JPH11197326A - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To extract and recover pachinko balls in a shooting ball supply tray to a ball withdrawal path without jamming. SOLUTION: This pachinko machine is provided with a shooting ball supply device 20 which has a ball path 24 to conduct pachinko balls in a shot ball supply tray 8 provided on the front side of a front frame thereof to the rear thereof and a ball feeding member 22 which supplies head pachinko ball of the ball path 24 to a shooting part of a shooting rail 3 one at a time. In this case, a bottom surface of a final end part of the ball path 24 positioned on a side of the ball feeding member 22 is bored to provide a ball withdrawing port 38 and a ball withdrawing member 40 is provided having an open/close plate 41 which is freely moved to a position of normally close the ball withdrawing port 38 or opening the ball withdrawing port 38 by the operation of withdrawing balls while a ball withdrawing path 39 is successively arranged on the ball withdrawing port 38. The ball withdrawing member 40 is provided with a guide piece 45 which enters into the ball path 24 by the ball withdrawing operation to guide the pachinko balls in the ball path 24 to the ball conducting path 39.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko machine provided with a hitting ball supply device for feeding pachinko balls of a hitting ball supply tray provided on a front side of a front frame of a pachinko machine one by one to a firing portion of a firing rail. In particular, the present invention relates to a pachinko machine capable of removing a pachinko ball in a hitting ball supply tray into a ball removal passage without causing clogging of the ball.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional pachinko machine, as shown in FIG. 11, a pachinko ball of a hitting ball supply tray 100 is guided to a ball passage 102 of a hitting ball supply device 101 provided on the back side, and one ball is fed by a ball feeding member 103. To be supplied to the firing portion of the firing rail. On the other hand, a ball outlet 104 is opened at the bottom of the ball passage 102, and an opening / closing plate 105 is disposed in the ball outlet 104. The opening / closing plate 105 is moved to release the ball outlet 104. By hitting ball supply tray 1
00 pachinko balls can be extracted into the ball extraction passage 106.

[0003]

In the pachinko machine described above, since the ball passage 102 is formed to be slightly larger than the diameter of the pachinko ball and has a play, the pachinko ball of the hit ball supply tray 100 is moved into the ball passage 102. Ball outlet 10 at the bottom
When the ball pressure is applied to the pachinko ball in the ball passage 102 when the ball is taken out from the ball passage 4 into the ball passage 106, the pachinko ball is lifted up as shown by the chain line in FIG. There was a problem that the pachinko balls were left without being removed. And
In order to remove the remaining pachinko balls, for example, the ball must be repeatedly removed from the ball to vibrate, and the player must perform a troublesome operation.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a pachinko machine capable of collecting pachinko balls in a ball-extraction passage without causing clogging when extracting pachinko balls from a hit ball supply tray.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a pachinko machine according to the present invention is provided with a ball passage for guiding a pachinko ball of a hit ball supply tray provided on a front side of a front frame of the pachinko machine to a back side. And a ball feeder provided with a ball feeder that feeds the leading pachinko ball one by one to the launching portion of the launching rail of the ball passage, and is located on the side of the ball feeder. Opening the bottom surface of the end of the ball passage and providing a ball outlet, always closing the ball outlet, and a ball removing member having an openable and closable plate that can be moved to a position where the ball outlet is opened by the ball removing operation At the same time, a ball-extraction passage is connected to the ball-extraction opening, and the ball-extraction member is provided with a guide piece that enters the ball-passage by the ball-extraction operation and guides the pachinko ball in the ball-passage to the ball-extraction passage. .

The ball feeding member of the hitting ball supply device receives a pachinko ball located at the head of a ball passage and makes it stand by, and a pachinko ball received by the ball stopping portion by rotating upward. It is preferable that a ball receiving portion that receives the pachinko ball that is received and rotated downward and supplies the pachinko ball to the firing position of the firing rail is provided integrally.

It is preferable that the guide piece of the ball removing member is formed such that the lower surface thereof is formed as an inclined surface which is inclined toward the ball removing port so as to reliably guide the ball into the ball removing port.

