JPH052060Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to a mushroom cultivation device that accommodates a block-shaped culture medium inoculated with seed bacteria and allows mushrooms to grow in the medium.

Problems to be solved by conventional techniques and ideas One of the methods for artificially cultivating mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms is to stack a plurality of block-shaped medium inoculated with seed fungus and propagate mycelium in a cultivation case. There is a method in which the mushrooms are collected through an opening formed in the front of the cultivation case, and mushrooms are generated by accommodating the cultivation case and sufficiently soaking water in the culture medium. When adding water to the culture medium in this method, it is optimal to soak the culture medium in water for a certain period of time, but conventionally, the culture medium is taken out one by one from the cultivation case and transferred to the aquarium, and then the culture medium is placed in the aquarium. 1 medium from
Since the plants were pulled up one by one and stacked in the cultivation case, the disadvantage was that the work was laborious and time consuming.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the mushroom cultivation device of the present invention accommodates a plurality of piled up medium blocks inoculated with inoculum, and collects the mushrooms that have grown in the medium. A cultivation case with an open front for the purpose of storage, and a dam plate that forms a watertight storage chamber within the cultivation case by being removably attached to the cultivation case so as to close the front opening. It was composed of.

Functions and Effects of the Invention The present invention has the above structure, and when adding water to the culture medium housed in the cultivation case, the dam plate is attached to the cultivation case while the culture medium is kept housed in the cultivation case. When a storage chamber is formed and water is injected into this storage chamber, the culture medium is immersed in the water in the storage chamber, and after a predetermined period of time, the water in the storage chamber is drained and the water is dammed. The plate is removed to open the front opening of the cultivation case for collecting mushrooms, so that the culture medium inside the cultivation case absorbs the necessary and sufficient amount of water, and according to the device of the present invention, When watering the culture medium, all you have to do is attach and detach the dam plate and inject water, and there is no need to transfer the culture medium one by one between the cultivation case and the aquarium as in the conventional method, which reduces the work. It is effective and can be done easily and quickly.

Embodiment Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the accompanying drawings.

In the figure, 1 is a vertically long box-shaped cultivation case with an open top and front, and inside it are a number of approximately cylindrical culture media a, which have been inoculated with seed fungus and have sufficiently propagated mycelium in vinyl bags or the like.
As shown in FIG. 2, the culture medium a is stored by being stacked sideways on top of one another, and the cultivation case 1 storing the culture medium a in this manner is supported against a support 8 provided in the cultivation room, as shown in FIG. 1, so that it is held in a backward inclined position with the front surface facing slightly upward. After the culture medium a has been sufficiently watered and the temperature has been regulated, etc., and a certain period of time has passed, when mushrooms b have appeared on the culture medium a, as shown in FIG. 3, the mushrooms b can be harvested through the front opening 2 and the top opening 9 of the cultivation case 1.

In the front opening 2 of the cultivation case 1, a pair of vertical fitting grooves 3, 3 are formed in the vertical direction on both left and right edges, and a horizontal fitting groove 4 continuous to the vertical fitting groove 3 is formed on the lower edge. are formed horizontally, and these fitting grooves 3, 4
An elongated rubber gasket 5 is fitted into the gasket 5, and a concave groove formed on the inner peripheral surface of the gasket 5 allows the upper end to communicate with the top surface of the cultivation case 1 in the front opening 2. A pair of guide grooves 6, 6 are formed linearly along both left and right edges of the opening 2, and an abutment groove 7 whose left and right ends are continuous with the guide grooves 6, 6 is formed at the lower edge of the opening 2. It is formed in a straight line.

In the figure, 10a, 10b, and 10c are three rectangular dam plates that form a set, and both left and right edges of these dam plates 10a, 10b, and 10c are watertightly placed in guide grooves 6, 6. The lower dam plate 10c is fitted so that it can move freely, and the lower edge of the lower dam plate 10c is fitted into the abutment groove 7 in a watertight and removable manner. A rubber gasket 12c is fixed to the upper edge of the plate 10c, and is watertightly and removably fitted to a protrusion 11b formed on the lower edge of the intermediate dam plate 10b.
An upper dam plate 10 is attached to the upper edge of the intermediate dam plate 10b.
A gasket 12b that fits watertightly and removably is fixed to the protruding strip 11a on the lower edge of the cultivation case 1, and these dam plates 10a, 10b, and 10c are fitted into the opening 2 on the front side of the cultivation case 1. In the installed state, a watertight storage chamber 15 is formed in the cultivation case 1, with only its top surface open.

