TWI712444B - Number plate device and card entry pusher - Google Patents

Abstract

A code device for an automatic mahjong machine, including a code plate and a card sending device. The code plate is provided with a card storage slot, and one end of the card storage slot is provided with a card for pushing mahjong tiles into the storage card In the slot and arranged in the upper and lower layers, the card entering pusher includes a horizontally arranged abutting plate, and an abutting part arranged on the abutting plate, the abutting plate is provided with A first abutting surface for abutting the lower-layer mahjong tiles, the abutting portion is provided with a second abutting surface for abutting the upper-layer mahjong tiles, and the first abutting surface protrudes toward the other end of the card storage slot When the second abutting surface pushes the mahjong tiles to move, the upper and lower layers of mahjong tiles form a staggered arrangement. The card sending device is arranged on the code plate and is used to push the mahjong tiles along the stored tiles. Slot moves. The first abutting surface of the card entering pusher protrudes from the second abutting surface, so that when the double-layer mahjong enters the card storage slot, the upper and lower positions are displaced, so that the two-layer mahjong tiles are flush when pushed obliquely.

Description

Number plate device and card entry pusher

The invention relates to a related device of a mahjong machine, in particular to a card device and a card entry pusher of the card device.

Among the automatic mahjong machines, the four-port machine is the mainstream product in the current market. It is equipped with four push cards, and four cards can be registered at the same time. Therefore, the card is fast, stable and popular.

At present, the popular ramp-out mahjong machine on the market usually includes a shuffling tray, a card suction conveying device, and a card delivery device. The card delivery device usually includes a card storage slot and a card delivery pusher located in the card storage slot. The card market breaks up the mahjong tiles, and sends the mahjong tiles into the card storage slot through the suction card conveying device. After the number reaches the predetermined setting of the counter, the card delivery pusher will remove the mahjong tiles in the storage slot under the control of the power source. Push to the desktop board to complete a round of shuffling.

Similar to the Chinese patent file with the authorized announcement number CN200966910Y, there is disclosed a sloped card issuing device for a fully automatic mahjong machine. It has a table top with a lower card opening in the center and four rectangular windmill openings on the table top. There are four arc-shaped card storage slots under the desktop board, and the end of each card storage slot is equipped with a card delivery pusher, and the card delivery pusher is connected with a pusher motor through a wire rope. Each card exit is provided with a pallet door strip, one end of the pallet door strip is hinged with the card exit, and the other end is movably connected with the lifting mechanism.

However, during the actual operation, you will find that the mahjong tiles stacked in the card storage slot are arranged in two rows up and down, and when the card delivery pusher pushes the mahjong tiles onto the pallet bar, the pallet bar is inclined. , At this time, the continued abutment and pushing effect of the card-delivery pusher on the mahjong tiles will cause the upper mahjong tiles to slide further forward relative to the lower mahjong tiles, so that when the tiles are completed, there will be an inevitable formation between the upper and lower levels The misplacement of the mahjong tiles causes the mahjong tiles to be placed unevenly and cannot meet the requirements of tiles.

One of the objectives of the present invention is to provide a tying device that can effectively place mahjong tiles neatly.

Therefore, the code plate device of the present invention includes a code plate and a card sending device. The code plate is provided with a card storage slot. One end of the card storage slot is provided with a card entry pusher for pushing mahjong tiles into the card storage slot and arranged in two layers. The card entry pusher includes a level An abutting plate and an abutting portion arranged on the abutting plate, the abutting plate is provided with a first abutting surface for abutting the lower mahjong tiles, and the abutting portion is provided with The second abutting surface of the upper-layer mahjong tiles abuts, the first abutting surface protrudes from the second abutting surface toward the other end of the card storage slot, and when the card-in pusher pushes the mahjong tiles to move, the upper and lower two The layered mahjong tiles form a misplaced arrangement. The card sending device is arranged on the code plate and used to push mahjong cards to move along the card storage slot.

The second objective of the present invention is to provide a card-entering pusher which can effectively place mahjong tiles neatly.

