JPH0530209Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a medal replenishment switching device for supplying medals and coins to a medal lending machine, a game machine, or a money exchange machine at any time.

[Prior Art] In game centers and the like, a large number of game machines that use medals, such as slot machines, are installed. In such gaming machines, medals are paid out to players based on game results, so when the number of medals appropriated for payouts decreases, it is necessary to replenish the gaming machine with medals.

In addition, recently, medal lending machines that lend out medals for use in game machines are often distributed every few game machines. These medal lending machines must also be replenished with medals from time to time.

In order to efficiently supply medals to the game machines and medal lending machines described above, a gutter-like feeding path for feeding medals is installed above these devices, and a gutter-like feeding path is installed on this feeding path. A method is adopted in which medals are supplied to a predetermined device by providing shutter blades that can be opened and closed at positions directly above each device, and selecting and opening the shutter blades as appropriate. A medal feeding device such as a hopper is installed at the starting point of the feeding path, and it is only necessary to manually replenish the medal feeding device with medals, eliminating the need for the troublesome work of replenishing medals for each device. Become.

[Problem that the invention attempts to solve]

However, with the above-described conventional method, there was a problem in that the medals were caught between the shutter blades when the shutter blades were closed after the medals had been supplied to the necessary equipment. In general, the feeding path is wide enough to allow only one medal to pass through to prevent jamming when feeding the medals, so if a medal gets caught between the shutter blades as described above, the feeding path becomes clogged. This will make it impossible to replenish medals to machines after that. Moreover, since the medal feeding load suddenly increases, the medal feeding device is also adversely affected.

[Purpose of invention]

This invention has been developed in view of the above-mentioned problems, and is a medal replenishment system that can smoothly replenish medals to devices such as game machines and medal lending machines without causing problems such as clogging or shutter failure. The purpose is to provide a switching device.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to achieve the above object, the medal replenishment switching device of the present invention has a receiving port for receiving medals arranged in a line, and a supply port for discharging the medals supplied from the receiving port to a device that requires replenishment. , a transfer port for forwarding medals when the equipment does not require replenishment, and a transfer port that is movable between the supply port and the transfer port, and the medals supplied from the receiving port are transferred to either the supply port or the transfer port. A switching plate that switches to lead the medals in the opposite direction, and a switching plate that is switched to the supply port side, protrudes into the path of the medals fed from the receiving port, and prevents the medals from being moved toward the transfer port. and a stopper that protrudes between the receiving port and the switching plate and prevents medals from being sent to the switching plate while the switching plate is moving. I am trying to prepare for this.

[Effect]

According to the above means, when replenishing medals to a device that requires medal replenishment, the switching plate is switched to the replenishment port side, and the guide plate guides the route of the medals supplied from the receiving port. The stopper protrudes inward to prevent the medals from being moved toward the transfer port, and when stopping the supply of medals, the stopper moves between the receiving port and the switching plate in conjunction with the changeover plate being switched to the transfer port side. It protrudes between the board and prevents medals from being sent to the switching board while the switching board is moving, allowing for smooth replenishment of medals to equipment that requires medal replenishment without problems such as clogging. It can be performed.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

〔Example〕

In FIG. 1 showing the internal structure of the medal replenishment switching device (hereinafter abbreviated as the present device) 1 of the present invention, the device 1 includes metal plates 18, 19, 20 slightly thicker than the thickness of one medal. Two metal substrates 10 and 11 are sandwiched between the metal substrates 10 and 11 and connected by three screws 15, 16, and 17, and a gap is formed between the substrates 10 and 11 through which one medal can pass. These substrates 10, 11 and metal plates 18, 19,
20 has screw holes 18a, 18b, 19, respectively.
a, 20a are opened, and the device 1 can be attached to a medal rail 3 (see FIG. 4) for transporting medals. Note that the substrate 10,1
1 is provided with holes that pass through the screw holes 18b and 20a, respectively.