Furthermore, a fitting groove 19 is formed on the top surface of the cultivation case 1 along the left and right side edges and the rear edge of the opening 9, and a cover plate 20 is removably fitted into this fitting groove 19. As a result, the opening 9 on the upper surface of the storage chamber 15 is covered with a gap between the front edge of the lid plate 20 and the upper edge of the upper dam plate 10a, and the cultivation case A drain pipe 21 is provided at the lower end of one side of the drain pipe 21 with a shutoff valve 22 that is opened and closed by rotating a lever 23.
The drain pipe 21 is attached to the bottom of the cultivation case 1 so as to be connected thereto, and the outlet of the drain pipe 21 is connected to a drain groove (not shown).

This embodiment has the above configuration, and when watering the plurality of culture media a housed in the cultivation case 1,
Insert the dam plates 10a, 10b, 10c into the guide grooves 6, 6 from above the cultivation case 1, and then insert the lower dam plate 1
0c is pushed down to fit its lower edge into the abutment groove 7, and the intermediate dam plate 10b is pushed down to fit the protrusion 11b on the lower edge to the gasket 12c on the upper edge of the lower dam plate 10c. , upper dam plate 10a
When pushed down and the convex strip 11a on the lower edge is fitted into the packing 12b of the intermediate dam plate 10b, a watertight storage chamber 15 containing a plurality of culture mediums a is formed in the cultivation case 1. .

Next, the cover plate 20 is fitted into the fitting groove 19 of the opening 9 on the top surface, and water is injected into the storage chamber 15 from the gap between the cover plate 20 and the upper dam plate 10a. Sometimes, since the specific gravity of the culture medium a is smaller than that of water, buoyancy acts on the culture medium a, and the top culture medium a tries to float above the water surface. is kept submerged below the water surface, and in the storage chamber 15 water is absorbed into the medium a submerged in water.

After a certain amount of time has passed after injecting water,
When the water in the storage chamber 15 is discharged by operating the lever 23 and opening the shutoff valve 22, as the water level decreases, the medium a, which had been slightly floating, returns to its original stacked state due to its own weight. Return to
After the drainage in the storage chamber 15 is completed, the three dam plates 10a, 10b, 10c are removed from the guide grooves 6, 6, and the cover plate 20 is removed from the fitting groove 19, thereby removing the front surface of the cultivation case 1. The opening 2 of the cultivation case 1 and the opening 9 of the upper surface may be opened to collect the mushrooms b generated in the culture medium a, and as a result, the mushrooms b grown in the culture medium a can be opened in order to collect the necessary and sufficient mushrooms in the culture medium a while being housed in the cultivation case 1. amount of water is given.

As mentioned above, when watering medium a,
There is no need for the laborious and time-consuming work of transferring the culture medium one by one between the cultivation case and the aquarium as in the past.
This method is easily and quickly performed by simply attaching and detaching the lid plate 20 to and from the cultivation case 1 and injecting water, and unlike conventional methods, there is no need for an aquarium or a space for installing an aquarium.

In this embodiment, by dividing the dam board 10 into three pieces, even if there is not enough space above the cultivation case 1, the dam board 10a, 10b, 10c can be prevented from getting caught. can be inserted into and removed from the guide grooves 6 and 6, but if the space above the cultivation case is extremely narrow, the dam plate may be divided into four or more pieces, or vice versa. , If there is sufficient space above the cultivation case, install one dam plate.
It can also be used as a single board.

In this embodiment, a guide groove 6 is provided by fitting a gasket 5 to the opening edge of the cultivation case 1, and a dam plate 10 is inserted into the guide groove 6 from above to form the cultivation case 1. However, the method of attaching the dam plate to the cultivation case is not limited to this, and the dam plate can be attached by fitting a gasket to either the opening edge of the cultivation case or the periphery of the dam plate. Other methods may be used, such as aligning the cultivation case so as to cover the front surface of the cultivation case, and bringing the cultivation case into close contact with the cultivation case in a watertight manner through a gasket or the like.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The accompanying drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, in which Figure 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view, Figure 2 is a partially cutaway front view, and Figure 3 is a partially cutaway front view.
The figure is a perspective view of mushrooms emerging from the culture medium. 1...Cultivation case, 2...(Front) opening, 1
0a, 10b, 10c... dam plate, 15... storage chamber, a... culture medium, b... mushroom.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A cultivation case containing a plurality of piled up medium blocks inoculated with seed bacteria and having an opening at the front for collecting mushrooms that have grown in the medium; A mushroom cultivation device further comprising: a dam plate that forms a watertight storage chamber within the cultivation case by being removably attached thereto.