JP4535757B2 - Medal ejector - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a medal ejector. Specifically, a partition plate is provided in the medal tank of the medal ejector to reduce the weight applied to the medal hopper, and to reduce the flow of medals from the medal tank to the medal hopper in one direction. It relates to the technology to regulate from.

In a medal game hall where so-called pachislot halls are installed, in which a rotary gaming machine that uses a game medal is installed, a plurality of medal game machines are provided side by side. A player who is playing with a medal gaming machine receives a supply of gaming medals from a medal discharging machine such as an inter-unit medal lending machine installed between each medal gaming machine or a medal lending machine installed on an island. I was playing with a medal game machine. In addition, at the game center, a medal discharging machine that rents medals when coins are inserted is provided, and various games are played using the medals lent out.
A conventional example of these medal ejectors will be described below with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5, taking the inter-unit medal lending machine 100 as an example.

  The inter-unit medal lending machine 100 has a vertically long shape that does not take up space when installed between medal gaming machines. A bill insertion hole 102 for inserting a bill for receiving a medal loan is provided in the upper part of the front surface 101, and similarly a card insertion hole 103 for inserting a member card or a prepaid card is provided. In addition, a display unit 104 made of a liquid crystal or the like for displaying a lending status, an instruction for lending, and the like is provided to display various information. In addition, a status display lamp, a remote control light receiving unit, a usage mode display lamp for displaying a usage status of the inter-unit medal lending machine, and the like are installed on the upper portion of the front face 101.

In addition, a control unit 106 for controlling the lending of medals such as lending from inserted cash and for controlling the overall state of the inter-unit medal lending machine 100 is provided.
Furthermore, a medal insertion hole 105 is provided in the approximate center of the front face 101 for a hole attendant to replenish medals. As shown in FIG. 5, the medal insertion hole 105 opens forward so that the lower part is a base point and the upper part is an arc.
In addition, a medal hopper 107 is installed in the lower part inside the inter-unit medal lending machine 100. The medal hopper 107 is a device that discharges medals lent out from a medal discharge port 108 that is opened at the bottom of the front face 101 of the inter-unit medal lending machine 100, and is a device that sequentially counts and discharges the number of lent medals. A medal tank 109 is installed above the medal hopper 107. The medal tank 109 is a tank for storing medals inserted from the medal insertion hole 105, and the tank shape is maintained by the side plate 110 as shown in the figure.

  In the inter-unit medal lending machine 100 configured as described above, when a request for lending medal, that is, a medal lending / replay button (not shown) is pressed by the user, it is inserted under the control of the control unit 106. A medal is lent out from cash. When renting medals, the hopper 107 installed at the lower part of the medal tank 109 counts the medals stored in the medal tank 109 and sequentially rents a predetermined number.

  However, in the medal tank 109 as shown in the conventional example, the opening area of the medal passage 111 through which medals flow from the medal tank 109 to the hopper 107 is extremely small compared to the upper medal tank 109 and is stored in the medal tank 109. When the force from a certain medal acts on the medal passage 111 evenly from each direction, the medals called a medal bridge are combined in a bridge shape by pressing each other in the medal tank 109 passage to maintain a balance of force. Therefore, there is a problem that the flow of medals into the medal passage 111 may be hindered. In addition, if there are many medals stored in the medal tank 109, the medal weight becomes high and a problem such as medal lock in which the medal hopper does not operate occurs. As a result, the medal lending machine 100 often generates a medal lending error in which the medal is not discharged even though the medal hopper lends, and the clerk operates the intermediary medal lending machine 100 each time to operate the medal bridge. And the medal lock have to be corrected, and there is a problem that the player is awaited and frustrated, and that the hall cannot be operated during that time. For this reason, even if the capacity of the medal tank is reduced, there is a problem that a staff member has to replenish the medal tank with medals many times.

Therefore, in the present invention, in order to solve the above problems, the structure of the medal tank is reviewed, and when the medal is supplied to the hopper, the force due to the weight of the medal applied to the hopper is reduced to make it difficult to generate the medal lock. In addition, a structure that does not easily generate medal bridges is adopted. That is, the medal ejector of the present invention is provided in the inside of the housing provided with a medal insertion hole in the side, the lower part is narrower than the upper part, and the opening is provided in the lower part. A medal tank formed by a side wall of the housing for securing a medal reservoir, a hopper provided at a lower portion of the medal tank, connected to the opening, and provided with a discharge port for discharging the medal; and the medal tank A first partition plate that is formed in a plate-like body, extends upward from the upper portion of the opening, partitions the inside of the medal tank, and is installed below the medal insertion hole; and the first partition plate A first partition plate extending portion that is bent or curved toward the medal insertion hole and extends in an inclined manner.

