JPH1052165A - Seed inoculation device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Problem] To provide an inoculum inoculation device which can easily stabilize the inoculation container by exchanging the inoculum container easily. SOLUTION: It can be set by simply inserting the seed container 10 into a mounting hole 13 provided in a seed container receiving member 14 with the neck 10A side upside down and inserting the bottom 10B of the seed container 10 mounted in the inverted position. The pressing support member 24 is driven to rotate while the seed support container 10 is held by the seed container receiving member 14 by being pressed by the operation of the pressing support member 24 provided in the inoculation apparatus, whereby the seed storage container 10 is rotated. The bottom 10 of the inoculum container 10 mounted upside down
By providing the pressing support member 24 so as to be able to contact and separate from the B side, the seed container 10 can be exchanged well.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for inoculating a mushroom inoculum inoculating a culture medium filled in a mushroom cultivation container with a mushroom inoculum.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional device of this kind is disclosed in
No. 42802 is known. This conventional structure,
Equipped with a turntable, a lid opening device, a lid closing device, an inoculum filling device, a supply conveyor, and an unloading conveyor, a plurality of cultivations in which a fungus bed is stored and sealed with a lid when rooting mushroom seed bacteria. The operator takes out the containers one by one from the container and supplies them to the supply conveyor. This allows
In the process in which the cultivation container supplied on the turntable moves along the circumference, first, the lid is opened by the lid opening device, and then the inoculum is filled into the cultivation container by the inoculum filling device, and then the lid is closed by the lid closing device. Sealing is performed by
It is unloaded on the unloading conveyor. The cultivation containers carried out in this manner are stored in containers one by one by an operator, and a predetermined number of containers are stored in a cultivation shelf. However, in this apparatus, the operator has to supply the cultivation containers one by one from the container to the supply conveyor, and store the rooted cultivation containers one by one from the carry-out conveyor, which is a problem that the working efficiency is poor. was there.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-174311 discloses a container in which a cultivation container is filled with a cultivation container in a state where the cultivation container is accommodated in a container by supplying the container containing the cultivation container to a position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation by a supply conveyor. It is proposed in the gazette. In this method, containers in which cultivation container groups are arranged in a plurality of rows are supplied to a position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation by a supply conveyor, and the containers are collectively collected by the suction cups of the vacuum device which is a lid opening / closing device provided above the position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation. The lid of the cultivation container group inside is opened. Further, the inoculum filling device is configured to scrape the inoculum in the inoculum container with a scraper, drop the inoculated inoculum into a channel bracket serving as an inoculum guide member, and store the inoculated inoculum below the channel bracket. A plate-shaped shutter is arranged, and a round hole corresponding to the mouth of the cultivation container group in the container is provided in the shutter arranged on the upper side, and the channel bracket is relatively slid on the shutter to advance and retreat. Then, a set amount of inoculum is supplied and filled in each round hole, and then the lower shutter is opened for each row to collectively inoculate the inoculation fungi into the cultivation container group in the container, and the lid opening / closing device After the lid is closed, the container is moved to and carried out from the carry-out conveyor placed laterally on the conveyor, and the operation of taking in and out the cultivation containers in the container one by one is omitted. It is configured so that it can.

[0004] A seed filling apparatus used for the above-mentioned various types of mushroom seed inoculation apparatuses is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-258.
No. 519 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-258520, the seed bacterium container containing the seed bacterium is mounted upside down and mounted on a receiving member provided on the main body frame. By rotating the inoculum container by, and rotating the scraping shaft provided with a scraping blade from the mouth of the inoculum container, it is made to enter the container while rotating, and scrape out the inoculum to fill the cultivation container. In this case, the seed container is mounted upside down on the receiving member such that the bottom of the seed container is held down by a fastener such as a clamp.

[0005]

In the above prior art, a plurality of cultivation containers are stored in a container.
Opening the lid of the cultivation container, filling the inoculum, closing the lid of the cultivation container, etc. in order to improve the efficiency of the inoculum inoculation work and automate it to increase the efficiency of the inoculation work compared to conventional means. On the other hand, when the work efficiency is improved and the inoculum filling operation is accelerated, the inoculum container for supplying the inoculum must be frequently replaced, and this manual operation is required. There is a problem that the operation of replacing the inoculum container that is performed causes a decrease in the operation rate of the inoculation device.Because it is necessary to rely on humans when using the conventional fasteners with clamps, it takes more time to replace the inoculum container. There was such a problem.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a seed inoculum inoculating apparatus which can easily replace a seed container and stably fix the seed container.

