INTER-ISLAND BALL TRANSFER DEVICE FOR PACHINKO HALL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly and smoothly average balls among islands in a Pachinko hall by providing an endless carrying device for performing circulation in normal and opposite directions and performing transfer mutually between the replenishing routes of the adjacent islands and a stop valve device for opening and, closing a ball delivery port between adjacent carrying path turning ends. ;SOLUTION: The circulation replenishing routes 1 of the respective islands receive balls from respective ball lifting machines 1 to respective ball tanks 24 at the lower part of the respective stop valve devices 3, send them to respective replenishing gutters 1b and deliver the balls overflowing from the ball tanks 24 from an overflowing ball exit onto the stop valve devices 3. Then, for instance, when the balls are insufficient only in the island B and the balls are sufficiently present in the islands A and C, the stop valve device 3 of the island B is opened, the sides of the islands A and C are closed, the carrying devices 2a and 2b are circulated in a right side direction, the carrying devices 2c and 2d are circulated in a left side direction and the balls are replenished to the island A. Also, after the balls are filled, when the balls become insufficient in the island A, the stop valve device 3 of the island B is closed, the side of the island A is opened, the circulation direction of the carrying device 2b between the islands A and B is inverted and replenishing is performed to the island A.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO