JPH0350556B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a lifting and polishing device for pachinko balls, and more specifically, the present invention relates to a device for lifting and polishing pachinko balls, and more specifically, for lifting and polishing an object consisting of pachinko balls and ball polishing material while stirring it. The present invention also relates to a pachinko ball lifting and polishing device designed to clean and polish pachinko balls.

[Conventional technology]

Recently, various lifting and polishing devices have been proposed that clean and polish pachinko balls while lifting them.

As such a lifting polishing device, for example, the
As shown in Japanese Patent Publication No. 58-16911 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 58-67275, there is a spiral body that agitates and polishes pachinko balls in a storage section disposed below, and a spiral body that agitates and polishes pachinko balls while transporting the pachinko balls to an upper discharge port. Arrangements with polishing spirals are known in the art. With this configuration, the device can be made smaller and the pachinko balls can be efficiently transported, cleaned and polished.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in all of the conventional configurations, the pachinko machines are placed in a position where the pachinko balls flow in from either one or both directions of the left and right. It has the disadvantage that it cannot be easily and effectively adapted to the structure and arrangement of the device.

That is, in the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Publication No. 16911/1983, the pachinko ball collection gutter was connected only to one side of the ball storage part, so such a device was not suitable for installation at the side end of the pachinko machine island. However, it cannot be installed as is in a position such as the center where pachinko balls enter from both the left and right directions, and it is necessary to separately install a device with the left and right configuration reversed or to make appropriate modifications, which will significantly increase costs. It had the following points.

On the other hand, in JP-A No. 58-67275, etc.,
Since the left and right ball collecting troughs were directly connected to the storage tank, such a device could not be applied as is to a position where pachinko balls only flow in from one direction, such as the side end of a pachinko machine island, and the balls would not flow in. Appropriate modifications were required to prevent pachinko balls etc. from flying out from the open part of the storage tank on the side.

In addition, when reusing dirty ball playing material after cleaning it or using new ball playing material, the insertion slot for ball playing material was fixed, so depending on the layout of the pachinko machine island, etc. The directions are different,
Employees, etc. must move the ball polishing material each time to the insertion slot provided at a different location on each island.
This method had the disadvantage that the insertion work of the ball polishing material could not be performed simply and quickly.

The purpose of the present invention is to be able to be applied to various types of pachinko machine islands with different directions of inflow of pachinko balls and appropriate positions of pachinko machine islands according to the user's requests, and to be able to be applied to various types of pachinko machine islands in which the directions of pachinko balls flow in are different, and to be applied to various types of pachinko machine islands, such as structures of various game halls and subsequent renovations. To provide a pachinko ball lifting and polishing device which can effectively cope with the above problems and can easily and quickly insert a ball polishing material.

[Means to solve the problem]

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and includes a storage section for accommodating objects to be lifted consisting of pachinko balls and ball polishing material, and a storage section provided in the storage section to direct a part of the objects to be lifted upward. A transporting means for transporting the material, and a transporting means for taking in the object to be lifted upwardly transported by the transporting means from the intake port and transporting it to the discharge port provided at the upper part while stirring, The storage portion is supported by a support member, and a connecting gutter having a ball inlet is provided on at least one side of the supporting member, and a ball material insertion member having a ball material insertion port is removably attached to one side different from the connecting gutter. It is characterized by being attached to.

[Effect]

According to the present invention, the connecting gutter having the ball inlet is detachably attached to at least one side of the support member that supports the storage portion, so that the connecting gutter can be attached to a plurality of Without preparing a lifting polishing device, the basic lifting polishing device can be installed on various types of pachinko machine islands with different directions of inflow of pachinko balls, or at appropriate positions on the pachinko machine island according to the user's request. I can do it.

In addition, since we have removably attached the ball-polishing material insertion member that has a ball-polishing material insertion port on one side different from the connection gutter of the support member, the installation position of this ball-polishing material insertion member can be changed as appropriate according to the user's request. For example, in a game hall, each insertion member can be installed facing each other on the aisle side between two rows of pachinko machine islands arranged side by side on the left and right, and employees can move the ball playing material to the insertion slot of each island. It is possible to easily and quickly perform the work of inserting the ball polishing material according to the arrangement of the pachinko machine island without having to do so.

