JPH05181A - Hopper device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To present a hopper device for enabling a rotary disc to be easily attached or removed. CONSTITUTION:A hopper device is formed with a base plate 42, a rotary disc 50 to be contained in a medal containing section 42C on the upper surface of the plate 42, a motor 43 for rotating the disc 50, a guide pin driving mechanism 46 for guiding medals contained in the disc 50, and a counter roller mechanism 47 for paying out the guided medals. On the lower section center of the disc 50, a cam plate section 51B for working the driving mechanism 46 is set saliently to a lower section, and on the central lower surface of the cam plate section 51B, a properly fitting section 52F to be properly fitted on the output shaft 43A of the motor 43 is set, and when the output shaft 43A of the motor 43 is properly fitted on the properly fitting section 52F of the disc 50, then the driving mechanism 46 is fixed on the plate 42 to be positioned outside the cam plate section 51B, and the roller 47C of the roller mechanism 47 is formed to be fixed to be positioned outside the disc 50.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hopper device used in a medal game machine, and more particularly to a hopper device for paying out medals when a prize is won in the medal game machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional hopper device will be described with reference to FIGS. Here, FIG. 8 is an assembly perspective view showing a conventional hopper device, and FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view showing a rotary disk used in the conventional hopper device. Conventionally, the hopper device is formed of a hopper body 10 for sending out medals, and a hopper tank 30 attached to the upper part of the hopper body 10 for supplying medals to the hopper body 10.

The hopper body 10 is a frame-shaped bracket 1.
1, a base plate 12 fixed to the upper part of the bracket 11, and a hopper motor 13 fixed inside the bracket 11. Base plate 1
A through hole 12A is provided in the center of 2, and the output shaft 13A of the hopper motor 13 fits into the through hole 12A.

The base plate 12 is a flat plate portion 1
2B, a storage recess 12C recessed downward from the center of the flat plate portion 12B, and a sending-out cutout portion 12D for sending out medals at the front. Further, a tank fixing portion 12E for fixing the hopper tank 30 is provided outside the storage recess 12C of the flat plate portion 12B.
have.

The base plate 12 has two ring-shaped upper fixed disks 14 and lower fixed disks 15, and ring shapes which are located outside the fixed disks 14 and 15 and which are cut out in conformity with the sending-out notches 12D. A spacer ring 16, a counter plate 17 that covers the upper surface of the delivery missing portion 12D, a medal sensor 18 for detecting the number of medals to be delivered, and a counter roller 19 that serves as a urging means for medals when delivering medals. In addition, a rotary disk 20 fixed to the output shaft 13A of the hopper motor 13 is provided.

As shown in FIG. 9, the rotary disk 20 is
A disc-shaped upper disc 21 having a plurality of medal drop holes 20A slightly larger than the medal outer diameter, and a disc-shaped lower disc 22 smaller than the upper disc 21 are formed. The lower disc 22 includes a small disc-shaped central disc portion 22A, an outer disc portion 22C located outside the central disc portion 22A, and an upper disc portion 2.
1 is formed by having a meteor-shaped sending-out protrusion 22D located in a portion corresponding to the periphery of the medal drop hole 20A, and a space 2 is provided between the central circle portion 22A and the outer circle portion 22C.
The central circular portion 22 is formed by the projecting ridge 22D so as to be 2B
A and the outer circular portion 22C are connected. This missing portion 22
B corresponds to the fixed disk 15 when the rotary disk 20 is mounted on the base plate 12. Outer circle part 22C
Is a dust drop hole 22 that is a through hole that penetrates the upper and lower surfaces of
E is open. In the rotating disc 20 formed in this manner, a medal storage portion 22F is formed below the medal drop hole 20A and surrounded by the upper surfaces of the central circular portion 22A and the outer circular portion 22C and the sending-out projection 22D.