Therefore, the card entering push head of the code card device of the present invention is suitable for being arranged at one end of a card storage slot, and used to push mahjong tiles into a card storage slot and arranged in two layers. The card entering pushing head includes a An abutment plate and an abutment part. The abutting board is horizontally arranged, and the abutting board is provided with a first abutting surface for abutting the lower-layer mahjong tiles. The abutting portion is disposed on the abutting plate, and the abutting portion is provided with a second abutting surface for abutting the upper-layer mahjong tiles, and the first abutting surface protrudes toward the other end of the card storage slot On the second abutting surface, when the card-in pusher pushes the mahjong tiles to move, the upper and lower layers of mahjong tiles form a dislocation arrangement.

The effect of the present invention is that the first abutting surface protrudes from the second abutting surface by the card entering push head of the code card device, so that when the double-layer mahjong enters the card storage slot, the upper and lower positions are displaced, so that the double-layer mahjong When the cards are pushed obliquely, the side surfaces of the double-layer mahjong tiles are flush, so that the two-layer mahjong tiles are flush after being pushed to a plane, achieving the effect of neatly placing the mahjong tiles.

Referring to FIG. 4, an embodiment of the code plate device 1 of the present invention includes a code plate 11 and a card sending device 2.

1 and 2, the card delivery device 2 includes a card delivery pusher 21, the card delivery pusher 21 includes a rotating shaft 211 for positioning on a driving source 14 (see Figure 4), and a fixed The pushing part 212 on the rotating shaft 211.

The pushing portion 212 includes a vertical butt 213 fixedly connected to the rotating shaft 211, and a horizontal pusher 214 fixedly connected to the bottom end of the vertical butt 213, and the horizontal pusher 214 protrudes from the vertical butt 213 is 12mm long. Referring to Figures 2, 3 and 4, when the pushing part 212 pushes the two-layer mahjong tiles 100 along a card storage slot 111 to a pallet door bar 31, the leveling push plate 214 abuts and pushes the lower-layer mahjong tiles 100 to move. The vertical support plate 213 abuts on the upper layer of mahjong tiles 100 to maintain the size of the misalignment between the upper and lower layer of mahjong tiles 100. In detail, the side of the pallet door bar 31 adjacent to the card storage slot 111 can swing up and down to lift the mahjong tiles 100 pushed onto it.

Referring to Figure 3, when the pushing part 212 pushes all the mahjong tiles 100 in the card storage slot 111 onto the pallet bar 31, the mahjong tiles 100 on the pallet bar 31 are in an inclined state and are arranged at the end. The lower mahjong tiles 100 of the two mahjong tiles 100 at the end abut on the horizontal push plate 214, and the upper mahjong tiles 100 abut on the vertical support plate 213. As the mahjong tiles 100 move to the pallet bar 31, the vertical support plate 213 pushes the upper mahjong tiles 100 forward, so that the upper mahjong tiles 100 slide forward, and the sliding distance is equal to The horizontal push plate 214 offsets the misalignment between the upper and lower layers of mahjong tiles 100 in the card storage slot 111. Therefore, the end faces of the two mahjong tiles 100 arranged at the rear end must be flush with the level set in an L shape. A right triangle is formed between the push plate 214 and the vertical support plate 213. During the ascent of the pallet bar 5, the vertical support plate 213 and the horizontal push plate 214 will provide necessary support for the mahjong tiles 100, and keep the upper and lower layers of the mahjong tiles 100 flat and neatly arranged.

In order to prevent the mahjong tiles 100 from rotating up for a certain distance to escape from the pushing part 212, the upper mahjong tiles 100 slide down again to form a dislocation, the top of the vertical support plate 213 is provided with an outwardly protruding inclined part 215, which faces toward The top of the vertical support plate 213 protrudes in the same direction as the level push plate 214, and the inclined portion 215 gradually moves away from the vertical support plate 213 from its bottom end toward its top end, and is arranged in an inverted triangle. The top protruding vertical support plate 213 is 5 mm long, and the distance between the bottom end of the inclined portion 215 and the bottom surface of the horizontal push plate 214 is the height of the two-layer mahjong tiles 100.

Referring to FIG. 4, this embodiment of the code plate device 1 of the present invention includes the disc-shaped code plate 11 and the aforementioned card delivery device 2. The driving source 14 is provided at the center of the code plate 11, and the rotating shaft 211 of the card delivery device 2 is connected to the driving source 14 at an end opposite to the pushing part 212. An arc-shaped storage slot 111 is defined in the code plate 11. The pushing part 212 can be rotated along the card storage slot 111 under the driving of the driving source 14. The card storage slot 111 is inclined upward from the end where the mahjong tiles 100 enter to the end where the mahjong tiles 100 are sent out. The height difference between the two ends of 111 is smaller than the height of the bottom layer of mahjong tiles 100.

