JPH04105682A - Pinball-supplying and treating arrangement for pinball machine island - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To treat all of pinballs within an island of pinball machines, by a method wherein a tank in which some of the pinballs are held, and which communicates with both a prize pinball-counting machine and an upper tank above the island is located at the inside of the island, and a shutter for controlling the discharge of the pinballs is located on a discharge trough extended from the tank. CONSTITUTION:According to a signal, pinballs are supplied to each pinball machine 'a' and each pinball-renting machine B from an upper tank provided above the inside of a pinball machine island A. At the inside of the island A, a tank 2 in which the pinballs are held, and which communicates with both a prize pinball-counting machine C and an upper tank 1 above the island, is provided. From the prize pinball-counting machine C, the pinballs are directly supplied, or after the pinballs are polished by a polisher 12 one time and are lifted to the inside of the upper tank 1, the pinballs overflowing from the upper tank 1 are supplied. Furthermore, a shutter 4 for controlling the discharge of the pinballs is provided on a discharge trough 3 extended from the tank 2, and the shutter 4 rotatably drives a cylindrical member 4 having an opening 5 cut on the periphery thereof. In this way, the pinballs wherewith players play and the players gain as a prize can be entirely treated within one island.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention provides a pachinko island in which all the pachinko balls that a customer plays on a pachinko island and obtains can be handled and handled solely by that pachinko island. The present invention relates to a replenishment processing device.

[Conventional technology] In conventional pachinko parlors, the balls that customers bring to exchange prizes are collected in one place from the prize exchange area to the factory, polished, and then returned to the island to replenish the supply of pachinko balls. was doing.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] However, the balls brought to the prize exchange place, even though heavy balls are carried around to exchange prizes, and even though the island has a polishing machine, are sent to a factory where they are recycled again. Once polished, the bead must be passed back through the ceiling or attic for each layer. The equipment and construction required to return the balls from the so-called factory to the pachinko island was complicated, and the interior of the pachinko parlor was plagued with problems that were deteriorating its aesthetic appearance.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention solves such problems and makes it possible to process pachinko coins on a pachinko island, and therefore provides a prize ball counting machine that can issue receipts or cards. In addition to installing a ball rental machine on the pachinko island, a tank that can hold balls by communicating with the prize ball counting machine and the tank on the island on Nomanko Island is also installed on the pachinko island, and a discharge gutter extending from the tank is installed. This structure is equipped with a shutter for ball discharge control.

In addition, in order to reliably control the flow of the balls being discharged from the tank, the shutter can be made of a cylindrical body that can be rotated freely, a heavy block that can be moved up and down, or a chain that can be moved up and down. It is something.

[Effects] Therefore, when a customer puts the balls he has won into the prize ball counting machine on Pachinko Island and counts them, a receipt or card can be issued, and the balls are stored directly in the tank, and when the tank on the island is empty or full of balls, a receipt or card can be issued. When the sensor detects that the level has dropped significantly, the shutter is activated and the balls in the tank are introduced into the polisher to urgently replenish the shortage in the island tank.

Another method is to supply the balls counted by the prize ball counting machine directly to the polishing machine instead of storing them in a tank, and then introduce the polished and transported balls into the tank on the island, which then overflows. The balls are stored in the tank. When the sensor detects that the tank on the island is empty or the level of balls has dropped extremely, the above-mentioned shutter is activated and the balls in the tank are introduced into the polishing machine to urgently replenish the shortage in the tank on the island. .

In this way, all the balls used on Pachinko Island can be processed in one layer.

[Example] Next, the embodiment shown in the drawings will be described.

Figure 1 shows a front view of a part of the pachinko island, and a large number of pachinko machines A are arranged side by side to form pachinko island A, but between the machines between the two adjacent pachinko machines 1laa is a ball lending machine B. In addition, a prize ball counter aC equipped with a counting display section 6, a settlement button 7, a receipt or card issuing port 8, a ball receiving section 9, etc. is installed in the middle part of the pachinko island A.
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Further, at the rear part of the prize ball counting machine C, a polishing machine 12 driven by a motor 11 is installed in communication with a collection gutter 10 through which out balls from each pachinko machine a flow.
The island tank 1 provided at the upper part of the pachinko island A so as to communicate with the upper end side of the island A is configured to supply balls to each pachinko machine a and each ball rental machine B according to a signal.

