JPH1015214A - Apparatus and mechanism for returning pachinko ball - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a player to easily select a partial number or the total number of balls on returning gift balls to easily set processing of gift balls. SOLUTION: On a top face open ball box 2 positioned at underside of a ball extraction port at an under tray of a Pachinko machine, set on a table 7 of the Pachinko machine, and having a ball extraction hole 4 corresponding to a counting port 10 and equipped on a table 7 on a part of the bottom part, a ball box shutter 5 to open/close the ball extraction hole 4 is equipped slidable on the under face of the bottom part.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ball returning device and a ball returning mechanism for storing and receiving pachinko balls received from a lower plate of a pachinko machine and returning the balls for counting.

[0002]

In a conventional pachinko parlor, a prize ball obtained through a pachinko game is returned to the store to exchange it for a prize, and a player is installed at a required place in the store. The obtained prize balls are carried to the counting machine, and are put into the counting machine for counting. For this reason, in order to reduce the trouble of counting on the player side, it has recently been proposed to incorporate a ball return device configured as a counting machine equivalent to a pachinko machine, and the obtained prize balls are played in a game. Without returning to a pachinko machine, the ball was returned to the ball return device provided for each pachinko machine. However, in the above-described ball return device assembled for each pachinko machine, there is an inconvenience that the player cannot arbitrarily select partial counting or full counting. Also,
In the ball return device that is configured as a total counter that counts the released prize balls as they are, the mechanism itself automatically sends out the prize balls to the counter side, so the flow to the counter is There was also an inconvenience that it was not possible to stop counting and stop counting. In addition, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-1
No. 78865 proposes a device for temporarily storing a prize ball to be released by winning, which is integrally set on a pachinko machine. However, the entire device becomes complicated, and the trouble on the player side is increased. There is a disadvantage that it is not possible to keep the counting state while storing a part of the released prize ball without bothering.

In view of the above circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to make it possible for a player to easily select either partial counting or total counting when returning a prize ball. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a pachinko machine that can be easily adapted to the intention of the pachinko machine.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-mentioned problems, and is provided on a pachinko island table, which is located below a ball hole in a lower plate of a pachinko machine and is provided on the table. And a ball box shutter having an open top on a part of the bottom and a ball box shutter slidably provided on the lower surface of the bottom to open and close the hole. The above problem is solved by providing a ball returning device. The ball hole has a weir at a position crossing the flow of pachinko balls passing through the ball hole, and a ball box shutter is slidably provided through the lower surface of the weir. It is good to do. Further, it is preferable that the carton shutter is provided so as to be positioned at a position where the tip of the shutter reaches below the weir. Further, it is preferable that an urging means for constantly urging the ball shutter in the closing direction of the ball hole is provided at the bottom of the ball box. Further, the present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a ball return mechanism characterized in that a slide operation means for locking the ball box shutter of the ball return device and sliding the ball box shutter is provided on a table. Is what you do.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the embodiments shown in FIGS. In the drawing, reference numeral 1 denotes a ball returning device of the present invention. The ball returning device 1 is provided with an open bottomed ball box 2 and a part of the bottom 3 of the ball box 2 opened as shown in the figure. And a plate-shaped ball-box shutter 5 for opening and closing the cut-out hole 4. The ball box 2 is located so as to receive a pachinko ball (prize ball) dropped from a ball hole 6 in a lower plate of a pachinko machine (not shown), and is detachably mounted on a table 7 of a pachinko island. It is stationary, and is positioned at the projection 8 of the table 7. In addition, the ball hole 4 provided in the bottom 3 of the ball box 2 is located at a position corresponding to the counting port 10 provided in the table 7 and covered with a table shutter 9 so as to be opened and closed. The ball box shutter 5 located on the lower surface of the bottom 3 is slidably supported on the bottom 3 and is always urged in a direction to close the ball hole 4 by urging means 11 arranged on the lower surface of the bottom 3. Have been.

The ball hole 4 that can be opened and closed by the ball box shutter 5 has a weir 12 having a required height at a position crossing the flow of pachinko balls passing through the ball hole 4 as shown in the figure. Are provided so as to extend in the front-rear direction of the pachinko machine, and are provided so that the carton shutter 5 can slide through the lower surface of the dam portion 12. Due to the presence of the weir portion 12, the flow of pachinko balls from the inside of the carton box 2 toward the counting port 10 becomes two flows separated in the sliding direction of the carton box shutter 5 when the boring hole is fully opened, and will be described later. When one of the flow paths is closed as described above, the weir portion suppresses and holds a certain amount of movement of the pachinko ball. That is, since the barrel shutter 5 is provided so as to be slidable through the lower surface of the weir 12, the barrel shutter 5 is moved to a position where the tip of the barrel shutter 5 is located below the weir 12. When you do
As shown in FIG. 2, the weir portion 12 regulates the movement of the pachinko balls a inside the ball box 2, and a certain amount of the pachinko balls a is stored on the bottom portion 3. Since the ball hole 4 itself is partially open, the pachinko ball a flowing down from the ball hole 6 is restricted when a certain amount of the pachinko ball a is stored by being restricted by the weir portion 12. It flows to the counting port through the half-open ball-opening hole 4 as it is, so that the prize ball can be partially counted. If the game is continued in this state, the overflow balls passing through the ball hole (half-opened) of the ball box in which a certain amount of pachinko balls are stored in the weir portion 12 are automatically counted.
Then, as shown in FIG. 3, when the ball box shutter 5 is pulled to fully open the ball hole 4, the pachinko balls flowing down from the ball hole are not stored in the ball box 2, and the balls are dropped. It flows to the counter through the hole 4 so that the prize ball can be counted. It is preferable that the bottom portion 3 is inclined downward to facilitate the flow to the ball ejection opening.

