JPH10151270A - Automatic retrieving device for cigarette butt - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic retrieving device for cigarette butts which may keep stable running of a belt, may compulsively remove contaminant and may easily carry maintenance work out by bringing merits of driving method of a metal belt to bear. SOLUTION: A scaffolding 2 is composed with a separable component. A carrier belt 15 to be installed inside of the scaffolding is a belt made of 0.1mm stainless steel. Lug parts 22a to 26a preventing the belt to wave are formed on the both peripheries of a driving roller 21 and rotating rollers 22 to 26. A scraper 28, abutting to the both faces of the belt, is installed and placed opposingly on a returning side of the scaffolding to compulsively scrape off contaminant on the belt front face. A microswitch 31 for driving conveyer system is installed to a frame body, which removably stows a container 30 for retrieved cigarette butt.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game machine such as a pachinko machine, which has a buttress input port formed in a storage table provided at a front portion thereof, and receives a butt input from the butt input port.
The present invention relates to an automatic butts collecting apparatus that can transfer a received butts to a butts collecting section at the end of a storage table so that the butts can be automatically collected.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a gaming machine such as a pachinko machine, an ashtray is provided on a base portion of the gaming machine in consideration of the fact that many players have a smoking habit. The ashtray installed for each game machine is
Since the capacity is small due to the installation space, in the case of a player who plays a lot of time and smokes a lot, the cigarette ends up quickly. For this reason, in pachinko parlors and the like, employees regularly patrol and clean ashtrays.

[0003] However, manually cleaning the ashtray individually is a rather complicated operation for the employee. On the other hand, a player who receives a cleaning service may also lose concentration on the game in some cases, and if a mess cleaning operation is performed, ash may be scattered and discomfort may be felt. It was not a reputable job, even though it was called cleaning.

[0004] Therefore, butts are formed at predetermined intervals on the upper surface of a storage table provided at the front of a gaming machine, and the butts inserted from the butts insertion port are transported at the lower part of the storage table. There have been proposed various types of automatic butts automatic collection devices which are conveyed by means to a butts collection part at the end of a storage table so that the butts can be automatically collected. In a known butts automatic collecting device, a conveying means for conveying butts to a collecting part may be constituted by a heat-resistant or metal belt stretched between a driving roller and a rotating roller (for example, JP-A-5-76337). A trough member having a substantially U-shaped cross section is used as a conveyance path, and this trough member is placed on a vibrating device to convey a butt while applying vibration (for example, JP-A-8-57146). Etc.

[0005]

However, in the case of driving the above-mentioned heat-resistant belt, replacement work is required according to the consumption of the belt such as elongation, and readjustment must be performed every replacement. There is a problem that the frequency of maintenance work increases. Driving a metal belt is excellent in terms of durability, but since it is driven only over the rollers, it has a problem that it is easy to meander and stable traveling is difficult to be performed. .

[0006] Further, since these belt-type transfer means are fixedly installed inside a hollow storage table, once attached, such maintenance and inspection work can be performed regardless of the number of maintenances. When performing this, the storage table itself had to be removed, which was a complicated and difficult task.

[0007] In the case of the vibrating conveying means, the running portion is small, so that the consumable portion is less likely to occur than when the belt is driven. However, since the conveying path is apparently stationary,
When sticky substances such as gum are introduced from the butts inlet and adhere to the conveyance path, there is a problem that it is difficult to install a means for forcibly removing them. If the gum or the like remains attached, the butts will stay in the transport path and the recovery function will not be able to be exhibited. Therefore, it was necessary to immediately stop the drive of the transport means and perform the removal operation.

Further, in the conventional butts automatic recovery device,
A butt-collecting container is removably provided at a collecting section at the end of the storage table. When the butt is full, the collecting container is taken out and the accommodated butt is discarded. If this disposal operation is not performed after stopping the driving of the butts transporting means, the transported butts are dropped into the space after the container is taken out, and an extra cleaning operation must be performed. The operator sometimes inadvertently forgets the stop operation, and such an operation error is likely to occur as the number of disposal operations increases.

In view of the above, the present invention makes it possible to stably run the belt while taking advantage of the driving method of the durable metal belt, and to stop the belt drive even if sticky gums or the like adhere to the belt. Can be forcibly removed without
It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic butts collecting apparatus that can easily perform maintenance and inspection work and eliminate human operation errors that cause extra cleaning work when disposing of butts.

[0010]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is configured as follows. That is, butts are formed at predetermined intervals on the upper surface of a hollow storage table provided in front of a plurality of gaming machines, and a metal endless belt installed inside the storage table is rotated with a driving roller. A butt collection container is removably disposed below one end of a storage table on the return path side of the belt, and the butts are introduced from a butt inlet. In the automatic butts collecting apparatus, which is transported by a metal endless belt and stored in a butts collection container, first, a hollow storage table is connected to a front side plate connected to the bottom plate, and a back side connected to the top plate. It has a structure that can be separated into the side plate and a groove that is engraved on the front end of the top plate and a groove that is engraved on the bottom end of the back side plate. Combination In addition, the belt guide plate can be mounted in a suspended state in the storage space hollow portion along the groove formed on the inner peripheral wall side of the front plate and the back plate, and the bottom plate side with respect to the top plate side When the belt guide plate is separated, the belt guide plate can be taken out to the front side.