[Example] An example of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

1 to 6 schematically show an embodiment of the pachinko ball lifting polishing device according to the present invention applied to a pachinko machine island in a pachinko game hall, and this lifting polishing device 1 is pachinko ball 3
a storage section 5 that accommodates objects to be lifted 2 and the like made of ball polishing material 4, etc.; a transfer means 6 disposed within the storage section 5; and a lifting means 7 disposed above the storage section 5.
It is equipped with

In this embodiment, the storage section 5 is formed into an inverted conical shape having a flange section 5a at the top, and is supported by a support member 10. The support member 10 is formed into a box-like frame shape, and a connecting gutter 11 having a ball inlet 11a connected to a ball collection gutter 29 of the pachinko machine island 51 is detachably attached to at least one side (the left side in this embodiment). attached, and the connecting member 1 is attached to the other side and the back side.
2, 13, and 14 are attached. By appropriately combining the mounting positions and numbers of the connecting gutter 11 and the connecting members 12, 13, and 14, the ball collecting gutter 2
9, that is, various types of pachinko machine islands 51 in which the directions in which the pachinko balls 3 flow are different, or at appropriate positions of the pachinko machine islands 51.
It is designed so that it can be arranged.

Also, on the front side of the support member 10, there is a ball inserting hole 1.
A ball inserting member 15 having a diameter of 6 is removably attached, and the insertion opening 16 is normally sealed by a lid 17 which can be opened and closed. This ball-polishing material insertion member 15
It is also possible to install the connecting member 13 in the front and rear directions, which allows the pachinko machine island 5 to
The insertion member 15 can be installed at a position where it is easiest for an employee or the like to insert the ball polishing material 3 in accordance with the arrangement of the balls 1 and the structure of the game hall.

Further, the side of the connection gutter 11 opposite to the ball collection gutter 29 side extends into the storage cylinder 21 (described later) and is bent along the rotational direction of the inverted conical spiral ring 8 of the transfer means 6. ing. A storage cylinder 21 is disposed on the upper part of the flange part 5a of the storage part 5, and a notch 21a formed on one side of this storage cylinder 21 is inserted into which the tip of the connecting gutter 11 is inserted to collect the objects 2, etc. to be lifted. The system is designed to allow for the influx of people. In addition, the code|symbol 22 is a connection member which connects the storage cylinder 21 and the storage part 5. Although not shown, it is preferable to attach a sound absorbing member to the inner circumferential surface of the storage cylinder 21 or to form the storage cylinder 21 itself from a synthetic resin such as vinyl chloride to improve the sound absorption effect.

A transfer means 6 having an inverted conical spiral ring 8 is disposed in the storage section 5 . A lifting pipe 9 of the lifting means 7 is disposed in an upright state above the storage section 5, and the lower end of the lifting pipe 9 is opened to form an intake port 19 for the objects 2, etc. to be lifted. An intake port 19 is inserted into the storage section 5 . In this embodiment, the lift pipe 9 is the upper main lift pipe 9.
a, and a lower lifting pipe 9b that is detachably connected to the lower part of the main lifting pipe 9a. It is designed to be easy to do. Further, a drive motor 31 is attached to the upper part of the main lifting pipe 9a, the upper part of a spiral wire ring 33 is fixed to the output shaft of this drive motor 31, and the lower end of this spiral wire ring 33 is connected to the lift pipe 9a.
It protrudes downward from the intake port 19 at the lower end of.
Further, the lower end of this spiral wire ring 33 is tightly wound to form a coil-shaped connecting portion 33a. Furthermore, the lower end of the lower lifting pipe 9b is located below the upper end surface of the inverted conical spiral wire ring 8, so that the objects 2, etc. to be lifted, which are transferred by the transfer means 6, can be efficiently transferred. It is done like this.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the inverted conical spiral wire ring 8 is formed so that its outer diameter gradually decreases from the top to the bottom, and again upward from the lower end, which is the small diameter portion. The connecting portion 8a is formed by winding it into a coil shape, and the outer diameter of the connecting portion 8a is formed to a size that allows it to be screwed into the inside of the connecting portion 33a of the spiral wire ring 33 of the lifting means 7. .

