PURPOSE: To eliminate the troublesomeness for feeding a ball, and to eliminate the interruption caused by ball-out by taking in a ball one by one from an inlet side of a ball supply line by an elastic plate and a feed wheel provided in the ball supply line, and feeding out the ball along the ball supply line.
CONSTITUTION: When a power source switch is turned on, a ratchet wheel 17 and a feed wheel 16 are rotated clockwise, an aligning plate 14 is subjected to reciprocating motion, and a ball of an origin storing part 5a is pushed in to the direction of the feed wheel 16. The ball on an elastic plate 15 is held in by a notch part 16a. This ball is fed successively to a push-up part 5d. When one push-button 2a is depressed, one end 8a of an operating lever 8 engaged thereto moves upward, a bulkhead 7b goes upward, and a cover 7a protrudes upward from a connecting passage 4. In this case, the upper part of a vertical row chamber 3 is opened in the connecting passage 4, and the bulkhead 7b cuts off the connecting passage 4 and switches a course of the ball. The ball fed to the connecting passage 4 is led to the opened vertical row chamber 3, and held. When a hand is released from the push-button 2a, a push-button mechanism 2 and a gate body 7 are reset to the original positions. When the ball is allowed to pass through without operating the push-button, it is returned to the origin storing part 5a from a ball return passage 6, and fed to a ball supply line 5 again.
WAKIMURA KAKUICHI