JPH0630685B2 - Disc feeding device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a disc feeding device, and particularly to a slot machine in which a disc such as a coin or a metal is inserted at the start of a game and the disc is fed out at the time of winning. Alternatively, the present invention relates to a disc feeding device used for a game device such as a pachinko machine.

[Conventional technology]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been a disk feeding device as shown in FIGS. 2 and 10 of JP-A-60-114289, which has a single cylindrical body for accommodating a disk.

[Problems to be solved]

Since the conventional disk feeding device has only one cylinder for accommodating the disks, the number of disks that can be accommodated is small, and the disks accommodated in the cylinder are often lost during the game.
There was a drawback that the game was interrupted.

[Means for solving problems]

The disc feeding device of the present invention is a disc feeding device used for a game device such as a slot machine or a pachinko machine, in which a disc such as a coin or a metal is inserted at the start of the game and the disc is fed at the time of winning. A turntable provided in the frame, having a base having an opening on the upper surface, and a circular hole communicating with the opening, which is slightly larger than the circular plate, and which is rotatably arranged on the base. A drive means for rotating the turntable, a control means for controlling the drive of this drive means, and a tubular shape having an opening at the top and bottom, are rotated so that the lower opening is located above the rotation locus of the circular hole. A pair of disc accommodating cylinders installed side by side above the board and the thrown discs are rolled in an upright state to drop into one disc accommodating cylinder, and the upper end of the disc accommodating cylinder is When the disks stack until reaching Are disc has is composed of the disk guide which guides to the upper surface of the disc at the top roll by standing state, falls into a disc containing cylinder body features have been other.

[Action]

When a player inserts a disk into the disk guide at the start of the game, the disk rolls in the upright state of the disk guide and falls into one of the disk housing cylinders. When the disks are stacked and reach the upper end of this one disk housing cylinder, the next loaded disk rolls up on the top surface of the disk at the top of one disk housing cylinder. Then, it is dropped and accommodated in the other disc accommodating cylinder provided side by side.

At the time of feeding the disc, the rotating disc is rotated by the driving means, and when the circular hole passes below one of the disc accommodating cylinders, the disc falls from the one disc accommodating cylinder. It is housed in a circular hole. The rotary disc continues to rotate and passes below the other disc-containing cylinder, but since the disc is already accommodated in the circular hole, the disc accommodated in the other disc-accommodating cylinder is already stored. Is retained without falling. When the rotary disk further rotates and the circular hole reaches the position of the opening provided on the upper surface of the base, the circular plate accommodated in the circular hole falls and is fed out of the machine frame. The number of rotations of the turntable is controlled by the control means for controlling the driving of the driving means, and the number of disks to be fed out is also controlled by this. When all the discs accommodated in the one disc accommodating cylinder are paid out, the discs accommodated in the other disc accommodating cylinder are paid out.

〔Example〕

 The configuration of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The machine frame 1 is a machine frame of a game machine such as a slot machine or a pachinko machine, and has a disc delivery port 3 for delivering the disc 2 formed in the lower front portion.

A base 4 is provided in the machine frame 1, and the base 4 is composed of an upper stage 4a and a lower stage 4b. A column-shaped mounting table 6 surrounded by the groove 5 is provided on the upper surface of the upper stage 4a. The mounting table 6 is formed lower than the upper surface of the upper stage 4a. An opening 7 for dropping the disc 2 is formed on the upper surface of the mounting table 6, and the disc 2 dropped from the opening 7 is guided to the disc feeding port 3 by a slope 8 provided on the machine frame 1.

The lower stage 4b is provided with a driving means 9, which comprises a motor 10 and a reduction gear group 11 for reducing the rotation of the motor 10. The drive means 9 is electrically controlled, and the number of the disks 2 fed out is controlled by this.

The turntable 12 has a cylindrical shape with an open bottom,
The mounting table 6 is rotatably covered. At this time, turntable 1
The height of the mounting table 6 is set so that the upper surface of 2 is substantially flush with the upper stage 4a.

A circular hole 13 slightly larger than the disc 2 is formed on the upper surface of the turntable 12. The circular hole 13 is formed at a position corresponding to the opening 7. On the rotational direction side of the upper end edge of the circular hole 13, an inclined surface 13a is formed so as to descend and inward the circular hole 13 over substantially half the circumference.

A gear 14 is engraved on the circumferential side surface of the rotary disk 12, and the gear 14 meshes with a gear 11a in the reduction gear group 11 to rotate the rotary disk 12. The rotation of the turntable 12 is controlled by a control unit (not shown) that electrically controls the drive unit 9.

