Pachinko ball counting machine, die-to-die ball lending machine, pachinko ball equipment and pachinko ball equipment system

摘要

PURPOSE: To reduce simply and inexpensively the carrying of pachinko (Japanese pinball game) balls by a user by counting pachinko balls, memorizing a deposit ball number that is the accumulation of this counting, and returning surplus deposit balls to an inter-stand ball lending machine, and at the same time, renewing the deposit ball number, by conducting writing into a card. ;CONSTITUTION: In the case of plural pachinko ball device 2-2n, each is composed of a set consisting of a pachinko stand 3, an inter-stand ball lending machine 4 and a pachinko ball counting machine 5. As for the pachinko ball counting machine 5, it counts pachinko balls thrown in by means of a counting means 5a and accumulates count by means of a deposit ball number memorizing means 5b. Also, when the number of deposit balls is more than the predetermined number of return balls, a ball return control signal (a) is sent out to the inter-stand ball lending machine 4 by means of a deposit ball return permission/refusal deciding means 5d following the operation of a ball return operating means 5c. In addition, at every generation of the ball return control signal (a), a new deposit ball number is brought on by subtracting a return ball number from a deposit ball number by means of a deposit ball number renewing means 5e, and deposit ball number data are written into a card 5f by means of a deposit ball number writing means 5g.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1994,JPO