JP2000125643A - Sulky type-picking machine for tea plant - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sulky type, picking machine for tea plants, having a structure enabling to save time and labor requiring for the exchange of a receiving part for picked tea leaves. SOLUTION: When a sulky type picking machine 1 for tea plants has a picking unit facing the upper surface of tea plants, a conveying unit for picked tea leaves in which tea leaves picked by the picking unit are conveyed through a conveyance air duct and a container 10 for receiving tea leaves dropped from a picked matter separator coupled with the end part of the duct on a riding chassis traveling so as to straddle a tea plant furrow between tea plant furrows on its both sides, the container 10 can move in a combined direction between a vertical direction and a horizontal one and can transfer picked tea leaves into a conveyance means 27 when filled with picked tea leaves by vertically moving toward the upper part of the means 27 standing near to the field, followed by horizontally moving toward the upper part of the means 27 and by opening the bottom parts 10A and 10A' of the means.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a riding type tea leaf pruning machine that prunes tea leaves while crossing over each tea ridge in a tea orchard and running between ridges on both sides thereof.
The present invention relates to a structure for collecting plucked tea leaves.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the aging of workers, there is an urgent need to automate various machines for managing tea gardens and reduce the work load. To meet these demands, for example, riding-type tea leaf plucking machines have been proposed. The riding type tea leaf picking machine has a crawler device that is capable of self-propelling between ridges on both sides of a tea ridge, and a large blower,
Equipped with a clipper-type picking device that faces the entire upper surface of the tea tree ridge, and a duct for storing the picked tea leaves in a storage bag by blowing from the blower, the picked tea leaves are pressure-fed by the blower and rise in the duct Then, the air and the tea leaves are separated and then introduced into a storage bag provided in the storage device. The riding-type tea leaf pruning machine having such a configuration can ride in a tea ridge and perform a plucking operation unless it is on an extremely sloping ground.

[0003]

By the way, in the riding type tea leaf picking machine having the above-mentioned structure, when the picked tea leaves are filled in the storage bag, a truck or the like waiting the storage bag near the field or the like. Need to be transported to But,
The storage bag filled with plucked tea leaves is quite heavy and requires a great deal of transportation effort. For this reason, it takes a lot of time to transport the storage bags or exchange the storage bags, and the operation time other than the plucking operation is lengthened, and it has been difficult to efficiently perform the plucking operation.

An object of the present invention is to provide a riding-type tea leaf picking machine having a configuration capable of reducing the time and labor required for replacing the accommodating portion of the picked tea leaves in view of the above problems in the conventional plucking operation. It is in.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, an invention according to claim 1 is directed to a plucking apparatus which faces a top surface of a tea tree ridge on a passenger car body which crosses a tea tree ridge and runs between ridges on both sides thereof. A plucking tea leaf transport device that transports the tea leaves plucked by the plucking device via a blast transport duct, and a container that stores the plucked tea leaves that drop from a plucked material separated body connected to the end of the blast transport duct. In the riding type tea tree pruning machine, the container is provided so as to be able to move up and down and move in the horizontal direction. The present invention is characterized in that a configuration is provided in which the harvested tea leaves are transferred to the transporting means by horizontally moving upward of the transporting means and opening the bottom portion.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the riding tea leaf picking machine according to the first aspect, the container has a door structure whose top surface is opened to allow accommodating of the tea leaves, and whose bottom portion can be opened and closed. The bottom is controlled to be opened and closed by opening and closing drive means.

[0007] The invention described in claim 3 is claim 1 or 2.
In the riding type tea picking machine according to the above description, the container is supported by a supporting member that can be linked to an elevating driving member mounted on the riding body, and the supporting member is provided with a horizontal driving member. Features.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the riding tea leaf picking machine according to the first aspect, the container is provided with an extendable cylinder, and the cylinder has a bottom door in conjunction with the extension and contraction operation. The power transmission means for opening and closing is connected.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the riding tea picking machine according to the first aspect, wherein the container includes a plate member which is internally formed of a plate member capable of reciprocating in the longitudinal direction of the container. Is provided.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, a picking device facing the upper surface of a tea tree ridge and a tea leaf picked up by the picking device are provided to a passenger car body which runs across the ridges on both sides of the tea tree ridge via a blast conveying duct. In a riding type tea tree pruning machine comprising a pruning tea leaf transporting device for transporting plucked tea leaves and a container for accommodating plucked tea leaves falling from a plucked material separated body connected to the end of the blower transport duct, the container is lifted and lowered. And is provided movably in the synthesis direction in the horizontal direction, and when filled with plucked tea leaves, moves obliquely toward the top of the transportation means waiting near the field and is located above the transportation means, Is opened, and the harvested tea leaves accommodated are transferred to the transporting means.