As shown in Figures 4 and 5, the card storage slot 111 is provided with a card entry pusher 12 for arranging mahjong tiles in the card storage slot 111 into two upper and lower layers, and the card entry pusher 12 is connected to There is a power assembly 13 for driving it to reciprocate along the level of the card storage slot 111, and the pushing distance is greater than the width of the mahjong tiles 100.

The card entry pusher 12 includes an abutting plate 121 and an abutting portion 122. The abutting plate 121 is horizontally disposed, and the abutting portion 122 is vertically disposed on the abutting plate 121. The bottom board 121 is provided with a first abutting surface 123 for abutting the lower mahjong tiles 100, and the abutting portion 122 is provided with a second abutting surface 124 for abutting the upper mahjong tiles 100. An abutting surface 123 protrudes from the second abutting surface 124 toward the other end of the card storage slot 111, and the second abutting surface 124 is inclined with respect to the first abutting surface 123. In this embodiment, the abutting portion 122 is composed of a staggered post 125 and an abutting post 126. The staggered post 125 and the abutting post 126 are both vertically arranged and fixedly connected to the abutting plate 121 along the The two ends of the card storage slot 111 in the width direction, and the abutment column 126 is arranged close to the outer edge of the card storage slot 111. The second abutting surface 124 is disposed on the abutting post 126 and the dislocation post 125. The distance between the first abutting surface 123 and the second abutting surface 124 at the end of the abutting column 126 near the outside of the card slot 111 is b1, and the first abutting surface 123 and the second abutting surface 123 The distance between the abutting surface 124 and the end points of the dislocation column 125 close to the outside of the card storage slot 111 is b2, where 0mm<b1≤2mm and 6mm≤b2≤8mm. In this embodiment, the length of b1 is 2mm. , B2 length is 7mm.

As shown in FIG. 4, an upwardly open cavity 127 is formed between the abutment post 126 and the dislocation post 125, and the pushing portion 212 can be rotatably penetrated in the cavity 127 to facilitate pushing the mahjong tiles 100 along the storage. The card slot 111 is moved to the pallet bar 31.

The working process of this embodiment is as follows: when the mahjong tiles 100 enter the card storage slot 111, the upper and lower two form a set, and the entry pusher 12 pushes forward, and each time a set of mahjong tiles 100 is pushed, the The card pusher 12 will retreat and reset under the action of the power unit 13 and continue to push again until the card storage slot 111 is lined up with a sufficient number of mahjong tiles 100. At this time, the mahjong tiles 100 in the card storage slot 111 are aligned The card storage slots 111 are arranged in an arc shape and the upper and lower layers are in a dislocation state.

The driving source 14 rotates the card sending pusher 21, and the pushing part 212 pushes the two-layer mahjong tiles 100 along the card storage slot 111 onto the pallet bar 31. At this time, the mahjong tiles 100 are in an inclined state, and the vertical The push board 213 pushes the upper layer of mahjong tiles 100 to make the upper layer slide forward with respect to the lower layer of mahjong tiles 100, so that the sliding distance offsets the misalignment caused by the entry pusher 12, making the upper and lower layers of mahjong tiles 100 in The pallet bars 31 are aligned.

The pallet door strip 31 drives the mahjong tiles 100 to rotate and rise. The friction between the upper layer of mahjong tiles 100 and the lower layer of mahjong tiles 100 is less than the friction force between the lower layer of mahjong tiles 100 and the pallet bar 31, so it will slide down and A second misalignment is formed. At this time, the upper layer of mahjong tiles 100 is pushed forward through the inclined portion for a certain distance, so as to offset the distance from the second misalignment, so that the upper and lower layers of mahjong tiles 100 remain neat.

Referring to Fig. 6, an oblique card automatic mahjong machine used in the card device 1 of this embodiment includes a table body (not shown). The center of the table body is provided with a lower card mouth. There are four card openings arranged in rows and four sides are rectangular, and the table body is also provided with a shuffling tray 4, four card suction conveying devices (not shown), four card code devices 1 of this embodiment, and Four promotion devices 3 for raising mahjong tiles to the table. In the inclined card automatic mahjong machine, the table body, the card suction conveying devices, and the card raising devices 3 can all adopt the devices in the existing automatic mahjong machine. For example, the card suction device can be a magnetic conveying The belt is used to suck up the magnetic mahjong tiles in the shuffle board 4 and transfer them to the corresponding tile device 1, but not limited to this.