[0007]

According to the present invention, a container in which cultivation containers are arranged in a plurality of rows is transferred from a loading side to a seed inoculation position, and the cultivation container is moved in the transfer direction of the container. And a lid opening and closing device for opening and closing the lid of the cultivation container in the container transferred to the inoculum inoculation position by the transfer conveyor, and a lid by the lid opening and closing device. A seed inoculation device, such as a mushroom, having a seed filling device for scraping out a predetermined amount of a seed in a seed container in a row unit and filling the cultivation container in a row unit with respect to an open horizontal row of cultivation containers, The inoculum filling device has an inoculum container receiving member provided with a mounting hole for mounting the inoculum container upside down in accordance with the number of the incubator containers in a row, and the inoculum in the inoculum container in rows. Scratch A scraping member to be taken, a press support member for pressing the bottom of the seed container mounted upside down in rows to hold the seed container on the seed container receiving member side, and the seed container holding state by the pressing support member And a seed bacterium container rotating drive member for rotating each of the pressing support members. A second aspect of the present invention is the inoculum inoculation device according to the first aspect, wherein the pressing and supporting member is provided so as to be able to approach and separate from a bottom portion of the inoculum container mounted upside down.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect, the inoculum container rotation driving member includes a motor for rotating the pressing support member, and a rotation of the motor for each pressing support member. And an endless roller chain that transmits the seed to the inoculum.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The seed tube can be set by simply inserting the seed tube into the mounting hole provided in the seed container receiving member with the neck side of the container turned upside down. The pressing support member is driven to rotate while the seed support is held by the operation of the provided pressing support member to hold the seed container on the seed container receiving member side, thereby rotating the seed container. Further, by providing the pressing support member so as to be able to approach and separate from the bottom side of the seed cell container mounted upside down, the seed cell container can be exchanged well.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The schematic configuration and operation of the inoculum inoculation device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the overall schematic diagram of the inoculum inoculation device shown in FIGS. A transfer conveyor 2 is provided over substantially the entire length of the main body frame 1 of the inoculum inoculation apparatus. The transfer conveyor 2 is provided so as to be able to start and stop by operating a switch on an operation panel 3.
An endless chain 4 is extended in parallel between a plurality of sprockets provided on both ends of the chain.

A cultivation container 6 filled with a culture medium such as sawdust and rice bran and sealed with a lid 5 is placed in a column 4 for example.
When the transfer conveyor 2 is started, the container 7 can be transported toward the transfer end by running the chain 4 when the plastic container 7 containing four pieces and four rows is placed on the chain 4 of the transfer conveyor 2 at the transfer start end side. It has become.

At a substantially central position of the main body frame 1, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-103543 previously proposed by the present applicant, a container in which cultivation containers 6 are arranged in a plurality of rows and stored. 7 from the loading side to the inoculum inoculation position,
In addition, the transfer conveyor 2 is configured to intermittently transfer the transfer conveyor 2 in a row of the cultivation container 6 in the transfer direction of the container 7 at the inoculum inoculation position. A container positioning device 8 is provided which stops the transfer conveyor 2 upon detecting that the cultivation container 6 has reached the position, and positions the cultivation container 6 in the horizontal row in the container 7 while detecting the center. A lid opening / closing device 9 for opening and closing the lids 5 of the cultivation containers 6 arranged in a horizontal line at the seed inoculation position by the device 8 is provided. When the lid 5 of the cultivation container 6 is opened by the lid opening / closing device 9, a predetermined amount of the seed bacteria 11 in the inoculum container 10 is scraped out in a row unit with respect to the cultivation containers 6 in one horizontal row with the lid 5 opened, and the lid 5 is opened. And a seed filling device 12 that inoculates the cultivation container 6.

Further, the inoculum filling device 12 of the present invention is connected to the aforementioned FIG.
3 and 6 in addition to FIG. 2 and FIG.
In the inoculum filling device 12 of this embodiment, the inoculum container receiving member 14 provided with the mounting hole 13 for inserting the neck portion 10A side of the four inoculum containers 10 corresponding to the horizontal row of cultivation containers 6 upside down is the main body. A tubular inoculum guide cover 15 is provided on the main body frame 1 attached to the frame 1 and corresponding to a position below the neck portion 10A of the various inoculum containers 10 arranged upside down. Flat support
An air cylinder 17 is attached to each of the columns 16, and a support plate 18 is fixed between the upper ends of the pistons 17 </ b> A of each of the air cylinders 17. A sprocket 19 serving as a rotation transmitting member is rotatably supported via a rotating shaft 20 at a position corresponding to the bottom, and a bottom portion 10B of the inoculum container 10 is provided at a lower end of the rotating shaft 20.
A substantially flat disc-shaped pressing plate 21 of the same size as
Are mounted and fixed, and each pressing plate 21
An elastic member 22 made of urethane foam or the like is detachably attached to the surface portion of the seed container via a magic tape 23. A pressing support member 24 for pressing the bottom 10B is formed.

A support plate facing the sprocket 19 side
A motor 25 having a gear head is attached to and fixed to 18, and a driving sprocket 26 is provided on a rotating shaft of the motor 25. The driving sprocket 26 and each pressing plate 21 serving as the rotation transmitting member are rotated. An endless roller chain 28 is stretched between a sprocket 19 for driving and a driven sprocket 27 provided on the support plate 18, and the inoculum container is formed by the motor 25 and the sprockets 19, 26, 27 and the roller chain 28. The rotation drive member 29 is constituted, and the rotation of the motor 25 causes the rotation of each sprocket 19 via an endless roller chain 28, whereby the pressing plate 21 fixed to each sprocket 19 is transmitted.
The side is configured to be rotated via the rotation shaft 20.

In this embodiment, support shafts 30 are respectively erected on the seed container receiving member 14 between the mounting holes 13 for receiving the neck portions 10A of the various microorganism containers 10.
At the upper end of each support shaft 30, the trunk 10 of the inoculum container 10
A substantially cylindrical piece 31 supporting C is attached and fixed, and a tapered surface 32 is formed on the inner peripheral edge of the mounting hole 13 so as to increase the diameter of the insertion side of the seed container 10. The shoulder 10D connecting the neck 10A to the trunk 10C of the ten is abutted to hold the seed container 10.

The inoculum filling device 12 is provided with the inoculum container 10 in accordance with the cultivation containers 6 in a row in which the lid 5 is opened by the lid opening and closing device 9 through the mounting holes 13 of the inoculum container receiving member 14. A scraping rod 34 provided with a scraping blade 33 serving as a scraping member for scraping the seed bacteria 11 therein is provided, and each of the scraping rods 34 is a chain for transmitting rotation of a motor 35 serving as a scraping rotation drive member. Each of the motors 35 is configured to transmit rotation via the motor 35, and the scraping rod 34 is
Mounted on 37.

The scraping rod 34 provided with the scraping blade 33 serving as the scraping member is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H05-1010 previously proposed by the present applicant.
As shown in Japanese Patent No. 3543 and the like, the plate 37 that supports the scraping rods 34 is provided so as to be able to move up and down as the scraping blade 33 rotates. In this embodiment, a screw rod 39 is screwed into a female screw cylinder 38 provided on a plate 37, and the screw rod 39 is a motor 41 serving as a scraping-up drive member via an endless chain 40.
The rotation of the motor 41
The rotation is transmitted to the screw rod 39 via the screw rod 39, the plate 37 is raised with the rotation of the screw rod 39, and the scraping rod 34 having the scraping blade 33 mounted on the plate 37 is guided upward. I have to.

In addition, a seed tube 42 for guiding and storing the seed 11 is provided below the four mounting holes 13 provided in the seed container receiving member 14, respectively. Is provided with a shutter 43 for opening and closing the lower end of the opening. Further, below the shutter 43, there is provided a seed supply tube 44 for guiding the seed 11 to the opening of the cultivation container 6 in a row unit when the shutter 43 is opened.
44 is provided so as to be movable together with the lid opening / closing device 9 via a link arm by a cylinder 45, and when the lid 5 is opened by the lid opening / closing device 9 due to the operation of the cylinder 45, the inoculum supply cylinder 44 is provided. Is moved to the cultivation container 6 position, and the inoculation tube 44 is movably disposed so as to retreat to a position spaced apart from the cultivation container 6 position when the lid 5 is closed by the lid opening / closing device 9.