[0011]

According to the first to third aspects of the present invention, a container is used instead of the storage bag as the configuration for storing the pruned tea leaves. Moreover, the container is provided so as to be able to move up and down and move horizontally. When the container is filled with the plucked tea leaves, the container is lifted and moved horizontally toward the upper part of the transportation means to open the bottom, thereby transferring the plucked tea leaves to the transportation means. Can be. Furthermore, since the bottom of the container is controlled to be opened and closed by the opening and closing drive means, the transfer operation of the plucked tea leaves can be performed without requiring any manual operation. In particular, the container need only be moved up and down and moved in the horizontal direction, and does not need to perform complicated operations such as inversion, so that the configuration of the drive system can be simplified.

According to the fourth aspect of the invention, the bottom door can be opened and closed only by the expansion and contraction operation of the cylinder to drop the tea leaves stored therein. The pruned tea leaves do not spill around, and waste when transferring the pruned tea leaves can be eliminated.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the tea leaf leveling member which can reciprocate along the longitudinal direction of the container is provided, the uniform distribution of the harvested tea leaves accommodated without moving the container is automatically performed. Thus, the configuration can be simplified as compared with the configuration in which the container is moved, and further, no labor is required for the configuration.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the moving time of the container can be shortened by moving the container in the vertical and horizontal synthetic directions, and the container moves while maintaining the posture for accommodating the pruned tea leaves. Since it is located at a higher position, the scattering of tea leaves is less than that of a configuration in which the container is inverted, and the spilling of the extracted tea leaves can be reduced.

[0015]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. FIG. 1 is a side view for explaining a main part configuration of a riding type tea leaf picking machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the drawing, the riding type tea leaf picking machine 1 straddles a tea tree ridge by a right and left crawler traveling device 2. And a self-propelled passenger body 3 running between the furrows on both sides thereof. The riding body 3 is equipped with a clipper-type plucking device 4 that faces the entire upper surface of the tea tree ridge. A pair of left and right chain conveyors (not shown) for transferring the pruned tea leaves to the left and right end portions of the plucking device 4 and the plucked tea leaves transferred to the left and right end portions of the plucking device 4 are placed on the pruning device 4. A pair of left and right conveying ducts 5 for conveying to the side are provided as a tea leaf conveying device, and tea leaf separating bodies 6 are respectively connected to end portions of the respective blowing conveying ducts 5.

The crawler traveling device 2 includes a rubber crawler 2A that is rotatably driven by a hydraulic motor (not shown). A hydraulic pump (not shown) for driving the hydraulic motor and an engine 7 serving as a drive source thereof are provided. Is mounted on the passenger body 4. A pair of left and right blowers 8 driven by the engine 7 are mounted on the upper center of the passenger car body 4, and each of the blowers 8 is connected to the left and right ends of the plucking device 4 via flexible ducts 9 that can be bent in any direction. Are respectively connected to the chambers 4A formed at the same time. It should be noted that the traveling device may be a traveling device using tires or tracks instead of the crawler traveling device 2.

The picking device 4 is vertically curved over the entire upper surface of the tea ridge, and is reciprocally driven left and right through a crank mechanism not shown which is linked to a drive source such as a hydraulic motor or an engine. (Not shown) and a scraper brush (not shown) that is rotated by a drive source (not shown) to scrape the tea leaves picked by the clipper blade onto the clipper blade. A chain conveyor (not shown) of the above-described tea leaf transport device for transferring the inserted tea leaves into the left and right chambers 4A is incorporated. The overall position of the plucking device 4 is controlled by a pair of left and right hydraulic cylinders (not shown). Each of the hydraulic motors and the hydraulic cylinders among the above-mentioned driving sources is operated by hydraulic pressure from a hydraulic pump using the engine 7 as a driving source.

On the other hand, the air conveying duct 5 is disposed at the center in the front-rear direction of the passenger car body 3 and extends in the vertical direction, and its base end bent rearward at the lower end communicates with the left and right chambers 4A of the plucking device 4, respectively. Then, tea leaf separators 6 are respectively connected to end portions bent rearward at the upper ends.

As described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 8-214668, for example, the tea leaf separator 6 has a box shape that is long in the front-rear direction. Most of the upper surface and the left and right side surfaces are made of wire mesh. A plurality of air vent holes are formed in the lower part of the peripheral surface at the rear end in the air blowing direction, and a discharge port (not shown) is formed at the lower surface of the rear end. Tea leaf separator 6 having such a configuration
The tea leaves that have flowed in with the air blow from the transport duct 5 are separated by the air being discharged from the wire mesh and the air vent holes, and fall downward from the outlet on the lower surface at the rear end of the tea leaf separator 6. It has become.

The passenger car body 3 is provided below the tea leaf separator 6.
Is located, and a container 10 described later is mounted on the container mounting table 3A. The container 10 has a longitudinal direction in a direction perpendicular to the paper surface of FIG. 1, and as shown in FIG. 4, as shown in FIG.
A. 10A '. As shown in FIG. 4, cylinders 11 are provided on both sides in the longitudinal direction of the container 10.
1A, a chain sprocket 12 is provided at the tip thereof.
Parts of the chains 13A, 13A ', which constitute one component of the power transmission member 13 for opening and closing the A, 10A', are respectively wound around. The power transmission member 13 includes the chain 1
3A, a plurality of chain sprockets 13B, 1
3C, 13D, one end of the chain 13A is fixed to the bottom frame portion, and the other ends are the doors 10A, 10A,
0A 'is fixed to the inner surface near the open / close end. The chain 13A bypasses the chain sprockets 13B and 13C arranged in the horizontal direction and reaches one of the double doors 10A,
Further, the chain 13A 'is a rod 11A of the cylinder 11.
Chain sprocket 13D arranged near the tip
To the other door 10A '. Thus, when the rod 11A of the cylinder 11 is extended, the chains 13A and 13A 'are slackened, so that the double doors 10A and 10A' are opened by gravity, and when the rod 11A of the cylinder 11 is contracted, 13
A, 13A 'is towed, and the doors 10A, 10A
A 'is closed against gravity.

As shown in FIG. 5, inside the container 10, there is provided a tea leaf leveling member 14 composed of a plate member which can reciprocate in the longitudinal direction. In FIG. 5, the tea leaf leveling member 14 is fixed to a stretched portion of a wire 16 wrapped around pulleys 15 and 15 ′ provided on both sides in the longitudinal direction, and one pulley 15 is connected via a belt 17. A reciprocating motion is achieved by interlocking with the rotation of a pulley 19 attached to an output shaft of an electric motor 18 that can rotate forward and reverse.

The container 10 is used for storing plucked tea leaves.
As shown in FIG. 1, it is maintained in a state where it is mounted on the container mounting table 3A, and when it is filled with plucked tea leaves, it can be moved upward to a transportation means such as a truck. That is, the container 10 can be moved up and down and can move in the horizontal direction from above the container mounting table 3A. Hereinafter, the moving mechanism of the container 10 will be described. In FIG. 1, near the container mounting table 3A,
An elevating guide part 19 composed of a pair of frames is provided, and an elevating body 20 is arranged on the elevating guide part 19 so as to be able to move up and down. The elevating body 20 is made of a plate member, and has rollers
And a horizontal movement drive unit 21 is integrated with the upper part.

