JP2002262613A - Transplanter - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transplanter capable of compactly installing a housing tank for housing an application agent of a fluid and a delivery unit between a seat of a traveling machine body and a seedling-carrying platform of a planting device and keeping the machine body in a well-balanced state. SOLUTION: This transplanter is obtained by installing the fluid substance housing tank 30 of an application agent feeder 3 and the delivery unit 3a for delivering the application agent from the application agent housing tank 30 in the left and right at the rear of the seat 1f of a maneuvering part 1g in the transplanter equipped with the planting device 2 and the application agent feeder 3 in the traveling machine body 10 provided with the maneuvering part 1g central part in the left and right direction of the machine body 10 and carrying out the application of the application agent in a fluid form simultaneously with the transplantation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a transplanter for applying a fluid (hereinafter referred to as an application agent) such as a fertilizer or a drug to the vicinity of a seedling at the same time as transplanting a plant, particularly a seedling, to a field.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a transplanting machine equipped with a planting device for scraping and transplanting mat seedlings and a fertilizer supply device for feeding fertilizer contained in a fertilizer tank and fertilizing the fields is known in the art.
423 and the like.

[0003] The fertilizer supply device of the transplanter described in the above-mentioned publication has a rectangular box-shaped fertilizer tank for accommodating a granular fertilizer for each planting streak of each seedling.
A feeding device for feeding the fertilizer is provided at a lower part of each fertilizer tank.

[0004]

In the transplanting machine, a fertilizer feeding device is installed at a lower part of each of the fertilizer tanks connected in series in a horizontal direction. As the total height of the device increases, a transmission mechanism that transmits the fertilizing power to the feeding device is installed horizontally across each feeding device, and the configuration of the fertilizer supply device becomes complicated and large, and its center of gravity is high. Disadvantages such as poor airframe balance.

[0005]

The transplanter according to the present invention comprises:
The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the conventional device, and is configured as follows.

[0006] 1) In a transplanting machine which is provided with a planting device 2 and an application material supply device 3 on a traveling machine body 10 provided with a control section 1g at the left and right central portions of the machine body and supplies a fluid application simultaneously with transplantation. At the rear of the seat 1f of the control section 1g, an application agent storage tank 30 of the application agent supply device 3 and a feeding unit 3a for feeding out the application agent from the application agent storage tank 30 are arranged side by side. I have.

2) Applicator feeding device 3 at the rear of seat 1f
and a feeding unit 3a comprising a feeding adjusting device 6 for adjusting the feeding amount of the feeding device 3b, and an application agent storage tank 30 on the left and right of the feeding unit 3a.
Are adjacent to each other.

3) The power is transmitted from the planting transmission shaft 12 for transmitting the power from the traveling machine body 10 to the planting device 2 to the input shaft 60 of the feeding adjusting device 6 by the vertical transmission mechanism 7, and the above-mentioned feeding adjustment is performed. It is characterized in that power is transmitted from the device 6 to the feeding device 3b arranged in the left-right direction.

[0009]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

A description will be given of a riding type transplanter 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The transplanter 1 comprises a front wheel 1a and a rear wheel 1b.
The engine 1d and the steering wheel 1
e and the seat 1f are located at the left and right central parts of the fuselage.
g, the traveling body 10 and the traveling body 1
0 is attached to the lifting mechanism 11 provided at the rear of the planting device 2
And an application agent supply device 3 (supply device for fertilizer and the like).

The control section 1g covers the periphery of the seat 1f with an airframe cover 4, and the airframe cover 4 covers the seat 1f.
The front deck cover 4a and the rear covers 4b, 4b that cover the sides of the seat 1f are integrally formed.

The rear cover portion 4b is configured to be a passage that can walk and move from the deck cover portion 4a to the rear side of the planting device 2, and is used for replenishment of mat seedlings and application agents (fluid fertilizer and the like) described later. The replenishment work, such as replenishment, is facilitated.

On the sides of the deck cover 4a and the rear cover 4b, there are auxiliary steps (side steps) 4c, 4c, which extend laterally from the traveling body 10 and are supported.
4c is provided to facilitate walking backward from the seat 1f side and performing the above-described replenishment work.