Then, the metal endless belt is set at 0.08 to
A stainless steel belt formed to have a thickness of 0.12 mm, and is disposed so as to be able to run along the upper and lower surfaces of the belt guide plate. Forming an ear portion for preventing the meandering of the belt, installing a scraper disposed opposite to the stainless steel belt, which is in contact with both surfaces of the belt and forcibly removes foreign matter attached to the surface side of the belt, A micro switch that operates with the butts collection container mounted and controls ON / OFF of the driving power supply of the transporting means is installed in a frame that detachably houses the butts collection container.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a perspective view schematically showing the entire structure of an automatic butts collecting apparatus 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. A game machine (pachinko machine) is not shown in the figure for easy understanding of the configuration. A storage table (top plate) 2 of the automatic butts collecting apparatus 1 is provided in front of a base (so-called island) for installing a plurality of side-by-side pachinko machines (not shown), and a case or game for accommodating pachinko balls. This is where the belongings of the customer are placed. On the upper surface of the storage table 2, butts inlets 3 are provided at predetermined intervals so as to correspond to each pachinko machine.
A dome-shaped ashtray 4 is provided so as to cover the butts inlet 3.

Although the inside of the storage table 2 is hollow, as shown in the sectional view of FIG. 2, a transport space in which transport means for transporting the butts introduced from the butts inlet 3 is housed. 5 and a duct 6 for exhausting tobacco smoke standing in the ashtray 4. Further, a belt guide that guides and supports a transport belt described later is provided in the transport space 5. A plate 7 is provided.

The storage table 2 is a separating member for separating a constituent member 2A on the top plate and back plate side including the duct portion 6 and a constituent member 2B on the bottom plate and front plate side forming the transfer space 5. It is composed of By these members, shed 2
As shown in FIG. 3, first, the component 2
The locking portion 9 on the bottom end side of the component 2B is engaged with the groove 8 formed on the bottom side of A. When the locking portion 9 is engaged with the groove 8, the component 2B is held in a suspended state on the bottom side of the component 2A as shown in the figure.

In this state, if the end of the belt guide plate 7 is mounted in the groove 10 formed in the partition of the duct 6 of the component 2A, and the component 2B is turned around the engaging portion, the configuration is completed. The end of the front plate of the member 2B is in contact with the end of the top plate of the component 2A. In this state, the folded portion 11A formed on the rear side of the stopper 11 is engaged with the groove 12 formed on the lower end of the back plate of the component 2A, and the stopper 1
The folded portion 11B formed on the front side of the first member 1
2, the frame structure can be completed while the belt guide plate 7 is supported, as shown in FIG. FIGS. 4 and 5 show the fastener 1 by the reverse process.
FIG. 4 is an external perspective view showing a state in which a belt guide plate 7 is taken out by removing the belt guide plate 1.

A stainless steel belt 15 serving as a butt transport path is provided inside the storage table 2 thus configured.
Are provided along the upper and lower surfaces of the belt guide plate 7. Conventionally, metal transport belts have been used,
In the present invention, as a result of repeating various strength experiments in consideration of the required durability and the allowable space in the island or the storage table 2 determined according to the standard size of the pachinko machine, the thickness is 0.1 mm in stainless steel. Endless belt has been found to be optimal, and is used as a transport path.
Taking into account the output of the drive motor and the size of the motor proportional to the output, the lower limit is set at 0.1 in terms of strength.
08 mm, 0.1 as the upper limit in terms of allowable space
2 mm is a reasonable range.

Conventionally, when a metal belt is used, the belt is merely wrapped around a driving roller or the like, and meandering tends to occur during the running of the belt. The drive roller 21 and the rotation rollers 22 and 23 mechanically connected to the drive shaft of the above, and the rotation rollers 24, 25 and 26 on the outward path where the butts collection container 30 is installed, are provided with respective ears at the peripheral edges of both ends thereof. Part 2
1a, 22a, 23a, 24a, 25a, and 26a are formed, and meandering is prevented by the ears. Further, folded portions for preventing meandering are also formed at both ends of the belt guide plate 7, so that the belt can run more stably.

A scraper 28 forcibly removing gums and the like adhering to the belt other than the transported butts is provided at the forward end of the stainless belt 15 composed of the rotating rollers 24, 25 and 26. The part is placed in contact with the belt so as to sandwich the belt from both sides. Since the belt itself is made of stainless steel and has a strength of 0.1 mm, the attached material can be removed by scraping off the scraper 28.

Below the forward end of the stainless steel belt 15, a butt collection container 30 into which the butts collected from the buttocks input port 3 and conveyed by the stainless steel belt 15 are dropped is detachably disposed in the frame. ing. When discarding the butts collected in the container, the butts collection container 30 is detached from this framework. A microswitch 31 is provided at the contact portion between the butts collecting container 30 and the frame, and the contact of the switch is set to a non-contact state when the container 30 is detached.

