JPH10270A - Pachinko machine island stand - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to count prize balls to let players free from bringing them to the counter. SOLUTION: A balls conveyer 9 is installed independently with a Pachinko (Japanese pinball game) machine 2 beneath its lower tray 14 to meet it one by one. The Pachinko machine 2 has a ball inlet 10 to let prize balls into the inside of a Pachinko machine island stand 1 and a counter 11 to indicate the number of balls put into the ball inlet 10 and a printer 13 to issue a sheet printed with a counted data. By this means, the player has nothing to do but take out prize balls from the lower tray 14 and put them into the ball inlet 10 to get the sheet having a data of prize balls.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko island stand provided with a pachinko machine and a ball returning device for returning a prize ball obtained by a player with the pachinko machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a prize ball obtained by a player is generally returned to a ball return device provided in a prize exchange area for exchanging the prize ball for a prize. In this case, in order to return the returned prize ball to the pachinko island again, a large ball tank for temporarily storing the returned prize ball, and a plurality of rows in the ball tank and the game hall are installed. A reduction device that transports the balls stored in the ball tank by connecting a specific pachinko island to the pachinko islands, and transports the balls reduced by the reduction device from the specific pachinko island to another pachinko island. Then, it is necessary to provide an equalizing device for equalizing the amount of balls built in each pachinko island stand. For this reason, it takes time to return the returned prize balls to each pachinko island, it also takes time and expense to implement those devices, and the ceiling of the amusement hall where those devices are installed However, there is a problem in that the structure of the apparatus becomes complicated, and furthermore, it takes time and effort to maintain those devices. In order to solve some of these problems, there has been proposed, although slightly, a method in which a ball return device is provided on a pachinko island stand and a ball tank and a reduction device are omitted.

[0003]

However, since the position where the ball return device is provided is at the island end of the pachinko island stand or at the center, in any case, the obtained prize ball is moved to the ball tray, There is a drawback in that the heavy ball tray must be carried to a ball return device provided at one or two locations on the pachinko island stand. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a pachinko island stand that can be returned without carrying a heavy bowl containing a prize ball acquired by a player. Is to do.

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, specific solutions adopted by the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG.
And a ball return device 9 for returning a prize ball obtained by the player with the pachinko machine 2,
The ball returning device 9 is provided below the lower plate 14 of the pachinko machine 2 so as to correspond one-to-one with the pachinko machine 2.
And a ball slot 10 for receiving a prize ball returned to the inside of the pachinko island stand 1 and the number of prize balls inserted from the ball slot 10 and indicating the number of prize balls counted. Issuer 13 for issuing a display 11 and a recording medium on which the data displayed on the prize ball number display 11 is recorded.
Are provided.

[0005] With this configuration, the player can return the obtained prize balls simply by moving the obtained prize balls from the lower plate 14 to the ball insertion slot 10 and also corresponds to the obtained number of prize balls. A recording medium on which data has been recorded can be obtained. Further, since the ball returning device 9 is provided on the pachinko machine stand 1 independently of the pachinko machine 2, even if the pachinko machine 2 is replaced with a new model, the ball returning device 9 can be used continuously. it can.

As shown in FIG. 4, when the counting is started, the ball return device 9 records the total number of returned balls displayed on the prize ball number display 11 or returns the number of returned balls. An operation switch 12 for selecting whether to record the number of prizes that can be obtained according to the number of balls and a surplus ball.
The issuing device 13 can issue a recording medium on which data selected by the operation switch 12 is recorded, thereby issuing a recording medium on which data according to a request of a player is recorded. .

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, the configuration of the pachinko island stand 1 according to the embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 1 is a front view showing the internal structure of the pachinko island stand 1.

In FIG. 1, a large number of pachinko machines 2 and ball rental machines 8 are alternately arranged in a horizontal direction on a pachinko island stand 1, and a daffle constituting a main part of the present embodiment is provided at the center thereof. A feeding device 15 is provided upright. From the upper part of the ball-lifting device 15, a distribution path 3 is provided to be inclined in the left-right direction so that the discharged balls flow down. The distribution chutes 4 are attached at predetermined intervals so as to perform the above operations. Distribution chute 4
A supply ball counter 5 for counting prize balls to be supplied to a prize ball tank provided on the upper rear surface of the pachinko machine 2 is provided at the lower end of the pachinko machine 2, and a predetermined number of balls passing through the supply ball counter 5 are provided. Each time the number reaches (for example, 10), a supply signal is sent to a management computer (not shown) installed in the game arcade.

