JPH0675612B2 - Ball game machine - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a ball-and-ball game machine provided with a ball counting and feeding device.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, a large number of ball-and-ball game machines using balls as game media, such as pachinko machines, have been provided.

Such a ball game machine sends a ball to a launching device, hits the sent ball on the board surface by the launching device, and the game is performed by dropping the hit ball into the board surface. there were.

Therefore, this type of ball game machine has conventionally been provided with a ball delivery device for delivering a ball to a launcher.

Such a delivery device usually simply removes the balls in a hundred
It was just to send out sequentially in conjunction with the launching device to the surface of the ball.

On the other hand, a hundred-spot dish, a ball passage that is downwardly inclined to take in the balls stored in this one-hundred dish into a single row from the one-hundred dish, and a ball that is waiting in the waiting part at the lower end of the slope of this ball passage. A ball game machine provided with a ball counting and feeding device for sending the balls one by one to the launching device and counting the balls one by one has been conventionally known (for example, JP-A-62-144677 and JP-A-SHO). 59-1392
No. 82 publication, No. 59-41467 (Shokaisho Sho).

As a conventional ball counting and feeding device described above, there is known a non-contact type delivery ball detecting switch which is arranged along a ball striking part from a ball waiting path and which has a light emitting part and a light receiving part (for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Sho. 59-139282).

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in such a conventional pachinko machine or the like, since the ball delivery device merely delivers the ball, the ball is a bulleted ball, in other words, it is delivered. The first problem is that the number of balls cannot be confirmed.

Further, the above-mentioned conventional delivery ball detection switch has a second problem that it is difficult to dispose the switch from the ball standby path to the vicinity of the ball striking portion, and it is troublesome to assemble and replace it at the time of failure.

In particular, in the vicinity of the ball striking portion from the ball standby path, the ball striking portion, the ball striking spring of the ball striking arm, the delivery window of the ball standby path, the ball delivery member, the swinging member, etc. are provided in the thickness direction of the ball striking machine. This is because they are arranged in a complicated and dense manner.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned first and second problems of the conventional technique, and an object of the present invention is to facilitate the assembling of the sensor and the replacement at the time of failure. It aims to provide a ball game machine that is

[Means for Solving Problems] The present invention is for achieving the above-mentioned object,
The contents will be described below with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings.

The present invention relates to a ball feeder in which a ball counting / feeding device (30) interlocks with a launching device (60), accepts one ball waiting in a standby section (21) one by one, and sends the ball to the launching device (60). (50),
A contact part (4) that rotates around the counting shaft (41) and contacts the sphere received by the sphere feeder (50) at one end thereof.
4) and a counter (40) having a detector (43) at the other end on the opposite side of the counter shaft (41), and movement of the detector (43) of the counter (40) The detector (43) is positioned within the range and rotates the counter (40) around the counter shaft (41) so that the detector (43) takes two states: a light-shielded state and a non-light-shielded state. A sensor (45) that is in a non-light-shielding state when the contact part (44) of the counter (40) is in contact with the sphere received by the counter (50), the counting shaft (41) and the detector of the counter (40). The detector (43) is located between the detector (43) and the counter (44) of the counter (40) and is not in contact with the sphere.
Counting weight (42) for holding the sensor (45) in the light-shielding position
It is characterized by having and.

[Operation] Therefore, according to the present invention, since the sensor (45) is actuated via the measuring body (40), the standby portion (21) of the ball passage (20), the ball feeding body (50), and the firing. The sensor (45) can be arranged at a position distant from the device (60), the ball removing device (70) and the like.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below by taking as an example the case where a ball removing device 70 is additionally provided.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the whole, and FIG. 2 is a front view of the hundred-plate dish 10.

In this figure, the 100-bowl 10 has an operating lever 11 attached to the front side, which is usually the front side of the player, and the ball accumulated in the 100-bowl 10 by the operation of the operating lever 11 is conventionally known. It can be returned to the ball dish 72 by the means.

The balls located in the 100-hull dish 10 stand by until they are sent from the 100-hull dish 10 through the ball passage 20 to the launching device 60 by the waiting section 21.

Then, the balls located in the waiting portion 21 are sequentially sent out to the back side of the board surface where the launching device 60 is provided by the ball counting and feeding device 30, and are hit on the board surface while counting one by one.

Further, the standby portion 21 is provided with a ball removing body 80 in the lower portion thereof, and in the lower portion of the ball removing body 80, a ball in which the standby portion 21 below the ball passage 20 and the ball dish 72 are communicated with each other. An extraction passage 71 is provided to form a ball removing device 70.

Next, the details of the ball counting and feeding device 30 will be described first.

The ball counting and feeding device 30 is for sorting the balls in the standby portion 21 at the lowermost end of the ball passage 20 one by one and sending them to the launching device 60, and the operation of the interlocking crank 61 that operates in conjunction with the launching device 60. The ball is sent out by.