Further, it is preferable that the opening / closing plate of the ball removing member also serves as the bottom of the ball passage so that the pachinko ball in the ball passage moves with the movement of the opening / closing plate.

In the ball punching device of the hitting supply tray in the pachinko machine configured as described above, when the ball pulling member is moved to a position where the ball pullout opening is opened by the ball pulling operation, the guide piece enters the ball passage. The pachinko balls flowing down the ball passage are guided from the ball outlet to the ball outlet passage. As a result, the pachinko balls in the ball feeding plate and the ball passage of the ball feeding device can be reliably extracted without clogging the balls, and the ball can be prevented from hitting the ball feeding member of the ball feeding device. The feed member can be prevented from being damaged.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a lower portion of the pachinko machine showing a glass door frame and a front plate opened. In the figure, 1 is a front frame of a pachinko machine, 2 is a game board detachably mounted on the rear surface of the front frame 1, and a firing rail 3 is mounted on the lower right side of the game board 2. Reference numeral 4 denotes a striking rod whose tip faces the firing portion 5 of the firing rail 3. Reference numeral 6 denotes a front plate that covers the front surface of the firing rail 3, together with a glass door frame 7 that covers an upper portion of the game board 2. It is attached to the side so that it can be opened and closed freely. A hit ball supply tray 8 is provided on the surface of the front plate 6. Also,
On the lower front surface of the front frame 1, a lower storage tray 9 for storing the surplus balls of the hit ball supply tray 8 and an operation handle 10 for adjusting the resilience of the pachinko balls fired from the firing unit 5 are provided.

[0011] As shown in FIG.
It comprises a main body 11 and a cover member 12 that covers the outside of the front surface of the main body 11. The main body 11 has a dish 13 for storing pachinko balls, a decorative plate 14 surrounding an upper edge portion of the dish 13, and a side plate 15 extending below the dish 13. The plate portion 13 has a rectifying portion 16 in which the bottom is gently downwardly inclined to one side and a slinging portion in which pachinko balls are aligned in a row is formed. An upper through hole 17 through which the pachinko ball of the portion 13 flows out to the back side of the front plate 6 is provided. Also, the front panel 6
A lower through-hole 19 communicating with a ball passage passage portion 18 formed in the side plate portion 15 is formed in the bottom plate.

On the other hand, on the back surface of the front plate 6,
0 is provided. The hit ball feeding device 20 includes a hit ball feeding tray 8.
For supplying pachinko balls to be stored one by one from the upper through hole 17 of the front plate 6 to the firing position 5 of the firing rail 3, and includes a case body 21 and a ball feed member 22.

As shown in FIG. 4, the case body 21 is provided with an inflow port 23 corresponding to the upper through hole 17 formed in the front plate 6, and a pachinko ball having an open front surface and communicating with the inflow port 23. A hollow box-shaped body 25a having a spherical passage 24 formed slightly larger than the diameter of the box-shaped body 25a, and a supply port 26 which closes the open side surface of the box-shaped body 25a and corresponds to the firing portion 5 of the firing rail 3 The box-shaped body 25a and the cover body 25b are united with each other by being formed into two parts with the opened cover body 25b.

As shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, the ball feed member 22 is provided on both sides with a pivot 2 parallel to the firing rail 3. As shown in FIG.
7, 27 are protruded integrally, and the rotation support shafts 27, 2
7 is fitted in bearing recesses 28, 28 formed in the box-shaped body 25a and is supported so as to be able to rotate up and down.
The center of gravity is placed so as to rotate downward as shown in FIG.

When the ball feed member 22 is rotated downward as shown in FIG. 6A, the ball feed portion 22 receives the leading pachinko ball B guided from the inflow port 23 to the ball passage 24 and prevents the ball stop portion 29 from falling.
6B, the pachinko ball B received and held by the ball stopper 29 at the time of the upward rotation shown in FIG. A semicircular ball receiving portion 30 to be sent to the launching portion 5 of
An engaging pin 31 that is parallel to the rotation support shafts 27 and 27 and protrudes outward from the case body 21 is integrally formed.