The planting apparatus 2 comprises a seedling table 2a on which eight rows of mat seedlings can be placed, and eight rows of planting claws 2b for scraping the seedlings from the seedling table 2a and planting them in the field. And a float 2c or the like that slides while supporting the weight of the planting portion is provided by a configuration similar to that of the conventional device.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, this planting device 2 is a planting transmission arranged rearward from a position deviated to one side from the left and right central portions of the vehicle body at the lower abdomen of the vehicle body 10 as shown in FIGS. Power is transmitted from the shaft 12 (FIG. 3).

The application agent supply device 3 includes a storage tank 30 for storing an application agent of a fluid to be applied to a field or a crop such as a fertilizer or a disinfectant, and a feeding unit 3a for feeding the application agent from the storage tank 30. And a nozzle part 32 for applying the fed application agent to the field via a conduit 31 and the like, and is installed on the traveling machine body 10 with the following configuration.

That is, the storage tank 30 shown in this embodiment
Is a fluid storage tank for storing a paste-like fertilizer (fluid), which is an example of an application agent, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, and this is a feeding unit 3a installed close to the rear of the seat 1f. And are arranged close to each other so as to form a substantially horizontal straight line in plan view of FIG.

In FIG. 5, 4e is a central rear step, 4f is a side rear step, 3c is a column, 3d is a knob bolt, and 10a is a main frame.

With the above configuration, the overall height of the application agent supply device 3 can be reduced, and the machine body center of gravity is moved to the lower side of the machine body 10 while being compactly arranged between the seat 1f and the seedling mounting table 2a of the planting device 2. The left and right balance of the tank 30 due to its own weight can be favorably maintained.

The left and right storage tanks 30 are located behind the rear cover portion 4b of the body cover 4 and the traveling body 10
The tank bottom is stably supported by a support structure including a support shaft 5 and the like, and the bottom of the tank and the feeding device 3b of the feeding unit 3a are connected by a flexible fluid supply pipe 33, and the tank is connected to the top of the tank. Is provided with a tank lid 30a for opening and closing a supply port for a large-diameter fluid.

Next, the feeding unit 3a of the application agent supply device 3 will be described with reference to FIGS.

The dispensing unit 3a is composed of a dispensing device 3b communicating with the left and right storage tanks 30 and a dispensing adjusting device for driving a pump constituting the dispensing device 3b so that the pump can be shifted by operating a shift lever 6a. 6 and a transmission mechanism 70 for transmitting power from the plantation transmission shaft 12 to the input shaft 60 of the feeding adjustment device 6 as described below, thereby reducing the center of gravity of the device at the rear of the seat 1f while reducing the size of the device. And the transmission of the speed change of the feeding device 3a can be satisfactorily performed.

That is, the feeding unit 3a is connected to the traveling body 10
A sprocket 12a provided in the middle of the planting transmission shaft 12 for transmitting power from the plant to the planting device 2, and a sprocket 6 of the input shaft 60 located as shown in FIG.
The transmission chain 70 is wrapped around 0a in the vertical direction.

Then, the transmission chain 70 is transmitted to the feeding adjusting device 6 by a transmission mechanism 7 constructed by tensioning the transmission chain 70 with a chain tensioning mechanism 7a.
The power shifted by the above is connected by a transmission case 63 which incorporates a transmission mechanism provided laterally between the transmission output shaft 61 and the pump input shaft 62 of the feeding device 3b, whereby the feeding device 3
b to drive the liquid matter such as fertilizer in the storage tank 30 by dispensing it to the respective strips by the feeding device 3b, and to feed the nozzle from the conduit 31 (FIG. 3) to the vicinity of each planting claw 2b of the planting device 2. The application work such as the fertilization work using the paste-like fertilizer which is discharged into the soil from the portion 32 can be smoothly performed.

The chain tensioning mechanism 7a is provided with a roller support culm 72 having rollers 71 for urging the transmission chain 70 in the tensioning direction.
Are rotatably supported by a support shaft 73 provided at the bottom.

