JPS60114288A - Throttle machine toy - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] This invention relates to a slot machine toy.

-i, the slot machine toy can be used to produce cherries, lemons, etc. by inserting metal and operating a lever provided on one side of the machine body.

Multiple pieces (usually 3 ([1
The display drums i1) start rotating at the same time, and when the stop buttons provided corresponding to each display drum are pressed in sequence, the display drums stop in conjunction with this.

The mark appears and is placed on the display window of the machine body. If this mark that appears is placed in a predetermined position, it will be a “win”.
Thus, the required number of metals will be paid out.

However, in conventional slot machine toys, the stopper mechanism that stops the display drum when the stop button is pressed is made up of many parts that interlock in a complicated manner, making it fragile and difficult to miniaturize. .

In addition, in the case of conventional slot machine toys, a mark identification device is installed on the outer circumferential surface of the drum integrally with the display drum in order to determine the number of metal payouts by identifying the arrangement of marks that appear in the display window after the display drum has stopped. A plurality of contact members having different lengths in the axial direction are buried in correspondence with each mark, and the contact members are fixed so as to be in contact with the contact drum, so that each contact turns ON when the display drum stops. OFF
The mark was identified by a combination of the following. Therefore, in the overcast identification device, since the contact drum and the fixed contact are constantly in contact with each other while the display drum is rotating, there is a drawback that the friction between the contacts is strong and a contact failure is likely to occur.

This invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks, and has marks such as two letters displayed on the outer circumferential surface at equal intervals, and a stopper wheel having the same number of engagement grooves as the number of the marks on the side surface. , a display drum provided with a contact wheel having a convex portion around its other side, a stopper rod that can be engaged with and disengaged from an engagement groove of a stopper wheel of the display drum, and a stopper rod that is spaced apart from the outer periphery of the contact wheel of the display drum during normal times. a mark identification member having a plurality of contact pieces that face each other and are pressed by the stopper rod and act on a convex portion or a concave portion on the outer periphery of the contact wheel when the stopper rod engages with the engagement groove of the stopper wheel; The structure is simple and compact, and the display drum can be stopped reliably and quickly in conjunction with the stop button, and while the display drum is rotating, it is separated and stands by, and the two display drums are stopped. It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot machine toy in which a mark appearing on a display window by acting on a contact wheel can be accurately identified.

Next, the present invention will be described based on an embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a machine body, and the machine body 1 is constructed by fitting two halves 1a and 1b, front and back.

Three display windows 2 are provided on the front of the machine body 1, and are used to display and arrange marks such as symbols such as cherries, lemons, and bells, and letters such as rBARJ attached to the outer peripheral surface of the display drum, which will be described later. It is.

3 is a stop button provided corresponding to each display window 2, and the stop button 3 is used to stop the rotating display drum by inserting metal into the metal input port 4 and operating the operating lever 5. It is something. 6 is a pin that regulates the maximum simultaneous movement point of the operating lever 5, and 7 is a metal dispensing port. Note that the main switch is provided on the back side and is not shown in Figure 1.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a display drum with marks 9 showing symbols such as cherries, lemons, bells, etc. and characters such as rBARJ attached at equal intervals along the outer circumferential surface, and the display drum 8 is an internal casing installed in the front semi-opening la. A rotating shaft 11 is mounted between both side walls of 10.
As shown in the third figure, three pieces are loosely fitted in parallel. A pulley 12 is loosely fitted onto the rotating shaft 11, and a belt 14 is hung between it and a conical shaft 13' of a motor 13 fixed to the top plate of the internal housing 10, as shown in the second figure. The motor 13 is energized and driven by tilting the operating lever 5 forward, thereby rotating the pulley 12. The rotation of the pulley 12 causes the rotating shaft 11 to rotate by friction, and the three display drums 8 loosely fitted around the rotating shaft 11 also rotate at the same time.