As shown in FIG. 5, the engaging pin 31 is provided on an interlocking bar 33 which is rotatably supported by a shaft 32 below the firing rail 3 and on the front side of the game board 2 as shown in FIG. The push-up part 34 can be abutted. Further, the interlocking lever 33 is integrally provided with a lever portion 35 that hangs downward from one end of the push-up portion 34, and the lever portion 35 is positioned so as to be able to engage with a catching rod 36 fixed to the hitting rod 4. I have.

The ball removing mechanism according to the present invention is provided on the case body 21 of the hit ball supply device 20. The case body 2
5, a long groove 37a (right side in FIG. 5) and a guide hole 37b communicate with the inflow port 23 in the box 25a, as shown in FIG.
(Left side in FIG. 5) is provided, and a ball outlet 38 is provided at the end of the ball passage 24 so as to coincide with the long groove 37a.
In addition, below the ball outlet 38, a ball outlet passage 3 for receiving pachinko balls falling from the ball outlet 38 and flowing out to the lower opening 19.
9 is formed.

The ball outlet 38 is provided with a ball removing member 40, and at one end of the ball plate member 40, a bottom plate of the ball passage 24 and an opening / closing plate 41 for opening and closing the ball outlet 38 are provided. . As shown in FIG. 3, the ball removing member 40 integrally has a sliding shaft portion 40a, and the sliding shaft portion 40a is a box-shaped guide frame formed on the side plate portion 15 of the hit ball supply tray 8. 42
Is supported so that it can reciprocate in the left-right direction. The front plate 6 is provided with a guide slot 43 corresponding to the long groove 37a and the guide hole 37b of the box-shaped body 25a in communication with the upper through hole 17, and the opening / closing plate 41 of the ball removing member 40 is connected to the guide slot 43. And a ball opening 3 formed in the bottom of the ball passage 24 from the long groove 37a.
8 so that the ball outlet 38 can be opened and closed freely.

The ball removing member 40 has a push piece 44 which can freely enter and exit above the ball stopper 29 of the ball feed member 22 of the ball feeder 20, and a guide piece 4 which can freely enter and exit the ball passage 24.
5 are provided integrally. The push piece portion 44 faces the inside of the box 25a from the guide slot 43 formed in the front plate 6 and the guide hole 37b of the box 25a, as shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, when the ball removing member 40 is urged to the position to close the ball outlet 38, the ball removing member 40 is located at the side of the hit ball supply device 20, and the ball removing member 40 is at the position where the ball outlet 38 is released. As shown in FIG. 7B, the pachinko ball B which enters the upper surface of the ball feed member 22 and waits on the upper surface of the ball stopper 29 is pushed out from the ball passage 24 to the ball outlet 38, as shown in FIG. To fall.

The lower surface of the guide piece 45 has a ball passage 37.
It is formed as an inclined surface inclined toward. The guide slot 43 and the guide hole 37 formed in the front plate 6
When the ball removing member 40 is urged to the position where the ball removing member 38 closes the ball removing port 38 as shown in FIG. When the ball removal member 40 moves to a position where the ball removal opening 38 is released, as shown in FIG. 7B, the ball removal member 40 protrudes upward in the ball passage 24 to eliminate the play of the ball passage 24 and to release the play of the ball passage 24. The pachinko balls flowing down the 24 are guided to the ball passage 39 to be dropped. For this reason, the subsequent pachinko ball flowing down the ball passage 24 is guided from the ball outlet 38 to the ball removal passage 39 by the guide piece 45, so that the ball can be removed without hitting the ball feed member 22.

On the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 9, an I-shaped lever member 46 for operating the ball removing member 40 is provided on the front surface of the side plate portion 15 of the hit ball supply tray 8 by a shaft 47. The lever member 46 is pivotally supported so as to be freely swingable.
And a projection 49 projecting from the front side surface of the ball removing member 40 faces the long hole 48. Further, a coil spring 50 is connected to the lever member 46 so that the ball removing member 40 is always provided.
9 is urged as shown by the solid line in FIG.

