JP2001299088A - Mushroom spawn inoculation machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mushroom spawn inoculation machine capable of preventing the turn over of a culture bottle and performing the inoculation of spawn in a desirable state. SOLUTION: A container 12 holding culture bottles 10 is intermittently transferred, spawn is scraped down from a spawn bottle 11 held upside down and the culture bottles 10 placed in the container 12 and intermittently transferred row by row are inoculated with the spawn to enable the inoculation of all culture bottles 10 in the container 12. The mushroom spawn inoculation machine having the above mechanism is provided with a transfer mechanism to intermittently transfer the culture bottles 10 in the container 12 row by row to the inoculation position, an uncapping mechanism to remove the cap 10a of the culture bottle 10 transferred to the spawn inoculation position, a spawn inoculation mechanism to inoculate the uncapped culture bottle 10 with necessary amount of spawn scraped out from the spawn bottle 11 and pressing mechanisms 37, 39 to press and erect a row of culture bottles 10 behind the row of culture bottles inoculated with spawn.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a mushroom inoculum inoculator.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In artificial mushroom cultivation using a cultivation bottle, a cultivation bottle is filled with a medium, and then the cultivation bottle is stored in a container.
Each container is transferred to perform inoculation, cultivation, and growth processes. By the way, various automatic inoculators for inoculum in artificial mushroom cultivation are known. For example, there is an inoculum inoculation machine disclosed in JP-A-10-178889. This inoculum inoculator intermittently feeds a container containing cultivation bottles, scrapes the required amount of inoculum downward from the inoculated inoculation bottle, and stores it in containers and intermittently feeds each row The inoculated seeds are then inoculated into all the cultivation bottles in the container.

[0003] Specifically, a feeding mechanism for sequentially feeding the containers accommodating the cultivation bottles to the inoculum inoculation position for each row of the cultivation bottles, and a cap attaching / detaching mechanism for attaching and detaching the cap of the cultivation bottles sent to the inoculum inoculation position. , When the cap is removed, a shoulder press mechanism for holding down the shoulder of the cultivation bottle from which the cap is removed, and a seed inoculation in which the required amount of seed is scraped from the seed funnel to the cultivation bottle with the cap removed. And a mechanism. The shoulder holding mechanism has a shoulder holding plate that is rotatably provided, and the shoulder holding plate is rotated above the shoulder of the cultivation bottle when the cultivation bottle is moved by the feeding mechanism. The bottle is made passable. When removing the cap in this manner, the shoulder press mechanism presses the shoulder of the cultivation bottle, so that even if an upward force is applied to the cultivation bottle by the cap attaching / detaching mechanism, the cultivation bottle does not rise, and the cap is satisfactorily held. Can be removed.

[0004]

However, this conventional mushroom inoculum inoculator has the following new problems. That is, in recent years, cultivation techniques have improved and cultivation bottles 1
The yield per bottle is increasing. For this reason, on the contrary, until now, the yield per one bottle was, for example, about 100 g, which was exactly the same as the packaging unit of about 100 g.
At the time of packaging, for example, a yield of 120 g per book occurred, and a situation in which it was necessary to divide and package it into units of about 100 g occurred. For this reason, in recent years, cultivation bottles themselves have become thin and small in volume so that the yield is about 100 g.

[0005] Since the cultivation bottle itself has become thinner, the cultivation bottle which has been housed in a container in four rows and four columns until now has become
It is now possible to store in row 5 and column 5. By the way, when the cultivation bottle becomes thin in this way, the cultivation bottle easily falls down in the container. In particular, the distance between the necks of the adjacent cultivation bottles is reduced, and when the cultivation bottle moves, the shoulder holding plate located between the necks is easily brought into contact with the neck, and the cultivation bottle moves rearward with respect to the moving direction. It is easy to fall down. The cultivation bottles in the front row are relatively hard to fall because the back is supported by the back row, but the cultivation bottles in the last row have a slight gap with the inner wall surface of the container, so It becomes easier. As described above, when the cultivation bottle is tilted backward, the cap is displaced, so that the cap cannot be detached properly by the cap detaching mechanism, so that there is a problem that the inoculum cannot be satisfactorily inoculated.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a mushroom inoculum inoculating machine capable of preventing the cultivation bottle from falling down and inoculating the inoculum satisfactorily. .

