JPS615864A - Vertical game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a linear game machine such as a Bajinko machine,
Specifically, a ball storage/dispensing device that accepts a certain number of balls from the ball tank side on the back side of the game board and delivers them to the game player.
The game machine of the present invention is a game machine of the present invention, which operates in a vertical game in which ball cutting and ball packing operations are carried out in response to the inflow of safe balls inserted into the prize opening on the front surface of the game board. In addition to simplifying the structure of the device's rotational operation mechanism, only the safe balls can be made inoperable to prevent unauthorized ball dispensing.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

25 [is a rectangular mounting board that is removably fixed to almost the entire back surface of the game board, and each gutter member and movable parts described later are assembled and snapped onto the board surface] This is for installing mechanisms and devices together with the board 25 as a unit corresponding to the relevant game board.

37 is a ball tank attached to the upper left of the board 25 with a screw 38, 39 is a tank rail installed diagonally downward to the right below the ball tank 37, and 59 is a lower plate 5.
At the bottom of 6, a safe ball guide trough is attached to the board 25 with screws 38, and below 6, a first guide path 59A communicating with the organizer 93, which will be described later, is formed downward to the left. A second guide path 59B for communicating from the organizer 93 side to the safe ball flow lower gutter 62 side, which will be described later, is formed downward to the right.

62 is at the lower central part of the safe ball guide trough 59,
A safe ball flow down gutter with 38 screws attached in a hanging shape, and the gutter 62
, a first flow path 62A that communicates with a turning path 59G formed downward to the left from the second guideway 59B, and a first flow path 62
A second flow path 62B that bends and communicates with A is formed.

Next, regarding the feeding part side of the prize ball P8, 63 is the safe ball guide gutter 59 and the mounting board 25 is attached with one screw (screw 38).
In the attached prize ball gutter body, a horizontal gutter 64 that leads to the upper plate side is formed on the right side, and a vertical gutter 165 that is branched and communicated with the horizontal gutter 64 and communicates with the lower plate side is formed in the hanging direction. 65
A discharge gutter 66 is defined on the right side. 67 is a ball extraction gutter which is vertically attached with screws 38 between the horizontal gutter 64 and the vertical gutter 65 on the outer surface of the prize ball gutter body 63, and 70 is inside the upper left of the prize ball gutter body 63 and can be tilted up and down. It is a horizontally elongated rectangular tube-shaped ball feed/feeder which is pivotally mounted at 71, and a pair of silicified stoppers 72 formed with almost the same curvature are protruded from the lower left end of the pivot from the pivot point 71. Ball storage feeder 7
0 stores a certain number of balls (e.g. 8 and 7 balls) in the two rows of storage paths before operation, and places them between the guide receiving trough 52 and the ball removal path 68 via the stopper 70a. Although it is held in a substantially uniform slope downward to the right, when it is tilted by the operation from the safe ball actuating lever 96 side, which will be described later, the ball B will be fed to the prize ball feeding lever 103 side, which will be described later. ing. The above-mentioned silicification stopper 72 opens the lower half of the right end of the guide gutter 52 to prevent the ball B from deviating from the guide gutter 52 when the ball storage/feeder 70 is moved. It is.

Next, the operating mechanism for the safe ball SB and the prize ball PB will be explained. 93 is in a box 94 with screws 38 attached to the lower left of the safe ball guide trough 59,
The organizer is pivotally mounted 95 to the mounting board 25 so as to be tiltable up and down, and the storage section 93a formed at the right end of the organizer is always tilted upward to the right due to its own balancing action before operation, and the storage section 93a is located at the top of the safe ball guide trough 59. It is held in communication with the first taxiway 59A side, but when the safe ball SB is placed in the storage part 93a, it tilts in the time direction and communicates with the second taxiway 59B side. It is set.