The lower surface of the lower disk 22 of the rotary disk 20 mounted on the base plate 12 was in contact with the upper surface of the storage recess 12C of the base plate 12. That is, the height of the storage recess 12C was substantially the same as the thickness of the rotary disk 20. The counter roller 19 is formed to have a rotation assisting member 19A that extends along the outer edge 22C of the lower disk 22 of the rotating rotating disk 20 and a delivery member 19B that actually delivers the medal. Is the feed bias spring 19C
The counter roller 19 as a whole is fixed to the base plate 12 via a roller urging spring 19D. Here, the rotation assisting member 1
9A includes an auxiliary roller support plate 19E and two auxiliary rollers 19F that are rotatably supported by the auxiliary roller support plate 19E. In addition, the delivery member 1
9B is formed of a delivery roller support plate 19G and one delivery roller 19H rotatably supported by the delivery roller support plate 19G.

The auxiliary roller 19E is located at a position where its circumference matches the inner circumference of the spacer ring 16, that is, the outer circumference of the rotary disk 20. Further, the delivery roller 19H is located on the side of the delivery missing portion 12D, and sends out the medals stored in the rotary disk 20 to the outside from the delivery missing portion 12D. The storage recess 12C is used to position the spacer ring 16, the upper fixed disk 14, the lower fixed disk 15, and the rotary disk 20, and the bottom surface of the recess 12C is used to remove dust for convenience such as dropping dust on medals. The hole 12F is provided. The dust on the medal was supposed to be dropped below the base plate 12 from the dust drop hole 22E of the outer circle portion 22C of the rotary disk 20 through the dust removal hole 12F.

On the other hand, the rotary disk 20 is formed so that it can be attached / detached without being screw-fixed to the base plate 12 for the convenience of maintenance and the like. That is, the attachment / detachment was performed as follows. In a normal state, the counter roller 19 causes the roller urging spring 19D to move the spacer ring 16
Since the roller urging spring 19D is released or the counter roller 19 is manually positioned to the outside of the spacer ring 16 because the roller urging spring 19D is urged toward the outer peripheral portion of the hopper motor 13, It was supposed that the roller urging spring 19D should be returned to its original position after the fitting portion of the disc 20 was inserted.

On the contrary, when the rotary disc 20 is removed from the base plate 12, the roller urging spring 19D is temporarily released by some means and the rotary disc 20 is pulled out. Subsequently, the hopper tank 30 is fixed to the hopper body 10, and the movement of the medals placed in the hopper tank 30 will be described.

The medals placed in the hopper tank 30 are located on the rotating disk 20. The medals enter the medal drop hole 20A of the upper disc 21 and are located in the medal storage portion 22F of the lower disc 22. At this time, if dust is attached to the medal, it falls from the dust drop hole 22E and collects in the storage recess 12C, and a part thereof is dropped downward from the dust removal hole 12F.

Next, the medal payout operation will be described. When the output shaft 13A of the hopper motor 13 starts rotating, the rotating disk 20 also rotates. The lower disk 22 of the rotating disk 20 causes the medals that are closest to the sending-out missing portion 12D by the sending-out projection 22D to be directed toward the sending-out roller 19H of the counter roller 19.

When the rotary disk 20 rotates a little more,
The medal pressed by the sending-out protrusion 22D causes the sending-out member 19B to move backward while resisting the sending-out biasing spring 19C. At this time, the sending-out biasing spring 19C stores elastic force. When the rotary disk 20 further rotates, the moment when the distance between the point where the sending-out protrusion 22D is in contact with the medal and the point where the sending-out roller 19H is in contact with the medal exceeds the diameter of the medal. At that moment, the force with which the medal pushes the delivery roller 19H disappears, the elastic force stored by the delivery bias spring 19C is released, and the delivery member 19B vigorously returns. At that time, the delivery roller 19
Since H pushes the outer edge of the medal, the medal jumps out of the hopper main body 10 from the sending-out lacking portion 12D.

A medal payout opening of a medal game machine (not shown) exists in the direction in which the medal pops out, and the medal is paid out to the player who was playing with the game machine.

[0015]

However, the above-mentioned hopper device has the following problems. That is, although the rotary disc 20 is formed so that it can be attached and detached without fixing the screw when it is fixed to the base plate 12 for the convenience of maintenance or the like, in the normal state, the counter roller 19 is Spacer ring 16 by roller bias spring 19D
Since the roller urging spring 19D is released or the counter roller 19 is manually positioned to the outside of the spacer ring 16 because the roller urging spring 19D is urged toward the outer peripheral portion of the hopper motor 13, It was necessary to insert the matching portion of the disc 20 and then return the roller biasing spring 19D to its original position.

