JPH0737666Y2 - Pachinko ball storage box - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial field of application) The present invention relates to a pachinko ball storage box having a ball discharge hole for a pachinko ball on the bottom surface.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, a player who plays a game in a pachinko hall stores the acquired pachinko balls in a ball storage box installed in the pachinko hall and transports them to a ball counting device, and at the same time, transfers the acquired pachinko balls to balls. By counting with a counting device, a prize of a price corresponding to that is received.

Now, in order to count the pachinko balls stored in the ball storage box with a ball counting device, tilt the ball storage box above the ball counting device to remove all the pachinko balls stored in it. Must be poured into a ball counting device. However, a large amount of labor is required to allow a large number of pachinko balls to be stored and to flow out the pachinko balls from a heavy ball storage box. Moreover, when pouring a pachinko ball from the ball storage box into the ball counting device, the pachinko ball may bounce off the ball counting device and pop out,
There is a risk that the player will suffer disadvantages. Therefore, in recent years, a ball storage box has been provided in which the ball storage box is placed on the ball counting device and the pachinko balls stored therein are poured into the ball counting device. That is, a ball discharge hole through which a pachinko ball passes is formed on the bottom surface of the ball storage box and it is closed by a closing member that can move upward, and the ball storage box is mounted on a ball counting device. The closing member is pressed from below and moves upward.

According to the ball storage box having the above configuration, when the ball storage box in which the pachinko balls are stored on the ball counting device is placed, the closing member of the ball storage box moves upward to open the ball discharge hole, The pachinko balls in the ball storage box pass through the ball discharge holes and flow into the ball counting device. Therefore, the player can count the number of pachinko balls with the ball counting device without performing the troublesome operation of inclining the ball storage box and causing the pachinko balls to flow out. Further, since the pachinko balls flow into the ball counting device from the bottom surface of the ball storage box located immediately above the ball counting device, there is no problem that the pachinko balls bounce greatly from the ball counting device and pop out from there.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) However, in the case of the ball storage box having the above-mentioned conventional configuration, since only one ball storage box can be placed on the ball counting device, a large number of pachinko balls have been acquired, so that a plurality of pachinko balls are acquired. When stored in the ball storage box, the ball storage box has to be sequentially placed on the ball counting device, which has a drawback that the counting work is very troublesome.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a pachinko ball storage box in which the counting operation by the ball counting device can be easily performed even when the number of pachinko balls is large. is there.

[Configuration of Device] (Means for Solving the Problem) A pachinko ball storage box of the present invention is provided with a box body having a ball discharge hole through which a pachinko ball passes, and the box body serves as the ball counting device. In addition to providing a closing member that opens the ball discharge hole by moving upward in the mounted state, the closing member has a pushing member protruding upward and the box body is mounted on another box body. In the state where the box body is placed, it is moved upward by pressing the above-mentioned push-up member of the box body located on the lower side.

(Operation) When the box body containing the pachinko balls is placed on the ball counting device, the closing member located on the bottom surface of the box body moves upward to open the ball discharging hole. Then, the pachinko balls in the box body pass through the ball discharge holes and flow into the ball counting device, whereby the pachinko balls are counted by the ball counting device.

Now, when the box main body containing the pachinko balls is placed on the ball counting device with the top and bottom stacked, the closing member of the box main body directly placed on the ball counting device moves upward and the ball discharge port opens. Therefore, the pachinko balls in the lower box body flow into the ball counting device and are counted. Then, since the position of the upper box body lowers as the number of pachinko balls in the lower box body decreases, the push-up member of the lower box body pushes the closing member of the upper box body upward, As a result, the ball discharging hole of the upper box body is opened. Then, the pachinko balls stored in the upper box body flow into the lower box body from the ball discharge hole and also into the ball counting device from the ball discharge hole of the lower box body. Therefore, the ball counting device can count the pachinko balls stored in the plurality of box bodies placed on the ball counting device.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, slit-shaped ball discharge holes 3 and 4 are formed in parallel on the bottom surface 2 of the box body 1 so as to cross the bottom surface. Further, on the inner surface of the side wall 5 of the box body 1, a guide portion 6 formed in a concave shape is formed so as to extend in the vertical direction at each position that is linearly arranged with each of the ball discharge holes 3 and 4. Here, the bottom surface 2 of the box body 1 is formed in a state of being inclined downward toward the ball discharge holes 3 and 4.

On the other hand, a flat closing member 7 is provided on each of the ball discharge holes 3 and 4. The upper surface of the closing member 7 is inclined toward the end, and a protruding portion 8 is formed on the side surface portion, and the protruding portion 8 is loosely fitted in the guide portion 6 of the side wall 5 of the box body 1. . With the above configuration, the projecting portion 8 can move the guide portion 6 up and down, and the closing member 7 moves up and down according to the up and down movement. In this case, the protrusion 8
The closing member 7 closes the ball discharge holes 3 and 4 when is located below the guide section 6, and the closing member 7 is located above when the protrusion 8 is located above the guide section 6. Move and ball discharge hole
Open 3 and 4. Further, four push-up members 9 protruding upward are provided on the upper surface of the closing member 7.