More specifically, the sphere counting and feeding device 30 includes a counter 40
And the ball feed body 50 and the sensor 45.

The counting body 40 is axially supported by a counting shaft 41, and is formed by a counting weight 42 so that a detecting portion 43 normally provided on the counting weight 42 side is located at a sensor 45 portion. Furthermore, this counting axis 41
The side opposite to the detection portion 43 is formed as a contact portion 44, and when the sphere is fed into the sphere feed body 50, it is formed so as to come into contact with this contact portion 44. The detection unit 43 protruding from the counting body 40 crosses the sensor 45 due to the oscillation about the counting shaft 41.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, the sensor 45 is located within the movement range of the detection unit 43 of the counting body 40, and the rotation of the counting body 40 about the counting axis 41 The detection unit 43 takes two states, a light-shielded state and a non-light-shielded state, and the sphere received by the sphere feeder 50 is brought into the non-light-shielded state when the contact portion 44 of the counter 40 is in contact.

The counting weight 42, as shown in FIG.
When the contact portion 44 of the counter 40 is located between the counting shaft 41 of the counter 40 and the detector 43 and does not contact the sphere, the detector 43 is held at the light shielding position of the sensor 45.

Further, the ball feed body 50 has one end pivotally supported by the ball feed shaft 51 and the other end provided with a ball feed weight 52. Then, the balls from the standby portion 21 are operated so as to be sequentially sent out toward the launching device 60 by the operation of the interlocking crank 61.

Then, when the counter 40 and the ball feeder 50 send out the ball in the standby portion 21 as shown in FIG.
First, the interlocking crank 61 causes the ball feeding body 50 to oscillate slightly clockwise about the ball feeding shaft 51.

Then, with this shaking, the ball at the lowermost end of the standby unit 21 enters the ball feeding body 50. The ball at the lowermost end of the standby portion 21 comes into contact with the contact portion 44 of the counting body 40 when entering the ball feeding body 50, and slightly rotates the counting body 40 in the counterclockwise direction.
The ball is sent to the launching device 60 side by being shaken in a timewise manner by the ball feeding body 50 positioned in the center 50 by the rotation of the interlocking crank 61 thereafter. Further, even if the ball feeding body 50 sways due to the swing of the interlocking crank 61, the ball feed member 50 is in contact with the pressure contact portion 53 so as not to exceed the degree of the swing.

That is, in this counting ball feeding device, the launching device 60
As long as the interlocking crank 61 is performing a crank motion, the ball feeding body 50 always repeats the oscillating motion about the ball feeding shaft 51. However, the swaying movement of the ball feeding body 50 at this time is a movement which has nothing to do with the counting body 40, and the counting body 40 is a ball feeding body.
Shake only when you enter the middle of 50.

Therefore, there is a ball in the standby unit 21, and the ball is launched by the launch device.
When the spheres are continuously ejected while being sent out in the 60 direction, each sphere entering the sphere feeding body 50 causes the counting body 40 to shake slightly, and the shaking of the counting body 40 causes the counting body 40 to swing. Since the detection unit 43 of (1) crosses the sensor 45, the spheres sent by the sensor 45 can be counted.

Also, if there are no balls in the standby part 21, as long as the launching device 60 is operating,
61 always shakes, and ball feeder 50 shakes, but counter
Since there are no 40 oscillations, spheres will not be counted.

Therefore, when the ball counting / feeding device 30 is used, even if there is a motion of the interlocking crank 61 associated with the operation of the launching device 60, the number of oscillations of the ball feeder 50 associated with the motion of the interlocking crank 61. Is not detected as the number of sphere feeds, and only the number of movements of the counting body 40 moved by the spheres is detected as the number of sphere feeds.

Therefore, it is possible to accurately count the balls actually sent to the launching device 60 and to sequentially send the balls one by one, regardless of whether or not the launching device 60 is operated.

Next, the ball removing device 70 will be described.

This ball removing device 70 is not limited to a ball located in the standby portion 21, but a ball 100 located in the ball passage 20.
This is a device for returning to the ball dish 72 by operating an operation lever 11 provided therein.

More specifically, the ball punching device 70 includes a ball punching body 80 pivotally supported by a ball punching shaft 81 in the lower portion of the standby portion 21, and a ball punching slider 90 for swinging the ball punching body 80. With the shaking of the ball-slipping slider 90, a ball-stripping passage 71 for guiding the balls in the ball passage 20 to the ball dish 72, and usually depending on the ball-slipping body 80, the ball is on the ball-slipping passage 71 side. It is formed of a spring 91 for preventing it from being pulled out.