On the contrary, when the rotary disc 20 is removed from the base plate 12, the roller urging spring 19D must be temporarily released by some means before the rotary disc 2 is removed.
It was impossible to pull out 0. An object to be solved by the present invention is to provide a hopper device in which a rotary disk can be easily attached and detached.

[0017]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a hopper device according to claim 1. That is, it is formed to have a plate-shaped base plate and a hopper motor fixed inside the base plate. The hopper motor is detachable, and a plurality of medals can be stored by providing a gap inside. In the hopper device in which the rotating disk is mounted, the base plate has a storage recess recessed downward, and the storage recess is provided with a through hole, through which the output shaft of the hopper motor is provided. Has a feed-out notch in the front part of the base plate that communicates the front outside of the base plate with the storage recess, and the base plate has a guide for sending out the medals stored in the rotating disc to the feed-out notch. A pin drive mechanism and a means for vigorously paying out medals from the sending-out missing portion to the outside of the hopper body. Equipped with a Unter roller mechanism,
The guide pin drive mechanism is formed of a guide pin base that is a base body of the guide pin drive mechanism, a guide rotation shaft that rotatably supports the guide pin base, a cam pin roller fixed to the guide pin base, and a guide pin. The counter roller mechanism is formed of a roller base that is a base of the counter roller mechanism, a counter rotation shaft that rotatably supports the roller base, and a counter roller that is fixed to the roller base. A cam plate portion for operating the guide pin drive mechanism is provided at the center of the lower part so as to project downward, and an output shaft matching portion adapted to the output shaft of the hopper motor is provided on the lower surface of the center of the cam plate portion. Guide pin drive mechanism when the output shaft conforming part of the is fitted and fixed to the output shaft of the hopper motor. , Is fixed to the base plate so as to be located outside of the cam plate, the counter roller mechanism is characterized in that its counter-roller is formed so as to secure so as to be located outside the rotating disk.

[0018]

[Operation] According to the hopper device of the first aspect, the following operation is achieved. The guide pin drive mechanism is pivotally supported on the base plate by the guide pin base. When it is pivotally supported, it is located outside the cam plate. The counter roller mechanism is pivotally supported on the base plate by the roller base so that the roller portion of the counter roller is positioned toward the center of the feeding-out missing portion. When pivotally supported, its counter roller is located outside the rotating disc.

The rotating disk is fixed by the output shaft fitting portion fitting the output shaft of the hopper motor, but the guide pin drive mechanism and the counter roller mechanism do not interfere. This is because the guide pin drive mechanism is fixed to the base plate so as to be located outside the cam plate portion, and the counter roller mechanism is fixed so that the counter roller is located outside the rotating disk.

This is the same when the rotating disk is removed.

[0021]

EXAMPLE A hopper device according to this example will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is an assembled perspective view showing a hopper device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 2
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a hopper main body of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a part of the hopper body of the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a partially cutaway plan view showing a hopper body of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a part of the hopper body of the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a front view showing a part of the hopper body of the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a hopper tank according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The hopper device shown in this embodiment corresponds to the invention described in claim 2. The hopper device of the present embodiment is a hopper body 4 for sending medals.
0 and a hopper tank 60 that is attached to the upper portion of the hopper body 40 and supplies medals to the hopper body 40.

The hopper body 40 is a frame-shaped bracket 4
1, a plate-shaped base plate 42 fixed to the upper part of the bracket 41, and a hopper motor 43 as a rotation output device fixed to the inside of the bracket 42, and a rotary disk 50 detachable to the hopper motor 43. Is installed. A through hole 42A is provided in the central portion of the base plate 42, and the through hole 42A
An output shaft 43A of the hopper motor 43 is projected from this. Further, a horizontal bar 43B is fixed to the protruding portion of the output shaft 43A from the through hole 42A so as to penetrate and fix the rotary disc 50.

The base plate 42 is a flat plate portion 4 having a flat plate shape.
2B and a storage recess 42C recessed downward from the inside of the flat plate portion 42B, and above the storage recess 42C there is a rotary disk enclosing portion 42D standing upright from the outer edge of the storage recess 42C. ing. This rotating disk enclosure 4
2D is higher than the thickness of the rotary disc 50, and when the rotary disc 50 is mounted, it has a space below the rotary disc 50 as a part of the storage recess 42C.

In front of the base plate 42, there is a feed-out notch 42E in which the rotary disc enclosing portion 42D is not provided. Further, scoop fixing portions 42F for fixing the hopper tank 60 are provided at two locations outside the rotary disk surrounding portion 42D. At several places on the lower surface of the storage recess 42C, there are dust removal holes 42G that are through holes. Further, for the convenience of fixing the hopper tank 60, a tip of a scoop lock pin 42H, which is fixed in a vertically movable manner by a biasing member incorporated therein, projects on the upper surface of a part of the flat plate portion 42B of the base plate 42. ..

From the bottom of the accommodating recess 42C, three cylindrical fixed disk fixing portions 42I are provided upright. In addition, the fixed disk fixing portion 42I of the storage recess 42C,
A C-shaped ring-shaped fixed disk 44, which is partially cut away to form a cutout 44A, is fixed, and a non-point-symmetrical ring-shaped slide plate 45 is fixed inside the fixed disk 44. The upper surfaces of the fixed disk 44 and the slide plate 45 are formed to have a small frictional resistance.

A trapezoidal plate-shaped feeding slide plate member 42J having a hypotenuse extending along the outer circumference of the rotary disk enclosing portion 42D is fixed to the right end of the feeding cutout portion 42E when viewed from above. In addition, the bracket 41 corresponding to the outer side position of the feed-out lacking portion 42E has a square tubular feed-out guide 42K.
Is fixed. The base plate 42 has a guide pin drive mechanism 46 for guiding the medal to the sending-out lacking part 42E, and the hopper body 4 from the sending-out missing part 42E.
A counter roller mechanism 47 is provided for vigorously paying out medals toward the outside of 0.

The guide pin drive mechanism 46 is a substantially V-shaped plate-shaped guide pin base 46A, and a guide rotation shaft 46B that rotatably supports the guide pin base 46A on the lower surface of the storage recess 42C of the base plate 42, A cam pin roller 46C, which is a rod-shaped body fixed to one V-shaped tip portion of the guide pin base 46A and has a tip as a roller, and is fixed to another V-shaped tip portion of the guide pin base 46A. It is formed from the guide pin 46D.

The counter roller mechanism 47 comprises a substantially fan-shaped plate-shaped roller base 47A and its roller base 47.
A counter rotating shaft 47B that rotatably supports A on the lower surface of the accommodating recess 42C of the base plate 42, and a counter roller 47C that is fixed to the roller base 47A and has a tip portion serving as a roller. The rotating disc 50 includes a disc-shaped upper disc 51 having seven medal drop holes 50A slightly larger than the medal outer diameter, and a disc-shaped lower disc 52 which is slightly smaller than the upper disc 51. It is integrally formed so that the height with the upper surface of the disc 52 is slightly higher than the medal thickness.

At the center of the upper part of the upper disk 51, a conical distribution mountain portion 51A is provided so as to project upward. Also,
At the center of the lower portion of the upper disk 51, a cam plate portion 51B for operating the guide pin drive mechanism 46 is provided so as to protrude downward. Between the lower disc 52 and the cam plate portion 51B, there is a hollow missing circle portion 52B. Further, on the upper surface of the lower disc 52 and between the medal drop holes 50A, the medal drop holes 5 are formed.
A sending protrusion 52D is formed so as to divide the 0A corresponding position. The lower circular portion 52 is provided with a through hole penetrating the upper and lower surfaces thereof, which will be referred to as a dust drop hole 52E. Further, the center of the cam plate portion 51B forms an output shaft fitting portion 52F which is a concave portion that fits the output shaft 43A including the horizontal bar 43B of the hopper motor 43.