The microswitch 31 functions so that when the butt-collecting container 30 is mounted on the framework, the contacts come into contact with each other to turn on the power to the drive motor 20 of the transport means, and when it is detached, it turns off. Accordingly, even when the main power switch is not turned off while the butts are being automatically collected, and when the butts collection container 30 is detached for removal, the power to the drive motor 20 is turned off and the belt 15 is conveyed. Is stopped. As described above, even if the user forgets to turn off the main power supply, the butts are not conveyed and dropped to the container installation portion after the attachment and detachment, so that extra cleaning work as in the related art is not required.

In the butt collecting container 30, as in the prior art,
Fire fighting water may be stored in the tank.
A fire extinguishing function may be provided by sending carbon dioxide into a container from a carbon dioxide cylinder (not shown) to extinguish the fire, and not only to collect butts but also to extinguish butts that have not been completely rubbed and extinguished. It is configured to be able to.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 40 denotes an exhaust hose, one end of which communicates with the duct 6 in the storage table 2, and the other end of which is connected to a blower motor 42 via a dust collector 41. The duct 6 communicates with a smoke outlet formed in each of the ashtrays 4. By driving the blower motor 42, the smoke of the cigarettes trapped in the ashtray 4 is discharged from the smoke outlet into the duct 6. After the nicotine and tar components are removed in the dust collector 41 through the exhaust hose 40, the exhaust gas is exhausted outside the room. The dust collector 41 and the blower motor 42 communicate with the outdoor sides 43 and 44 by exhaust hoses, respectively.

As described above, in the automatic butts collecting apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the internal transport space 5 can be easily exposed simply by removing the stopper 11 from the structure of the storage table 2 itself. Stainless steel belt 15
Operations such as inspection, maintenance, and replacement can be easily performed. In addition, the stainless steel belt 15 is used at an optimum thickness, and while achieving the advantages of the conventional metal belt, a durable strength and a compact installation that is required are realized.

In addition, a stable running is realized so that the belt does not meander when the belt runs, and even if sticky gum or the like adheres to the belt, the driving of the belt is stopped by the scraper 28 without stopping. It can also be forcibly removed. Furthermore, since the transport of the butts by the belt is forcibly stopped during the work of attaching and detaching the butts collection container 30, it is possible to eliminate a human operation error that causes extra cleaning work. As described above, by eliminating various problems that may occur in performing the automatic collection of the butts, it is possible to easily promote the introduction of such a device.

[0025]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the automatic butts recovery apparatus of the present invention, maintenance work, which is a problem when a durable metal belt drive system is adopted, can be facilitated. Thus, the belt can be stably driven while taking advantage of the above-mentioned method. In addition, even if sticky gums adhere to the belt, they can be forcibly removed without stopping the belt drive, eliminating the need for extra inspection work and extra cleaning work when disposing of butts. It is possible to eliminate human operation errors that cause

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view conceptually showing the overall configuration of an automatic butts collecting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a configuration of a storage table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the assembly of a storage table.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which the storage table is disassembled.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a state in which the storage table is disassembled as in FIG. 4;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Butt automatic collection device 2 Storage table 3 Butt inlet 15 Stainless steel belt 21 Drive roller 22,23,24,25,26 Rotary roller 22a, 23a, 24a, 25a, 26a Ear 28 Scraper 30 Butt collection container 31 Micro switch

Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁶ Identification code FI B65G 45/12 B65G 45/12 Z

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of game machines each having a plurality of gaming machines, wherein butts are formed at predetermined intervals in the upper surface of a hollow storage table, and a metal endless belt installed inside the storage table is driven. A reciprocating running is performed by wrapping around a driving means constituted by a combination of a roller and a rotating roller, and a butt collecting container is detachably disposed below one end of a storage table serving as a return path of the belt, and from the butt charging port. In the butts automatic collection device configured to convey the inserted butts by the metal endless belt and to store them in the butts collection container, a front side plate connected to the bottom plate and the bottom plate, and a top plate With a groove that is cut in the front end of the top plate and a groove that is cut in the bottom end of the rear side plate. Separable And a belt guide plate can be mounted in a hollow state in the storage space along the groove formed in the inner peripheral wall side of the front plate and the back plate. When the face plate side is separated, the belt guide plate has a structure that can be taken out to the front side. The metal endless belt is a stainless belt formed with a thickness of 0.08 to 0.12 mm, and the belt guide plate is The stainless steel belt is disposed so as to be able to run along the upper and lower surfaces, and at the peripheral edges of both ends of the driving roller and the rotating roller, which surround the stainless steel belt, ears for preventing the stainless belt from meandering are formed. , A scraper disposed opposite to the abutment for contacting both sides of the belt and forcibly removing foreign matter adhering to the surface of the belt is installed, and the butts are collected. A frame for detachably accommodating a vessel, butts automatic recovery apparatus is characterized in that established a microswitch to ON · OFF control driving power of the transfer means operating in a state of cigarette butts collecting container is mounted.