A motor 22 is attached to the lower back surface of the substrate 10, and a first cam 24 and a second cam 25 each having a notch 24a, and a crank 26 are fixed to a drive shaft 23 of the motor 22. Two levers 35 and 36 are rotatably attached to the tip of the crank 26.
At the tip of the slit 11 formed in the substrate 11
A lever 37 and a switching plate 38 are rotatably attached via a shaft 39 loosely extending through a. In addition,
This switching plate 38 is rotated about a shaft 29 between the substrates 10 and 11. Further, the lever 35 is bent at two places along the way so as not to hinder the rotation of the second cam 25 and the like.

An elongated hole 37a is provided at the tip of the lever 37, and a guide plate 41 is attached via a shaft 40 loosely passed through the elongated hole 37a. This guide plate 41 is a fan-shaped opening 11 formed in the substrate 11.
b, and is rotated about a shaft 42 fixed to the substrate 10. Further, a fan-shaped lever 43 in which a notch 43a is formed is rotatably attached to the shaft 42, and the shaft 43 fixed to this fan-shaped lever 43
4 is loosely passed through an elongated hole 36a formed in the lever 36 and also loosely passed through a slit 11c formed in the base plate 11, and the fan-shaped lever 43 is rotated along this slit 11c. In addition,
A torsion coil spring 45 is passed through the shaft 42 and urges the shaft 40 and the shaft 44 downward.

Further, a lever 30 is attached to be rotatable about a shaft 29 fixed to the substrate 11, and three pins 28, 31, and 32 are fixed to this lever 30. A coil spring 34 is installed between this pin 31 and a pin 33 fixed to the substrate 11, and due to the action of this coil spring 34, the pin 28 fixed to the end of the lever 30 is always It is in contact with the periphery of the cam 24.

A micro switch 50 is fixed below the substrate 10, which includes a movable part that is pressed by the tip of the second cam 25, and which stops the motor 22 when the movable part is pressed. Further, a slit 11d is formed at the upper left side of the substrate 11, and a pin 46 is loosely inserted into this slit 11d. This pin 46 is attached to a shaft 48 on the board 10.
Lever 4 is rotatably attached via
It is formed integrally with 7. When a medal passes in the direction of the arrow through the passage formed by the metal plates 18 and 20 as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 2, when the medal is guided diagonally downward, it is located at the lowest part of the slit 11d and serves to prevent the medal from flowing backward. If the pin 46 is not provided and the medals flow backwards, the medals flowing in the direction of the arrow and the medals flowing backwards will collide with each other near the gap between the guide plate 41 and the metal plate 20 in the state shown in FIG. , which may cause clogging. Also,
When returning from the state shown in Figure 2 to the state shown in Figure 1,
There is a possibility that the medals flowing backward may obstruct the rotation of the guide plate 41.

A metal movable cylinder 52 for discharging medals is provided diagonally below the left side of the board 10. This movable tube 5
A metal band 53 equipped with a lever 53a is welded around 2, and the movable cylinder 52 is rotatably attached to shafts 54 and 55 via this band 53. The shaft 54 is fixed to an auxiliary tool 57 fixed to the substrate 10, and the shaft 55 is fixed to an auxiliary tool 60 attached to the substrate 10 with screws 58, 59.

In FIG. 3 showing the back side of the device 1, the end of the lever 53a is rotatably attached to the end of a lever 62, and the other end of the lever 62 is rotatably attached to the end of a crank 63. It is being Further, the other end of the crank 63 is fixed to the center of a cam 64 having two protruding pieces 64a and 64b, and this cam 64 is fixed to a drive shaft of a motor 65. Above the cam 64, a micro switch 66 is fixed to an auxiliary plate 67 to which a motor 65 is fixed, and this auxiliary plate 67 is fixed to an auxiliary plate 68 fixed to the base plate 10.
This auxiliary plate 68 is provided with an opening 68a so as not to hinder the rotation of the movable cylinder 52. Incidentally, on the side of the substrate 10, a projection piece 10a having a screw hole for attaching the device 1 to a pillar or the like is formed integrally with the substrate 10.