In the rotating disc 50 thus formed, the lower circular portion 5 below the medal dropping hole 50A is formed.
A medal storage portion 52A surrounded by the upper surface of 2 and the delivery protrusion 52D is formed. In the rotating disc 50, medals are stored one by one in each of the above-mentioned medal storage portions 52A. Therefore, when the center of the rotary disc 50 is assumed to be a symmetry point, the plane cross-sectional shapes of the medal drop holes 50A and the cam plate portion 51B are always point-symmetrical.

The hopper tank 60 is a box-shaped tank portion 6
1 and a scoop portion 62 installed below the tank portion 61, and the lower end of the scoop portion 62 is fixed to the base plate 42. The tank portion 61 is composed of a square frame-shaped opening upper portion 61A and a scoop connection portion 61B formed so as to narrow the plane area downward from the lower portion of the opening upper portion 61A. Further, one of the side plates of the upper opening 61A is provided with a sliding hole 61C as a lateral hole. From one side plate upper surface adjacent to the side plate having the sliding hole 61C, a sliding plate 61D that is passed inside the opening upper portion 61A is attached to the sliding hole 61C.

The scoop portion 62 includes a base portion 62A connected to the scoop connection portion 61B of the tank portion 61, and a base cylinder portion 6 protruding downward from the base portion 62A.
2B and a protruding tubular portion 62C which is a tubular body having an outer diameter slightly smaller than the outer diameter of the base tubular portion 62B. The inner diameter of the protruding cylindrical portion 62C matches the outer diameter of the rotary disk surrounding portion 42D of the base plate 42. The inside surrounded by the protruding cylinder portion 62C is defined as a moving hole 62G.
The plane formed by the difference in outer diameter between the base tubular portion 62B and the protruding tubular portion 62C is the slide surface 62D. Further, the scoop portion 62 includes a small cylindrical lock portion 62E.
And two substantially rectangular parallelepiped meshing portions 62F. The lower ends of the protruding cylindrical portion 62C, the lock portion 62E, and the meshing portion 62F are formed so as to be flush with each other. The lock portion 62E is adapted to the scoop lock pin 42H which is fixed to the base plate 42 so as to be vertically movable when the hopper tank 60 is fixed to an appropriate position of the base plate 42, and has a hole formed inside. The entire hopper tank 60 is fixed to the base plate 42 by inserting the tip of the scoop lock pin 42H into the. On the other hand, the engaging portion 62F
Is the scoop fixing part 4 provided on the base plate 42.
It engages with 2F and has a shape in which the same shape as the scoop fixing portion 42F is omitted.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. First, a procedure for fixing the rotary disc 50 to the hopper body 40 will be described. The slide plate 45 is fixed to the base plate 42 so as to surround the output shaft 43A of the hopper motor 43.

The fixed disk 44 is the base plate 42.
Corresponding to the fixed disk fixing portion 42I of the
4A is fixed so as to be located on the delivery-out cutout portion 42E side. The guide pin drive mechanism 46 is pivotally supported by the base plate 42 by the guide pin base 46A so that the guide pin 46D rotates between the cutout portions 44A of the fixed disk 44. When pivotally supported, it is located outside the cam plate portion 51B. The guide pin 46D is rotationally biased around the guide pin base 46A by a biasing means (not shown) so that the guide pin 46D is located at the outermost portion of the fixed portion 44A of the fixed disk 44. Then, the cam pin roller 46C comes closest to the through hole 42A that is the center of the base plate 42.

In the counter roller mechanism 47, the roller portion of the counter roller 47C is sent out and the absent portion 42 is provided.
Roller base 47A so that it is located toward the center of E
Is pivotally supported by the base plate 42. When it is pivotally supported, the counter roller 47C rotates the rotating disc 5
Located outside 0. The roller base 47A is pivotally biased by a biasing means (not shown) around the roller base 47A.

