JPS6415083A - Pinball machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To prevent the pay-out operation of prize balls in case of no-ball condition and eliminate an unnessissary load on a motor by providing a discharge operation member with an engaging hook engaging with a lever being in a turning condition caused by the no-ball condition, and providing a swinging piece with a protrusion for stopping a prize ball at an upper position of an arm at the time of engagement of the discharge operation member with the lever. CONSTITUTION: When there is no ball on a ball receiving piece 27 of a lever 28 in the case of no-ball condition in a ball flow passage 4a of a guiding gutter 6, the lever 28 is turned into an upright state as shown by a dotted line by the action of a weight 30. When the pay-out operation of prize balls are carried out under the upright condition of the lever 28 and a discharge operation body 14 is moved upward, an engaging hook 22 is hooked at a claw part 31 formed at a lower end of the lever 28 and the discharge operation body 14 is kept in the upward movement condition. Accordingly, a swinging piece 46 of a prize ball processing device 9 is kept in a swung state as a connection arm 50 is pulled upward by a longitudinal rod 51, and thereby the turning of a rock piece 47 is prevented by the contact of a protrusion formed on the swinging piece 46. Therefore, the prize balls flowing down along a prize ball leading-out passage 34 are received by a lower end of a lower arm 55 of the rock piece 47 so that they do not drop on a ball receiving part 35.