JP2002045017A - Fertilizing farm working machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the clogging of a fertilizer transfer pipe with fertilizer attached to the pipe wall by moisture, rainwater or water in the middle of the fertilizer pipe to transfer the fertilizer from a fertilizing apparatus, thereby preventing the stop of the fertilization work with an apparatus having a simple structure. SOLUTION: A hot-air taking cover 6a is placed on the outer circumference of an exhaust muffler 5 of an engine 4 and hot air heated to about 60 deg.C is sent from the hot-air taking cover 6a to a pneumatic transfer pipe 2 for fertilizer under a fertilizer tank 1 to heat the pneumatic transfer pipe 2 and a feeder 2a and dry the fertilizer to prevent the adhesion of the fertilizer to the pipe wall.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method of applying fertilizers, pesticides, and soil conditioners (hereinafter simply referred to as fertilizers in the present specification) to fields, paddy fields, and cultivation fields in fields, paddy fields, and houses. The present invention relates to a technique for reducing adhesion and clogging of a fertilizer in a transport pipe in a fertilizer application work using an internal combustion engine sprayed on the ground.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a fertilizer fertilizer is installed in a self-propelled agricultural work machine such as a rice transplanter, a harvester, a planting machine, a cultivator, etc., and runs by a self-propelled driving source of an internal combustion engine. Meanwhile, powdery and granular fertilizer is taken in from the fertilizer tank with the air current of the blower and sent downward to be sprayed on the fields, paddy fields and cultivated ground. Alternatively, there is also a type of dropping by its own weight without using an air flow. However, the fertilizer is viscous due to the moisture in the air, the rainwater in the sucked air, and the moisture contained in the fertilizer on the fertilizer passage such as the air transport pipe and the inside of the feeder pipe of the fertilizer fertilizer tank. It has adhered to the inner surface of the feeder and clogged the pipes or reduced the passage area to make fertilization difficult.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve these problems of the prior art, and to eliminate the adhesion and clogging of the fertilizer in the transport pipe only by adding a simple and inexpensive member. It is an object of the present invention to provide a fertilizer working machine capable of fertilization.

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems The constitution of the present invention which has solved the above problems is as follows: 1) Using an engine of an internal combustion engine, sending out a required amount of a fertilizer tank for storing powdery and granular fertilizer and a required amount of fertilizer from the fertilizer tank. -In a fertilizer application work machine equipped with a fertilizer supply device that applies fertilizer to paddy fields, fertilizer by sucking high-temperature air heated by the heat of the engine or its exhaust path and sending it into or around the fertilizer passage of the fertilizer device Fertilizer farming machine characterized by heating the passage to prevent the adhesion of fertilizer 2) The fertilizer feeder sends air flow into the fertilizer passage, transports the fertilizer by air, and fertilizes the fields and paddy fields. Yes, the fertilizer farming machine according to the above 1), wherein high-temperature air heated by the heat of the engine or its exhaust path is fed into the fertilizer passage. 3) The air is taken into the air intake of the blower that sends the air flow to the fertilizer passage. Hot air The 1) to heating the manure passage by feeding by sucking the 2) Fertilizer agricultural machines 4) hot air muffler outer periphery of the exhaust gas for an engine according to feed hot air through the blower to the fertilizer passage
3) The fertilizer application working machine described in any of the above.

[0005]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A fertilizer application working machine according to the present invention is based on an agricultural operation machine running by a driving source of an engine of an internal combustion engine and provided with a fertilizer tank and fertilizer means. The fertilizer may be a fertilizer spreader / supplementer for spraying / replenishing fertilizer, or a work machine (rice transplanter / planter / harvester / harvester / planting / planting / harvesting / cultivation) for other agricultural work. A seed fertilizer tank / fertilizer means and a high-temperature air suction pipe may be attached to a seed sowing machine / tilling machine). The engine of the present invention is generally an engine as a self-propelled drive source, but may be an engine for other purposes and applications. As the air heated by the heat of the engine of the present invention, mainly heated high-temperature air on the outer periphery of the engine body and heated high-temperature air on the outer periphery of the exhaust gas muffler.
As a method of sucking high-temperature air, the outer periphery of these mufflers,
A hood and a casing are provided on the outer periphery of the engine body, and air at a high temperature is taken into the hood and the casing.
The temperature may be raised to about ℃ and then suctioned by a high-temperature air suction pipe and sent to the fertilizer. The fertilizer of the present invention,
A typical type is a type in which fertilizer is pneumatically transported and discharged into a field paddy field, and a type in which the fertilizer is dropped by its own weight and discharged.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. This embodiment is an example in which the present invention is applied to a rice transplanter. The fertilizer passage in the embodiment includes a feeder 2a and an air transport pipe 2. FIG. 1 is a plan view of the embodiment. FIG.
FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a main part of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a main part of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a structure of suction of high-temperature air of muffler heat according to the embodiment. FIG.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a structure of a fertilizer supply device according to an embodiment.

[0007] In the figure, A is a fertilizer farming machine of the embodiment in which a fertilizer application function is added to a rice transplanter, S is a paddy field, and H is a fertilizer. 1 is a fertilizer tank for storing fertilizer, and 2 is a fertilizer passage. An air transport pipe 2a is provided at a lower portion of the fertilizer tank 1, and a feeder for feeding the required amount of fertilizer in the fertilizer tank 1 into the air transport pipe 2; a fertilizer discharge port 2b at the tip of the air transport pipe 2; The battery-operated electric blower that sends compressed air to the transport pipe, 3a sends compressed air from the blower 3 to the air transport pipe 2
3b is an air intake of the blower 3, 4 is an engine of an internal combustion engine, 5 is an exhaust muffler of the engine,
Reference numeral 5a denotes an exhaust port, 6 denotes a high-temperature air suction pipe that sucks heated high-temperature air on the outer periphery of the exhaust muffler and connects to the air intake 3b of the blower 3, and 6a denotes high-temperature air provided on the outer periphery of the exhaust muffler 5. An intake cover 6b is a high-temperature air suction port at a connection portion between the high-temperature air intake cover and the high-temperature air suction pipe 6, 7
Numeral 8 is a driver's seat, 9 is a traveling wheel, 10 is an outside air intake pipe of a hot air intake cover,
Is a flow control valve in the middle of the outside air intake pipe 10, and 12 is an air supply pipe 3a.
Is an air thermometer, and 13 is an air hygrometer of the air supply pipe 3a.

In this embodiment, the power of the engine 4 of the internal combustion engine is turned on the running wheels 9 via the power transmission section to drive the fertilizer application work machine A of the embodiment, and a part of the power is reduced to four lines. The seedlings are transmitted to the seedling feeding mechanism 7 and the seedlings are automatically fed to the seedling seeding and planting mechanism 7 so that the seedlings can be planted. The mechanism and structure of this part is a known part. At the same time, the blower 3 is actuated, and the granular fertilizer H in the fertilizer tank 4
Is dropped into the air transport pipe 2 by a predetermined amount by the feeder 2a. On the other hand, the compressed air from the blower 3 flows into the air transport pipe 2 from the air supply pipe 3a, and the fertilizer is pneumatically transported by the air flow, falls from the fertilizer discharge port 2b at the tip of the air transport pipe 2 into the paddy field S, and fertilizes. Is done.

Here, as shown in FIG. 4, the high-temperature air on the outer periphery of the exhaust muffler 5 of the engine 4 is confined in a high-temperature air intake cover 6a, and the negative pressure of the air intake 3b of the blower 3 reduces the high-temperature air suction. The high-temperature air at a temperature of 50 to 80 ° C. in the high-temperature air intake cover 6a acting on the high-temperature air suction port 6b via the pipe 6 is sucked by the negative pressure to produce the blower 3, the air supply pipe 3a.
To the feeder 2 a and the air transport pipe 2 below the fertilizer tank 2. The high-temperature air at 50 to 80 ° C. heats and dries the fertilizer 4 and the wall of the air transport pipe 2 and the feeder 2a to prevent the fertilizer from adhering. In addition, the attached fertilizer component is dried and transported by an air stream, thereby eliminating the adhesion and clogging of the fertilizer.

The temperature and flow rate of the high-temperature air from the high-temperature air intake cover 6a are adjusted by a flow control valve 11 in the outside air intake pipe 10 connected to the high-temperature air intake cover 6a. The temperature and humidity of the high-temperature air in the air supply pipe 3a are measured by a thermometer 12 and a
Humid high temperature air is sent.

[0011]

As described above, according to the present invention, the fertilizer, the pipe inner surface, and the device are heated by sucking the high-temperature air heated by the engine of the internal combustion engine or the exhaust passage thereof and sending it to the fertilizer passage. And dried to eliminate the adhesion and clogging of fertilizer. Moreover, it can be implemented with a simple additional device, so that it is inexpensive.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a main part of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a main part of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a structure for sucking high-temperature air of muffler heat according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing the structure of the fertilizer supply device of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A Fertilizer application work machine S Paddy field H Fertilizer 1 Fertilizer tank 2 Air transport pipe 2a Feeder 2b Fertilizer discharge port 3 Blower 3a Air supply pipe 3b Air intake 4 Engine 5 Exhaust muffler 5a Exhaust port 6 Hot air suction pipe 6a Hot air intake cover 6b High temperature air suction port 7 Seedling feeding seedling planting mechanism 8 Driver's seat 9 Running wheel 10 Outside air intake pipe 11 Flow control valve 12 Thermometer 13 Hygrometer

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A fertilizer application machine using an engine of an internal combustion engine and having a fertilizer tank for storing powdered and granular fertilizer and a fertilizer device for feeding a required amount of fertilizer from the fertilizer tank and applying the fertilizer to fields and paddy fields. And sucking high-temperature air heated by heat of the engine or its exhaust path and sending it to the inside or outer periphery of the fertilizer passage of the fertilizer to heat the fertilizer passage and prevent the fertilizer from adhering. Fertilizer farm work machine. 2. A fertilizer feeder has a structure in which an air flow is sent to a fertilizer passage to pneumatically transport the fertilizer and fertilize the fields and paddy fields. The fertilizer supplies hot air heated by the heat of the engine or its exhaust passage to the fertilizer. The fertilizer application working machine according to claim 1, wherein the machine is fed into a passage. 3. The fertilizer application work machine according to claim 2, wherein the suctioned high-temperature air is sent to an air intake of a blower for sending an air flow to the fertilizer passage, and the high-temperature air is sent to the fertilizer passage through the blower. 4. The fertilizer application work machine according to claim 1, wherein the high temperature air around the muffler of the exhaust gas of the engine is sucked and sent to heat the fertilizer passage.