Therefore, the transplanter 1 configured as described above
When the application operation by the application agent supply device 3 is performed simultaneously with the planting operation of the seedling by the planting device 2, the liquid material feeding device 3 b and the feed amount of the application material by the feeding device 3 b are provided at the rear of the seat 1 f. A feeding unit 3a including a feeding adjusting device 6 for performing adjustment is provided.

Since the application agent storage tanks 30 are arranged adjacent to the left and right of the feeding unit 3a, the two symmetric application agent storage tanks 30 are brought close to the left and right of the feeding unit 3a. While maintaining the left-right balance of the machine body 10, the center of gravity of the application agent supply device 3 is set to be closer to the center of the traveling machine body 10, so that planting and fertilization work and other application operations can be performed simultaneously, and the stability of the machine body 10 can be improved. It is possible to perform well while securing.

The feeding unit 3a is driven by a vertical transmission mechanism 7 (FIG. 4) from a planting transmission shaft 12 for transmitting power from the traveling machine body 10 to the planting device 2 to an input shaft 60 of the feeding adjusting device 6. And power is transmitted from the delivery transmission 6 to a delivery device 3b (FIG. 3) arranged in the lateral direction.

Therefore, the feeding adjusting device 6 and the feeding device 3b can be installed close to each other in a united manner with the height lowered in the left-right direction, and the feeding adjusting device of the feeding unit can be reduced while lowering the center of gravity of the feeding unit. The transmission mechanism 6 is transmitted by the vertical transmission mechanism 7, so that the transmission mechanism does not overhang in the horizontal direction.

As shown in FIG. 4, the feeding unit and the transmission mechanism 7 have an inverted L-shape when viewed from the front, and the space formed therebetween is effectively used as an installation space for the chain tensioning mechanism 7a of the transmission chain 70. Therefore, the device for adjusting the tension of the chain 70 of the transmission mechanism 7 in a state where the left and right widths from the transmission mechanism 7 to the feeding unit 3a are made as small as possible is compactly combined with the traveling machine 10.
There is such a feature that power can be transmitted to the feeding unit 3a from the side accurately.

As described above, at the rear of the seat 1f, while the width of the feeding unit 3a is reduced, the left and right storage tanks 3a are arranged.
0 are placed close to each other, so the overall width of these
Since it can be made small without protruding from zero, the walking space for the rear cover portion 4b of the body cover 4 and the auxiliary step 4c can be sufficiently secured, and the worker can sufficiently approach the seedling mounting table 2a and the storage tank 30. In addition, the operation of replenishing the seedling mounting table 2a with the mat seedlings and the operation of replenishing the storage tank 30 with the fluid fertilizer such as paste or liquid fertilizer can be performed easily and efficiently in a stable posture. There are advantages such as.

[0032]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the transplanter of the present invention, the control unit 1g is provided at the left and right central portions of the body.
In the transplanting machine which is provided with the planting 1 applying device 2 and the application material supply device 3 on the traveling body 10 provided with and supplies the fluid application agent simultaneously with the transplantation, at the rear of the seat 1f of the control unit 1g,
It is characterized in that an application agent storage tank 30 of the application agent supply device 3 and a delivery unit 3a for feeding out the application agent from the application agent storage tank 30 are arranged side by side. Therefore, the following effects can be obtained.

That is, the fluid storage tank 30 and the feeding unit 3a can be installed compactly and easily between the rear portion of the seat 1f and the planting device 2 without increasing the height. In addition, it is possible to lower the center of gravity of the aircraft and perform the work with a good balance.

At the rear of the seat 1f, there is provided a feeding unit 3a comprising a feeding device 3b for feeding the applied agent and a feeding adjusting device 6 for adjusting the feeding amount of the feeding device 3b. Application agent storage tank 30
Are adjacent to each other.

Therefore, the fluid substance storage tank 30 can be placed close to the left and right of the feeding unit 3a installed at the rear of the seat 1f so as to be installed without impairing the left-right balance of the body 10, and further, application work such as fertilization work is performed. Can be performed stably and smoothly.

Further, the power is transmitted from the planting transmission shaft 12 for transmitting the power from the traveling machine body 10 to the planting device 2 to the input shaft 60 of the feeding adjusting device 6 by the vertical transmission mechanism 7, and the above-mentioned feeding adjusting device is also used. 6 is configured to transmit power to the feeding device 3b arranged in the left-right direction.