Therefore, according to the present invention, by providing the second partition plate, the weight of medals located on the second partition plate is applied to the second partition plate at a rate commensurate with the inclination of the second partition plate. The force due to the medal weight acting on the hopper located below the partition plate can be reduced. Thereby, it becomes possible to make it difficult for medal lock to occur due to the addition of the medal weight applied to the hopper.
Further, by providing the first partition plate in addition to the second partition plate, the weight of medals can be further supported by each partition plate, and the load due to the medal weight on the medal hopper can be reduced. Furthermore, by providing the second partition plate and the first partition plate, medals inserted from the medal insertion hole are positioned on both sides of the first partition plate, and medals positioned above the second partition plate are second. A force due to its own weight acts in the direction of inclination of the partition plate, and a medal in which the second partition plate of the first partition plate is positioned on the inside acts on the lower opening side provided in the medal tank, and the second partition plate opens the lower portion. Since a part of the upper part is covered, there is an effect peculiar to the present application that it is difficult to apply force evenly from the front direction in the vicinity of the lower opening, and it is difficult to generate a medal bridge.
Further, in the lower part of the first partition plate, the mutual force between the medals located on both sides of the first partition plate works, but the force received by the medal on the side without the second partition plate due to the weight of the medals located on the second partition plate side. Is a force in a direction different from the force toward the lower opening due to the weight of the medal on the side without the second partition plate, so that the medal bridge is less likely to occur even at the confluence of the lower portion of the first partition plate. Have

  In addition, by extending the first partition plate extending portion to the medal insertion hole side above the first partition plate, the medals inserted from the medal insertion hole are more evenly distributed on both sides of the first partition plate. It is possible to be located at.

  Furthermore, by allowing the first partition plate extending portion to swing so that it can be located on either side of the first partition plate, even if there are medal insertion holes on both sides of the first partition plate, By swinging the partition plate extending portion, there is an effect peculiar to the present application that medals can be inserted more evenly on both sides of the first partition plate when inserted from either medal insertion hole.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective explanatory view showing a medal ejector according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side sectional explanatory view showing the inside of the medal ejector, and FIG. 3 explains the flow of medals of the medal ejector. FIG.

  Reference numeral 1 denotes a medal ejector. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the medal ejector 1 is a device that is installed between the revolving game machines PS and that pays out medals used in so-called pachislot machines that are revolving game machines PS. Hereinafter, in this embodiment, the medal discharging machine 1 will be described using the inter-unit medal lending machine 1 as an example, but a medal lending machine provided in the hall may be used. The inter-unit medal lending machine 1 is provided with the device front surface 2a facing the player side. A bill insertion hole 3 is provided in the upper center of the apparatus front surface 2a, and a bill burr 4 for bill processing is built in the bill insertion hole 3. The bill burr 4 accepts a bill inserted from the bill insertion hole 3. Can be identified and output. The signal output from the bill validator 4 is transmitted to the processing device 5 provided in the inter-unit medal lending machine 1 for processing. Further, a card insertion slot 6 is opened in the front 2a of the apparatus, and a card reader / writer 7 as a card processing apparatus is built in the inter-unit medal lending machine 1 in the card insertion slot 6. The card reader / writer 7 accepts a prepaid card or a membership card used when a player receives a medal rental as a game medium from the card insertion slot 6, and receives information on the amount that can be rented, information on the member, etc. Thus, the information can be transmitted to the processing device 5 and various information received from the processing device 5 can be written to the inserted card. Although not provided in this embodiment, a card full recovery unit 7a is provided at the lower part of the card reader / writer 7 as indicated by 7a in FIG. 2, and the card reader / writer 7 collects used prepaid cards and the like. The card reader / writer 7 may collect the collected card to the card full collection unit 7a. Reference numeral 8 denotes a display unit. The display unit 8 displays various types of information such as information to be transmitted to the player and an error display to be transmitted to the staff in accordance with an instruction from the processing device 5. In addition, a lamp 9 for various guidance and warning is installed above the front surface 2a of the apparatus, and the operating state of the inter-unit medal lending machine 1 can be displayed in accordance with instructions from the processing apparatus 5.

  10 is a hopper. The hopper 10 is installed in the lower part inside the inter-unit medal lending machine 1, and the medal tank 11 is installed in the upper part of the hopper 10. The medal tank 11 has an upper portion positioned substantially at the center of the inter-unit medal lending machine 1 and opened from the device front surface 2a to the device rear surface 2b. Opening 12 is formed. The upper portion of the hopper 10 is connected to the lower opening 12 of the medal tank 11 and sequentially counts the medals flowing from the lower opening 12 of the medal tank 11 and counts them to the medal discharge port 13 provided at the lower portion of the apparatus front surface 2a. Disbursed medals. Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the medal tank 11 includes side surfaces 2c and 2d (2c in FIG. 1) of the intermediary medal lending machine 1, which are the apparatus front 2a side, the apparatus back surface 2b side, and the front side to the back side in FIG. 2 and 2d are in FIG. 1), and a side wall 11a provided on the side forms a funnel shape from the upper part to the lower opening.