The helical wire ring 33 of the lifting means 7 is formed to be wound to the right, and the inverted conical spiral wire ring 8 of the transfer means 6 is formed to be wound to the left and reversed from the lower end to connect to the connecting portion 8a.
is formed in a right-handed manner. Therefore, the connecting portion 33a of the helical wire ring 33 of the lifting means 7 and the connecting portion 8a of the helical wire ring 8 of the transfer means 6 are screwed together by rotating in the right-handed thread direction.

Therefore, when the spiral wire ring 33 is rotated by the rotational driving force of the drive motor 31, the inverted conical spiral wire ring 8 of the transfer means 6 is configured to rotate at the same time, and the connecting portions 33a, Since the screws 8a are rotated in a direction in which the mutually screwed state is firmly maintained, there is no possibility that the connecting portions 33a, 8a will fall off. Note that the winding direction of the spiral wire rings 33 and 8 is the case where the output shaft of the drive motor 31 rotates in the right-handed direction, but when the rotation direction of the output shaft is reversed, the winding direction is reversely wound. All you have to do is do it.

Furthermore, it prevents the objects 2, etc. to be lifted from entering the space inside the coil-shaped connecting portion 8a of the spiral wire ring 8,
In addition, the spiral wire ring 33 extends downward due to the weight of the object 2, etc. being lifted, and a spiral wire ring 8 is formed on the bottom surface of the storage section 5.
A contact member 34 made of synthetic resin and having a head 34a and a shaft 34b that prevent the lower end of the
is installed.

In addition, there is a material to be lifted 2 on the lower side of the main lifting pipe 9a.
A shutter plate 37, which can be opened and closed, is provided on the outlet 36.

A balling material inlet 41 is formed in the upper part of the support member 10, and a balling material inflow control piece 42 is attached to the open end of this inlet 41 in a state extending downward. This control piece 42 is made of rubber, synthetic resin, or the like. Furthermore, the connecting gutter 11 is located close to the inside (front side) of the storage cylinder 21 as seen in FIG. Connecting gutter 11 close to
It is arranged at a different position from the ball inlet 11a, so that the inflow of pachinko balls and the inflow of the ball polishing material 4 can flow in smoothly without interfering with each other.

In the above configuration, the drive motor 31 is driven, and the spiral wire wheels 33 of the lifting means 7 and the transfer means 6,
8 is rotated in the direction of arrow A as shown in FIG. It moves inside the spiral wire ring 8 as shown in FIG. Subsequently, it is transferred upward as shown by arrow C inside the wire ring 8, and further lifted by the spiral wire ring 33 within the lifting pipe 9 of the lifting means 7. It should be noted that among the objects 2, etc. to be lifted upward as shown by the arrow C by the spiral wire ring 8, those that were not taken into the intake port 19 are transferred to the spiral wire ring 8 as shown by the arrow D. The objects that are moved to the outside and are strongly repelled or pushed out are prevented from scattering to the outside by the storage cylinder 21 attached to the upper part of the storage section 5, and are returned to the outside by the rotation of the linear ring 8. Arrow pointing B→C→D
The spiral wire wheels 8, 33 can rotate smoothly, and the objects 2, etc. to be lifted can be efficiently transferred upward in sequence.

The objects 2, etc. to be lifted to the discharge port 43 at the upper part of the main lift pipe 9a are pushed out from the discharge port 43 to a cage-shaped separation gutter 44, which will be described later, and while rolling in the separation gutter 44, pachinko balls are removed. The pachinko ball 3 is supplied to the distribution gutter 52, and the ball playing material 4 passes through the collecting section 45, the ball playing material pipe 46, and is stored in the storage section 5 again.

As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, a ball collection gutter 29 is arranged in an inclined manner in the connection gutter 11 provided on one side of the support member 10, and the ball collection gutter 29 is arranged at an angle to allow safe ball evacuation of each pachinko machine 53 on the pachinko machine island 51. Outlet 54 and out ball outlet 5
The pachinko balls discharged from 5 pass through an out tank 56 and a counter 57, respectively, and fall into a ball collection gutter 29, and these pachinko balls 3 are stored in a storage part disposed at the lower part of the storage cylinder 21 in the support member 10. 5.