[0007]

The present invention has the following arrangement to achieve the above object. That is, the container storing the cultivation bottles is intermittently fed, the seeds are scraped downward by a required amount from the inoculated seed culture bottle, and the cultivation bottles stored in the containers and intermittently fed in rows are removed. By inoculating the seed
In a mushroom inoculum inoculation machine that inoculates the inoculum to all the cultivation bottles in the na, a feeding mechanism that sequentially feeds the containers containing the cultivation bottles to the inoculum inoculation position row by row in the cultivation bottle,
A cap detaching mechanism for detaching the cap of the cultivation bottle sent to the inoculum inoculation position, a seed inoculation mechanism for scraping and inoculating a required amount of the seed from the inoculation bottle into the uncapped cultivation bottle, and a seed inoculation At this time, in order to erect the cultivation bottles in the rear row from the cultivation bottles in the row in which the inoculum is inoculated, a holding mechanism for pressing the cultivation bottles in the rear row side by row is provided.

[0008] Further, when the cap is removed, a shoulder holding mechanism for holding down the shoulder of the cultivation bottle from which the cap is removed is provided. The shoulder holding mechanism has a shoulder holding plate that is rotatably provided, and the shoulder holding plate is turned above the shoulder of the cultivation bottle when the cultivation bottle is moved by the feeding mechanism. It is characterized in that the bottle can pass through. Further, the pressing mechanism includes a pressing roller that presses on a cap of the cultivation bottle. The pressing roller is urged in a cultivation bottle direction. The pressing roller is rotated at the same peripheral speed as the feeding speed of the growing bottle on the feeding bottle.

[0009]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, a schematic configuration and operation of the whole mushroom inoculum inoculation machine to which the inoculation mechanism according to the present invention is applied will be described. FIG. 1 shows a schematic external view of a mushroom inoculum inoculator. The mushroom inoculum inoculation machine is configured so that the cultivation bottle is stored in a container and is applied to the inoculation machine. The part A in the figure is the part where the container is carried in, the part B is the part where the inoculation is carried out for each row of the container, The part is a part for taking out the container after inoculation of the inoculum.

[0010] Since the cultivation bottle is set in the inoculation machine with the cap sealed, the operation of removing the cap from the cultivation bottle, the operation of dropping a certain amount of the inoculum into the cultivation bottle, and the operation of re-adding the cultivation bottle to the cultivation bottle are performed at the part B inoculated with the inoculum. Perform the operation of placing the cap. This equipment inoculates all the cultivation bottles in a row perpendicular to the direction of travel of the container at once. The container is intermittently fed at every bottle interval of the cultivation bottle, so that all the cultivation bottles in the container can be inoculated with the inoculum. Are containers automatically intermittently sent?
Therefore, the seeds can be continuously inoculated by sequentially feeding the containers following the previous container.

In FIG. 1, part D is a part for setting a bottle 11 containing the inoculum. Bottle 11 for storing inoculum
Is the same plastic bottle as the cultivation bottle.
Each time, a predetermined amount is inoculated by scraping the seed surface with a shaving blade. Next, the configuration of the cap removal mechanism and the inoculum of the inoculum will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 shows a state in which the container 12 containing the cultivation bottle 10 is set on the container carrying side of the inoculating machine, as viewed from the carrying side. Reference numeral 14 denotes a base of the inoculating machine, and the containers 12 are mounted on a roller 15 rotatably supported on the base 14 and conveyed. A drive motor 16 has a sprocket provided on the output shaft thereof and a rotation shaft 17 of the drive roller 15.
The chain 18 is stretched between a sprocket provided at one end of the roller 15 and the roller 15 is rotated. A belt is stretched between the driving roller and another roller, and the rotation of the driving roller is transmitted. The roller 15 and the drive motor 16 constitute a container feeding mechanism.