Inside the pachinko island A, there is provided a tank 2 that communicates with the prize ball counting machine C and the tank L on the island and can hold the balls, but the balls may be directly supplied from the prize ball counting machine C, or , - A shutter for controlling ball discharge, which is arranged so that the balls polished and lifted by the polishing machine 12 and overflowing from the island tank 1 are supplied, and which is arranged in the discharge gutter 3 extending from the tank 2. 4 has a cylindrical body 4a having a notch opening 5 on its outer circumferential surface and is rotatably driven by a motor 13.

Therefore, if a customer puts the balls he has won into the prize ball counting machine C on Pachinko Island and counts them, a ticket or card can be issued, and the counted balls are either directly supplied to the tank 2 or sent to the collection gutter. It is once passed through the IO, introduced into the polishing machine through the collection gutter 10, polished and transported, and then supplied to the tank on the island. Only after the tank on the island overflows will it be able to be stored in the tank. The balls played by the customer will also be put on hold.

When the island tank 1 runs out of balls, the motor 13 is started by a signal, and the cylindrical body 4a is rotated so that the notch opening 5 faces in the direction of the arrow (A), as shown in FIG. 4 is opened, the balls in the tank 2 are introduced into the polishing machine, polished, lifted, and sent to the tank 1 on the island. Further, when the cylindrical body 4a is rotated so that the notch opening 5 faces in the direction of arrow (b), the shutter 4 is closed and the supply of balls from the tank is stopped. For example, in the case of a sliding structure in which the sliding plate is moved downward by a slider, as is often used in conventional types, dust etc. adhere to the sliding surface and the operation becomes stable, but the cylindrical With the rotary structure in which the body 4a is rotated, stable rotary operation can be performed, and the tank 2 can reliably supply the water.

FIG. 3 shows another example of the structure of the Nya-no-ta, in which the Nya-no-ta 4 is constituted by a heavy block body 4b having a width that is approximately the same as the width of the discharge gutter 3 and which can be moved up and down by power. For example, if there is a foreign object in the gutter, the flow of balls will stop, but we have designed a structure that allows us to control the flow of balls without this. It is something.

In addition, FIG. 4 shows another example of the structure of the Nyafuta, in which the chain 4c, which has a weight that cannot be compensated for by the pressure of the ball flow, is attached to the driver 1-1.
It is attached to the outer periphery of the ball A4d, and the chain 4C is twisted as shown by the imaginary line while the driver A4d is rotated, so that the flow of the balls can be controlled.

)Effect of the invention 1 In this way, the present invention provides that if a customer puts the [won by a customer] into several machines on the side of the prize balls of the pachinko island and counts both, it is possible to issue Ren-1 or a card, and the counted balls are It is supplied directly to the tank, or via the recovery gutter 10, polisher, or island tank. When the "Island" Nitank runs out of balls, the Nya Tsuta is activated and the balls can be stably sent from the tank to the tank on the island via the grinder, so the balls played by customers or won as prize balls can be sent to the tank at once. It has the advantage of being able to carry out all processing conveniently within one island with a simple structure.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a front view of a part of a pachinko island that is an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the main part of the island, Fig. 3 is a side view of another example of the structure of Nyafta, and Fig. 4 is a The perspective view of yet another example of a shutter is shown. C.-.Prize ball counting machine B-..Holding machine A..Pachinko island 1..Tank on the island 2..Tank
3...Discharge gutter 4...Shutter 4a.
...Cylindrical body 5...Notch opening 4b...Block body 4C...Chain

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A prize ball counting machine and a ball lending machine capable of issuing receipts or cards are installed on a pachinko island, and balls can be stored by communicating with the prize ball counting machine and an on-island tank on the pachinko island. A ball replenishment and processing device for a pachinko island, characterized in that a tank is provided within the pachinko island, and a shutter for ball discharge control is provided in a discharge gutter extending from the tank. 2. The pachinko island ball replenishment processing device according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is constituted by a rotatable cylindrical body having a notch opening on the circumferential surface. 3. The pachinko island ball replenishment processing device according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is constituted by a heavy block body having a width approximately equal to the width of the discharge gutter and capable of being moved up and down. 4. The ball replenishment and processing device for a pachinko island according to claim 1, wherein the shutter is constituted by a chain that can move up and down and has a weight that can withstand the pressure of the flow of balls.