Below the box 94 and the safe ball guide trough 59, 96 is a safe ball actuating lever that is pivoted 97 to the base plate 25 so that it can be tilted up and down, and a receiving part 96 is formed at the right end of the lever 96.
a into the upper part of the first flow path 62a of the upper safe ball flow down gutter 62. Reference numeral 98 denotes a hook 99 that is pivotally mounted in a hanging manner on the upper left side of the safe ball flow down gutter 62, and as is clear from FIG. 100 is fixed and protrudes into the intersection of the first flow path 62Δ and the turning path 59C. Before the above-mentioned safe ball bamboo lever 96 is operated, the bottle 101 protruding from the right end thereof is locked by the hook groove 98a of the hook 98 and is always held horizontally, so that the receiving portion 95a is rotated through the folding path 59c. Below the corner of the mouth (
In other words, at the time when the safe ball SB falls onto the receiving part 96a,
It is set so that it is released from the hook 98, which is swung clockwise (to the left) by the safe ball SB together with the detection actuating piece 100, and is tilted downward. Note that the safe ball operating lever 96 and the hook 98 are covered with a cover so that they cannot be operated from the outside. Reference numeral 102 is a nearly inverted-shaped connecting rod whose lower end is connected to the left end of the safe ball actuating lever 96, and whose upper end is connected to the lower left end of the ball storage launcher 70, and whose lower end is connected to the left end of the safe ball actuating lever 96. The ball storing and feeding device 70 is tilted in conjunction with the tilting of the ball 96. Note that the 97 pivot points of the above-mentioned safe ball actuating lever 96 may be made changeable.

Reference numeral 103 denotes a pivot 10 that is movable up and down in the prize ball gutter body 63.
4, the prize ball feeding lever always holds the boat-shaped saucer portion 103a provided on the right side in a substantially horizontal state by its own balancing action before actuation. This lever 103 has a lifting rod 105 pivoted and hanging down on the left side of the organizer 93 and inserted into the LC branch 106, and when the lever 103 is tilted clockwise, the organizer 93 which is in the downward position is returned to its original position. It is set to be lifted and returned to the upward position. Note that the saucer portion 103a is formed in a horizontally elongated shape so as to communicate from the left eye end side of the ball storing/dispensing device 70 to the entrance side of the horizontal gutter 64. 107 is a stopper for the prize ball feeding lever 103 provided in the prize ball gutter body 63.

108 (a passive lever 109 pivotably mounted on the left side of the prize ball gutter body 63 so as to be able to move up and down; before operation, the roller 110 on the right end of the lever 109 is always connected to the tray part 103a of the prize ball feeding lever 103).
The saucer portion 10 is positioned appropriately above the lowest end position of the saucer portion 10.
It is designed so that it can come into contact with the lower surface of 3a. Reference numeral 111 denotes an elevating rod that is supported so as to be movable up and down via a bin 113 and a long hole 114 with respect to a branch 112 protruding at 1@ of the wt 1165, and its upper end is articulated to the left end of the passive lever 108. Reference numeral 115 designates an inverted safe ball handling plate pivotally mounted 116 on the right side of the safe ball flow down gutter 62, in which a horizontal connecting piece 115a is engaged with an engagement piece 111a at the lower end of the lifting rod 111, and a hanging rod is formed. Before the continuous piece 115b is operated, the first and second flow passages 62A, 62B
The communication section is closed and cut off (see Figure 3). However, this safe ball processing plate 115 may be of an elevating type.

Now, when a Bajinko game is played and a hit ball enters either the winning device or the winning hole, the safe ball SB is processed as follows.

In other words, the back mechanism of the game board and the prize ball feeding section are usually the first
The safe ball S'B is maintained in the state shown in the figure, and the safe ball S'B
．． 58 into the safe ball guide trough 59 and introduced into the first guide path 59A.