Further, the distribution gutter 52 is located obliquely above the pachinko machine island 51, and the pachinko balls 3 are supplied to the pachinko machine 53 and the thin ball rental machine 58 on the island 51 via a supply pipe 59 composed of a spiral coil or the like. be done. The pachinko balls 3 supplied from the replenishment pipe 59 are counted by a fixed number by a replenishment counter 62 that operates in electrical connection with a detection switch (not shown) provided in the upper tank 61 of each pachinko machine 53. The upper tank 61 of the aircraft 53 is replenished. The pachinko balls 3 stored in the upper tank 61 are put out in predetermined numbers into a tray on the front side of the game board by a prize ball payout mechanism (not shown) activated by winning balls. In addition, the code|symbol 64 shows a back mechanism.

A gathering part 45 is formed below the separation gutter 44,
A balling material pipe 46 is connected to the lower end of this gathering portion 45, and a balling material inlet 41 is attached to the lower end of this pipe 46 in the manner described above. A transparent window 47 is formed in the lower part of the balling material pipe 46, and the presence or absence of the balling material 4 and the appropriateness of the amount of the balling material 4 can be confirmed through the transparent window 47.
Further, an extra ball pipe 66 is disposed adjacent to the ball polished material pipe 46, and the extra balls are guided by an overflow control mechanism (not shown).
The surplus balls are guided back to the ball collection gutter 29 etc. via a guide gutter 68 from an extra ball outlet 67 provided at the lower part of the ball.

FIG. 7 schematically shows an embodiment of the ball polishing material 4 used in the pachinko ball lifting and polishing device of the present invention, and this ball polishing material 4 is made of synthetic resin pellets 4a.
The synthetic resin pellets 4a are made of nylon 6, nylon 66, etc., and the bubbles are impregnated with a lubricating oil 4b such as silicone oil or paraffin. Therefore, a thin oil film is formed on the surface of the pachinko balls 3, etc., and the fluidity of the objects 2, etc. to be lifted is improved, and water droplets are less likely to adhere to the surfaces of the pachinko balls 3, etc., and dirt is less likely to adhere.
Furthermore, it is possible to prevent the pachinko balls 3 from abrading the nails on the game board surface. The amount of lubricant 4b impregnated is appropriately set depending on the amount of mixture of pachinko balls 3 and ball polishing material 4, and the impregnated state is not limited to that shown in the drawings, but in short, lubricant 4b may be included. It's a good thing.

Next, FIGS. 8A, B, and C each show an embodiment of a separation gutter 44, which is provided at the discharge port 43 of the lifting means 7 for the objects to be lifted, etc. A distribution gutter 52 is arranged downstream of the separation gutter 44. The bottom of the separation gutter 44 is formed by a plurality of stages of filters 71, 72, 73 provided in the longitudinal direction, and the gaps 72a, 73a of the middle filter 72 and the lower filter 73 are as shown in FIG. 8B.
The voids 71a and 7 of the bamboo baskets 71 and 72 in the previous stage, respectively.
The separation gutter 44 is formed so as to be alternately shifted in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the separation gutter 44 with respect to the separation gutter 2a.

Therefore, the baskets 71, 72, 73 of the separation gutter 44
The pachinko ball 3 that rolls upwards is Sakanokoko 71,7
At the connecting portions 2 and 73, the direction is changed to the left and right with respect to the flow direction, and the ball polishing material 4 between the pachinko balls is inserted into the gaps 72a and 73a when the direction is changed.
It is possible to improve the separation of the ball polishing material 4.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 8C, each cage child 71, 7
Above the rear end of 2, 73 is a separation rubber plate 7.
4 is suspended, and this separation rubber plate 74
The length is set to sweep the upper part of the pachinko ball 3 rolling on the pachinko balls 1, 72, 73, so that the ball polishing material 4 resting on the upper part of the pachinko ball 3 can be reliably dropped and separated. ing.

[Effects of the Invention] The above is the configuration of one embodiment of the pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to the present invention. According to this configuration,
Since a connecting gutter having a ball inlet is removably attached to at least one side of the support member that supports the reservoir,
By appropriately changing the location and number of connecting troughs, there is no need to prepare multiple lifting polishing devices.
The basic lifting and polishing device can be installed in various types of pachinko machine islands with different directions of inflow of pachinko balls, or at appropriate positions on the pachinko machine island according to the user's request.