Since the ball box shutter 5 is urged in the direction of closing the ball hole, it is engaged with the bottom surface of the bottom so as to be detachably engaged in order to maintain a half-open state or a fully-open state. It is preferable to provide a stopper projection 13 and a positioning recess 14 for receiving the stopper projection 13 on the lower surface of the bottom portion, which is connected to the ball box shutter so that the player can easily slide the ball box shutter. The operating means 15 is provided on the outside of the carton. Also, without providing the urging means, it is possible to form the barrel shutter and a sliding contact portion where the barrel shutter slides so that a certain degree of sliding contact resistance is generated, and the barrel shutter is stopped at any position. It is also possible to arbitrarily move the shutter box shutter by an external operation to arbitrarily change the open area of the ball hole.

FIG. 4 shows a ball return mechanism 16 configured to be able to open and close a ball box shutter and the like by operation from the table side. In the mechanism 16, on the table 7 side, the slide lever 17 that locks and slides the ball box shutter 5 and also slides the table shutter 9 that covers the counting port 10 can be positioned at an appropriate position. When the player operates the slide lever 17, the ball box shutter 5 and the table shutter 9 slide and move, opening and closing of the ball hole and opening and closing of the counting port are performed. The operation of positioning the slide lever 17 can also maintain the fully opened state and the half-opened state of the ball hole. As described above, the table 7 is provided with the slide lever 17 that performs the above-described operation, and in combination with the ball return device 1, the ball return mechanism 16 that can select accumulation, partial counting, or total counting of prize balls on the table side. So that the player can select how to deal with the prize ball.

[0009]

The present invention has the above-described structure, and a pachinko machine is provided in which a certain amount of prize balls are stored in the ball box side by sliding the ball box shutter to half open the ball hole. The prize balls flowing down from the lower plate of the table can be sent to the counting machine side, and the prize balls that are overflowed to the ball box can be automatically sent out to the counting machine side, and conventionally, regularly to prevent overflow, The counting work that had to be performed becomes unnecessary. Furthermore, when exchanging some prize balls for prizes, a partial count can be performed by half-opening the ball-hole from the closed state, and the counting operation becomes extremely easy. In addition, you can select full closing, partial opening, and full opening of the ball hole through sliding operation of the ball box shutter,
The selection can be performed by one operation. The ball case has a simple structure in which a weir portion is provided in a ball-hole that has a part of the bottom part opened, so that the protrusion height of the weir portion can be suppressed to a low value. However, the present invention has an effect that is excellent in practical use, such as stacking a plurality of ball boxes.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing a cross section of an embodiment of a ball returning device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a half-open state of a ball hole in a ball box;

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing a fully opened state of a ball hole in a ball box;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing an embodiment of a ball return mechanism according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Ball return device 2 ... Ball box 3 ... Bottom part 4 ... Ball hole hole 5 ... Ball box shutter 7 ... Table 9 ... Table shutter 10 ... Counter opening 12 ... Weir part 16 ... Ball return mechanism 17 ... Slide lever a ... Pachinko ball

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An upper surface which is located below a ball-drawing opening in a lower plate of a pachinko machine table and is set on a table of a pachinko island and has a ball-drawing hole corresponding to a counting hole provided in the table at a part of the bottom. A ball returning device comprising: an open carton; and a carton shutter slidably provided on the lower surface of the bottom portion to open and close a boring hole. 2. The boring hole has a weir portion at a position crossing the flow of pachinko balls passing through the boring hole, and the ball box shutter is slidably provided through the lower surface of the weir portion. The ball return device according to claim 1, wherein 3. The ball returning device according to claim 2, wherein the ball box shutter is provided so as to be positioned at a position where the tip of the shutter reaches below the weir. 4. A ball return according to claim 1, wherein a biasing means is provided at a bottom portion of said ball case to constantly bias the ball box shutter in a closing direction of the ball hole. apparatus. 5. A table provided with a slide operation means which is engaged with a ball box shutter of the ball return device according to any one of claims 1 to 4 and slides the ball box shutter. The ball return mechanism.