On the other hand, the pachinko island stand 1 at a position corresponding to the lower part of each pachinko machine 2 is provided with an out ball box 6 for receiving the out balls discharged from each pachinko machine 2. The out ball box 6 is also provided with an out ball counter 7 and sends out a driving ball signal to the management computer every time the number of balls passing through the out ball counter 7 reaches a predetermined number (for example, 10). It has become. The ball that has passed through the out ball counter 7 falls directly into the storage tank 30 occupying almost the entire lower space of the pachinko island stand 1. In addition,
The configurations of the above-described fry-off device 15 and storage tank 30 will be described later in detail.

On the front side of the pachinko island stand 1, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 4, a ball return device 9 is provided so as to correspond to each pachinko machine 2. This ball return device 9
Is located below the lower plate 14 of the pachinko machine 2 as shown in an enlarged view in FIG.
4 can be dropped directly and returned. For this reason, it is possible to move the obtained prize ball to the bowl as in the related art, and to release the player from the inconvenience of carrying a heavy bowl. By the way, the illustrated ball returning device 9 has a ball insertion port 10 for receiving a returned prize ball, a prize ball number display 11 for displaying the number of prize balls inserted and counted from the ball insertion port 10, Operation switch 1 operated at the start of counting
2 (for example, whether to print all the number of returned balls or whether to print the number of prizes and surplus balls) and a receipt issuing port 13 for issuing a receipt printed with the numerical value selected by the operation switch 12. Is provided. It should be noted that a printing device is built in the back surface of the receipt issuing port 13 as a matter of course. The balls returned to the ball return device 9 are collected in the storage tank 30 via a return passage (not shown). In addition, the ball return device 9
It may be detachable from the pachinko island stand 1.

As shown in FIG. 4, the doffing apparatus 15 comprises a first doffing apparatus 16 having a long length and a second doffing apparatus 17 having a short length. ing.
The upper part of the first doffing and conveying apparatus 16 faces the distribution tank 18 provided at the uppermost part of the pachinko island stand 1, and the upper part of the second doffing and conveying apparatus 17 is in the middle of the pachinko island stand 1. It faces the relay tank 19 provided.

The distribution tank 18 communicates with the distribution path 3 on its left and right sides. After the balls discharged by the first ball-lifting device 16 are temporarily stored in the distribution tank 18, the distribution path 3
Flow down. The distribution tank 18 includes the relay tank 1.
When the number of balls stored in the distribution tank 18 exceeds a predetermined amount, the balls overflow from the reflux pipe 20 and are returned to the relay tank 19. Further, the height position of the distribution tank 18 may be a position lower than the conventional position. Conventionally, since the equalizing device for equalizing the ball amount between the pachinko islands 1 is performed between the adjacent distribution tanks 18, it is necessary to place the entire distribution tank 18 on the top of the pachinko islands 1. Because there was. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, since it is not necessary to provide an equalizing device, almost the entire distribution tank 18 can be housed inside the pachinko island stand 1 to lower the height position as shown in FIG. By doing so, the length of the first doffing and feeding device 16 can be shortened to some extent, and in this respect also, the doffing and feeding efficiency of the first doffing and feeding device 16 is improved, and the first doffing and feeding device 16 is improved. 16 is reduced.

The relay tank 19 includes a storage tank 30.
And a recirculation gutter 21 extends from below. As shown in FIG. 1, the lower end of the recirculation gutter 21 faces a later-described falling plate 33 which is provided at the center of the storage tank 30 and is inclined to return the ball flowing out of the relay tank 19 to the storage tank 30. Like that. In addition, the first doffing device 16 and the second doffing device 17
Is configured such that a lifting belt is stretched around the outer periphery of one motor pulley 22 disposed at the lower part of the motor pulley 22. Accordingly, the first doffing device 16 and the second doffing device 17 are driven by the same drive source, and upwardly discharge balls supplied from an outflow gutter 37 of the storage tank 30 which will be described later. Will do. Further, the first doffing device 16 and the second doffing device 17 are, in the illustrated embodiment,
Both have a structure having a ball polishing member. Then
Since the second ball-lifting device 17 only lifts up to almost the upper portion of the storage tank 30, the circulation speed of the balls polished and transported by the second ball-lifting device 17 is high, and the polishing process is performed efficiently. . Therefore, the first doffing and feeding device 16 having a long length is used.
Most of the balls discharged to the distribution path 3 have been subjected to ball polishing by the second short ball discharging device 17, and in the first ball discharging device 16, the ball polishing capacity Therefore, even if a large amount of balls are stored in the storage tank 30, it is not necessary to operate the storage tank 30 at a high rotation as in the related art, so that the burden is reduced and the number of failures is reduced.

Further, when a ball polishing member is used in the first ball doffing and feeding device 16, the length of the first ball doffing and feeding device 16 is long, so that it takes time to replace the ball polishing member. In addition, since the dirt on the ball polishing member of the first ball discharging device 16 is small, the frequency of replacing the ball polishing member can be reduced. On the other hand, the polished member of the second doffing and feeding device 17 having a short length and being easily exchanged may be simply exchanged, so that maintenance and management as a whole is easy.

That is, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the first ball discharging device 16 is mainly used for discharging required balls to the distribution path 3, and the second ball discharging device 17 is used.
Are mainly used for ball polishing as shown in FIG. Thereby, a large amount of balls can be efficiently circulated inside the pachinko island stand 1 as compared with the related art.

The structure of the storage tank 30 for supplying the balls to the above-described ball discharging device 15 will be described with reference to FIGS. Almost the entire lower space inside the pachinko island 1 is provided with a storage tank 30 as shown in FIG. And this storage tank 30 is provided in the pachinko island stand 1 on both sides of the doffing and conveying device 15. So 1
Two storage tanks 30 built in one pachinko island stand 1
Is the number obtained by dividing the total amount of balls used in the game hall by the number of pachinko islands 1 installed in the game hall, and is usually around 100,000.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the inside of the storage tank 30 is divided into three parts. That is, a pair of partition walls 31 are erected at a predetermined interval substantially at the center of the storage tank 30, and the inside of the partition walls 31 is a ball supply passage 32 through which the balls supplied to the ball discharging device 15 pass. The outside of the partition wall 31 serves as a storage unit 34 in which the balls dropped or returned from the out ball box 6 and the ball returning device 9 are stored. The upper part of the partition wall 31 is closed by a falling plate 33 which is inclined from the doffing and conveying device 15 side toward the opposite side. And the falling plate 3
As described above, the end of the return gutter 21 faces the upstream side of 3, so that the balls flowing out of the return gutter 21 flow down the plate 33.
Falling over the entire area of the storage sections 34 on both sides while flowing over the upper surface of the storage section 34. However, even though the entire area of the storage section 34 is not included,
At the time when the ball flows out from 1, the ball that flows down has a good momentum, so that the ball does not drop much on the upstream side of the falling plate 33. But,
Since the force of the ball flowing down from the middle to the downstream of the falling plate 33 is also weakened, many balls fall. In addition, the bottom surface of the storage tank 30 is inclined downward toward the ball lifting device 15 in both the ball supply passage 32 and the storage unit 34.

At the lower end of the partition wall 31, inlets 35 are opened alternately from left to right from upstream to downstream, and the inlet 35 is provided with a guide chute 36 as shown in FIG. The guide chute 36 is provided with an inclined piece 36 a erected so as to guide a ball flowing down the bottom of the storage section 34 toward the inflow port 35, and extends rearward from the upper end of the inclined piece 36 a. It is composed of a bottom surface and a protection plate 36b that keeps an interval larger than the diameter of the ball. The protection plate 36b protects the ball which is going to flow into the inflow port 35 from receiving the pressure of the ball located above the protection plate 36b as shown in FIGS. The ball of the storage section 34 is smoothly guided to the ball supply passage 32 in cooperation with 36a.

As shown in FIG. 5, the lower end of the ball supply passage 32 communicates with an outflow gutter 37 for guiding the ball to the ball lifting and feeding device 15, so that the ball flowing down the ball supply passage 32 is The first doffing device 16 and the second doffing device 17 are led to the doffing device 15. Since the ball inlet of the doffing and feeding device 15 faces the one storage tank 30, a bypass gutter 38 is extended from the ball supply passage 32 of the other storage tank 30 of the pachinko island stand 1. The lower end of the bypass gutter 38 is connected to the ball supply passage 32 of one storage tank 30 or the storage unit 3.
4 is connected. Thereby, all the balls stored in the two storage tanks 30 built in the pachinko island 1 are supplied to the ball lifting device 15 and circulate inside the pachinko island 1.