Reference numeral 15 denotes a stopper wheel provided on one side of each display drum 8. On the outer periphery of the stopper wheel 15, there are a plurality of stopper wheels (same number as the number of marks 9 on the outer circumferential surface) into which the tips of stopper rods to be described later can be engaged and detached. The arc-shaped engagement grooves 16 are arranged in a modified radial shape. 17 is a contact wheel provided on the other side of each display drum 8, and the outer periphery of the contact wheel 17 is provided with a convex portion 1.
8 and four parts 18' are provided according to certain rules described below.

Reference numeral 19 denotes three stopper rods, each of which has a base 19a rotatably attached to a fixed shaft 20 that is mounted between both side walls of the internal housing 10 below the display drum 8.
The tip end 19b of
It is bent in a - shape and engaged by the elastic force of the spring 21 at normal times a1
6 (see solid line in Figure 5).

A rotating arm 22 has a base rotatably attached to both ends of the fixed shaft 20, and a rod 23 is provided between the ends of the rotating arm 22. During normal times, the distal end of the rotating arm 22 holding the rod 23 is retracted toward the display drum 8 by the spring 24. When the rotating arm 22 rotates against the spring 24, this rod 23 comes into contact with a protrusion 19c protruding from the rear surface of the bent portion of the stopper rod 19, so that the tip end 19b of the stopper rod 19 is connected to the stopper wheel 15. (See the one-dot chain line in FIG. 5).

Reference numeral 25 denotes a guide groove 26 provided on the side wall surface of the internal casing 10.
The sliding body 25 is a metal rod bent into a U-shape, and its lower end is connected to the distal end side of the rotating arm 22 through a long hole 27 (the third (see figure), 2
8 is a guide frame 29 provided so as to surround the upper part of the guide groove 26 of the sliding body 25 and a pressing member housed in its lid 30, and the pressing member 28 has an upper end that is connected to the operating lever 5.
It is connected via a connecting rod 32 to a rotating plate 31 fixed to a rotating shaft 5'. Therefore, when the operating lever 5 is rotated forward against the return spring 33, the 2 pressing members 2
8 moves downward along the guide frame 29 while pressing the upper end of the sliding body 25 downward with its lower end surface from the state shown in FIG. 7A. When this pressing member 28 reaches the lower moving end, the protruding piece 28a comes into contact with the inclined protrusion 29a provided at the lower end of the guide frame 29, so that when the sliding body 25 is pushed down the necessary amount, as shown in FIG. It comes off from the upper end of the sliding body 25 as shown in FIG. Therefore, the sliding body 25 is returned to its initial position (the state shown in FIG. A), regardless of the pressing member 28, by the restoring force of the spring 24 of the rotating arm 22 with which its lower end is connected.

Reference numeral 34 denotes an engaging member having a hook-shaped portion 34a that engages with a pin 19d protruding from the side surface of each bent portion of the stopper rod 19. This is for maintaining the state in which it is disengaged from the engagement groove 16 of No. 15. This engaging member 34
For example, the shaft 3 is horizontally mounted along the inner surface of the front wall of the internal housing 10.
5, the lower edge thereof is rotatably supported by a base plate 36. Thus, the base plate 36 of the engaging member 34 is connected to the inner housing 10 at the other end of the return spring 21 of the stopper rod 19.
close to the front wall of the Further, this board 36 also serves as a board for the stop button 3 described above. Therefore.

When the stop button 3 is pressed, the base plate 36 rotates about the shaft 35 against the spring 21, and the hook-shaped portion 34a of the engaging member 34 is actuated to separate from the pin 19d of the stopper rod 19. It has become. Note that the substrate 36 of the engaging member 34 is independent for each stop button 3, but the sixth
As shown in the figure, the left-most substrate is partially overlapped with the middle substrate, and the middle substrate is partially overlapped with the right-most substrate. This means that when you press the leftmost stop button, only that board rotates independently, and when you press the middle stop Δζkun, both the leftmost and middle boards rotate at the same time, and then the rightmost stop button is pressed. This is so that when pressed, all the boards can be rotated at the same time.