Reference numeral 20 denotes a support frame installed above the container 12 at the transport position so as to straddle the transport surface in the width direction. The cultivation bottle 1 stored in the container 12
It is provided so as to straddle at a position slightly higher than the zero height position. The support frame 20 is provided with a shoulder holding mechanism for holding the cultivation bottle 10 to be fed by a fixed size at a shoulder portion and a cap attaching / detaching mechanism for attaching / detaching the cap 10 a attached to the cultivation bottle 10.
The shoulder holding mechanism holds the cultivation bottle, which has moved to the position where the inoculum is inoculated, by holding the cultivation bottle upright, thereby supporting the cultivation bottle in an upright position, and preventing the cultivation bottle from rising when the cap is removed. . In FIG. 2, reference numeral 80 denotes a hopper for guiding seeds scraped from the seed bottle to each cultivation bottle, 82 denotes a shutter for removing seeds,
Reference numeral 84 denotes a shooter for guiding the inoculum to the mouth of the bottle and reliably removing the inoculum into the cultivation bottle.

As shown in FIG. 2, the shoulder holding mechanism holds the shoulder of the cultivation bottle 10 transferred to the inoculum inoculation position by the shoulder holding plate 22.
To support the cultivation bottle 10. FIG. 4 shows a state in which the cultivation bottle 10 is pressed by the shoulder pressing plate 22. The cultivation bottle 10 of FIG. 4 is in a state immediately below a shooter 84 inoculating a seed fungus. The shoulder holding plate 22 is located above the cap position of the cultivation bottle 10 as described later by the cap attaching / detaching mechanism.
It is arranged so that the tip side is extended from the side where the container is delivered to the cultivation bottle at the inoculation position. Shoulder plate 22
In this way, the adjacent cultivation bottles are to hold the cultivation bottles on both sides with one sheet, and the outer cultivation bottles 10 are provided one by one on each outside, and all the cultivation bottles 10 are pressed by the shoulders on both sides. Like that.

When the container 12 is fed in a fixed size, the shoulder holding plate 22 is released to allow the cultivation bottle 10 to pass freely. As described above, the shoulder pressing plate 22 presses the cultivation bottle 10 in synchronization with the inoculation of the inoculum. In this example, as a method of operating the shoulder pressing plate 22, the shoulder pressing plate 22 is laterally mounted on the support frame 20 as shown in FIG. The rotating plate 26 is rotatably attached to the support shaft 24 provided, and the drive rod 28 is moved up and down to thereby provide an arm.
The turning plate 26 is turned via the arm 30, whereby the shoulder pressing plate 22 attached to the turning plate 26 is rotated.
Was pushed. The shoulder pressing plate 22 is attached to the rotating plate 26 via a spring 32 so as to press the cultivation bottle 10 with a certain elastic force. The shoulder holding plate 22 sets the installation height position and interval according to the size of the cultivation bottle, and changes the number of installation according to the number of bottles. Shoulder holding plate 22, rotating plate 24
The shoulder holding mechanism is constituted by the above.

The shoulder holding mechanism is used for erecting and holding the cultivation bottle when inoculating the inoculum as described above. The cap removing mechanism also has the cap removing function and the cultivating bottle being placed upright. Equipped with a mechanism to reliably drop inoculum. Next, the cap attaching / detaching mechanism will be described. In FIGS. 3 and 9, reference numeral 40 denotes a pressing roller provided in the cap attaching / detaching mechanism. Pressing roller 40 is container 1
The rollers for pressing the upper surface of the cap 10a of the cultivation bottle 10 conveyed together with the cultivation bottle 10 are arranged corresponding to each of the cultivation bottles 10 in the container 12. In the embodiment, since there are five cultivation bottles 10 in one row, five holding rollers 40 are provided. The outer surface of the pressing roller 40 is a rubber roller to prevent slippage.