  Reference numeral 14 denotes a medal insertion hole. The medal insertion hole 14 is provided in the approximate center of the front surface 2a of the apparatus, and is provided with a door that can be opened and closed by unlocking it, and is provided for a store clerk to replenish medals for lending. The medal insertion hole 14 is located above the medal tank 11. Reference numeral 15 denotes a medal insertion hole provided on the rear surface 2b of the apparatus, and is provided for supplying renting medals similarly to the medal insertion hole 14. Accordingly, the medal insertion hole 14 can be replenished from the apparatus front 2a on the side where the player is present, and the back medal insertion hole 15 is an automatic medal supply apparatus (not shown) for replenishing medals from the apparatus back 2b side where there is no player. Is possible. In this way, by enabling medal replenishment from either the device front 2a side or the device rear surface 2b side of the inter-unit medal lending machine 1, the store clerk can pass through the medal insertion hole 14 in a hall without an automatic medal supply device. Medals are supplied. In a hole with an automatic medal supply device, when the remaining number of medals in the medal tank decreases, the medal detection sensor instructs the automatic medal supply device to supply medals, and the medals conveyed on the belt conveyor conveyance path The inter-unit medal lending machine 1 is branched by the branching device and supplied through the rear medal insertion hole 15.

  Reference numeral 16 denotes a first partition plate. As shown in FIG. 2, the first partition plate 16 is a central upper portion of the lower opening 12 of the medal tank 11, and the intermediary medal lending machine 1, which is the front side to the back side in FIG. 2. It is installed across the side surfaces 2c and 2d. Further, a first partition plate extending portion 17 is extended from the upper end of the first partition plate 16. The first partition plate extending portion 17 is formed of a plate-like body and is installed between the side surfaces 2c and 2d like the first partition plate 16 and has a base end portion base end portion connected to the upper end of the first partition plate 16. The swing center is provided so as to be swingable, and is in a state of being located on the medal insertion hole 14 side provided in the apparatus front surface 2a or in a state of being located on the back medal insertion hole 15 side provided on the apparatus back surface 2b. When the swing free end 19 of the first partition plate extending portion 17 is positioned in the respective medal insertion holes 14 and 15, the swing free end 19 is positioned above the lower ends of the medal insertion holes 14 and 15 and stops. As described above, the first partition plate extending portion 17 extends from the upper end of the first partition plate 16 so that a part of the medals inserted from the medal insertion hole 14 or the rear medal insertion hole 15 is the first. It is thrown into the front side of the partition plate 16, and the others are thrown into the back side of the first partition plate 16. Further, the fixed position of the swing free end 19 is positioned by a screw screwed from the outside, and the position of the screw has a plurality of mounting screw holes so that fine adjustment is possible. In this way, it is possible to compensate for the bias in the amount of medals inserted before and after the first partition plate 16 due to the difference in the supply speed of medals that is different for each store clerk and for each manufacturer of the automatic medal supply device. The medals can be supplied substantially evenly. As shown in FIG. 2, when a card full recovery part (indicated by 7a in FIG. 2) is provided, it will hit if it is swung, so that the partition plate extension part 17 is located from the upper end of the first partition plate 16. It may be removable and may be reattached to either side of the medal insertion holes 14 and 15 by screwing.

  Reference numeral 20 denotes a second partition plate. The second partition plate 20 is formed of a plate-like body and has a lower opening from one side wall 11a of the medal tank 11 partitioned by the first partition plate 16, that is, from the side wall 11a on the apparatus rear surface 2b side to the upper center of the lower opening 12 of the medal tank 11. It is inclined and fixed so that the 12 side is lowered. When the second partition plate 20 is installed, a medal passage 21 is formed between the end of the second partition plate 20 on the lower opening 12 side and the first partition plate 16 positioned above the end portion. In this embodiment, the second partition plate 20 is installed on the apparatus rear surface 2b side of the inter-unit medal lending machine 1 with respect to the first partition plate 16. However, the inter-unit medal lending machine 1 is disposed on the first partition plate. You may install in the apparatus front 2a side.