The rotating disk 50 has an output shaft fitting portion 52F.
Is the output shaft 43A and the horizontal bar 43B of the hopper motor 43.
The guide pin drive mechanism 46 and the counter roller mechanism 47 do not get in the way, though they are fixed by being fitted into. The guide pin drive mechanism 46 has a cam plate portion 51.
This is because it is fixed to the base plate 41 so as to be positioned outside B, and the counter roller mechanism 47 is fixed so that the counter roller 47C is positioned outside the rotary disk 50. This is the same when the rotary disk 50 is removed.

When the rotary disc 50 is fixed, the cam plate portion 51B of the rotary disc 50 contacts the upper surface of the slide plate 45. Here, the output shaft 43 of the hopper motor 43
Since the A and the output shaft matching portion 52F are point-symmetrical, there are two matching patterns when only these are considered.

However, the cam pin roller 46C of the guide pin drive mechanism 46 is connected to the output shaft 4 of the hopper motor 43.
It is closest to 3A. On the other hand, since the cam plate portion 51B has a non-point-symmetrical plan shape, the cam pin roller 46C
As for the shape of the cam plate portion 51B that should be adapted to the above, only one of the adaptation patterns is indented toward the output shaft adaptation portion 52F side in conformity with the cam pin roller 46C.

Therefore, from the positional relationship between the cam plate portion 51B and the cam pin roller 46C, the output shaft 43A and the horizontal bar 43 are arranged.
Only one matching pattern of B and the output shaft matching portion 52F is determined, and according to the matching pattern, the rotating disk 50 can be mounted on the hopper body 40 extremely smoothly. Next, a procedure for fixing the hopper tank 60 to the hopper body 40 will be described.

The sliding surface 62D, which is the lower surface of the hopper tank 60, and the upper surface of the outer portion of the disk enclosing portion 42D of the base plate 42 are rubbed against each other to engage both the scoop fixing portion 42F and the engaging portion 62F, and the scoop lock pin 42H. Of the hopper tank 60 to the base plate 42 by adapting the lock portion 62E to the lock portion 62E.
Connect to.

Next, the movement of the medal will be described. The slide surface 61D of the tank portion 61 of the hopper tank 60 from the medal insertion port (not shown) through the medal selector.
And falls from the slide surface 61D to the scoop portion 62, and then is positioned on the rotating disk 50. When the number of medals increases in the hopper tank 60 and the medals reach the position of the slide surface 61D in the hopper tank 60, the inserted medals thereafter are guided to the slide surface 61D and guided to a storage tank (not shown) to be stored. It

The medals 90 are distributed to the distribution mountain portions 51A of the upper disc 51, enter the medal drop holes 50A, are stored in the storage space, and are mounted on the outer circular portion 52C of the lower disc 52 and the fixed disc 44. At this time, if dust is attached to the medal 90, it falls from the medal drop hole 52E of the lower disc 52 and accumulates in the storage recess 42C.
Part of it will fall below the base plate 42 from the dust removal hole 42G provided in the base plate 42.

Next, the action of paying out medals will be described. When the output shaft 43A of the hopper motor 43 starts rotating, the rotating disk 50 also rotates. At this time, the lower surface of the cam plate portion 51B of the rotary disc 50 is attached to the slide plate 45
, And the lower surface of the medal 90 stored in the medal storage portion 52A contacts the upper surface of the fixed disc 44.
Since the upper surfaces of the fixed disk 44 and the slide plate 45 are formed to have a small frictional resistance, the frictional resistance generated at this time can be small.

The cam plate portion 51B of the lower disk 52 of the rotary disc 50 presses the cam pin roller 46C of the guide pin drive mechanism 46, and the roller base 46A rotates about the guide rotation shaft 46B. At this time, the guide pin 46D
Means that the cutout portion 44A of the fixed disk 44 is moved out toward the side opposite to the feedout cutout portion 42E. On the other hand, among the medals stored in the medal drop hole 50A of the rotary disc 50, the medal 50 closest to the sending-out sliding plate material 42J will be paid out first.

Below, this medal 90 to be paid out first
Will be referred to as a “most medal” 90. It should be noted that the medals stored in the other medal storage portion 52A for storing medals other than the first medal 90 on the rotary disc 50 are as follows.
As the rotary disc 90 rotates, it is pushed out by the feed-out projection 52D and tries to move out of the rotary disc 50.
The access to the inner wall of D is blocked and the player stays in the medal storage 52A.