The ball-removing body 80 is pivotally supported on the lower portion of the standby portion 21,
A ball removing weight 82 is provided on the side of the standby portion 21 opposite to the ball feeding body 50, and a slider body 83 is provided further in front of the ball removing weight 82.

The ball removing slider 90 is provided with an inclined surface 92 on the ball removing body 80 side, and a ball removing lever 93 on the side opposite to the ball removing body 80 side.
The ball pulling lever 93 is formed so as to move the entire ball pulling slider 90 in accordance with the operation of the operating lever 11. The ball-slipping slider 90 is normally located on the ball-sending body 50 side due to the elastic force of the spring 91.

In this way, when the ball-slipping slider 90 is located on the ball-sending body 50 side, the slider body 83
Is located above the inclined surface 92 of the ball removing slider 90. At this time, the upper surface of the ball removing body 80 is the ball feeding body.
It is designed to be slightly inclined toward the 50 side.

At this time, by operating the operating lever 11, the ball removing lever 93
When is moved to the left in the drawing, the ball-slipping slider 90 is also moved to the left with the movement. Then, along with the movement of the ball-slipping slider 90, the ball-slanting body 80 is moved so that the slider body 83 moves downwards along the inclined surface 92 of the ball-sliding slider 90 due to the weight of the ball-slanting weight 82. The swing shaft 81 is oscillated around the center.

When the ball-slipping slider 90 moves to the left and the ball-squeezing body 80 sways to the lower left around the ball-sucking shaft 81 in this way, the ball located in the ball passage 20 becomes Since the upper surface of the ball is inclined to the left, it will be guided to the ball removing passage 71 side, and all the balls remaining in the ball passage 20 pass through the ball removing passage 71 via the upper surface of the ball removing body 80. By doing so, it will be returned to the ball dish 72.

Therefore, when the ball removing device 70 is used, the balls in the 100-hull dish 10 are returned to the ball plate 72 through the same passage as in the conventional art by the operation of the operation lever 11 in the conventional manner, and the balls in the ball passage 20 are formed. Also, with the shaking of the ball removing body 80, it is taken out to the ball removing passage 71 and returned to the ball dish 72 as it is.

Therefore, when the player wants to stop the game midway or to continue the game with a different game machine, the operation lever 11 can be operated not only to eliminate the balls in the hundred-bowl 10 but also the ball passage 20 Since all the balls located inside can be eliminated, there is no useless ball.

In the above description, the ball punching body 80 is described as being shaken around the ball punching shaft 81 by being moved to the ball punching slider 90, but it is moved by moving the ball punching slider 90, and as a result of the movement, the ball is moved. Ball in passage 20
It is also possible to form it so that it falls to 71.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION Since the present invention is configured as described above, the sensor can be arranged at a position apart from the standby portion of the ball passage, the ball feeding body, the launching device, the ball removing device, and the like. It can be easily assembled and replaced at the time of failure.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is an overall schematic view, and FIG. 2 is a front view of a hundred-plate dish. 10 …… Hundred dishes, 11 …… Operating lever 20 …… Sphere passage, 21 …… Standing unit 30 …… Sphere counting feeder, 40 …… Counter 41 …… Counting axis, 42 …… Counting weight 43 …… Detecting part, 44 ...... Contact part 45 ...... Sensor, 50 ...... Ball feed body 51 ...... Ball feed shaft, 52 ...... Ball feed weight 53 ...... Press contact part, 60 ...... Launching device 61 ...... Coupling crank, 70 …… Ball removal device 71 …… Ball removal passage, 72 …… Ball dish 80 …… Ball removal body, 81 …… Ball removal shaft 82 …… Ball removal weight, 83 …… Slider body 90 …… Ball removal slider 91… … Spring, 92… Inclined surface 93… Ball release lever

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A hundred-spot dish, a downwardly sloping ball passage for taking in the balls stored in the one-hundred dish in a row from the one-hundred dish, and a standby portion at the lower end of the inclined lower end of the ball passage. A ball counting and feeding device for feeding the balls one by one to the launching device and counting the balls one by one, and a ball removing device for extracting the balls waiting in the waiting portion of the ball passage to the outside of the machine. In the ball game machine provided, the ball counting and feeding device, in cooperation with the launching device, accepts one ball at a time in the standby unit and sends the ball to the launching device, and a counting axis. A counter that rotates around the center and has a contact portion at one end that contacts the sphere received by the sphere feeder, and a detector at the other end on the opposite side of the counting shaft; A counter located within the movement range of the body detection unit and centered on the counting axis From the rotation, the detection unit takes two states, a light-shielded state and a non-light-shielded state, and a sensor that is in a non-light-shielded state when the contact portion of the counter is in contact with the sphere received by the sphere feeder; A bullet, which is located between the counting axis of the body and the detector, and has a counting weight that holds the detector in the light-shielding position of the sensor when the contact portion of the counter does not contact the sphere. Ball game machine.