Next, the operation of the inoculum filling device 12 in the above-described configuration will be mainly described. First, a predetermined number of lids 5
The container 7 containing the cultivation container 6 with the container is placed on the transfer conveyor 2 and the container 7 is transferred. When it is detected that the cultivation container 6 in the front row has reached the seed inoculation position, the transfer conveyor 2 stops, Next, the cultivation container 6 is positioned and fixed at the inoculum inoculation position while the vertical direction and the center position of the cultivation container 6 are regulated by the container positioning device 8.

At the time of positioning by the container positioning device 8, a motor 35, which is a scraping rotation drive member, is also driven for a preset time, and a predetermined amount of the seeds 11 is scraped off by the rotation of the scraping rods 34, so that a seed seed guiding tube is provided. It is stored at the lower end of 42. At this time, when the scraping rod 34 rotates, the motor 25 forming a part of the inoculum container rotation driving member 29 also operates to operate the pressing plate.
22 is rotated, and the inoculum container 10 pressed and supported by the pressing plate 22 is also rotated, and the screw rod 39 is rotated with the rotation of the motor 41 serving as a scraping-up driving member to raise the plate 37, and the plate 37 is raised. A scraping rod 34 provided with a scraping blade 33 mounted on 37 is guided upward.

Next, after the positioning by the container positioning device 8 is performed, the lid 5 is rotated to the lid opening position by the lid opening / closing device 9 with the operation of the cylinder 45, and in conjunction with this lid opening operation, the seed supply tube 44 is the cultivation container 6 with the lid 5 removed
And the seed supply tube 44 is arranged on the axis connecting the seed tube 42 and the cultivation container 6.

When the lid of the lid opening / closing device 9 is completely opened, the shutter 43 is opened so that the inoculum 11 in the inoculum guide tube 42 is
Is supplied to the cultivation container 6 in a horizontal row unit via the seed culture supply tube 44, and after the supply of the seed culture 11 is completed, the shutter 43 returns so as to close and operate the lower open end of the seed culture guide tube 42,
At the same time, the inoculum supply cylinder 44 is retracted and returned from the cultivation container 6 by the return operation of the cylinder 45, and the lid opening / closing device 9 is opened.
Is rotated back, and covers the lids 5 of the cultivation containers 6 in a horizontal row in which the inoculum 11 is inoculated.

Therefore, the cultivation containers 6 are intermittently transferred by the transfer conveyor 2 in the transfer direction of the container 7 in the transfer direction of the container 7 at the inoculum inoculation position by sequentially operating the above-described series of processes. The cultivation container 6 in the container 7 can be sequentially inoculated with the inoculum 11 in units.

In the embodiment described above, when the seed container 10 is set, the piston of the air cylinder 17 attached to the seed container receiving member 14 as shown in FIG.
17A is maintained at the raised position, and in this state, the inoculum container 10 is turned upside down, and the mouth 10A of the container 10 is inserted into each of the mounting holes 13 provided in the inoculum container receiving member 14, and then, as shown in FIG. By lowering the piston 17A of the air cylinder 17, the support plate 18 fixed to the piston 17A also lowers. With this lowering operation, the pressing plate 21 and the elastic member 22 attached to the support plate 18 move the The bottom 10B is pressed and supported.

At this time, in this embodiment, even if the height of the inoculum container 10 for storing the inoculum 11 is slightly varied, the elastic member 22 formed on the urging support member 24 keeps the pressure maintained due to the dimensional difference. Can be kept stable, and the rotation of the seed container 10 can be stably performed by frictional engagement with the elastic member 22 when the seed container 10 is rotationally driven, and the diameter of the neck portion 10A of the seed container 10 is commercially available. Although the product may be slightly different, even if the diameter of the neck 10A is slightly different, by forming the tapered surface 32 in the mounting hole 13 provided in the
Since the shoulder 10D of the seed container 10 is held in contact with the seed container 32, a tapered surface 32 provided along the inner surface of the mounting hole 13 is provided.
The container 10 is set in accordance with the above, so that the scraping blade 33 can keep the seed bacteria 11 scraped satisfactorily.

When the inoculum container 10 is to be attached and detached, when the inoculum container 10 is set, the inoculation hole 13 provided in the inoculum container receiving member 14 is simply inserted with the neck 10A side of the inoculum container 10 upside down. The bottom 10B of the seed container 10 mounted upside down is pressed by the operation of the pressing support member 24 provided in the seed inoculation device to hold the seed container 10 on the seed container receiving member 14 side. The press support member 24 is rotated by the rotation of the seed container rotation drive member 29 to rotate the seed container 10, and the rotation of the seed rod 10 provided with a scraping blade 33 serving as a scraping member with the rotation of the seed container 10. The inoculum 11 is scraped out, and the inoculum 11 is filled in the cultivation containers 6 in row units with the lid 5 opened.