The first medal 90 slides on the slide plate 45 in the medal storage portion 52A of the rotary disc 50,
It is pushed by the sending protrusion 52D. Eventually, the side edge of the anti-feed-out missing portion 42E of the first medal 90 comes into contact with the guide pin 46D of the guide pin drive mechanism 46. Guide pin 46D
Is a cam plate portion 51B that rotates together with the rotary disc 50.
It is fixed to the roller base 46A which is rotated by the guide pin 46, and the side edge of the anti-feeding cutout portion 42E of the first medal 90 pushed by the feeding projection 52D is the guide pin 46.
At the time of touching D, the guide pin 46D is moving from the side of the non-feeding-out lacking portion 42E toward the side of the feeding-out missing portion 42E. Therefore, the guide pin 46D and the feeding protrusion 5
The medal 90 is sent out by 2D and pushed out toward the missing portion 42E side. Then, the first medal 90 will be sandwiched between the inner corner of the sending planing plate member 42J and the counter roller 47C of the counter roller mechanism 47.

When the rotary disk 50 rotates a little more,
Since the counter roller 47C is urged toward the sending-out sliding plate member 42J side, the counter-rolling member 47C resists the force pushed by the sending ridge 52D of the rotary disc 50 through the medal 90 most, and moves toward the anti-feeding sliding plate member 42J side. While being pushed back, it accumulates resilience. When the rotating disk 50 further rotates, the moment when the distance between the inner corner of the sending-out sliding board 42J and the point where the counter roller 47C contacts the medal 90 exceeds the diameter of the medal 90. At that moment, the force that the first medal 90 pushes the counter roller 47C disappears, and the counter roller 47C is pushed back to the side of the anti-feeding planing plate 42J, so that the counter roller 47C vigorously feeds and glides with the accumulated resilience. Return to the plate 42J side. At that time, since the sending-out planing plate material 47C pushes the outer edge of the medal 90, the medal 9
0 is the delivery guide 42K from the delivery missing portion 42E.
Through the hopper body 40.

In the direction in which the medals pop out, there is a medal payout opening of a medal game machine (not shown), and the medal is paid out to the player who was playing with the game machine. At the same time that the medal 90 jumps out of the hopper main body 40, the guide pin drive mechanism 46 rotates by the movement of the cam pin roller 46C that moves in accordance with the outer peripheral shape of the cam plate portion 51B, and the guide pin 46D is counter-fed and the missing portion Pull back to the 42E side. If the hopper motor 43 continues to rotate, the medal 9 next to the first medal 90
0 will be paid out from 40 in the same order as described above, and this will be done continuously.

When the medals 90 are successively paid out, the other medals fall from the tank portion 61 to the scoop portion 62 and are positioned on the rotating disk 50. At that time, the stirring spring 6 located in the moving hole 62G of the hopper tank 60
A large number of medals 90 are agitated by 1E, distributed to the distribution mountain portion 51A of the upper disc 51, and enter the medal drop holes 50A almost evenly.

The effects of this embodiment will be described below.
According to the hopper device of the present embodiment, it is possible to provide the hopper device in which the rotary disc 50 can be easily attached and detached. Further, when the rotary disc 50 is mounted, since the space is formed below the rotary disc 50 as a part of the storage recess 42C, it is possible to provide a hopper device that is less likely to be adversely affected by dust attached to the medal. There is an effect that it was done.

Variations of this embodiment will be described below. The hopper device of this embodiment has been described as corresponding to the invention of claim 2. However, the hopper device according to the second aspect is merely the one that the technical limitation that the dust removing hole 42G is provided on the lower surface of the base plate 42 that forms the storage space 42C is added to the hopper device according to the first aspect. .. Therefore, it can be said that the hopper device according to the first aspect is also described by the present embodiment.

However, it is of course possible to provide a hopper device in which the dust removing hole 42G is not provided on the lower surface of the base plate 42. If such a hopper device is provided, the hopper device according to claim 1 is provided. Will be provided.

[0054]

According to the hopper device of the first aspect,
It was possible to provide a hopper device in which the rotating disk can be easily attached and detached.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an assembled perspective view showing a hopper device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a hopper body according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a part of the hopper body of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a partially cutaway plan view showing a hopper body according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a part of the hopper body of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a front view showing a part of the hopper body of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a hopper tank according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an assembled perspective view showing a conventional hopper device.

FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view showing a rotary disc used in a conventional hopper device.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Hopper body 11 Bracket 12 Base plate 12A Through hole 12B Flat plate portion 12C Storage recess 12D Feeding out lacking portion 12E Tank fixing portion 12F Dust removal hole 13 Hopper motor 13A Output shaft 14 Upper fixing disc 15 Lower fixing disc 16 Spacer ring 17 Counter plate 18 Medal sensor 19 Counter roller 19A Rotation assisting member 19B Feeding member 19C Feeding biasing spring 19D Roller biasing spring 19E Auxiliary roller supporting plate 19F Auxiliary roller 19G Feeding roller supporting plate 19H Feeding roller 20 Rotating disc 20A Medal drop hole 21 Upper disc 22 Lower disk 22A Central circle part 22B Missing circle part 22C Outer circle part 22D Sending protrusion 22E Dust drop hole 22F Medal storage part 30 Hopper Tank 40 Hopper body 41 Bracket 42 Base plate 42A Through hole 42B Flat plate portion 42C Storage recess 42D Rotating disc enclosing portion 42E Feeding out lack portion 42F Scoop fixing portion 42G Dust removing hole 42H Scoop lock pin 42I Fixed disc fixing portion 42J Feeding sliding plate material 42K Guide 43 Hopper motor 43A Output shaft 43B Horizontal bar 44 Fixed disc 44A Missing part 45 Slide plate 46 Guide pin drive mechanism 46A Guide pin base 46B Guide rotation shaft 46C Cam pin roller 46D Guide pin 47 Counter roller mechanism 47A Roller base 47B Counter rotation Drive shaft 47C Counter roller 50 Rotating disc 50A Medal drop hole 51 Upper disc 51A Sorting mountain portion 51B Cam plate portion 52 Disc 52A Medal storage part 52B Missing circle part 52C Outer circle part 52D Sending protrusion 52E Dust drop hole 52F Output shaft conforming part 60 Hopper tank 61 Tank part 61A Opening top 61B Scoop connection part 61C Sliding hole 61D Sliding plate 61E Scooping spring 62 Part 62A Base part 62B Base cylinder part 62C Projecting cylinder part 62D Sliding surface 62E Lock part 62F Engagement part 62G Moving hole 90 Medals

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A plate-shaped base plate and a hopper motor fixed inside the base plate. The hopper motor is detachable, and a gap is provided inside. A hopper device to which a rotary disc formed so as to be able to store a plurality of medals is attached, wherein the base plate has a storage recess recessed downward, and the storage recess is provided with a through hole,
The output shaft of the hopper motor protrudes from the through hole, and the front part of the base plate has a sending-out notch that connects the front outside of the base plate and the storage recess, and the base plate sends out the medals stored in the rotating disc. It is equipped with a guide pin drive mechanism for guiding to the absent part and a counter roller mechanism for vigorously paying out medals from the sending out absent part toward the outside of the hopper body. A guide pin base that is a base of the drive mechanism, a guide rotation shaft that rotatably supports the guide pin base, a cam pin roller fixed to the guide pin base, and a guide pin,
The counter roller mechanism is composed of a roller base that is a base of the counter roller mechanism, a counter rotating shaft that rotatably supports the roller base, and a counter roller fixed to the roller base. A cam plate that operates the guide pin drive mechanism is provided at the center so as to project downward, and an output shaft matching part that matches the output shaft of the hopper motor is provided on the lower bottom surface of the center of the cam plate. When the output shaft matching part is fitted and fixed to the output shaft of the hopper motor, the guide pin drive mechanism is fixed to the base plate so that it is located outside the cam plate, and the counter roller mechanism is A hopper characterized in that the roller is formed so as to be fixed so as to be located outside the rotating disc. Location.