One end of the card storage slot 111 of each code card device 1 is connected with the respective card suction conveying device, and the other end is connected with the respective card raising device 3.

4 and 6, where each card storage slot 111 communicates with the card suction conveying device is provided with the card entry pusher 12 that pushes the mahjong tiles 100 into the card storage slot 111 and is arranged in two upper and lower layers. The card tray 11 is also provided with the card sending pusher 21 which pushes the mahjong tiles 100 from the card storage slot 111 to the card raising device 3, and the card sending pusher 21 is located in the card storage slot 111 when it is not working. The other side of the entering card pushing head 12.

Each card raising device 3 includes the pallet door bar 31 with a lifter set 32 connected at the bottom. The pallet door bar 31 has a first end 311 and a second end 312 opposite to each other. The first end 311 rotates Connected to the table body, the second end portion 312 can be driven by the lifting element group 32 to swing relative to the first end portion 311, and the second end portion 312 can abut against the card storage slot 2 away from the card inserting head When the pallet bar 31 abuts on the card storage slot 111, the pallet bar 31 is inclined downward.

The working process of the oblique card automatic mahjong machine is as follows: the mahjong tiles 100 enter the table body from the lower card slot and shuffle through the shuffle board 4, and then enter the code device through the suction card conveying devices 1 in. Among them, the mahjong tiles 100 can be sequentially entered into the card storage slot 111 through the card entering pusher 12 of each card device 1 and arranged in two upper and lower layers, and then finally reach the pallet through the card sending pusher 21 The door bar is rotated by the pallet door bar 31 to rise to the table through the corresponding card loading port to complete the automatic shuffling and code card.

In summary, the card device 1 of the present invention has the first abutting surface 123 protruding from the second abutting surface 124 toward the direction in which the mahjong tiles 100 are pushed by the card entry pusher 12 of the card device 1 of the present invention. The double-layer mahjong 100 is displaced up and down when it enters the card storage slot 111, and then it is matched with the card sending head 21 of the card sending device 2, and the horizontal push plate 214 protrudes the vertical support plate 213 in the direction in which the mahjong tiles 100 are pushed. , When the double-layer mahjong tiles 100 are pushed obliquely from the storage slot 111 toward the pallet bar 31, the side surfaces of the double-layer mahjong tiles 100 are flush, and the double-layer mahjong tiles 100 are flush after being pushed onto the table. It can achieve the function of placing mahjong tiles neatly, so it can indeed achieve the purpose of the invention. In addition, the card entry pusher 12 can be independently manufactured and sold, and can be purchased by the manufacturer and assembled in the existing code plate device, and can also achieve the same purpose and effect as the code plate device 1 of the present invention.

However, the above are only examples of the present invention. When the scope of implementation of the present invention cannot be limited by this, all simple equivalent changes and modifications made in accordance with the scope of the patent application of the present invention and the content of the patent specification still belong to This invention patent covers the scope.

100: Mahjong tiles 1: Code plate device 11: Code plate 111: card storage slot 12: Into the card push 121: abutment board 122: contact part 123: First abutment surface 124: Second abutment surface 125: misplaced column 126: Abutment Column 127: Cavity 13: Power components 14: drive source 2: Card delivery device 21: Send card to push head 211: Rotation axis 212: Push Department 213: vertical support 214: level pusher 215: inclined part 3: Upgrading device 31: Pallet door strip 311: first end 312: second end 32: Lifting parts group 4: Shuffle the market

Other features and effects of the present invention will be clearly presented in the embodiments with reference to the drawings, in which: Figure 1 is a three-dimensional schematic diagram of a card delivery pusher of an embodiment of the card code device of the present invention; Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of a positional relationship of pushing double-layer mahjong tiles in a card storage slot in this embodiment; Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of a positional relationship of pushing double-layer mahjong tiles to a pallet door bar in this embodiment; Figure 4 is a three-dimensional schematic diagram of an embodiment of the code plate device of the present invention; Figure 5 is a three-dimensional schematic diagram of a card entry pusher of the embodiment; and Fig. 6 is a three-dimensional schematic diagram of this embodiment applied to an oblique card type automatic mahjong machine.