When the inoculum container 10 is removed or the inoculum in the inoculum container 10 is exhausted, the pressing support member 24 holding the bottom portion 10B of the inoculum container 10 mounted upside down and holding it is an air cylinder. The operation of the piston 17A of 17 releases the holding of the seed container 10, and at the time of this release, the seed container 10 inserted upside down into the mounting hole 13 of the seed container receiving member 14 can be easily removed, whereby the seed cell can be removed. The container 10 can be exchanged favorably.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the present invention. For example, the pressing plate 21 forming a part of the pressing support member The rotating shaft 20 is prevented from rotating, and the pressing plate 21 is movably mounted along the axial direction of the rotating shaft 20, and a coil spring is interposed between the rotating shaft 20 and the pressing plate 21, for example. It is also possible to hold the bottom 10B side of the inoculum container 10 by holding the bottom of the inoculum container 10 rotatably by another holding means.

In the embodiment, a cylinder is provided so that the pressing support member 24 can be moved toward and away from the bottom portion 10B of the inoculum container 10.
Although the support plate 19 is moved up and down by using 17, drive means such as a motor and a cam mechanism may be used.

[0029]

According to the present invention, the seed container can be easily set simply by inserting the seed container into the mounting hole provided in the seed container receiving member with the neck side of the container turned upside down, and the seed container mounted upside down. The bottom portion of the inoculation device is pressed by the operation of the pressing support member provided in the inoculum inoculation device, and the inoculum container is rotated together with the pressing support member by the rotational drive of the inoculum container rotation drive member while the inoculation container is held on the inoculation container receiving member side. The inoculum is scraped out by the rotation of the scraping member with the rotation of the inoculum container. By providing the pressing support member so as to be able to approach and separate from the container, the replacement of the inoculum container can be easily performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing an overall configuration of a seed inoculum inoculation apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a main side view of the inoculum inoculating apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a partial perspective view showing a main part of the inoculum inoculating apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a main part of the seed filling device when the seed container is set according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a main part of the seed-filling device, showing a state where the seed-cell container is fixed according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a front view mainly showing a pressing support member which is a main part of FIG. 4;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body frame 5 Lid 6 Cultivation container 7 Container 9 Lid opening and closing device 10 Seed container 10A Neck 10B Bottom 10C Body 10D Shoulder 11 Seed 12 Seed filling device 13 Mounting hole 14 Seed container receiving member 17 Air cylinder 18 Support plate 20 Rotating shaft 21 Press plate 22 Elastic member 24 Press support member 25 Motor 28 Roller chain 29 Seed container rotation drive member 32 Tape surface 33 Scraper blade (scraper member) 34 Scraper bar (scraper member) 42 Seed guide tube 44 Seed supply tube

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A transfer conveyor for transferring a container containing cultivation containers arranged in a plurality of rows from a loading side to an inoculum inoculation position, and transferring the cultivation containers in a row in a row with respect to a transfer direction of the container. A lid opening / closing device for opening and closing the lid of the cultivation container in the container transferred to the inoculum inoculation position by the transfer conveyor in a horizontal row unit, and a cultivation container in a row unit in which the lid is opened by the lid opening / closing device. A seed inoculation device such as a mushroom having a seed filling device for scraping a predetermined amount of seed in a seed container in a row unit and filling the seed in the cultivation container; A seed container receiving member provided with a mounting hole for mounting the seed container to its neck side upside down in accordance with the number of units,
A scraping member that scrapes the inoculum in the inoculum container in row units,
A pressing support member that presses the bottom of the seed container mounted upside down in row units and holds the seed container on the seed container receiving member side, and each pressing support member in the seed container holding state by the pressing support member And an inoculum container rotating drive member for rotating the inoculum. 2. The inoculum inoculation device according to claim 1, wherein the pressing support member is provided so as to be able to approach and separate from the bottom of the inoculum container mounted upside down. 3. The inoculum container rotating drive member includes a motor for rotating the pressing support member, and an endless roller chain for transmitting rotation of the motor to each pressing support member. The inoculum inoculation device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that: