. Also, there was a problem that the pachinko ball was left untouched without being taken out.

Then, in order to remove the pachinko ball left in the hitting ball supply device, for example, the remaining pachinko ball is fired with a weak elastic force so as not to hit the pachinko ball left on the game board surface and the lower storage tray is provided from the foul mouth. It was necessary to make the player perform a troublesome operation such as returning to and collecting.

Therefore, the present invention provides a pachinko machine capable of simultaneously collecting the pachinko balls left in the batting ball supply device into the lower storage tray when the pachinko balls of the batting ball supply tray are extracted into the lower storage tray. The purpose is to do.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the pachinko machine of the present invention is provided with a hitting ball supply tray and a lower storage tray on the front side of the front frame, and supplies a hitting ball on the back side of the front frame. A batting ball supply device is provided for supplying one pachinko ball on a plate to the firing portion of the firing rail. The hit ball supply device is
An inclined passage having a ball inlet communicating with the hitting ball supply tray and a ball outlet opening in the launching portion of the launch rail, and a supply control member pivotally supported up and down on a horizontal shaft provided in the inclined passage. Prepare

A ball outlet communicating with the lower storage tray is provided in the inclined passage, and the ball outlet is constantly urged by the ball outlet to close the ball outlet and the ball outlet is opened by the ball discharge operation of the hitting ball supply tray. A movable bottom body is provided at the open position.

On the other hand, the supply control member is provided with a center of gravity so as to rotate downward in a natural state, and is also rotated upward by an interlocking lever interlocking with a striking rod. A first ball stopper that receives the leading pachinko ball flowing into the inclined passage from the ball entrance when rotated and waits on the movable bottom body, and a pachinko that moves from the movable bottom body when rotated upward. A second ball stop for receiving the ball, and when rotated downward, the pachinko ball received by the second ball stop rolls on the launch part of the launch rail due to the inclination of the inclined passage. .

Therefore, in order to extract the pachinko balls of the hitting ball supply tray into the lower storage tray, the movable bottom body is moved to a position where the ball exit is opened against the bias by the ball removing operation. Pachinko balls will flow down the inclined passage of the batting ball supply device and will be discharged from the ball ejection port to the lower storage tray.It is possible to remove all the pachinko balls from the batting ball supply plate without leaving the pachinko balls in the batting ball supply device. it can.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a lower portion of the pachinko machine showing a glass frame and a front plate opened. In the figure, 1 is a front frame of a pachinko machine, 2 is a game board detachably mounted on the rear surface of the front frame 1, and a firing rail 3 is mounted on the lower right side of the game board 2. 4 is a batting rod whose tip faces the launching portion 5 of the launching rail 3, 6 is a front plate that covers the front surface of the launching rail 3, and one of the front frame 1 together with the glass door frame 7 that covers the upper part of the game board 2 It is mounted on the side so that it can be opened and closed. A hit ball supply tray 8 is provided on the surface of the front plate 6. Also,
On the lower front surface of the front frame 1, a lower storage tray 9 for storing surplus balls of the hit ball supply tray 8 and an operation handle 10 are provided.

As shown in FIG. 3, the hitting ball supply tray 8 has a main body 11 and a cover member 12 for covering the outside of the front of the main body 11.
It is composed of The main body portion 11 is a dish portion 13 that stores pachinko balls and a decorative plate portion 14 that surrounds the upper edge portion of the dish portion 13.
And a side plate portion 15 extending below the dish portion 13.
The plate portion 13 has a bottom portion that gently inclines downward to one side, and a rectifying portion 16 in which pachinko balls are aligned in a line is formed at the lower portion of the inclination, and a front plate on which the downstream end of the rectifying portion 16 is located. An upper through hole 17 is formed in 6 to allow the pachinko ball of the plate portion 13 to flow out to the back side of the front plate 6.

On the other hand, on the back side of the front plate 6, a hitting ball feeding device 1 is provided.
8 are provided. As shown in FIG. 4, the hitting ball supply device 18 includes a case body 19 and a supply control member 20. The case body 19 is formed by being divided into a main body portion 19a and a side plate portion 19b, which are united and screwed 21, 21 to be integrated. A ball inlet 22 that matches the upper through hole 17 of the front plate 6 is formed on the rear side surface of the case body 19. Further, inside the case body 19, there is provided an inclined passage 24 which is in communication with the ball inlet 22 and in which a ball outlet 23 opening to the launching portion 5 of the launch rail 3 is formed. 25 and the ball outlet 2
A movable bottom body 26 for opening and closing 5 is provided.