The operating member 51 has a base end pivotally supported by a shaft 52 so as to be vertically rotatable.
1 The arm 53 provided on the lower surface is in contact with the side surface of the lever member 46 and the pressing portion 54 is
9 is pushed upward from a through hole 55 formed in the operating member 51, and the pressing member 54 of the operating member 51 is pressed to rotate the lever member 46 as shown by a chain line in FIG.
Can be moved to a position where the ball opening 38 is released.

Next, the operation of the pachinko machine constructed as described above will be described. The pachinko balls stored in the hit ball supply tray 8 flow into the ball passage 24 of the case body 21 through the inflow port 23 from the upper through hole 17 of the front plate 6 while being rectified in a line by the rectification unit 16. Then, as shown in FIGS. 5, 6 (a) and 8, the pachinko ball B at the foremost portion of the ball passage 24 is received by the upper surface of the ball stopper 29 of the ball feed member 22 and stands by.

In this state, when the hitting rod 4 is rotated to the firing preparation position as shown by the chain line in FIG. 5, the lever 35 of the interlocking lever 33 is pulled by the hooking rod 36, and
3 rotates upward with the shaft 32 as a fulcrum.
4 pushes the engagement pin 31 of the ball feed member 22 upward. For this reason, the ball feeding member 22 is rotated upward about the rotation support shafts 27, 27 as shown in FIG. 6B, and the pachinko ball B waiting on the upper surface of the ball stopping portion 29 of the ball feeding member 22 is rotated. Falls down and is received by the ball receiver 30.

When the hitting rod 4 rotates to the firing position as shown by the solid line in FIG.
The pin 31 is pushed up and released by the rotation of the pin 35, and the pin 31 rotates downward as shown by the chain line in FIG.
The pachinko ball B of the ball receiving section 30 is sent out from the supply port 26 to the firing section 5 of the firing rail 3. At the same time, the pachinko ball B1 at the foremost part of the following ball passage 24 is moved to the ball stopper 2 of the ball feed member 22.
9 Hold on the upper surface and wait. After that, each time the hitting rod 4 reciprocates, the pachinko balls at the foremost part of the ball passage 24 are reliably supplied to the firing portion 5 of the firing rail 3 one by one.

In order to extract the pachinko balls in the hitting ball supply tray 8 to the lower storage tray 9, the pressing portion 5 of the operating member 51 is used.
4 is pressed as shown by a chain line in FIG. 9 to rotate the lever member 46 against the bias of the coil spring 50. As a result, the ball removing member 40 moves in the direction of the arrow in the figure via the projection 49 engaging with the long hole 48 of the lever member 46, and the opening / closing plate 41 releases the ball removing hole 38 as shown in FIG. At the same time, the guide piece 45 protrudes upward in the ball passage 24. For this reason, the pachinko balls on the opening / closing plate 41 of the ball removing member 40 fall from the ball ejection opening 38 while trying to move in accordance with the movement of the opening / closing plate 41. 24
, And is guided by the guide piece 45 to be surely discharged from the ball outlet 38 through the ball outlet passage 39 and the lower hole 19 of the front plate 6 to the ball outlet passage portion 18 as shown in FIG. Face plate 6
Shot 57 on the front of the game board 2 from the outlet 56
Is discharged to the lower storage dish 9 through the

Further, the pachinko ball B guided to the hitting ball supply device 20 and remaining on the upper surface of the ball stopper 29 of the ball feed member 22
As shown in FIG. 7B, the push piece 4 of the ball removing member 40
The ball 4 pushes the ball from the ball passage 24 to the ball outlet 38 and falls, and is discharged to the lower storage tray 9 in the same manner as the pachinko ball in the hit ball supply tray 8.