In the storage tank 30 constructed as described above, a ball supply passage 32 for supplying the balls to the doffing and feeding device 15 is formed at the center thereof, so that the stored balls can be smoothly doffed. The storage unit 34 is supplied to the
The movement of the balls from the ball to the ball supply passage 32 is performed by the inflow ports 35 formed from the upstream to the downstream, so that the balls stored in any positions of the storage tank 30 can be reliably transferred to the ball supply passage 32. It flows in and is polished by the ball-lifting device 15, and is constantly circulating inside the pachinko island stand 1. That is, since there is almost no ball staying at one place in the storage tank 30 for a long period of time, there is no disadvantage that the stored ball is rusted by moisture. Also,
Since the storage tank 30 has a structure for directly receiving the used balls discharged from the pachinko machine 2, it is possible to save the labor and cost of laying the out-ball collection path inclined toward the doffing and conveying device 15 as in the related art. There are advantages.

The embodiment has been described above.
In the above embodiment, the first doffing device 16 and the second doffing device 17 are driven by the same drive source, but may be driven by different drive sources. Moreover, although the apparatus using the lifting belt as the ball frying apparatus has been described, a ball frying apparatus for mixing and fusing granular ball polishing material and balls may be used. Furthermore, although the ball return device 9 is provided corresponding to each pachinko machine 2, it is not always necessary to correspond to each pachinko machine 2, but the point is that the prize ball obtained by the player is transferred to the pachinko island stand. It is sufficient that the ball return device is installed in such a position that it can be returned to the factory.

[0022]

As is apparent from the above description, the present invention relates to a pachinko machine that includes a pachinko machine and a ball returning device 9 for returning a prize ball obtained by a player with the pachinko machine. The ball return device is disposed independently of the pachinko machine below the lower plate of the pachinko machine so as to correspond to the pachinko machine one-to-one, and a prize ball returned to the inside of the pachinko island stand. An accepting ball slot, a prize ball number display for displaying the number of prize balls inserted and counted from the ball slot, and an issuing device for issuing a recording medium on which data displayed on the prize ball number display is recorded. Is provided, the player can return the prize ball simply by moving the obtained prize ball from the lower plate to the ball slot, and data corresponding to the number of obtained prize balls was recorded. With a recording medium in hand It is it is possible. Further, since the ball returning device is provided on the pachinko island stand independently of the pachinko machine, the ball returning device can be used as it is even if the pachinko machine is replaced with a new model.

In the ball returning device, at the start of counting, the total number of returned balls displayed on the prize ball number display is recorded, or the number of prizes and surplus balls obtained by the number of returned balls are recorded. Is provided, and the issuing device issues a recording medium on which the data selected by the operation switch is recorded, thereby recording data according to a request of the player. The recorded recording medium can be issued.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an internal structure of a pachinko island stand according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a pachinko island stand for explaining functions of a second doffing and feeding device and a first doffing and feeding device.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a pachinko island stand for explaining the functions of a second doffing device and a first doffing device.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a structure of a pachinko island stand of a doffing and feeding device part.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a relationship between a storage tank and a doffing and feeding device.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of a storage tank.

FIG. 7 is a partially enlarged plan view of a storage tank.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 6;

FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken along the line BB in FIG. 6;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pachinko island stand 2 Pachinko machine 9 Ball return device 10 Ball slot 11 Premium ball number display 12 Operation switch 13 Receipt issuing port (Issuing device) 14 Lower plate 30 Storage tank

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A pachinko machine stand comprising a pachinko machine and a ball return device for returning a prize ball obtained by a player with the pachinko machine, wherein the ball return device has a one-to-one correspondence with the pachinko machine. The pachinko machine is placed below the lower plate of the pachinko machine independently of the pachinko machine, and a ball slot for receiving a prize ball returned to the inside of the pachinko island stand is inserted from the ball slot and counted. A pachinko island stand provided with a prize ball number display for displaying the number of prize balls, and an issuing device for issuing a recording medium on which data displayed on the prize ball number display is recorded. 2. The ball returning device, when starting counting, records the total number of returned balls displayed on the prize ball number display, or obtains the number of prizes and surplus balls obtained by the number of returned balls. 2. An operation switch for selecting any one of the following: is provided, and the issuing device is for issuing a recording medium on which data selected by the operation switch is recorded. Pachinko island stand.