Now, the side wall 5 of the box body 1 is formed so as to be drawn downward, so that the box body 1 can be placed on another box book 1 in an overlapping manner. When the plurality of box bodies 1 are stacked in this manner, the push-up member 9 of the lower box body 1 penetrates the ball discharge holes 3 and 4 of the upper box body 1 and contacts the lower surface of the closing member 7. It has become.

FIG. 4 shows the ball counting device 10. A ball receiving tray 12 in the shape of a shallow container is arranged on the upper part of the device body 11. The center portion of the ball receiving tray 12 is open so that the number of pachinko balls dropped through it can be counted. On the upper surface of the ball tray 12, four push-up members 13 projecting upward are provided upright. In this case, the push-up member 13 is set at a position where the push-up member 13 penetrates the ball discharge holes 3 and 4 on the bottom surface of the box body 1 and contacts the lower surface of the closing member 7 while the box body 1 is placed on the ball receiving tray 12. ing. On the other hand, a display unit 14 is provided on the front surface of the apparatus main body 11, and the number of pachinko balls counted is displayed on the display unit 14 and a deposit ticket in which the count value is printed according to the switch operation is displayed. It is launched from the printer 15.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described.

The player stores the pachinko balls, which are obtained when the game is over, in the box body. At this time, when a large number of pachinko balls are acquired, the pachinko balls are dispersed and stored in, for example, the two box bodies 1.

Since the ball discharge holes 3 and 4 of the box body 1 are closed by the closing member 7, the pachinko balls are stored in the box body 1 without dropping from the ball discharge holes 3 and 4. Then, the box body 1 in which the pachinko balls are stored is transported to the ball counting device 10 installed at the prize exchange place, for example. Then, with the box body 1 containing the pachinko balls stacked vertically, the ball saucer 12
When it is placed on, the push-up member 13 protruding from the ball tray 12 penetrates the ball discharge holes 3 and 4 of the lower box body 1 and contacts the closing member 7 to push it up. Then, since the closing member 7 moves upward, the ball discharge holes 3 and 4 are opened, and the box body 1 is opened from there.
The pachinko balls inside fall into the ball saucer 12.

Then, as the number of pachinko balls stored in the box body 1 located on the lower side drops to the ball tray 12 as described above, the number of pachinko balls stored therein decreases, and the box body 1 is stored in the lower box body 1. By lowering the position of the upper box body 1 placed on the pachinko balls, the push-up member 9 projecting from the closing member 7 of the lower box body 1 is located at the upper side, and the ball discharge hole 3 of the box body 1, It penetrates 4 and comes into contact with the closing member 7. Then, the closing member 7 of the box body 1 located on the upper side moves upward to open the ball discharge holes 3 and 4, so that the pachinko balls in the upper box body 1 move the ball discharge holes 3 and 4. While passing and flowing into the lower box body 1, its ball discharge hole 3,
It falls on the ball saucer 12 through 4. Therefore, the pachinko balls in the box body 1 placed on the ball receiving tray 12 up and down can be used for the ball counting device 10
Can be counted by.

In short, according to the above-mentioned embodiment, the ball receiving tray of the ball counting device 10 with the plurality of box bodies 1 accommodating the pachinko balls stacked.
By placing the pachinko balls in the box body 1 on the ball counting device 10, all of the pachinko balls in the box body 1 can be counted, so that the box body containing the pachinko balls must be sequentially placed on the ball counting device. Unlike the example, the counting operation by the ball counting device 10 can be performed without a troublesome operation.

In the above embodiment, two ball discharge holes are formed on the bottom surface of the box body, but instead of this, only one hole may be formed.

[Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the above description, according to the pachinko ball storage box of the present invention, the pachinko ball storage box is placed above the closing member in a state where the box body is placed on the ball counting device or another box body. Since the ball discharging hole on the bottom surface of the box body is opened by the movement, there is an excellent effect that the counting operation by the ball counting device can be easily performed even when the number of pachinko balls increases.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is a plan view, Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional side view, Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional front view, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a ball counting device. FIG. 6 is a partially cutaway side view showing a usage example in a state of being mounted on a ball counting device. In the figure, 1 is a box body, 2 is a bottom surface, 3 and 4 are ball discharging holes, 7 is a closing member, and 10 is a ball counting device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A box body for transporting pachinko balls counted by a ball counting device provided in a pachinko hall in a housed state, the box main body having a ball discharge hole through which the pachinko balls pass, and this box. A closing member that opens the ball discharging hole by moving upward when the main body is placed on the ball counting device, and the closing member has a pushing-up member that projects upward; The pachinko ball storage box, wherein the pachinko ball storage box is moved upward by being pushed by the push-up member of the box body located on the lower side in a state of being placed on the box body.