12: Into the card push

121: abutment board

122: contact part

123: First abutment surface

124: Second abutment surface

125: misplaced column

126: Abutment Column

127: Cavity

Claims (8)

A code card device, comprising: a code plate, on which a card storage slot is opened, and one end of the card storage slot is provided with a device for pushing mahjong tiles into the card storage slot and arranged in two layers. The card entering pusher includes a horizontally arranged abutting plate, and an abutting portion arranged on the abutting plate. The abutting plate is provided with a first abutting mahjong tile. Abutting surface, the abutting portion is provided with a second abutting surface for abutting the upper mahjong tiles, the first abutting surface protrudes from the second abutting surface toward the other end of the card storage slot, the abutting portion The connecting portion is composed of an abutting post and a staggered post. The abutting post and the staggered post are arranged at both ends of the abutting plate along the width direction of the card storage slot, and the second abutting surface is arranged on the abutting plate. The column and the misaligned column, when the inserting pusher pushes the mahjong tiles to move, the upper and lower layers of mahjong tiles form a dislocation arrangement; and a card sending device is arranged on the code plate and is used to push the mahjong tiles along the bank. The card slot moves. The code card device according to claim 1, wherein the abutment post of the card entry pusher is located close to the outer edge of the card storage slot, and the first abutment surface and the second abutment surface are located in the abutment The distance between the end points of the column close to the outside of the card storage slot is b1, and the distance between the first abutting surface and the end point of the second abutting surface located near the outside of the card storage slot of the misaligned column is b2 , The second abutting surface is inclined with respect to the first abutting surface, and 0mm<b1

2mm, 6mm

b2

8mm. The code card device according to claim 1, wherein a cavity for the pushing part of the card delivery device to pass is formed between the abutment post and the dislocation post of the card entry pusher. The code card device according to claim 1, wherein the code plate is arranged in a circular shape, the card storage slot is arranged in an arc shape, and the pushing part can be rotated along the card storage slot, and the card storage slot is from Mahjong The end of the card entering toward the end of sending out the mahjong tiles is inclined upward, and the height difference between the two ends of the card storage slot is smaller than the height of the mahjong tiles of the bottom layer. The code card device according to claim 1, wherein the card delivery device includes a card delivery pusher, the card delivery pusher includes a rotating shaft for positioning on a driving source, and a fixed connection to the rotating shaft The pushing part on the shaft, the pushing part has a vertical buttress, and a horizontal push plate perpendicular to the vertical buttress, the horizontal push plate protrudes from the vertical buttress and is only used to abut the lower layer Mahjong tiles, the vertical support board is only used to abut the upper mahjong tiles, the upper and lower mahjong tiles are maintained in a staggered setting during the move of the card sending head, and when the last pair of mahjong tiles obliquely abuts on the push part , The upper-layer mahjong tiles and the lower-layer mahjong tiles are in the same plane on the side facing the pushing part. A card entering push head of a card code device, which is suitable for being set at one end of a card storage slot and used to push mahjong tiles into a card storage slot and arranged in two layers. The card entering pushing head includes: a butting The board is arranged horizontally, and the abutting board is provided with a first abutting surface for abutting the lower mahjong tiles; and an abutting portion is provided on the abutting board, and the abutting portion is provided with The second abutting surface where the upper mahjong tiles abut, the first abutting surface facing the stored card The other end of the slot protrudes from the second abutting surface, and the abutting portion is composed of an abutting column and a dislocation column, and the abutting column and the dislocation column are arranged on the abutting plate along the width direction of the card storage slot At both ends of the, the second abutting surface is arranged on the abutting column and the dislocation column, and when the card-in pusher pushes the mahjong tiles to move, the upper and lower layers of mahjong tiles form a dislocation arrangement. The card entering pusher of the code card device according to claim 6, wherein the abutting column is located close to the outer edge of the card storage slot, and the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface are located on the abutting column The distance between the end points close to the outside of the card storage slot is b1, and the distance between the first abutting surface and the end point of the second abutting surface located on the dislocation column close to the outside of the card storage slot is b2, The second abutting surface is inclined with respect to the first abutting surface, and 0mm<b1

2mm, 6mm

b2

8mm. The card entering pusher of the code card device according to claim 6, wherein a cavity is formed between the abutment post and the dislocation post for the pushing part of a card delivery device to pass through.

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