Therefore, the safe ball SB is transferred from the guideway 59A to the organizer 93.
When the organizer 93 enters the storage section 93a, the organizer 93 tilts downward to the right due to the weight of the safe balls SS, as shown in FIG. . In this state, the organizer 93 causes the contact 160 to become rONJ with its contact piece 93b. Incidentally, even if the organizer 93 releases the safe ball SB, it is maintained in the downward-sloping state due to its own balancing action.

Then, as illustrated step by step in FIG. 3, when the above-mentioned safe ball SB flows from the turning path 59C of the second guiding path 59B into the first downstream path 62A of the safe ball downstream 1ii62, ( Atsushi) First, the safe ball SB is hook 98.
The hook 98 comes into contact with the detecting actuating piece 100 of the Löf ball actuating lever 96 and swings together with the detecting actuating piece 100 to the left without being pushed out due to its falling weight. Since the receiver 96 falls onto the portion 96a, the safe ball actuating lever 96 is tilted while being pushed down in the assembled direction (see the opening in the figure). (See Figure C) Note that the hook 98 has returned to its original hanging state.

As a result, the connecting rod 102 is pushed as shown in Fig. 2A.
As the ball storing and feeding device 70 is tilted clockwise, the balls B in the device 70 are instantaneously fed into a chain as prize balls PB onto the tray portion 103a of the prize ball feeding lever 103. Served. At the time of this prize ball dispensing, as shown in FIG. The downward-sloping state is maintained instantaneously.

[The aforementioned prize ball feeding lever 103 is connected to its saucer portion 10.
At the same time as the load of a certain number of prize balls Pa is applied to the ball 3a, the ball tilts as shown in the opening of FIG. However, during the downward tilting process, the passive lever 10B in the safe ball processing i structure is tilted clockwise via the roller 110. The plate 115 is tilted counterclockwise to release the above-mentioned safe bulb SB and cause it to flow out from the second flow path 62B. (Refer to Fig. 3 2) In addition, the lever 10 mentioned above
3, the above-mentioned organizer 93 is returned to its original upward-rightward state by the lifting rod 105.

As a result, the safe ball actuating lever 96 immediately begins to move upward as shown in FIG. (See Fig. 2 O and Fig. 3 A) In connection with this, the ball storing/dispensing device 70 is returned to its original state via the connecting rod 102, and a certain number of balls B are returned to their original state. It will be stored.

The above-mentioned prize ball feeding lever 103 is connected to the receiving tray portion 1.
When all the prize balls PB on 03a are fed out to the side 1i164, they are returned to their original state by their own balancing action, and in connection with this, the safe ball processing mechanism described above is also returned to its original state as shown in FIG. Ru. Thereafter, in the prize ball boat exhibition, the safe balls SB are processed in the same manner as described above, and the prize balls PB are sent from the ball storage and feeder 70.
will be paid.

In addition, in the vertical game machine of this example, the ball storage and feeder 7
Hook 98 and detection actuation piece 1 in the actuation operation mechanism of No. 0
00 is not limited to the shape of the illustrated embodiment, but in short, the safe ball S is activated earlier than the safe ball operating lever 96.
B, and before activation, the safe ball operating lever 96 is restrained and held, but when the safe ball flows in, the safe ball operates the safe ball operating lever 96.
It is sufficient if the setting is such that it dissociates from 6.

In addition, since the ball storage/dispensing device 70 is largely separated from the center of the back of the game board 4 and is provided relatively close to the safe ball actuating lever 96, in the game machine of this example, the device 70 is The operating mechanism can be made extremely simple and compact, and it does not require a large space in relation to the arrangement with other members in the back mechanism, and can be easily incorporated.

In this example, the above-mentioned safe ball operating mechanism [operating lever 96, hook 98, and connecting rod 102] may all be covered with a cover C, etc., but at least six hooks 98 may be covered. The hook 98 may be set so as not to be manually operated.

