JPS5811234B2 - High-speed pachinko ball alignment device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to a high-speed operation type pachinko ball vending machine, which is connected to the ball counting unit to smoothly flow down balls from a gutter installed in the ceiling, align them, and count them. This invention relates to a high-speed arranging device for pachinko balls that is guided to a certain position.

Generally, balls are supplied to ball vending machines installed at appropriate locations in pachinko parlors through a vertical ball channel from a gutter installed in the ceiling through which a large number of balls flow. There are many things.

In this type of vending machine, the balls are naturally aligned before reaching the counting section, and a predetermined number of balls are instantaneously counted and discharged by constant angle rotation of the counting roller, and this counting driving force is used to reach the vending machine. It uses the pressure of a series of many balls.

In addition, the counting efficiency of the vending machine is improved, and the number of rows of balls arranged in the counting section is increased as much as possible in order to count and discharge a large number of balls in an instantaneous operation.

With this configuration, the balls are preliminarily aligned even in the vertical ball passage, and are always perfectly aligned inside the machine, without any interruptions, and when counting, all aligned balls flow down as part of the ball. is desired.

This invention was conceived in view of the above points, and
A convenient device that, even if some of the balls introduced into the counting section of a vending machine become stuck, it can be immediately resolved by using the movement of other balls, so that there is no problem with counting. This is what we are trying to provide.

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

Reference numeral 1 denotes a device body that is incorporated into a ball vending machine B. At the top of the main body 1, there is a ball inlet 2 that connects to a vertical ball passageway through which a large number of balls A freely flow down from a gutter C installed on the ceiling. Under this population 2, an inclined flow passage 3 of an appropriate width is formed in a meandering manner by turning back and forth in the front and rear direction, with the width being expanded laterally to several times that of the Gyokuro, and a perpendicular flow passage 4 is subsequently extended. Set up

The upper part of the rear face plate 5 forming the orthogonal flow passage 4 is inclined at a large distance backward from the front face plate 6, and the width direction from the lower half of the inclined flow passage to the orthogonal flow passage 4 is The balls are divided into a plurality of rows by partition walls 7 at intervals slightly larger than the diameter of the balls, and at the lower end of each divided flow path 8, the balls A form a vertical line and flow out to the counting section E, and the upper end 9 of the partition wall is arranged as an inclined flow path. It is located at the middle folding part of 3.

10 is a position in the lower part of the direct flow path, where two or three balls A are lined up in the front and back direction in the divided flow path, and the balls that receive the weight of the group of balls above them become bridging and do not move. Each section 8 has a rotating plate with a part of its circumferential surface protruding from a slot 11 formed in the rear face plate 5, and has a recess 10' in which a part of the ball A fits into the circumferential surface. However, this rotary plate 10 is fixed to a common support shaft 12, and this support shaft 12 is supported by a bearing 13 projecting from the rear face plate 5 so as to be freely rotatable.

The present invention is constructed as described above, and is used by connecting a counting section E provided with a counting roller to the lower part of the main body of the apparatus.

There is a large amount of balls A between the counting section E, the main body 1, the vertical ball passageway, and the gutter C, and from the state where the balls A are stopped by the counting roller in the counting section E, the counting is now started. When the counting roller rotates a predetermined angle by the setting mechanism to count and discharge a predetermined number of balls A, a large amount of balls A move from the counting section E to the gutter B, and this movement immediately stops.

When this movement stops, the kinetic energy of ball A is converted into pressure energy, and from the bottom they push downward in an attempt to eliminate the gap between the two kings as much as possible, and the balls settle in an interstitial manner between them.

Therefore, if the rear face plate 5 is inclined and the ball passage is narrowed downward to form the orthogonal flow passage 4 as in this invention,
In each section 8, two or three balls A line up in the front-rear direction, and there is a possibility that these may become bridging and become immobile due to the heavy pressure of the upper ball group. By protruding the circumferential surface of the rotating plate 10 having the concave portion 10' in each section 8 and fixing these rotating plates 10 to the common support shaft 12, it is possible to Even if the movement of ball A may stop due to the reasons mentioned above, this is because all rotating plates are rotated simultaneously due to the downward movement of balls in other sectional flow paths, so the ball can move independently in any sectional flow path. Balls from all the flow channels are always introduced into the counting section, and the movement of the balls is not disturbed, achieving accurate and quick counting.Although it has a simple configuration, its practical effects are It's a huge amount.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway front view, FIG. 2 is a side view, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of the operation. FIG. 4 is an overall view of the vending machine. 1……Main body, 2…
......Inlet, 3... Inclined flow path, 4... Orthogonal flow path, 5
... Rear face plate, 6 ... Front face plate, 7 ... Bulkhead, 8 ... Sectional flow passage, 9 ... Upper end of bulkhead, 10 ... Rotating plate, 11 ...
Slot hole, 12... Support shaft, 13... Bearing, A... Pachinko ball, B... Ball vending machine, C... Gutter, D... Vertical path passage body... Counting section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Connected to the ball counting section of a pachinko ball vending machine, it has a ball inlet at the top, and below this a meandering inclined flow path with a width multiple times the width of the ball tower is formed, followed by a ball inlet at the top. In the direction, a series of orthogonal flow passages in which the spacing between the ball passages gradually decreases in the front-rear direction is provided, and from the lower half of the inclined flow passage to the orthogonal flow passage, multiple rows of segmented flow passages are formed by partition walls with intervals slightly larger than the ball diameter in the width direction. A rotary plate having a part of its circumferential surface protruding in each of the divided flow passages is arranged in an area where a plurality of balls can become bridging and caught in the divided flow passage, and each rotary plate A high-speed pachinko ball alignment device, which is fixed to a common support shaft that freely rotates.