Accordingly, the height of the feeding unit 3a can be reduced, and the structure can be made compact.

Further, since the transmission mechanism 6 on one side is transmitted from below by a vertical transmission mechanism 7, the transmission mechanism 7 can be compactly fed without protruding largely in the left-right direction. Transmission shaft 12 with unit 3a
Can be driven smoothly.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of an implanting machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a configuration of an application agent supply device.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing a configuration of a feeding unit.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing the rear part of the transplanter.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Transplant machine 1g Control part 1f Seat 2 Planting device 2a Seedling table 3 Application agent supply device 3a Feeding unit 3
b Feeding device 3c Column 4 Airframe cover 4a Deck cover 4b Rear cover 4c Auxiliary step 4e
Central rear step 4f Side rear step 5 Support shaft 6 Feeding transmission 7 Transmission mechanism 7a Chain tensioning mechanism 10 Traveling machine body 10a Main frame 30 Storage tank (fluid storage tank) 60 Input shaft 70 Transmission chain 71 Roller

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission Date] July 30, 2001 (2001.7.3)
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[Procedure amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] Claim 1

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

[Procedure amendment 2]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0015

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

[0015]

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, this planting device 2 is a planting transmission arranged rearward from a position deviated to one side from the left and right central portions of the vehicle body at the lower abdomen of the vehicle body 10 as shown in FIGS. Power is transmitted from the shaft 12 (FIG. 3).

[Procedure amendment 3]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0029

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

Therefore, the feeding adjusting device 6 and the feeding device 3b can be installed close to each other in a united manner with the height lowered in the left-right direction, and the feeding adjusting device of the feeding unit can be reduced while lowering the center of gravity of the feeding unit. 6 since the transmission-in the vertical direction of the transmission mechanism 7, the transmission mechanism is prevented from projecting largely horizontally.

[Procedure amendment 4]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0030

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

As shown in FIG. 4, the feeding unit and the transmission mechanism 7 have an inverted L-shape when viewed from the front, and the space formed therebetween is effectively used as an installation space for the chain tensioning mechanism 7a of the transmission chain 70. Since the right and left widths from the transmission mechanism 7 to the feeding unit 3a are made as small as possible, the apparatus for adjusting the tension of the chain 70 of the transmission mechanism 7 can be fed out from the traveling machine body 10 while being compactly assembled. There is such a feature that power can be transmitted to the unit 3a accurately.

[Procedure amendment 5]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0032

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

[0032]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the transplanter of the present invention, the control unit 1g is provided at the left and right central portions of the body.
In a transplanting machine which is provided with an implanting device 2 and an application agent supply device 3 on a traveling machine body 10 equipped with a device and supplies a fluid application agent simultaneously with transplantation, an application agent supply device 3 is provided at the rear of a seat 1f of the control unit 1g. It is characterized in that an application agent storage tank 30 of the device 3 and a feeding unit 3a for feeding out the application agent from the application agent storage tank 30 are arranged side by side. Therefore, the following effects can be obtained.

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A transplanting machine that supplies a fluid application agent simultaneously with transplantation by providing a planting device 1 and an application agent supply device 3 on a traveling airframe 10 having a steering section 1g at the left and right central portions of the airframe. In the back of the seat 1f of the control section 1g, the application agent supply device 3
A transplanting machine comprising: an application agent storage tank 30; and a feeding unit 3a for feeding an application agent from the application agent storage tank 30. 2. A device 3b for feeding an application agent at the rear of the seat 1f.
And a feeding unit 3a comprising a feeding adjusting device 6 for adjusting the feeding amount of the feeding device 3b.
The transplanter according to claim 1, wherein an application agent storage tank (30) is adjacent to left and right of the feeding unit (3a). 3. An input shaft 6 of the feeding adjusting device 6 from a planting transmission shaft 12 for transmitting power from the traveling body 10 to the planting device 2.
The power is transmitted to the feeding device 3b by a vertical transmission mechanism 7, and the power is transmitted from the feeding adjusting device 6 to a feeding device 3b arranged in the left-right direction.
Or the transplanter according to 2.