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Title:
SPROCKET TYPE BALL LIFTING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3417894
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To remove foreign objects such as those mixed in pachinko balls during the operation of conveying the pachinko balls.
SOLUTION: A sprocket 3 is positioned above a ball guide member 4 between a motor plate 51 and a front plate 52 and is freely rotated by the driveshaft 54 of a motor 53. With the pachinko balls contained between the sprocket 3 and the ball guide member 4 provided with arcuate guide surfaces 41, the sprocket 3 is rotated to feed the pachinko balls upward in sequence. The guide surfaces 41 against which the pachinko balls abut while moving are arranged in plural lines (five in Figure 2) on the ball guide member 4 and are spaced apart from one another by spaces 42 provided parallel to one another for discharging foreign objects.


Inventors:
Hiroshi Enomoto
Application Number:
JP31678499A
Publication Date:
June 16, 2003
Filing Date:
November 08, 1999
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Kyoraku Sangyo Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
A63F7/02; (IPC1-7): A63F7/02
Domestic Patent References:
JP1133214A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Akio Najima (2 others)