As shown in FIG. 8 (a), the movable bottom body 26 always closes the ball outlet 25 and constitutes a part of the inclined passage 24. A horizontally elongated opening 27 formed in the lower portion of the inlet 22 is supported so as to be reciprocally movable in the left-right direction. Further, the ball outlet 25 is formed in an inclined shape so that the pachinko ball of the inclined passage 24 flows down toward the opening 27, and the front plate 6 in which the opening 27 is located passes through the ball outlet 25. A lower through hole 28 is provided to allow the pachinko ball to flow out to the front side of the front plate 6.

The supply control member 20 has a three-dimensional shape having a width substantially equal to the passage width of the inclined passage 24, a rear end portion thereof is provided with a first ball stopper 29 having an arcuate curved surface, and an arcuate concave curved surface is provided on a lower surface thereof. The second ball stopper 30 is formed. Also,
A shaft insertion hole 31 is formed in a side surface near the front end portion, and a horizontal shaft 32 is passed through the shaft insertion hole 31 and is vertically rotatably supported in the inclined passage 24. Further, the engagement pin 3 protruding outward of the case body 19 is provided on the side portion located rearward of the horizontal shaft 32.
3, the roller 3 having a protrusion 3 and the engagement pin 33 also serving as a weight.
4 are provided. As a result, the supply control member 20 rotates downward about the horizontal axis 32 as shown in FIG. 6A in the natural state, and the first pachinko ball flowing into the inclined passage 24 from the ball inlet 22 is moved to the first position. The center of gravity is set so as to be received by the ball stopper 29 and to stand by on the movable bottom body 26.

The engaging pin 33 is below the launch rail 3 as shown in FIG. 5, and the push-up portion of the interlocking lever 36 rotatably supported by the shaft 35 on the front side of the game board 2. 37 can be contacted. In addition, the interlocking lever 36 is a lever portion 3 that hangs downward from one end of the push-up portion 37.
8 is integrally provided, and this lever portion 38 is positioned so as to be engageable with a hooking rod 39 fixed to the ball striking rod 4.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG.
An L-shaped lever member 40 is swingably supported by a shaft 41 on the front surface of the side plate portion 15 of the operating member 42.
Is rotatably supported by the shaft 43 in the vertical direction.
The lever member 40 has a long hole 44 formed below the shaft 41, and the long hole 44 faces the projection 46 of a guide piece 45 protruding from the front surface of the movable bottom body 26 and is locked with a screw 47. are doing. A coil spring 48 is connected to the lever member 40, and always urges the movable bottom body 26 to a position where the ball outlet 25 is closed.

The operating member 42 is located in contact with the lever member 40 and protrudes upward from a through hole 49 formed in the decorative plate portion 14. The operating member 42 is pressed to move the lever member 40 to the position shown in FIG. The movable bottom body 26 can be moved to a position where the ball outlet 25 is opened by rotating it like a chain line (see FIG. 8B). In addition, a ball passage 50 is formed in the side plate portion 15 so as to communicate with the lower through hole 28 of the front plate 6, and the front plate 6 where the downstream end of the ball passage 50 is located is connected to the lower storage tray 9. The communicating outflow hole 51 is opened. Reference numeral 52 is a guide long hole for exposing the guide piece 45 of the movable bottom body 26, and reference numeral 53 is a ball escape portion formed on the side of the ball outlet 25.

Next, the operation of the pachinko machine thus constructed will be described. The pachinko balls stored in the hitting ball supply tray 8 flow into the inclined passage 24 of the hitting ball supplying device 18 from the upper through hole 17 of the front plate 6 through the ball inlet 22 while being aligned in a line by the straightening section 16, and the pachinko balls at the head thereof. The ball B is received by the first ball stopper 29 of the supply control member 20 and is made to stand by on the movable bottom 26 (FIGS. 6A and 8A).
reference).

In this state, when the ball striking rod 4 is rotated to the firing preparation position as shown by the chain line in FIG. 5, the lever portion 38 of the interlocking lever 36 is attracted by the hooking rod 39 and the interlocking lever 36
Rotates upward with the shaft 35 as a fulcrum, and the pusher 37
Is the engagement pin 33 of the supply control member 20 of the hit ball supply device 18.
Push up. For this reason, the supply control member 20 pivots upward with the horizontal axis 32 as a fulcrum as shown in the chain of FIG. 5, and the pachinko ball B received by the first ball stopper 29 follows the inclination of the inclined passage 24. It moves and is received by the second ball stopper 30 (see FIG. 6B).

From this state, when the ball striking rod 4 is rotated from the firing preparation position shown by the chain line in FIG. 5 to the firing operation position shown by the solid line in FIG. 5, the interlocking lever 36 is also returned to the solid line position in FIG. 20 rotates downward due to its own weight and the weight of the pachinko ball B. Therefore, the pachinko ball B received by the second ball stopper 30 flows through the inclined passage 24 and smoothly rolls out from the ball outlet 23 to the launch portion 5 of the launch rail 3 (see FIG. 6C). Slope passage 2 that follows at the same time
The pachinko ball B1 of No. 4 is received by the first ball stop portion 29 and is made to stand by on the movable bottom body 26, and thereafter, one pachinko ball of the batting ball supply tray 8 is provided each time the batting rod 4 is reciprocally rotated. It is reliably supplied to the firing part 5 of the firing rail 3.

Therefore, in order to extract the pachinko ball in the hitting ball supply tray 8 to the lower storage tray 9, the operating member 42 is pressed as shown by the chain line in FIG. 9 and the lever member 40 is resisted against the bias of the coil spring 48. Rotate. As a result, the movable bottom body 26 moves via the protrusion 46 that engages with the elongated hole 44 of the lever member 40 to open the ball outlet 25 (see FIGS. 7 and 8B). Therefore, the first ball stopper 30 of the supply control member 20
Then, the pachinko ball B that has been waiting on the movable bottom body 26 falls to the ball outlet 25, and the pachinko ball in the hitting ball supply tray 8 further flows down the inclined passage 24 and the ball outlet 2
5 through the opening 27 and the lower through hole 28 of the front plate 6 into the ball passage 50, and is discharged from the outflow hole 51 to the lower storage tray 9. In this way, all the pachinko balls in the hitting ball supply device 18 and the pachinko balls in the hitting ball supply tray 8 can be extracted into the lower storage tray 9 by the ball removing operation by pressing the operation member 42.

Then, after the pachinko ball in the hitting ball supply tray 8 is pulled out to the lower storage tray 9, the pressing of the operating member 42 is released, and the lever member 40 returns to its original state by the bias of the coil spring 48, and at the same time. The movable bottom body 26 of the hit ball supply device 18 is also moved to the original position shown in FIG.
Close. In addition, when stopping the ball removal in the middle,
(C) Even if a pachinko ball is sandwiched between the movable bottom body 26 and the ball outlet 25 as shown by the chain line, the pachinko ball is moved by the ball escape portion 53 into the lower through hole 28 of the front plate 6. Since the ball is pushed out, the ball catch 25 can be surely closed without causing the ball biting.

[0023]

As is apparent from the above description, the pachinko machine according to the present invention is capable of extracting all the pachinko balls from the batting supply plate into the lower storage dish without leaving the pachinko balls in the batting device. Since it is made possible, it is possible to eliminate the troublesome operation of collecting the pachinko balls remaining in the hitting ball supply device in the lower storage tray, which can improve the service of the player. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a lower perspective view of the pachinko machine showing a state where a glass frame and a front plate are released.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a hitting ball supply tray portion.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the hit ball supply device.

FIG. 5 is a sectional front view of a hitting ball supply device portion.

6 (a), (b), and (c) are vertical side views for explaining the operation of the hit ball supply device.

FIG. 7 is a vertical cross-sectional side view of essential parts showing a related configuration of a ball outlet and a lower storage tray of a hitting ball supply device.

8A, 8B, and 8C are cross-sectional plan views showing a ball-removed state.

FIG. 9 is a front view of a main part of a ball removing operation portion.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Front Frame 3 Launching Rail 4 Ball Hitting Rod 5 Launching Section 8 Hitting Ball Dish 9 Lower Storage Dish 18 Ball Hitting Supply Device 20 Supply Control Member 22 Ball Inlet 23 Ball Outlet 24 Slope Passage 25 Ball Outlet 26 Movable Bottom 29 First Ball stopper 30 Second ball stopper

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A batting ball supply device for providing a batting ball supply tray and a lower storage tray on the front surface side of the front frame, and for supplying one pachinko ball of the batting ball supply tray to the firing section of the firing rail on the back surface side of the front frame. In the pachinko machine provided with, the hitting ball supply device comprises a tilted passage having a ball entrance communicating with the hitting ball supply tray and a ball exit opening at the launching portion of the launch rail, and a shaft pivotable up and down in the tilted passage. A support control member that is supported, and a ball outlet that communicates with the lower storage tray is provided in the inclined passage, and the ball outlet is constantly biased to close the ball outlet and the hit ball supply tray. A movable bottom body, which is reciprocally movable, is provided at a position where the ball opening is opened by a ball removing operation, and the supply control member controls a leading pachinko ball that flows into the inclined passage from the ball inlet when rotated downward. The first ball that receives on the movable bottom and waits A second ball stop that receives the pachinko ball that moves from the movable bottom body when it is rotated upward and that sends the pachinko ball from the ball outlet to the launch portion of the launch rail when it is rotated downward. A pachinko machine characterized by being provided with a section.