The horizontal movement drive section 21 is composed of a slide rail member having a plurality of rail members that can be expanded and contracted in the horizontal direction, and a cylinder block 22 is provided on an upper portion thereof. As shown in FIG. 3, the cylinder block 22 is provided with upper and lower two-stage cylinders 23 and 24, which move in the horizontal direction on the horizontal movement drive unit 21 in conjunction with the extension of the upper cylinder 23. Is available. For this reason, the tip of the rod of the cylinder 23 is fixed to the end of the horizontal movement drive unit 21, and when extended, is extended horizontally by the cylinder body as shown in FIG. 3. In the lower cylinder 24, the cylinder body is fixed to the cylinder block 22. As shown in FIG. 3, the rod end is connected to the most extensible rail member of the slide rail that forms the horizontal movement drive unit 21, and is extended. As shown in FIG. 3, the horizontal movement drive unit 21 is extended in the horizontal direction.

The side surface of the container 10 is integrated with the most extensible rail member of the horizontal movement drive unit 21 and / or the rod tip of the lower cylinder 24 via an attachment member (not shown).

On the other hand, the lift of the lift 20 is driven by a cylinder (not shown) having a rod that can be extended and retracted in the lift direction. That is, in FIG. 1, a pair of pulleys 2 provided on a support member 19 </ b> A horizontally
5, 25 ', and the pulleys 25, 25'
A wire 26 having one end locked to the horizontal movement drive unit 21 is wound around the other end of the wire 26. The other end of the wire 26 is locked to a cylinder rod (not shown) bypassing one pulley 25 '. ing. Thus, the container 10 is supported by the elevating body 20 corresponding to a support member that can be linked to a cylinder corresponding to the elevating drive member.

Since the present embodiment has the above configuration,
At the time of tea leaf pruning, as shown in FIG. 1, the container 10 is mounted on the container mounting table 3A, and the tea leaves plucked by the above-described plucking device 4 are passed through the duct 5 to the tea leaf separator 6
And is introduced from the upper opening of the container 10 after being separated from the air. When the container 10 is filled with the pruning tea leaves, for example, when discriminated in the cockpit by a detection signal from a weight sensor or the like (not shown), the transporting means such as the truck 27 in which the riding type tea pruning machine stands by near the field is used. And the tea leaves in the container 10 are transferred.

When the tea leaves in the container 10 are transferred, the elevating body 20 in FIG. 2 is driven up by driving a cylinder (not shown). In this case, the rod 26 of the cylinder contracts, for example, so that the wire 26 (see FIG. 1)
Is pulled, the horizontal movement drive unit 21 in which one end of the wire 26 is locked rises. When the horizontal movement drive unit 21 rises, the container 10 integrated with the most extensible rail member rises in conjunction therewith. The amount of rise of the container 10 is determined by the amount of extension of the cylinder. When the container 10 reaches the upper limit position, the upper cylinder 23 of the cylinder block 22 extends as shown in FIG. Project horizontally in the upper surface of the part 21 and then the lower cylinder 24
Is extended, the most extensible rail member of the horizontal movement drive unit 21 is extended in the horizontal direction, and the container 10 integrated therewith is positioned above the truck 27.

The container 10 positioned above the truck 27 is opened by opening the bottom doors 10A and 10A 'to drop the tea leaves contained therein and drop the truck 27.
Transfer to At this time, the rod of the cylinder 11 (see FIG. 4) provided in the container 10 is extended, and the chains 13A and 13A 'are loosened, so that the door 10 is opened.
A, 10A 'are released using gravity. Container 1
When the transfer of tea leaves from inside 0 is completed, container 10
Are closed. In this case, when the rod 11A of the cylinder 11 contracts, the chains 13A, 13A 'are pulled, and the doors 10A, 10A are closed.
Close A 'against gravity. The drive source of the cylinder 11 may be, for example, either hydraulic or pneumatic.
Piping from the supply source of these drive sources is the regular body 3 of the plucking machine.
It is connected to a hydraulic pump or air pump driven by the engine mounted on the side.

When the transfer of the tea leaves to the truck 27 is completed, the container 10 is mounted on the container mounting table 3A in a procedure reverse to the above-described procedure, and is again put in a state of accommodating the plucked tea leaves. In the above embodiment, the inside of the air duct 5 is set to a positive pressure for receiving the discharge pressure from the air blower 8, but it is needless to say that the pressure may be negative.