In addition, since we have removably attached the ball-polishing material insertion member that has a ball-polishing material insertion port on one side different from the connection gutter of the support member, the installation position of this ball-polishing material insertion member can be changed as appropriate according to the user's request. For example, in a game hall, each insertion member can be installed facing each other on the aisle side between two rows of pachinko machine islands arranged side by side on the left and right, and employees can move the ball playing material to the insertion slot of each island. It is possible to easily and quickly perform the work of inserting the ball polishing material according to the arrangement of the pachinko machine island without having to do so.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 6 schematically show an embodiment of a pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the main part, FIG. 2 is an explanatory side view of the same, Fig. 3 is a front explanatory view of the transfer means, Fig. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the main parts, Fig. 5 is a front explanatory view of the lifting device, and Fig. 6 is a front view when the present invention is applied to a pachinko machine island. Explanatory drawings, Fig. 7 is an enlarged view of the Kuma material with a microscope, Fig. 8 A, B and C are perspective views of the separation gutter,
A plan view and a side view are respectively shown. In the figure, 1... Lifting device, 2... Lifting object, 3... Pachinko ball, 4... Ball polishing material, 4b... Lubricating oil, 5... Storage part, 6... Transfer means, 7... Lifting means, 8... Reverse Conical spiral wire ring, 9... Lifting pipe, 10... Support member,
11... Connection gutter, 11a... Ball inlet, 15... Ball polishing material insertion member, 16... Ball polishing material insertion port, 19... Intake port,
21...Storage cylinder, 29...Ball collection gutter, 33...Spiral wire ring,
41... Ball polishing material inlet, 42... Ball polishing material inflow control piece,
43...Discharge port, 44...Separation gutter, 45...Collection part, 4
6... Kuma wood pipe, 47... Transparent window, 51... Pachinko machine island, 52... Distribution gutter, 53... Pachinko machine, 71,
72, 73...Kanoko, 71a, 72a, 73a...
Gap portion, 74...separation rubber plate.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A storage section for storing an object to be lifted consisting of pachinko balls and ball polishing material; a transfer means provided in the storage section for transferring a part of the object to be lifted upward; a lifting means for taking in the object to be lifted upwardly transferred by the transporting means from the intake port, stirring it and lifting it to the discharge port provided at the upper part, and the storage section is supported by the support member. A connecting gutter having a ball inlet is attached to at least one side of the supporting member, and a ball material insertion member having a ball material insertion port is detachably attached to a side different from the connecting gutter. Features: Pachinko ball lifting and polishing equipment. 2. A patent characterized in that a storage tube is provided at the upper part of the storage section and is formed integrally with or separately from the storage section, and a balling material inlet is formed on a side of the storage tube that is different from the connection gutter. A pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to claim 1. 3. The pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to claim 1, further comprising a ball polishing material inflow control piece extending downwardly provided at the open end of the ball polishing material inlet. 4. The transfer means is formed by an inner wall of the storage section and a spiral wire ring having an inverted conical shape, the lifting means is formed by an inner wall of a lifting pipe and a spiral wire ring, and the lower end of the lifting pipe is formed by an inverted conical spiral wire. The pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to claim 1, wherein the pachinko ball lifting and polishing device is formed to extend downward from the upper end surface of the wire. 5. The pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to claim 1, wherein the storage section is detachably attached to the support member. 6. The pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to claim 2, wherein the storage cylinder is formed of a sound-absorbing member. 7. The pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to claim 1, wherein the ball polishing material is made of a synthetic resin beret containing lubricating oil. 8 A separation gutter is connected to the outside of the discharge port of the material to be lifted provided at the upper part of the lifting means, and the separation gutter allows the pachinko balls of the material to be transported to the distribution gutter, and the ball playing material to the playing material. The bottom surface of the separation gutter is formed by a plurality of tiers of screens, and the hollow part of the next step is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the separation gutter with respect to the gap of the previous step. 2. The pachinko ball lifting and polishing device according to claim 1, wherein the pachinko ball lifting and polishing device is formed so as to be alternately shifted in the direction of rotation.