Bingo game machine
AssigneeEagle Co., Ltd.
InventorHaruo Inoue
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Abstract
A bingo game machine which can carry out a series of operations including storing discrimination balls which are to be blown by an air blower into a closed vessel. The balls are blown about within the vessel with some balls falling onto a return surface to the storage area and some falling into a storage member. The balls falling into the storage member are detected and are the balls used to determine the winning balls for the bingo game. Once the balls have been received and detected, the game is over and the balls in the storage member are dropped into the storage area for the next game. A motor drives a screw rod in order to open a bottom of the storage member in order to release the balls that have fallen into the storage member. The motor moves the bottom back into place to close the bottom for the next game.
Claims22
A bingo game machine comprising a base, a spherical vessel attached on an upper wall of the base, plural discrimination balls accommodated within the vessel, elevating means for elevating these discrimination balls, means for catching the elevated discrimination balls to detect them, a ball storage member for storing the discrimination balls discriminated by a detecting means into a ball storage portion, and a ball discharge unit provided, in a longitudinal direction, with a working rod member having an opening/closing cover for opening a lower end opening of the ball storage member, thus to continuously carry out elevation, detection, storage and discharge of the discrimination balls within the vessel.
A bingo game machine comprising a box-shaped base, a transparent vessel attached on an upper wall of the base, a ball storage member fixedly disposed within the vessel and adapted for storing several discrimination balls discriminated by a detecting means, and a discrimination ball discharge unit having an opening/closing cover for opening or closing a lower portion of the ball storage member,
- an air blower that is disposed within the base, an air blast guide member is interposed between a discharge hole of the blower and an air blast hole at a lower portion of the vessel, whereby air which has been blown out into the vessel from the blast hole returns into the base through an opening portion at the lower portion of the vessel, and cyclically flows into an air suction hole of the air blower.
A bingo game machine comprising a base, a spherical vessel attached on the upper wall of the base, plural discrimination balls accommodated within the vessel, a hollow fixed shaft provided, in a longitudinal direction, at a supporting frame fixedly attached within the base, a ball flowing unit for clamping the plural discrimination balls by a drive disk and a driven disk which are rotatably provided on the fixed shaft and for releasing a clamped state of the both disks to thereby blow the discrimination balls along an inner wall of the vessel, a ball storage member fixedly disposed within the vessel so as to have an ability of detecting, through detecting means, the discrimination balls elevated by the ball blowing unit and adapted for the detected discrimination balls to drop into a ball storage portion, and a ball discharge unit in which a working rod member is provided within the hollow fixed shaft and an opening/closing cover for opening/closing the lower portion of the ball storage member at an upper end portion of the working rod member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.