Next, another embodiment relating to the above-mentioned structure for collecting the extracted tea leaves will be described. In FIG. 6, portal frames 100 and 10 provided on the upper part of the traveling device (the reference numeral 2 shown in FIG. 1 is used for convenience) in the embodiment shown in FIG.
A connecting frame 102 is provided on the upper part of the vehicle 1. The connecting frame 102 is bridged between the portal frames 100 and 101, and the connecting frame 102 is provided with a passenger body 3 'on which a control unit 3A' and an engine 7 'are mounted. Have been. An engine 7 'mounted on the passenger body 3' is provided with a pair of left and right blowers 8 'via a belt. An expandable duct 9A 'is connected to the blower 8', and in this embodiment, the duct 9A 'is located in front of the chamber 4A' of the plucking device 4 'and blows out the plucked tea leaves. To a discharge pipe 4C 'that communicates with a nozzle 4B'.

The chamber 4A 'provided in the plucking device 4' shown in FIG. 6 has spaces bisected in the width direction of the tea tree ridges.
Transport ducts 9 'for transporting toward 0' are connected to each other. The plucked tea leaves are blown off by the air discharged from the nozzle 4B 'in the chamber 4A', and are conveyed from each space to the container 10 'via the conveyance duct 9'. Is separated from the air by the tea leaf separator 6 'having the same configuration as that of the above-described embodiment, and can be dropped into the container 10'.

The plucking device 4 'can be moved up and down according to the height of the tea tree ridge. That is, the side portions are integrally supported by the lifting / lowering body 104,
Is supported by a lifting frame 105 whose upper and lower ends are fixed to the connecting frame 102 and the reinforcing frame 2E 'on the traveling device 2' side so as to be able to move up and down. Lifting body 10
4 can be raised and lowered by a lifting motor (not shown), whereby the duct 9A 'and the transport duct 9' connected to the plucking device 4 'expand and contract.

On the other hand, the picking device 4 'raises and lowers the container 10' according to the raising and lowering operation. That is, the portal frame 101 is provided with a container elevator 104 ′ that can be moved up and down by a drive motor (not shown). The container elevator 104 ′ and the elevator 104 have a space in which the container 10 ′ can be stored. Is fixed, and the container 1 is moved in accordance with the elevating operation of the elevating body 104 and the container elevating body 104 '.
The storage space of 0 'is moved up and down. The lower ends of side frames 107, 107 'located at the front and rear corners of the space in which the container 10' can be stored are fixed to the upper surface of the bottom frame 106, and the upper surfaces of the side frames 107, 107 'are fixed to the upper surfaces. The frame 108 (see FIG. 7) is fixed. A mechanism for raising and lowering the tea leaf accommodating unit such as the container 10 ′ in conjunction with the plucking device 4 ′ using such a lifting mechanism is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-262434, which is a prior application of the present applicant. Have been.

On the other hand, near the upper frame 108, as shown in FIG. 7, the auxiliary frame 1 bridged between the side frames 107 and 107 'is provided.
09 is provided, and to the auxiliary frame 109 and the upper frame 108, the ends of parallel link levers 110 and 111 having one ends connected to the container 10 'are hinged. As shown in FIG. 7, the parallel link levers 110 and 111 have a portion extending from the auxiliary frame 109 and the upper frame 108 toward the container 10 ′ as a bending point, and the two parallel link levers are sandwiched between the bending points. Clamp levers 110A and 111A, each end of which is hinged, are provided between the levers. For this reason, the parallel link levers 110 and 111
The state can be switched between a state of being folded at the bending point as a fulcrum as shown in FIG. 6 and a state of being flipped up at a bending angle of about 90 ° as shown in FIG. In the folded state shown in FIG. 6, the transport duct 9 'communicates with the tea leaf separating body 6' so that the picked tea leaves can be introduced. In the flipped state shown in FIG. The tea leaf separator 6 'is separated from the end of the duct 9', and the container 10 'is moved to a position where the container 10' is located above the truck 27, as in the case shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 7, one of the parallel link levers 110 and 111, which is located below when folded, is provided with a cylinder device 11 as shown in FIG.
The two rods are connected, and the cylinder device 112
The cylinder portion is attached to a stationary portion on the side of the passenger vehicle. For this reason, when the parallel link levers 110 and 111 are in the folded state, the cylinder device 112 contracts the rod. In this state, when the cylinder device 112 extends the rod, the parallel link lever 11 located below
When the container 10 'is moved upward obliquely and the container 10' is moved obliquely upward, another parallel link lever 111 maintains the same posture as in the state where the container 10 'is at the pruning tea leaf storing position.