The support plate 15 is provided above the turntable 12 in the machine frame 1. The gap between the support plate 15 and the turntable 12 is set smaller than the thickness of the disc 2. The support plate 15 has a pair of openings 16a and 16b formed above the rotation path of the circular hole 13. Then, the openings 16a, 16b on the upper surface of the support plate 15
Disc housing cylinders 17a and 17b are vertically connected to each other at a position corresponding to. The upper ends of the disc accommodating cylinders 17a and 17b are formed by gently inclining downward from 17a to 17b.

A disc guide 18 is provided above the disc housing cylinder 17a. The disc guide 18 has a disc insertion port 18a at the upper part on one side, and the disc accommodating cylinder 1 is provided via an inclined slope portion.
A drop opening 18b for dropping the disc 2 is provided on the other side on the upper part of 7a.

A sensor (not shown) for detecting the number of the disks 2 inserted in the disk guide 18 is provided.

When the disc 2 is inserted into the disc guide 18 from the disc insertion port 18a, the disc 2 rolls in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 1 by the inclined slope portion and drops from the drop opening 18b into the disc housing cylinder 17a. . When the discs 2 stacked on the disc accommodating cylinder 17a reach the upper end of the disc accommodating cylinder 17a, the next thrown disc 2 rolls on the upper surface of the uppermost disc 2 in an upright state. It moves and falls into the disc housing cylinder 17b.

The disc 2 accommodated in the disc accommodating cylinders 17a, 17b has openings 16a, 1
When the rotary disk 12 is in contact with the upper surface of the rotary disk 12 via 6b, the rotary disk 12 is rotated in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 1 by the drive means 9, and the circular hole 13 thereof passes below the disk housing cylinder 17a. To
The disc 2 is dropped from the disc accommodating cylinder 17a through the opening 16a and accommodated in the circular hole 13. At this time, the lower surface of the disk 2 is in contact with the upper surface of the mounting table 6. Since the inclined surface 13a is formed at the upper end edge of the circular hole 13, the circular plate 2 in the circular disc housing cylinder 17a is smoothly accommodated in the circular hole 13.

The turntable 12 is further rotated, and the circular hole 13 is moved to the disc housing cylinder 17
Even if the disc 2 passes below b, since the disc 2 is accommodated in the disc hole 13 first, the disc 2 will not fall from the disc accommodating cylinder 17b.

Then, when the disk 2 in the disk housing cylinder 17a disappears,
At this time, the disk 2 in the disk housing cylinder 17b is housed in the disk hole 13. At this time, when the disc 2 is inserted from the disc insertion opening 18a to start the game, the disc is accommodated in the disc accommodating cylinder 17a. In this case, the circular hole 13 is accommodated in the disc accommodating cylinder 17a. The accommodated disc 2 will be accommodated first.

When the rotary disk 12 further rotates and the circular hole 13 comes above the opening 7, the circular plate 2 in the circular hole 13 falls onto the slope 8 through the opening 7 and rolls out from the circular plate feeding port 3.

According to the disc feeding device of the present invention, two disc housing cylinders can be provided, the number of discs to be accommodated increases, and there is no inconvenience in which the disc 2 is lost during the game and the game is interrupted.

〔effect〕

According to the disc feeding device of the present invention, it is possible to increase the number of disc accommodating cylinders, which used to be one, to two, which increases the number of discs that can be accommodated, and the disc accommodating cylinder can be in the middle of the game. The inconvenience of interrupting the game due to the disappearance of the disk is gone.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention. Second
FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing the structure of a turntable according to an embodiment of the present invention. 1 ... Machine frame, 2 ... Disc, 4 ... Base 6 ... Mounting stand, 7 ... Opening, 9 ... Driving means 12 ... Rotating plate, 13 ... Circular hole, 15 ... Support plate 17 ... Disc housing cylinder, 18 ... Disc guide

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A disc feeding device used in a game machine such as a slot machine or a pachinko machine, in which a disc such as a coin or a metal is thrown in at the start of the game, and the disc is fed at the time of winning a prize. And a base having an opening on the upper surface and a circular plate communicating with the opening, which is slightly larger than the circular plate, and is rotatably arranged on the base, and the rotary plate is rotated. A driving means for controlling the driving means, a control means for controlling the driving of the driving means, and a tubular shape having an opening at the top and the bottom. Above the rotating disk so that the lower opening is located above the rotation locus of the circular hole. A pair of side-by-side disc accommodating cylinders and the thrown discs are rolled upright and dropped into one disc accommodating cylinder, and the discs are reached until the upper end of the disc accommodating cylinder is reached. When the stacks of The upper surface of the disc at the top roll by standing state, disk feeding device, characterized by comprising a disk guide which guides to fall features have been other disc holding cylinder body.