JPH11199057A - Seedling container loading device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] A loading device for storing seedlings taken out from a nursery bed in a seedling container, transporting the seedlings to a field by a truck or the like, and loading the seedling container into a transplanter. To provide a painless loading device to be held in the hands of the elderly. SOLUTION: One end is connected to a truck 3 and the other end is a transplanter 2.
The rail 11 is provided, and the rail 11 is provided with a moving device 20 that moves along the rail 11, and the moving device 20 is provided with a holding device 30 that suspends and holds a seedling container 60 that stores the seedlings 50. 20 moves the holding device 30 up and down.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to transplantation and cultivation of agricultural products, in which seedlings taken out of a nursery are stored in a seedling container and transported to a field by truck or the like, and the seedling container is used for transplanting by a transplanter. Sometimes it relates to a loading device for loading a seedling container into a transplanter.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When seedlings are loaded on a transplanter in a field, a seedling box as a seedling container is transported from a truck or an appropriate carrier to a transplanter or a rice transplanter.
As shown in Japanese Patent No. 217610, there is known a transporting device using a transfer conveyor that projects from a transport trolley to a position remote from the transport trolley in a horizontal state that can be raised and lowered to the transport trolley side. Then, the transfer conveyor places the seedling box thereon and transfers it to a transplanter or a rice transplanter. This is referred to as a first related art.

Further, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-298916, a frame frame mounted on a truck bed and a spare seedling transfer rail stretched over an engine bonnet of a rice transplanter are provided. It is slid on the transport rail and transferred to the rice transplanter. This is referred to as a second related art.

[0004] In transplantation cultivation of sugar beet (beet radish), a paper tube seedling having a large amount of soil and heavy is used, and the seedling is stored in a seedling transport container as a seedling container and is used for transplantation.
As disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 2537452, a seedling transport container stores a seedling divided into two parts in a nursery, transports the seedling from the nursery to a field, and supplies the seedling to a transplanter. 2. Description of the Related Art There is known a seedling transport container that can be transferred simply by placing it on a part and continuously planted. Then, the seedling transport containers are stacked and transported from a nursery to a field by a truck or the like.

[0005]

The transfer conveyor of the first prior art for transferring a seedling box to a position protruding from the carriage in a horizontal state in which it can be moved up and down to the side of the carriage and moving the seedling box away from the carriage. Since the cantilever is supported, sufficient strength is required, the manufacturing cost is increased, and the equipment cost is high for the user.

In the first and second prior arts, a seedling box is placed on a transfer conveyor or a spare seedling transfer rail and transferred to a transplanter or rice transplanter. Therefore, an operator must hold the seedling box by hand and place it on the transfer conveyor, and then drop it by hand. In the case of heavy seedlings, the operation is also painful.

The present invention solves the above problems,
An object of the present invention is to provide a loading device for a seedling container that can reduce the manufacturing cost and has no pain in hand of an operator.

[0008]

According to the present invention, a loading device for a seedling container according to the present invention is provided with a rail 11 having one end extending over a truck 3 and the other end extending over a transplanter 2, and the rail 11 moving along the rail. Providing a device 20, provided with a holding device 30 for suspending and holding a seedling container 60 for storing the seedlings 50 in the moving device 20,
The moving device 20 moves the holding device 30 up and down.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the present invention, a rail 11 having one end and the other end extending over the transplanter 2 is provided on the track 3, so that the rail 11 requires less strength than a cantilevered one.

Further, the rail 11 is provided with a moving device 20 which moves along the rail 11, and the moving device 20 is provided with a holding device 30 for suspending and holding a seedling container 60 for accommodating the seedlings 50. Because 30 is moved up and down, the seedling container
60 is held by the holding device 30 and moves up and down.

[0011]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As a seedling 50, a paper tube seedling in a paper tube raising container is shown. The paper tube seedling raising container is formed by laminating a paper tube having an open top and bottom. When the seedlings are stuffed in the paper tube and sown, the seedling 50 grows to become a paper tube seedling.

The seedling container 60 stores the seedlings 50 divided into two parts, transports the seedlings from the seedbed to the field, and supplies the seedlings to the transplanting machine, and can be stacked vertically.

Next, a seedling container 60 containing the seedlings 50
The loading device 10 which moves vertically and horizontally while holding the vehicle and loads it from the truck 3 onto the transplanter 2 connected to the tractor 1
Will be described. The loading device 10 simultaneously lifts two stages of the seedling containers 60 stacked in a plurality of stages on the pallet 70 on the truck 3 and arranged substantially in close contact with each other in a plan view, and simultaneously sets the seedling placing portion 2a of the transplanter 2. Can be placed at the same time.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes a substantially horizontal rail. The rails 11 are provided in a pair and are long in parallel in a plan view. The truck 3 has the side facing the transplanter 2, and the transplanter 2 has the rear facing the track 3 and the rail 11.
Has one end laid over the truck 3 and the other end laid over the seedling mounting portion 2a of the transplanter 2. The rail 11 has a substantially U-shaped cross section, and its opening faces inward.

On the track 3 side of the rail 11, the track 3
A roller 12 is provided to support the rail 11 vertically, and a roller is provided at the lower end of the leg 12 so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction of the truck 3.
13 will be provided.

On the transplanter 2 side of the rail 11, legs 14 are provided to support the rail 11 on the seedling mounting portion 2 a of the transplanter 2. When the loading of the seedling container 60 into the transplanter 2 is completed, the leg 14 is rotated on the truck 3, and the rail 11 is supported by the leg 12 and the leg 14 on the truck 3.

The rail 11 is provided with a moving device 20 for vertically and horizontally moving a holding device 30 for suspending and holding the seedling container 60.

The moving device 20 is provided with a garter 21 between the pair of rails 11, and a pair of freely rotating saddle rollers 22 at both ends of the garter 21. 21 moves freely in the horizontal direction along the rail 11.

A vertically extending male screw hanging screw 24 is provided at the center of the gutter 21, and a pair of handles 23 are provided above both ends of the gutter 21. The female screw covering the screw 24 rotates, and the hanging screw 24 moves up and down with respect to the gutter 21.

A holding device 30 is provided from the lower end of the hanging screw 24, and the holding device 30 is rotatable in the horizontal direction because the hanging screw 24 is rotatable with respect to the garter 21.

The holding device 30 has a hanger frame long in the horizontal direction.
The hanging screw 24 is fitted and fixed in the center of the hanger frame 31, and a pair of elongated hanger rods 32 are provided downward from both ends of the hanger frame 31, and the hanger rod 32 is longer than the height of the seedling container 60. The hanger bar 32 is freely rotated about the longitudinal direction of the hanger frame 31 as an axis, and is elastically held by the hanger frame 31 with a weak force when facing downward.

At the lower end of the hanger rod 32, a pair of elongated finger frames 33 are provided in the horizontal direction, and the longitudinal direction of the finger frames 33 is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the hanger frame 31 in plan view. The inner space between the pair of finger frames 33 is slightly wider than the outer space between the seedling containers 60.

At both ends of the finger frame 33, fingers 34 are provided which hold seedling containers 60 for accommodating the seedlings 50 and which can come and go.

Next, the operation will be described together with the method of use.

The seedling containers 60 are stacked on the pallet 70 in a plurality of stages, are arranged almost in close contact with each other vertically and horizontally, and are loaded on the truck 3 together with the pallet 70. At this time, the seedling containers 60 are loaded so that the longitudinal direction (between the handles) is the longitudinal direction of the truck 3. The loading device 10 is also loaded on the truck 3 and transported to the field.

The transplanter 2 has the rear part directed to the track 3,
The rail 11 of the loading device 10 extends from above the seedling container 60 to be loaded on the truck 3 onto the seedling mounting portion 2a of the transplanter 2 and
Numeral 14 rotates on the seedling mounting portion 2a. There are two workers on the transplanter 2 and on the truck 3.

At this time, a rail 11 having one end wrapped around the track 3 and the other end wrapped around the transplanter 2 is provided. Since the rail 11 does not require strength as compared with a cantilever, the manufacturing cost can be reduced. Equipment costs are also reduced for users.

The holding device 30 is located on the transplanter 2 side of the seedling container 60 to be loaded, the longitudinal direction of the hanger frame 31 is turned in the longitudinal direction (between the handles) of the seedling container 60, and the height of the finger 34 is turned by turning the handle 23. To the second stage seedling container 60 from above.

When the holding device 30 is pushed in the direction of the seedling container 60, the holding device 30 moves horizontally along the rail 11, and the finger frame 33 is inserted between the handles of the adjacent seedling containers 60 in close contact.

When the holding device 30 is moved upward by turning the handle 23, the finger 34 holds and lifts the seedling container 60.

At this time, the rail 11 is provided with a moving device 20 which moves along the rail 11, and the moving device 20 is provided with a holding device 30 for suspending and holding a seedling container 60 for accommodating the seedlings 50. The device 30 is moved up and down, and the seedling container 60 is moved.
Is held by the holding device 30 and moves up and down, so that there is no pain in holding the seedling container 60 of the worker by hand.

When the holding device 30 holding the seedling container 60 is pushed in the direction of the transplanting machine 2, it moves horizontally along the rail 11, and when it reaches the seedling receiving portion 2a, the hanger frame 31 is turned 90 degrees to move the seedling container 60. Turn the handle 23 to the desired orientation, and
Is moved downward, and the seedling container 60 is lowered onto the seedling placing portion 2a.

At this time, the rail 11 is provided with a moving device 20 that moves along the rail 11, and the moving device 20 is provided with a holding device 30 that suspends and holds a seedling container 60 that stores the seedlings 50. Since the holding device 30 is moved up and down, and the seedling container 60 is held by the holding device 30 and moves up and down, there is no pain in holding the seedling container 60 by the operator.

The hanger stick 32 is rotated upward and forward to release the finger 34 from the seedling container 60, and the empty holding device 30 is pushed in the direction of the truck 3. The hanger bar 32 faces downward by its own weight.

When the loading operation is repeated and a desired amount of the seedling container 60 has been loaded into the seedling placing portion 2a of the transplanter 2, the leg 14 is rotated on the truck 3.

In the above embodiment, the rail 11 is connected to the track 3
Although the example shown in FIG. 3 is transferred to the transplanting machine 2, the truck 3 may be an appropriate carrier for transporting the seedling container 60, and the transplanting machine 2 may be a rice transplanter.

[0038]

According to the present invention, there is provided a rail having one end traversed by a truck and the other end laid over a transplanter, and the rail does not require strength as compared with a cantilevered one, so that the manufacturing cost can be reduced. Equipment costs are also reduced for users.

The rail is provided with a moving device that moves along the rail, and the moving device is provided with a holding device that hangs and holds a seedling container for accommodating the seedlings. Since the container is held by the holding device and moves up and down, there is no pain in holding the operator's seedling container by hand.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view showing one embodiment of a seedling container holding device.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an operation state of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged view showing a main part of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a plan view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view showing a main part of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a front view of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a view showing an operation state of FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a partially enlarged view showing a main part of FIG. 6;

[Description of sign]

 2 transplanter 3 truck 20 moving device 30 holding device 50 seedling 60 seedling container

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A rail having one end extended to a truck and the other end extended to a transplanter, a moving device moving along the rail, and a hanging container for holding seedlings in the moving device. A holding device is provided, and the moving device is a loading device for a seedling container that moves the holding device up and down.