Reference numeral 37 denotes a mark identification member whose upper edge is rotatably suspended from a shaft 38 which is mounted between both side walls of the internal casing 10 so as to be close to the rear side of the display tram 8; 37
is a protrusion 19 provided on the rear surface of one bent part of the stopper rod 19.
The display drum 8 is pressed against the display drum 8 by the pressing force of the arm rod 39 extending upward from C. On the press-contact surface of the mark identification member 37, movable contact pieces 40 having a set of <3 ([iil) protrude as shown in FIG. 8 at positions corresponding to the contact wheels 17 of the three display drums 8. Each movable contact piece 40 provided in three places as a set of three pieces is a mark identification member 3.
Although the same number of fixed contact pieces 42 connected to the print 1-board 41 provided on the back side of the printer 7 are normally spaced apart from each other, they face each other.

When the mark identification member 37 is pressed by the arm rod 39 of the stopper rod 19 and comes into contact with the display drum 8.

The tip of each movable contact piece 40 acts on a convex portion 18 or a concave portion 18' provided on the outer periphery of the contact wheel 17.

Only the movable contact piece that has come into contact with the convex part 18 comes into contact with the fixed contact piece 42 as shown in FIG.
The contact between the three movable contact pieces and the fixed contact piece forming a set is selected depending on the position and width of 8, and the type of mark 9 appearing on the display window 2 of the machine body 1 can be identified by this permutation combination. are doing. In other words, the convex portion corresponding to the mark 9 appearing in the first display window 2 is formed at the portion where the movable contact comes into contact.

Since the upper edge of the mark identification member 37 having the movable contact piece 4o is suspended from the shaft 38, when the stopper rod 19 is rotated to a position away from the striker boiler 15, the display drum 8 is moved by its own weight. They are separated.

43 is a metal chute integrally formed on the top plate of the internal housing 1o so as to communicate with the metal input port 4 of the machine body 1, and the metal chute 1.43 vertically drops the metal that has descended on its sliding surface. Lower cylinder 43a for
Equipped with fc. The lower cylinder 43a protrudes from the rear edge of the top plate.

It fits into a bulge lb' provided on the rear half 1b of the machine main body 1, and is exposed to the outside from the cut-out lower surface side of the bulge 1b'. Reference numeral 44 denotes a switch plate for detecting the number of metals inserted, and the switch plate 44 is connected to the metal shoe 1.
It is installed on the sliding surface of the metal bar 43, and is turned on by its own weight when the metal passes, so that it can be confirmed by a certain signal sound that it has been turned on.

Reference numeral 45 denotes a metal storage cylinder formed into a cylindrical shape from a transparent material. The metal storage cylinder 45 has a metal outlet 45a having a U-shaped cross section at the lower end, and one metal sheet at a time from the lowest metal stored therein. It can be sent horizontally. This metal storage cylinder 45 is removably attached between the lower cylinder 43a of the metal chute and a fitting groove 47 provided in a metal dispensing plate 46 exposed on the rear side of the machine main body 1 opposite thereto. There is. The metal dispensing board 46 is connected to the upper plate 4.
A spacer 5o having a circular hole 49 in the central region is interposed between the spacer 8 and the lower slope 48'. The fitting groove 47 into which the metal outlet 45a of the metal storage cylinder 45 fits is connected to the circular hole 49 from the rear edge of the upper plate 48 (cut out). is provided with a scraper 53 fixed to a shaft 52 which is rotated by a motor 51, and the scraper 53 has a metal capacity 45 fitted in the fitting groove 47.
The metal at the lowest stage is fed out into the circular hole 49, and the metal thus sent out falls from the extraction hole 54 provided in the lower plate 48' and passes through the chute 55. and is extracted to a saucer 56 communicating with the metal dispensing lower (see FIG. 10).

57 is a switch for detecting the number of metal coins to be paid out, and the switch 57 has two contact pieces 57a and 57 that are always in contact with each other.
b, and each time the scraper 53 passes, one contact piece 57a separates from the contact piece 57b.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the signal processing process for determining the number of metal pieces to be dispensed. In the figure, 58 receives an output signal from the mark identification mechanism that identifies the mark 9 appearing on the display window 2 as described above. The array 'l:I
59 is an α device that stores in advance the number of metal payouts for each arrangement; 60 is a comparison device that compares the arrangement determination device 58 and the storage device 59 to determine the number of metal payouts for one input metal; 61 is an arithmetic device which doubles or triples the payout number determined by the comparator 60 in accordance with the number of metals detected by the input metal detection switch 44; 62 is a motor 51 which receives the output of the arithmetic device 6I; 63 is a drive circuit that operates the scraper 5;
The number of outputs generated by the detection switch 57 that detects the rotation speed of the motor 3 is compared with the output value of the calculation device 61, and when the number of outputs generated by the detection switch 57 reaches the output value of the calculation device 61, the drive circuit 62 stops the operation. It is a comparator that outputs a signal.

Note that the sequence determination device 58. IM device 59. Comparison device 6
0. The arithmetic unit 61 and the comparator 63 can also be configured using a microcomputer, and when using the microcomputer, for example, if two or three f1MI marks are displayed on the display window, the bonus amount will be It is also possible to easily perform a process of paying out the sum added to a predetermined array.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained.

First, install the metal storage cylinder 45 containing the required number of metals between the lower cylinder 43a of the metal chute 43 and the fitting groove of the metal dispensing board 46.Next, turn on the main switch and open the metal inlet. Add metal from 4.

The thrown metal comes into contact with the switch 44 while moving down the slide surface, and when the number of metal pieces is detected, it is stored in the metal storage cylinder 45.

Next, the operating lever 5 is pulled forward and the rotation of the operating lever 5 is caused by the pressing member 28 via the connecting rod 32.
As a result, the rotating arm 22 connected to the lower end of the sliding body 25 through the elongated hole 27 moves against the spring 21 using the shaft 20 as a fulcrum. The rotating arm 2 rotates as shown by the dashed line in FIG.
The stopper rod 19 is rotated through the protrusion L9c with which the tip rod 23 of No. 2 is engaged in a direction in which the tip end 19b of the stopper rod 19 escapes from the engagement groove 16 of the stopper wheel 15 provided on the side surface of the display drum 8. .

When the tip 19C of the stopper rod 19 completely escapes from the retaining groove 16 of the stopper wheel 15.

At that point, the motor 13 is energized to simultaneously rotate the display drum 8 of 31[1a. This released state of the strike/knock rod 19 is maintained by the pin 19d provided on the side surface of the bent portion engaging with the tip hook-shaped portion 34a of the engaging member 34. Also, in the escape state of stonoma rod 19, mark 9
The mark identification part JA37 forming the identification mechanism is separated from the display drum 8 due to its own weight.

On the other hand, when the pressing member 28 reaches its lower moving end.

This is because the guide frame 29 comes off from the upper end of the sliding body 25 due to the action of the inclined protrusion 29a provided at the lower end of the guide frame 29.

The sliding body 25 is returned to the initial position together with the rotating arm 22 by the restoring force of the spring 24. The return of the sliding body 25 to its initial position can be detected by the player through the impact sound and the removal of the load on the control lever.
If you release your hand at that point, the operating lever will return to its initial position due to the return force of the spring 33.