The operation of the inter-unit medal lending machine 1 configured as described above will be described below.
When the medal M is inserted into the medal tank 11 from the medal insertion hole 14 or the rear medal insertion hole 15 of the inter-unit medal lending machine 1, the inserted medal M is, as shown in FIG. As a result, the first partition plate 16 is inserted almost evenly into the back side and the near side.
The inserted medals M are stacked and the medals M are pressed against each other. Then, as shown in FIG. 3, the medal M stacked above the lower opening 12 has turned from the side where the second partition plate 20 is present to the side where the second partition plate 20 of the first partition plate 16 is not present. A small amount of medals M are located, and each weight, that is, the weight on the side where the second partition plate 20 is not overwhelming than the downward force W1 due to the weight on the side where the second partition plate 20 is absent relative to the first partition plate 16 The downward force W2 due to is increased.

  Then, in the medals M that are pressed against each other, the downward force W2 due to the weight of the medals located above the first partition plate 16 on the side where the second partition plate 20 is not present is overwhelmingly larger. Since the downward force W3 due to the medal M related to the medal hopper 10 is substantially the same as the downward force W2 due to the weight on the side where the second partition plate 20 is not present, from the medal M on the side where the second partition plate 20 is not present. Sequentially enters the medal hopper 10 and is counted by the medal hopper 10 and discharged from the medal discharge port 13. Thus, when the amount of medals M located below the second partition plate 20 is small, the number of medals M on the side with the second partition plate 20 and the number of medals M on the side without the partition plate 20 become substantially the same. In addition, a force is applied almost uniformly from around the lower opening 12 to form a medal bridge, but there is almost no weight from the upper part for forming the medal bridge, that is, W1 and W2 are both small. Medal bridge is unlikely to occur.

Further, the force W4 acting in the second partition plate tilt direction by the medal M above the second partition plate 20 is a small one corresponding to the tilt of the second partition plate 20 in the weight of the medal M above the second partition plate 20. That is, most of the weight of the medal M is supported by the second partition plate 20 and corresponds to the inclination angle. An amount corresponding to the inclination angle acts on the medal M on the side where the second partition plate 20 is not present at the position of the medal passage 21.
As a result, the action from all the medals M given to the lower opening 12 is laminated on the second partition plate 20 transmitted from the medal passage 21 and the action due to the weight of the medal M on the side where the second partition plate 20 is not provided. It is a very small action from the medal M.
Accordingly, in the lower opening 12, the action given to the lower opening 12 of the second partition plate 20 is substantially equal to the total weight of the medal M on the side where the second partition plate 20 is not provided. This prevents the total weight of all the medals M in the medal tank 11 from acting on the lower opening 12, thereby preventing an excessive load from being applied to the hopper 10 and causing medal lock. It becomes difficult.

  The present invention can be used not only for a medallion machine for lending a medal, which is a game medium of a so-called pachislot machine, which is a spinning machine, but also for a medal lending machine provided in a hall. Further, the present invention can be used for any apparatus having a structure in which medals stored in a medal tank are paid out by a hopper, such as a medal payer for paying out medals used in a game center or the like.

Perspective explanatory view showing an inter-unit medal lending machine in this invention Side cross-sectional explanatory drawing showing the inside of the inter-unit medal lending machine Side view cross-sectional explanatory drawing explaining the flow of medals on the inter-unit medal lending machine Front explanatory view showing a conventional example Side view sectional explanatory drawing showing a conventional example

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1-unit medal lending machine 2a device front surface 2b device back surface 2c device side surface 2d device side surface 3 bill insertion hole 4 bill burr 5 processing device 6 card insertion slot 7 card reader / writer 7a card full recovery unit 8 display unit 10 hopper 11 medal tank 11a side wall 12 lower opening 13 medal discharge port 14 medal insertion hole 15 back medal insertion hole 16 first partition plate 17 first partition plate extension portion 18 base end portion 19 swing free end 20 second partition plate 21 medal passage

Claims (4)

Provided in the housing that medal insertion hole is provided on the side, lower than the top have a narrow opening is provided in the lower portion, it is formed by a side wall of the housing medal accumulating part To secure the medal tank ,
Is installed in the lower part of the medal reservoir, the through opening and the communicating, a hopper outlet is provided for discharging medals,
Wherein provided on the inner portion of the medal the tank, Ri partition the inner part of the medal tank extending from an upper portion of the opening Ri Do a plate-shaped member upward, a first partition plate that will be installed from beneath the medal hole When,
A first partition plate extending portion that is bent or curved from the upper portion of the first partition plate toward the medal insertion hole and that is inclined and extended;
Medal discharge machine, characterized in that it comprises a. The medal insertion hole is provided on each of the one surface and the opposite surface of the side portion of the housing,
The first partition plate extending portion can be installed toward any one of the medal insertion holes.
The medal ejector according to claim 1 . Inside the medal tank, there is provided a second partition plate made of a plate-like body and inclined from the side wall of the medal tank to the opening,
A gap is formed between the lower surface of the second partition plate and the opening.
The medal ejector according to claim 1 or 2 . The second partition plate covers a part or all of above said opening,
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