The container 10 'is provided with a double door (shown by reference numerals 10A and 10A' used in FIG. 4 for convenience) at the bottom similarly to the configuration shown in FIG. 10A 'is a chain having one end connected to the free end (for convenience, reference numeral 13 used in FIG. 4).
A, 13A '). The other ends of the chains 13A and 13A 'are connected to a rod of the cylinder 11' while bypassing a plurality of rolling wheels, so that the pulling and feeding operation can be performed in conjunction with the expansion and contraction operation of the cylinder 11 '. . For this reason, when the chain 13A1 is towed, the doors 10A, 10A '.
Is closed (indicated by a two-dot chain line in FIG. 7), and when it is extended, the double doors 10A and 10A 'are opened (FIG. 7).
In a solid line).

Since the present embodiment has the above configuration,
At the time of the plucking operation by the plucking device 4, when the plucking device 4 ′ is adjusted to the height of the tea tree ridge according to the elevation of the elevating body 104,
The other container elevating body 104 'is also moved up and down in the same manner, and the height of the container 10' is adjusted to the city in the height direction of the plucking device 4 '. During the plucking operation, the cylinder device 112 (see FIG. 7) contracts the rod,
As shown in FIG. 6, the container 10 'connects the tea leaf separator 6' with the transport duct 9 '. The tea leaves plucked by the plucking device 4 'are blown through a blower 8' through a duct 9A '.
Is supplied to the conveying duct 9 'by being discharged from the nozzle 4B', is separated from the air by the tea leaf separating body 6 ', and falls into the container 10'.

When the container 10 'is filled with tea leaves,
The tea leaves in the container 10 'are transferred to the truck 27 (see FIG. 3). In this case, since the cylinder device 112 extends the rod, the parallel link levers 110, 1
11 is flipped up, and in conjunction with this, the container 10 'moves diagonally upward. When the extension amount of the rod in the cylinder device 112 reaches a predetermined amount, as shown in FIG. 7, the container 10 'is positioned above a truck (not shown), and the syringe 11' mounted on the container 10 ' Doors 10A and 10A '
Is released. Thereby, the container 10 'can be moved from the position at the time of plucking to the position where the transfer is performed without changing the posture at the time of plucking,
There is no need to invert the tea leaves at the time of transfer, and the tea leaves are not scattered as in the case where the tea leaves are inverted, and the tea leaves are in the container 1.
A situation such as spilling around 0 'can be avoided. Moreover, unlike the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the container 10 'moves in the combined direction of the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, so that the moving time is shortened as compared with the case where the container 10' is moved in each of the horizontal and vertical directions. be able to.

[0039]

According to the first to third aspects of the present invention, a container is used instead of a storage bag as a configuration for storing plucked tea leaves. Moreover, the container is provided so as to be able to move up and down and move horizontally. When the container is filled with the plucked tea leaves, the container is lifted and moved horizontally toward the upper part of the transportation means to open the bottom, thereby transferring the plucked tea leaves to the transportation means. Can be. Furthermore, since the bottom of the container is controlled to be opened and closed by the opening and closing drive means, the transfer operation of the plucked tea leaves can be performed without requiring any manual operation. In particular, the container need only be moved up and down and moved in the horizontal direction, and does not need to perform complicated operations such as inversion, so that the configuration of the drive system can be simplified. As a result, it is possible to reduce the labor of the tea leaf transfer operation and to shorten the time required for the transfer.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the bottom door can be opened and closed only by the expansion and contraction operation of the cylinder to drop the tea leaves housed therein, as in the case where the housing member is inverted. In addition, since the pruned tea leaves do not spill around, wasteful transfer of the pruned tea leaves can be omitted, and the collection efficiency of the pruned tea leaves can be improved.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the tea leaf leveling member which can reciprocate along the longitudinal direction of the container is provided, uniform distribution of the plucked tea leaves accommodated without moving the container is achieved. Since this can be performed automatically, the configuration can be made simpler than the configuration when the container side is moved, and further, no labor is required for that.
Thereby, the labor required for the operation of collecting the plucked tea leaves can be reduced.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the moving time of the container can be reduced by moving the container in the vertical and horizontal combining directions, and at the same time, the container moves and transports in the posture for accommodating the pruned tea leaves. Because it is located at the upper level of the means, less scattering of tea leaves and less spilling of plucked tea leaves compared to a configuration that inverts the container,
It is possible to improve the collection efficiency of the pruned tea leaves and shorten the time required for transferring the tea leaves more efficiently.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view for explaining a container support structure which is a main part configuration of a riding type tea planting machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial side view for explaining one mode of the container support structure shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a partial side view for explaining another mode in the container support portion structure shown in FIG. 2;

4 is a side view of a container applied to the support structure shown in FIG.

5 is a front view of a container applied to the support structure shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a side view for explaining a container support structure which is a main part configuration of a riding type tea picking machine according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a side view for explaining a case where the container in the state shown in FIG. 6 is set to a tea leaf transfer state.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1, 1 'Riding-type tea leaf picking machine 2 Traveling device 3 Riding body 4 Plucking device 6, 6' Tea leaf separated body 10, 10 'Container 10A, 10A' Kannon door 11, 11 'Cylinder 13A, 13A' Chain 14 Tea leaf leveling Member 18 Tea leaf leveling drive source 19, 105 Elevation guide unit 20, 104 Elevator 21 Horizontal movement drive unit 23, 24 Horizontal movement cylinder 26 Elevation drive wire 27 Truck as a transport means 110, 111 Parallel link lever 112 cylinder apparatus

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A picking device facing the upper surface of a tea tree ridge, and a picking tea leaf transfer for transferring tea leaves picked by the picking device via a blower conveying duct to a passenger body traveling across a ridge on both sides of the tea tree ridge. In a riding-type tea tree pruning machine comprising a device and a container for accommodating pruned tea leaves falling from a plucked object separating body connected to the end of the air conveying duct, the container is movable up and down and horizontally. The plucking is provided by being lifted toward the upper part of the transportation means waiting near the field when filled with the pruning tea leaves, and then moved horizontally above the transportation means, and by opening the bottom, the plucking housed. A riding-type tea leaf plucking machine, comprising a structure for transferring tea leaves to a transporting means. 2. The riding-type tea leaf picking machine according to claim 1, wherein the container has a space capable of accommodating the picked tea leaves therein, and has a door structure that can be opened and closed at a bottom portion, and the bottom portion is opened and closed by opening and closing driving means. A riding-type tea leaf picking machine characterized by being controlled. 3. The riding type tea leaf picking machine according to claim 1, wherein the container is supported by a supporting member which can be linked to an elevating drive member mounted on the riding vehicle body. A riding-type tea leaf picking machine equipped with a horizontal drive member. 4. The riding tea picking machine according to claim 1, wherein the container is provided with an extendable cylinder, and the cylinder has a power transmission means for opening and closing a bottom door in conjunction with the extension and contraction operation. A tea picking machine for riding. 5. The riding-type tea leaf pruning machine according to claim 1, wherein the container is provided with a tea leveling member formed of a plate member that can reciprocate in the longitudinal direction of the container. A riding type tea leaf picking machine characterized by the following. 6. A picking device facing the upper surface of a tea tree ridge, and a picking tea leaf transfer for transferring tea leaves picked by the picking device via a ventilation transfer duct to a riding vehicle body that runs across the ridges on both sides of the tea tree ridge. In a riding type tea tree pruning machine equipped with a device and a container for accommodating pruned tea leaves falling from a plucked object separated body connected to the end of the air conveying duct, the container is vertically moved and combined in a horizontal direction. When it is filled with plucked tea leaves, it moves diagonally toward the top of the transportation means waiting near the field and is positioned above the transportation means, and is accommodated by opening the bottom part. A riding type tea leaf picking machine, characterized in that the picked tea leaves are transferred to a transportation means.