Next, the operation of this device 1 will be explained. This device 1
As shown in FIG. 4, the medal rail 3 is attached to the pillar 80 via the protruding piece 10a, and the medal rail 3 is attached to the screw holes 18a, 18b, 19a of the metal plates 18, 19, 20, It is attached via 20a. This medal rail 3 consists of medal vending machines 81 installed back to back as shown in the figure.
a, 81b and the slot machine 82, and medal feeders 6 are provided at various locations.
This medal sender 6 has a structure in which a motor 9 rotates two rubber rollers 8a and 8b that are in contact with a rubber belt 7 (which may be a ring-shaped coil spring), and the medals are delivered by a motor 9.
It is sent out by being passed between a and 8b.

As shown in Fig. 5, it is fed into the hopper 4,
The accumulated medals are sent to 1 by the medal sending device 5.
The medals are sent out one by one to the medal rail 3. The medals delivered to the medal rail 3 are sequentially pushed out by medal delivery devices 6 provided at various locations on the medal rail 3, and enter the device 1.

When medals are sufficiently accumulated in the medal reservoirs of the medal lending machines 81a and 81b and there is no need to replenish the medals, the medals are placed in a passing state as shown in FIG. Medal lending machine 81a or 8
When it is necessary to supply medals to 1b, power is turned on to the motor 22. Then, the drive shaft 23
starts rotating, and the first cam 24, second cam 25, and crank 26 fixed to the drive shaft 23 start rotating clockwise. As the crank 26 rotates, the lever 35 begins to move counterclockwise along the slit 11a, and the switching plate 38 also begins to rotate counterclockwise about the shaft 29. The lever 37 begins to move downward in synchronization with the movement of the switching plate 38, and the shaft 40 loosely inserted into the elongated hole 37a is pushed downward by the bias of the torsion coil spring 45, and the guide plate 41 opens. It is rotated counterclockwise around the shaft 42 until it comes into contact with the lower end side of 11b.

On the other hand, the lever 30 is rotated about the shaft 29 according to the rotation of the first cam 24 to which the pin 28 is in contact, and the pin 32 is connected to the notch 43 of the fan-shaped lever 43.
Move below a. Additionally, the lever 36 is initially rotated counterclockwise around the shaft 44;
The pin 32 is engaged with the notch 43a, the fan-shaped lever 43 is supported by the pin 32 and does not fall downward, and at the same time, the elongated hole 36a is aligned with the shaft 44.
begins to fall downward. The drive shaft 23 of the motor 22
When rotated by 180 degrees, the movable part of the microswitch 50 is pressed by the end of the second cam 25, and the motor 22 is powered off and stopped. In this way, the device 1 is switched from the state shown in FIG. 1 to the state shown in FIG. 2.

The medals are diverted diagonally downward along the path formed by the guide plate 41 and the switching plate 38, and pass through the movable tube 52 to the medal lending machine 81a or medal lending machine 81b installed below. Fall. Below this device 1 are two medal lending machines 8.
1a and 81b are installed back to back as shown in FIG. 4, and by driving the motor 65, it is possible to select which of the two medal lending machines 81a and 81b will be supplied with medals. . For example, as shown in FIG. 3, when the motor 65 is powered on with the movable barrel 52 facing the medal lending machine 81a, the crank 63 is rotated clockwise and the lever 62 pushes the lever 53a. As a result, the movable tube 52 is rotated around the shafts 54 and 55, and the discharge port of the movable tube 52 is directed toward the medal lending machine 81b. At the same time, cam 64
is rotated 180 degrees, and the protruding piece 64b pushes up the movable part of the micro switch 66 to stop the motor 65. When the motor 65 is powered on again in this state, the crank 63 rotates 180 degrees clockwise, and the discharge port of the movable tube 52 faces the medal lending machine 81a.
Return to the state shown in Figure 3.

To stop the supply of medals to the medal lending machine 81a or 81b, turn the motor 22 in the state shown in FIG.
Turn on the power. Then, the drive shaft 23 of the motor 22 starts rotating, and the first cam 24 and the second cam 2
5. The crank 26 starts rotating clockwise. Immediately after the first cam 24 starts rotating, the first cam 24
The pin 28 falls into the notch 24a by the action of the coil spring 34, and the lever 30 is rotated about the shaft 29, and the pin 32 is removed from the notch 43a. As a result, the fan-shaped lever 43 is pushed down by the bias of the torsion coil spring 45, and the shaft 44 is inserted into the medal passage along the slit 11c. This shaft 44 prevents medals from entering the passage formed by the guide plate 41 and the switching plate 38.

In addition, the lever 35 is rotated by the rotation of the crank 26.
is pushed up, the switching plate 38 is rotated clockwise about the shaft 29. At the same time, the lever 37 is also pushed up, but the guide plate 41 is not rotated by the length of the elongated hole 37a, and the passage formed by the guide plate 41 and the switching plate 38 is narrowed. However, as described above, since the shaft 44 prevents the medals from entering and the pin 46 prevents the medals from flowing backward, the guide plate 41
The inside of the passage formed by the guide plate 41 and the switching plate 38 is empty, thereby preventing the trouble of medals being pinched between the guide plate 41 and the switching plate 38 and not being able to switch.

Furthermore, when the crank 26 is rotated, the elongated hole 37
The shaft 40 is pushed up by the end a, and the guide plate 41 is rotated to the position shown in FIG. At the same time, the switching plate 38 is also rotated to the position shown in FIG. 1, the lever 36 is pushed up, and the shaft 44 is retracted from the medal path. At this time, the second
Since the protrusion of the cam 25 presses the movable part of the microswitch 50, the motor 22 is stopped and the switching is completed, returning to the state shown in FIG. And axis 4
4 is withdrawn from the medal passage, the medal enters the passage formed by the guide plate 41 and the switching plate 38 and begins to advance in the direction of the arrow in FIG.

It goes without saying that the present invention can also be used as a coin replenishment switching device for replenishing coins into an exchange machine for exchanging banknotes into coins.

[Effect of idea]

As explained above, in this invention, when replenishing medals to equipment that requires replenishment of medals, such as game machines and medal lending machines, the guide plate is connected to the switch plate being switched to the replenishment port side, and the guide plate is It protrudes into the path of the medals supplied from the entrance to prevent the medals from being moved toward the transfer port, and when stopping the supply of medals, it is linked to the switch plate being switched to the transfer port side. The stopper protrudes between the receiving port and the switching plate, and prevents the medals from being sent to the switching plate while the switching plate is moving, so troubles such as clogging and shutter failure do not occur, and the process is carried out smoothly. It becomes possible to provide a medal replenishment switching device capable of replenishing medals to equipment that requires medal replenishment.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side view of essential parts of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a side view of essential parts showing a state in which an embodiment of the present invention is replenishing medals to a medal lending machine. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention in the vicinity of the discharge port, viewed from the opposite side to FIG. 1. Fourth
The figure is a schematic explanatory diagram showing an example of use of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing an example of use of an embodiment of the present invention. 1... medal supply switching device, 10, 11...
...Substrate, 24...First cam, 25...Second cam,
26, 63...Crank, 38...Switching plate, 41
...Guide plate, 43...Fan-shaped lever, 44...
Shaft, 46...pin, 50, 66...micro switch, 52...movable cylinder, 81, 81a, 81b...
...Medal lending machine, 82...Slot machine.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] (1) A receiving port for receiving medals arranged in a line, a supply port for discharging the medals supplied from the receiving port to a device that requires replenishment, and A transfer port for forwarding the medals when they are not available, and a switch that is movable between the supply port and the transfer port and switches to direct the medals supplied from the receiving port to either the supply port or the transfer port. A guide plate that protrudes into the path of the medals supplied from the receiving port and prevents the medals from being moved toward the transfer port in conjunction with the switching of the board and the switching board to the supply port side, and a switching board. The stopper is linked to switching to the transfer port side, and is provided with a stopper that protrudes between the receiving port and the switching plate to prevent the medals from being sent to the switching plate while the switching plate is moving. A switching device for medal replenishment. (2) The medal replenishment switching device according to claim 1, wherein the switching plate has a length at least twice the diameter of the coin.