Next, the player presses the three stop buttons 3 arranged in a row on the front of the machine body 1 sequentially from the left side. This pressing of the stop buttons 3 causes the base plate 36 of the engaging member 34 to rotate about its shaft 35. In order to do this, the hook-shaped portion 3.42 with which the pin 19d of the stopper rod 19 is engaged is moved in the releasing direction. By engaging with either one of them, the two display drums 8 are stopped in sequence. In this way, when the final stopper rod 19 is fitted into the engagement groove 16 of the stopper wheel 15, the arm rod 39 extending from the projection 19C on the rear surface of the bending portion marks the mark identification member 37 on the display tram 8. Press it as if it were pressed against you. Therefore, the tips of the movable contact pieces 40 provided in sets of three on the pressure contact surface of the frame member at locations 3(1N) act on the convex portion 18 or concave portion 18' of the contact wheel 17.

Only the movable contact piece 40 that hit the convex portion is pressed and the fixed contact piece 4
The mark appearing on the display window 2 is identified by the ON/OFF combination with the contact piece that contacts 2 and holds OFF, and matches the recess and holds OFF. For example, a predetermined number of metal sheets are dispensed to the metal dispensing lower through the tray 56 by the operation of the dispensing mechanism.

As described above, the slot machine toy according to the present invention has marks such as two symbols displayed on the outer circumferential surface at equal intervals, a stopper wheel having the same number of engagement grooves as the number of the marks on the - side surface, and other parts. A display drum provided with a contact wheel having a protrusion on its side surface, a stopper rod that can be engaged with and disengaged from an engagement groove of a stopper wheel of the display drum, and a stopper rod that is spaced apart and opposed to the outer periphery of the contact wheel of the display drum during normal times. and a mark identification member having a plurality of contact pieces that are pressed by the stopper rod and act on a convex portion or a concave portion on the outer periphery of the contact wheel when the stopper rod engages with the engagement groove of the stopper wheel. Because of this feature, the number of parts that make up the stopper mechanism can be reduced, and the simple structure prevents it from breaking.
, can be summarized compactly.

Also, the contact piece that identifies the mark attached to the outer circumferential surface of the display drum that appears in the display window 9 separates when the display drum rotates, and acts on the protrusions and recesses of the contact wheel when the display drum 1 stops. As a result, there is no need to wear the contacts and cause poor contact as in conventional devices.Furthermore, there is no need for a contact drum like in conventional devices, and together with the simplified stopper mechanism, the overall structure is smaller, lighter, and less expensive. This has various excellent effects such as being able to reduce costs.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figures show one embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 1 is an external perspective view;
Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the internal state of the machine body separated into the front and back, Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the display drum and stopper rod separated, and Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the display drum alone. Fig. 5 is a side view showing the stopped state of the display drum, Fig. 6 is a sectional view showing the relationship between the retaining member and the stop button board, and Fig. 7 A and B are the side views showing the stopped state of the display drum. FIG. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the mark identification member for identifying marks, Fig. 9 is a side sectional view showing the action of the contact piece of the mark identification member, Fig. 10 is a perspective view showing the metal dispensing mechanism, and Fig. 11 is the metal FIG. 3 is a block diagram of signal processing for determining the number of coins to be paid out. 1-Machine main body 2-Display window 3-Stop button 5-1n Making mark\-8-Display drum 9-Mark 15--Stopper wheel 16-Engagement groove 17--
Contact wheel 18-Convex portion 19-Stopper rod 37-Mark identification member 4〇-Movable contact piece 42-Fixed contact piece Fig. 7 (A) (B) Fig. 9 7

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Marks such as one character in a pattern are displayed on the outer peripheral surface at equal intervals, a stopper wheel having the same number of engagement grooves as the number of the marks is provided on one side, and a convex portion is provided on the other side. A display drum provided with a contact wheel, a stopper rod that can be engaged with and disengaged from a retaining groove of a stopper wheel of the display drum, and a stopper rod that faces the outer periphery of the contact wheel of the display drum at a distance in normal times. and a mark identification member having a plurality of contact pieces that are pressed by the stopper rod and act on convex portions or concave portions on the outer periphery of the contact wheel when the stopper rod engages with the engagement groove of the stopper wheel. A slow machine toy featuring the following.