The pressing roller 40 has a single support shaft 42.
And the opposite ends of the support shaft 42 are attached to the support frame 20 so that the reversing arms 44 are rotatably mounted on the support frame 20 around a shaft 45.
(FIGS. 8 and 9). One end of the reversing arm 44 is locked by a drive rod (not shown), and is pulled by the drive rod to thereby rotate the container 12 around the shaft 45.
It rotates in a vertical plane parallel to the transport direction. FIG.
Shows a state in which the pressing roller 40 presses the upper surface of the cap of the cultivation bottle 10. Reference numerals 46 denote support arms arranged on both sides of the pressing roller 40. Both ends of the support arm 46 are fixed to and supported by the reversing arm 44. That is, the pressing roller 40 is supported by the support shaft 42 and the support arm 4.
6 and is installed so as to cross the transport surface at a predetermined height from the transport surface.

FIG. 7 shows a top view of the support shaft 42 and the support arm 46 for supporting the pressing roller 40. The pressing roller 40 is fixed and supported on the support shaft 42 as described above, and the support shaft 42 is provided with a spring 5 attached to a connecting plate 48 which is mounted on the upper end surface of the support arm 46.
It is always urged downward by 0. As described above, both ends of the support shaft 42 are attached to the reversing arm 44. At the position where the reversing arm 44 is attached, the support shaft 42 is supported by a long hole (FIG. 8).
While being urged to zero, it is supported to be slightly movable in the vertical direction. FIG. 6B shows a state in which the support arm 46 is slightly lifted to remove the cap. However, the support shaft 42 is urged by the spring 50 so that the support arm 46 is relatively moved with respect to the upward movement. This shows that the pressing roller 40 acts to hold down the upper surface of the cap 10a.

As described above, the press roller 40 presses the cap 10a of the cultivation bottle from above to erect the cultivation bottle 10, and removes the cap 10a in the upright state. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent the cultivation bottle 10 from being inclined by the pressing operation of the pressing roller 40 when the upper surface of the cap 10a is pressed by the pressing roller 40. For this reason, in the apparatus of the embodiment, as described later, the pressing roller 40 is rotated in accordance with the transport direction of the cultivation bottle 10, and the moving speed and the peripheral speed of the pressing roller 40 when the cultivating bottle 10 is transported. Are set to match.

The shoulder presser plate 22 presses the shoulder of the cultivation bottle 10 to erect the cultivation bottle 10 when the cultivation bottle 10 moves to the seed inoculation position. Cultivation bottle 10 stored in
When the cultivation bottle 10 moves from the loading side to the seed inoculation position, the cultivation bottle 10 moves from the front edge of the cap 10a to the top of the cap and rolls on the top of the cap while rolling.
It acts to hold 10a. The position is set so that the press roller 40 presses the center of the upper surface of the cap when the cultivation bottle 10 has just moved to the seed inoculation position.

As shown in FIG. 2, the cultivation bottle 10 is
2 and is conveyed, it is unavoidable that it slightly swings due to vibration or the like during the conveyance. However, as described above, the cultivation bottle 1 is held by pressing the shoulder of the cultivation bottle 10 with the shoulder pressing plate 22 and pressing the bottle by rolling the pressing roller 40 on the upper surface of the cap.
0 can be reliably supported upright at the inoculum inoculation position.

The rotation speed of the pressing roller 40 is
This is a condition necessary for the cultivation bottle 10 to be able to move upright without being settled when the pressing roller 40 presses the upper surface of the cap. 8 and 9, reference numerals 54 and 56 denote pressing rollers 4.
0 is a gear for rotationally driving the support shaft 42 to which 0 is attached. A gear 54 is fixed to the support shaft 42.
Are engaged with the gear 56 provided on the support frame 20.

The gear 56 is driven to rotate by a chain. This rotation mechanism will be described. As shown in FIG. 2, a sprocket 21 is fixed to the multi-end side of the rotating shaft 19 of the roller 15 of the container feeding mechanism. In addition, the support frame 20
A rotating shaft 23 is fixed in the middle of the shaft, a sprocket 25 is fixed to one end of the rotating shaft 23, and a chain 27 is stretched between the two sprockets 23, 25. On the other hand, a sprocket 29 fixed to the multi-end side of the rotating shaft 23
And a sprocket 33 fixed to the rotating shaft 31 of the gear 56, a chain 35 is stretched (FIG. 9). Therefore, rotation is transmitted to the gear 56 by driving the drive motor 16.

When the pressing roller 40 is at a position for pressing the upper surface of the cap 10a, the gear 54 meshes with the gear 56, and the pressing roller 40 is rotated. When the cap 10a is removed, the reversing arm 44 pivots upward, whereby both gears 54 and 56 are disengaged, and the pressing roller 40 does not rotate. The peripheral speed of the pressing roller 40 is set so as to match the transport speed of the cultivation bottle by appropriately setting a gear ratio and the like.

In FIG. 6, reference numeral 60 denotes a holding claw attached to the lower surface of the support arm 46. The holding claws 60 are attached to the lower surface of the support arm 46 so as to be located between the caps 10a of the adjacent cultivation bottles as shown in the figure. When the cap is removed from the cultivation bottle 10, the holding claw 60 is
The upper edge portion protruding to the side of a is brought into contact with the lower surface to act to remove the cap. In the embodiment, the cap 1 is used so that the holding claw 60 securely locks the cap.
The plane shape was slightly arcuate in accordance with the curvature of the outer periphery of Oa. As shown in FIG. 2, the holding claws 60 are arranged on both sides of each cap for each cultivation bottle 10, and the cap 1 is placed so as not to hit the cap when the cultivation bottle is transported.
It is set so as to pass through a small-diameter portion slightly lowered from the upper edge of Oa.

Cultivation bottle 10 that has moved to the inoculum inoculation position
As shown in FIG. 6A, the upper surface of the cap 10a is pressed by the pressing roller 40, and stops when the pressing claws 60 are positioned on both sides of the cap 10a. It starts and starts to rise. The rotation of the press roller 40 is linked with the transport of the container 12, and the container 12 stops in the state of inoculation of the inoculum.
When stopped, the pressing roller 40 stops rotating. FIG. 6B shows a state in which the support arm 46 is slightly raised and the pressing claw 60 is in contact with the outer peripheral edge of the cap 10a. As described above, the pressing roller 40 is a spring.
When the support arm 46 is lifted, the pressing roller 40 presses the upper surface of the cap 10a, and the pressing claw 60 and the pressing roller 40 press and support the cap 10a.

As shown in FIG. 6 (b), when the cap 10a is sandwiched between the pressing claw 60 and the pressing roller 40, the support arm 46 is further raised, so that the cultivation bottle 10 is moved by the shoulder pressing plate 22 at its shoulder. , The main body of the cultivation bottle remains on the container 12 and the cap 10a is removed. Figure 10 shows container 1
The state in which the cultivation bottle 10 in the front row of No. 2 is moved to the seed inoculation position and the cap 10a is just removed from the mouth of the bottle is viewed from the side. Support shaft 42 for supporting the pressing roller
Is pivotally supported by the long hole 43 of the reversing arm 44 as shown in the figure,
This allows the support shaft 42 to move up and down.

As described above, the reversing arm 44 is rotatably supported on the support frame 20 provided on the side surface of the transfer surface with the shaft 45 as a fulcrum. The reversing arm 44 is urged downward by a spring 47. The drive rod (not shown) is attached to the end of the reversing arm 44 opposite to the side to which the support arm 46 is attached, and the reversing arm 44 is reversed by pushing the driving rod up and down. FIG. 10 shows a state in which a cap gripping mechanism such as a pressing roller and a support arm is positioned above the cap, and when the drive rod moves downward against the urging force of the spring 47 from the state shown in FIG. Start to rotate,
As shown in FIG. 6B, the pressing claw 60 and the pressing roller 40
, The cap 10a is grasped, the cap 10a is removed from the bottle mouth, and the cap 10a is lifted upward.

FIG. 11 shows a state in which the reversing arm 44 has been turned 90 ° and the cap 10a has reached the upper position. The cap 10a is gripped by the pressing roller 40 and the pressing claw 60. FIG. 3 shows a state in which the cap 10a is in the upper position as viewed from the loading side. The cap 10a is supported by the reversing arm 44 and lifted up so as to be retracted above and behind the cultivation bottle 10 as shown in FIG. To inoculate the inoculum.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 2 and 9, the second and third pressing rollers (a pressing mechanism for pressing the cultivation bottles on the rear row side from the inoculum inoculation position in rows) will be described. As is clear from FIG. 9, the second pressing roller 37 moves the ten rows of cultivation bottles one row after the ten rows of cultivation bottles at the inoculum inoculation position, and
Press roller 39 further presses the next 10 rows of cultivation bottles from above. Five second holding rollers 37 are provided on a rotating shaft 49 rotatably supported by the rotating arms 41, 41 located inside the reversing arm 44, and caps for the cultivation bottles 10 located at positions corresponding to the lower portion. The upper surface 10a can be pressed. The third pressing roller 39 also has a rotating shaft 51 rotatably supported by the rotating arms 41, 41.
5 caps on the cultivation bottles of the next row
aThe upper surface can be pressed.

The rotating arms 41 are attached to the upper end of an L-shaped stay 53 provided upright from the base 14 so as to be rotatable around a shaft 57. Further, the rotating arms 41, 41 are urged downward by a spring 59 provided between the stay 53 and the rotating arm 41, and come into contact with a stopper 61 composed of a bolt provided on the stay 53 so as to be movable in the vertical direction. In contact. Rotating arm 41
At a position where the second pressing roller 37 and the third pressing roller 39 are in contact with the stopper 61, the second pressing roller 37 and the third pressing roller 39 are pressed and adjusted by a small force on the cap 10a of the cultivation bottle 10.

As shown in FIG. 2, a sprocket 63 is fixed to one end of the rotating shaft 23, and the sprocket 63 meshes with a sprocket 65 fixed to the end of the rotating shaft 51 of the third pressing roller 39. ing. A chain 67 extends between the sprockets fixed to the multiple ends of the rotating shaft 49 and the rotating shaft 51. Therefore, when the drive motor 16 is driven, the second pressing roller 3
7. The third pressing roller 39 is also rotated. The rotational peripheral speed of the rollers 37 and 39 is set to be the same as the feed speed of the feed mechanism.

When the container 12 is fed by the feeding mechanism, the second pressing roller 37 and the third pressing roller 3
9 is a cap 10a of the cultivation bottle 10 to be sent.
Ride on the upper surface and press the upper surface of the cap with a weak force. As described above, when the container 12 is fed, the second pressing roller 37 and the third pressing roller 39 press the cultivation bottles 10 in the back row from the inoculum inoculation position from above, so that the shoulder holding plate 22 becomes Even if it comes into contact with the side of the neck of 10 or the like, the cultivation bottle 10 does not fall backward and is sent to the inoculum inoculation position in an upright posture, so it is accurately pressed by the pressing roller 40 at this position, As described above, the cap 10a is surely detached and the inoculum is surely inoculated.

During the inoculation of the inoculum, the second and third pressing rollers 37 and 39 keep pressing while rotating the upper surface of the cap 10a. However, since the pressing is performed with a very small force, both rollers run idle. By this, the cultivation bottle 10
Will not fall. The second and third pressing rollers 37 and 39 are made of a material having a small coefficient of friction. In this embodiment, two rollers are provided as the second and third pressing rollers. However, only one roller for pressing the cultivation bottles in the row immediately after the inoculum inoculation position may be provided.

Next, at the time of inoculation of the inoculum, the hopper 80 and the shooter 84 for introducing the inoculum are located just above the mouth of the cultivation bottle 10. The shooter 84 is provided to reliably guide and drop the inoculum falling from the hopper 80 into the bottle mouth of the cultivation bottle 10, but the shooter 84 removes the cap 10a from the cultivation bottle and retracts the cap upward and backward. Is located just above the bottle opening As shown in FIG. 10, before the cap is removed from the cultivation bottle 10, the shooter 84 is separated from the cultivation bottle 10 and located on the container carry-out side. The shooter 84 is used for each cultivation bottle 10
Each of the shooters 84 is attached to the shooter support plate 70, and the shooter support plate 70 is supported by guide rods 72 which are supported at both sides thereof so as to be freely protruded. 74 is a shooter support plate 70 and a reversing arm 4
4 is a connecting rod connecting between the side surfaces.

The connecting rod 74 is provided to move the reversing arm 44 and the shooter support plate 70 in an interlocked manner. When the reversing arm 44 starts reversing from the state shown in FIG. The shooter support plate 70 is pulled out toward the cultivation bottle 10 at the inoculum inoculation position by the connecting rod 74. By appropriately setting the reversing position of the reversing arm 44 and the positional relationship between the connecting rod 74 and the shooter 84, as shown in FIG. 11, when the reversing arm 44 is reversed and the cap 10a is lifted, the shooter 84 guides. The cultivation bottle 10 can be supported by the rod 72 and drawn out to the bottle mouth.

Since the shooter 84 is set at a position slightly higher than the bottle position of the cultivation bottle 10 so as not to hinder the passage of the cultivation bottle, when the shooter 84 is pulled out to the bottle mouth of the cultivation bottle 10 as shown in FIG. There is a slight gap between the shooter 84 and the bottle mouth of the cultivation bottle 10. In order to prevent the inoculum from spilling from the cultivation bottle 10, it is necessary to eliminate the gap between the shooter 84 and the bottle mouth so that the inoculum does not spill out from the gap. For this reason, in the apparatus of the embodiment, the shooter 84 is slightly sunk when the inoculum is inoculated, so that the lower edge of the shooter 84 slightly enters the bottle mouth. The shooter 84 is formed in a funnel shape, and the diameter of the lower edge thereof is slightly smaller than the diameter of the bottle so that it can be inserted into the bottle. In addition, the shooter 84 of this example
Is provided with a protruding edge 84a for introducing the inoculum in a half-periphery portion of one upper edge. FIG. 11 shows a state in which the shutter 82 is opened and the inoculum is inoculated into the bottle mouth.

After inoculating the cultivation bottle with the inoculum as described above, the shutter 82 is closed, and the shooter 8
4 is lifted and the reversing arm 44 is returned to the original position and reversed, whereby the shooter 84 moves back to the original position and the cap 10a is supported by the reversing arm 44 and descends to the bottle opening. The cap that has descended to the bottle mouth returns to the state in FIG. 10, and the cap is pressed to the bottle mouth, and the cap 10 a is attached to the cultivation bottle 10. As shown in FIG. 6A, the pressing roller 40 comes into contact with the upper surface of the cap 10a and presses it, and rotates on the cap to feed the cultivation bottle 10 after inoculation.

Thus, one inoculum inoculation operation is completed. The inoculum is scraped by a predetermined amount from the inoculum bottle for each inoculation, dropped into the hopper 80, and transferred from the hopper 80 into the cultivation bottle each time. Container 1
2 is sent in a fixed size according to the inoculum inoculation operation. The transport of the container 12 is controlled by detecting that the cultivation bottle 10 has reached the seed inoculation position with a sensor (not shown). A known mechanism (for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H10-17889) can be used as the inoculum scraping mechanism, and thus the description thereof is omitted.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and it should be noted that many modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. Of course.

[0040]

According to the mushroom inoculum inoculator according to the present invention, at the time of inoculation of the inoculum, the cultivation bottles in the rear row are erected so that the cultivation bottles in the rear row are upright than the cultivation bottles in the row in which the inoculum is inoculated. Since a holding mechanism that presses in rows is provided, when feeding containers by the feeding mechanism, the cultivation bottles do not fall backwards, reliably send to the seed inoculation position,
The cap can be securely attached and detached by the cap attaching / detaching mechanism, and the inoculum can be inoculated with certainty.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view showing an overall configuration of an embodiment of a seed inoculum incubator.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a state before inoculation of a seed bacterium by a seed bacterium inoculation machine as viewed from a loading side.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing a state where a cap is removed by the inoculum inoculating machine.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a state in which a cultivation bottle is pressed by a shoulder press plate.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a pressing operation by a shoulder pressing plate.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a cap of a cultivation bottle is pressed by a pressing roller.

FIG. 7 is a top view of a holding roller and a support arm.

FIG. 8 is a side view showing a state immediately before the cap is removed by the inoculum inoculating machine.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of a press roller group.

FIG. 10 is a side view showing a state immediately before the cap is removed by the inoculum inoculating machine.

FIG. 11 is a side view showing a state in which the inoculum is inoculated with the inoculum.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Cultivation bottle 10a Cap 12 Container 18 Chain 20 Support frame 22 Bottle holding plate 28 Drive rod 32 Spring 37 Second holding roller 39 Third holding roller 40 Holding roller 41 Rotating arm 42 Support shaft 43 Slot 44 Reversing arm 45 Axis 46 Support Arm 50 Spring 60 Holding Claw 70 Shooter Support Plate 72 Guide Rod

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A container accommodating a cultivation bottle is intermittently fed, and a required amount of a seed bacterium is scraped downward from a seed culture bottle held upside down by a required amount. In a mushroom inoculum inoculation machine that inoculates all the cultivation bottles in a container by inoculating the scraped inoculum, the container containing the cultivation bottles is sequentially sent to the inoculum inoculation position row by row in the cultivation bottles. A mechanism for removing the cap of the cultivation bottle sent to the inoculum inoculation position, and a inoculum inoculation mechanism for scraping and inoculating a required amount of the inoculum from the inoculum bottle into the cultivation bottle with the cap removed. When the inoculum is inoculated, a holding mechanism that presses the rear-side cultivation bottles in a row unit so as to erect the cultivation bottle in the rear row than the cultivation bottle in the row in which the inoculum is inoculated is provided. Mushroom seed inoculation machine and features. 2. The inoculator according to claim 1, further comprising a shoulder pressing mechanism for pressing a shoulder of the cultivation bottle from which the cap is removed when the cap is removed. 3. The shoulder press mechanism has a shoulder press plate provided rotatably, and the shoulder press plate rotates above the shoulder of the cultivation bottle when the cultivation bottle is moved by the feeding mechanism. 3. The mushroom inoculum inoculator according to claim 2, wherein the cultivation bottle is able to pass therethrough. 4. The inoculator according to claim 1, wherein the pressing mechanism includes a pressing roller that presses on a cap of the cultivation bottle. 5. The inoculator according to claim 4, wherein the pressing roller is urged in the direction of the cultivation bottle. 6. The mushroom inoculum inoculator according to claim 4, wherein the pressing roller is rotated at the same peripheral speed as the feeding speed of the growing bottle on the feeding bottle.