After the pachinko ball in the hitting ball supply tray 8 is extracted into the lower storage tray 9 and the pressing of the operating member 51 is released, the lever member 46 is biased by the coil spring 50.
Is returned to the original state, and at the same time, the opening / closing plate 41 of the ball removing member 40
Also moves to the position shown in FIG. 7A and closes the ball outlet 38. At the same time, the guide piece 45 is retracted from the ball passage 24 so that the ball feeding member 22 can receive the pachinko ball in the hit ball supply tray 8.

As described above, even if the ball pressure is applied to the pachinko ball in the ball passage 24 and the ball is caught in the ball passage 24 in an arch shape and the ball is clogged, the pachinko ball is balanced by the guide piece 45. At the same time, the subsequent pachinko balls can be reliably guided to the ball outlet 38 without causing clogging of the balls.

The hitting ball supply device 20 of the present embodiment
In FIG. 10, the pachinko ball at the tip of the ball passage 24 is received by the ball stopper 29 on the upper surface of the ball feed member 22.
As shown in FIG. 2, the ball feeder 2 has a ball stopper 29a on the side surface of the ball feeder member 22a for receiving the pachinko ball at the tip.
In a pachinko machine equipped with a ball 0a, for example, even if the ball pressure is applied as shown by the one-dot chain line in FIG. The pachinko balls are led to the ball passage 39 without losing the balance of the pachinko balls and causing clogging of the balls, and the same effects as in the above-described embodiment can be obtained.

[0031]

Since the present invention has the above configuration,
The pachinko balls in the hit ball supply tray are extracted from the ball outlet to the lower storage dish by the guide piece that enters the ball passage, so that the pachinko balls are reliably removed without causing ball clogging in the ball passage and the lower storage dish Can be discharged to

Therefore, in the present invention, clogging does not occur when pachinko balls are extracted from the hitting ball supply tray,
The advantage of improving the service of the player is that there is no need to perform the ball-removing operation many times to collect the pachinko balls in the ball-removing path as in conventional pachinko machines, which eliminates the troublesome operation of giving vibrations. There is.

Further, since the pachinko balls in the ball passage are guided to the ball removal passage by the guide pieces, the pachinko balls to be removed do not hit the ball feeding member, and it is ensured that the ball feeding member is damaged. Can be prevented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a lower perspective view of the pachinko machine showing a state where a glass door frame and a front plate are released.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a hit ball supply tray.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the hit ball supply device.

FIG. 5 is a sectional front view of the hit ball supply device.

FIG. 6 is a sectional side view for explaining the operation of the hit ball supply device,
(A) shows a state in which the ball feed member has turned downward, and (B)
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a state in which the ball feeding member has turned upward.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the hit ball supply device, in which (a) shows a closed state of a ball outlet, and (b) is a cross-sectional view showing a state in which the ball outlet is released.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional side view of a main part showing a related configuration between a ball outlet and a lower storage dish.

FIG. 9 is a front view of an essential part showing a ball-pulling operation part assembled.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional front view showing another embodiment.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 front frame 3 firing rail 5 firing section 8 hitting supply tray 20 hitting supply device 22 ball feeding member 24 ball path 29 ball stopping section 30 ball receiving section 38 ball opening 39 ball discharging path 40 ball discharging member 41 opening / closing plate 45 guide piece

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A ball passage for guiding a pachinko ball of a hitting ball supply tray provided on a front side of a front frame of a pachinko machine to a back side, and a leading pachinko ball of the ball path is supplied one by one to a firing portion of a firing rail. A ball-feeding machine provided with a ball-feeding member having a ball-feeding member, wherein a ball outlet is provided by opening a bottom surface of an end portion of a ball passage located on a side of the ball-feeding member, and always providing a ball outlet. A ball ejection member having a movable opening / closing plate is provided at a position where the ejection opening is closed and the ball ejection opening is opened by a ball ejection operation, and a ball ejection passage is connected to the ball ejection hole. A pachinko machine characterized in that a guide piece is provided for guiding a pachinko ball in a ball passage into the ball passage by entering the ball passage by a ball removing operation.