The vertical game machine of the present invention accepts a certain number of prize balls from a ball outflow gutter member side connected to a ball storage part such as a ball tank or tank rail on the back side of the game board and supplies them to the player side. The ball storage/dispensing device 70 is pivotally mounted to be tiltable at the k-th point, and a receiving portion 96a for receiving the safe balls flowing out through the safe ball guide gutter 59 to the safe ball flow lower gutter 62. 96b is movably connected to a safe ball actuating lever 96 which is pivoted so as to be tilted by the weight of the safe ball when the ball storage/dispensing device 70 is tilted. A prize ball is pivotably mounted so as to receive a prize ball fed from the ball storage/dispensing device 70 on the way to the player side and to be tilted when the load of the prize ball reaches a predetermined amount. When the load of the prize ball in the feeding lever 103 and the prize ball feeding lever 103 does not reach the predetermined amount, the receiving portion 96
A safe ball processing plate 115 is installed to be able to close and open the safe ball flow down gutter 62 in order to restrict the flow of safe balls above a, and the prize ball feeding lever 103 When it is confirmed that a certain number of prize balls have departed to the player's side by tilting, the safe ball processing board 115 is retracted from the Hino ball flow down gutter 62, and the flow restriction on the safe balls is released. With this configuration, the tilting control of the prize ball delivery lever 103 is performed based on the load of the prize balls received from the ball storage/delivery device 70h (i.e., the predetermined load of a predetermined number of balls determined as prize balls). Based on the linked operation of the lever 103 and the safe ball processing plate 115 that is linked to the lever 103, the safe ball operating lever 96 is tilted and controlled, and the operation of the prize ball feeding lever 103 is linked to the safe ball operating lever 96. As a result, the tilted ball storage and feeder 70 is surely prevented from malfunctioning when the tilted ball storage and feeder 70 is moved back while the prize ball still remains in the ball storage and feeder 70. This has the effect of preventing this and accurately dispensing a certain number of prize balls to the game name.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. IJ shows an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig.
Back in one machine [i! A partially cutaway rear view schematically showing the entire illumination, FIG. (C) and (2) are explanatory diagrams showing the operation of the hook member and the safe ball operating lever step by step in response to the inflow of a ball; FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view showing the hook member and the safe ball operating lever; FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view showing the hook member and the safe ball operating lever; is an exploded perspective view that does not show the safe ball processing mechanism. 9...Safe ball guide trough 62...Safe ball flow down trough 70...Ball storage and feeder 96...Safe ball operating lever 103...Prize ball sailing lever 115...Safe ball processing board PB... Prize ball SB... Safe ball Applicant Dai Co., Ltd. - Company agent Patent attorney Oka 1) Hidehiko V 3 Goichi 1 (,) → -Ko V- Figure 3 '-〇 3,,l/-)

Claims (1)

[Claims] On the back side of the game board, a ball storage/dispensing device 70 is pivotably mounted to receive a certain number of prize balls from the ball outflow gutter member side connected to the ball storage section and deliver them to the player side. , is provided with a receiving part 96a for receiving the safe ball flowing out through the safe ball guide gutter 59 to the safe ball flow lower gutter 62, and when this receiving part 96b receives the safe ball, it tilts by the weight of this safe ball. Safe ball operating lever 9 pivoted so that
6 and 6 are interlockably connected, while the ball storage and feeder 7
0 is tilted, the prize ball fed from the ball storage/dispensing device 70 is received in the middle of being delivered to the player side, and the ball is pivoted so as to be tilted when the load of this prize ball reaches a predetermined amount. When the loaded prize ball feeding lever 103 and the load of the prize ball in this prize ball feeding lever 103 have not reached the predetermined amount, the receiving portion 96a
A safe ball processing plate 115 installed to be able to close and open the safe ball flow lower gutter 62 in order to restrict the flow of the upper safe balls is interlocked, and the prize ball feeding lever 103 is When it is confirmed by tilting that a certain number of prize balls have been delivered to the player side, the safe ball processing plate 115 is retracted from the safe ball flow down gutter 62, and the flow restriction on the safe balls is released. A vertical game machine characterized by the following configuration.