JP2003104542A - Agricultural product distributing and supplying device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an agricultural product distributing and supplying device for allowing bulk handling operation by almost equally and smoothly distributing and supplying agricultural products carried after preceding processes to a plurality of handling devices arranged in parallel for following processes. SOLUTION: The agricultural product distributing and supplying device comprises a carrying conveyor 22 provided at an approximately central position in the cross direction on a terminal portion of carrying means 2 with its width being smaller than the effective carriage width of the carrying means 2, first branch conveyors 23 provided at both sides of the carrying conveyor 22 with its carrying directions a, b running outside in the cross direction and its carriage width being almost the same as the length of the carrying conveyor 22, and second branch conveyors 24 provided on the terminal portion of the carrying conveyor 22 corresponding to the first branch conveyors 23 with its carrying directions c, d running outside in the cross direction. The first and second branch conveyors 23, 24 are connected at their terminal portions to the handling devices 3.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention generally distributes agricultural products such as mandarin oranges and persimmons conveyed by a conveying device to processing devices arranged side by side at a predetermined interval downstream of the conveying device. The present invention relates to a distribution and supply device for agricultural products that can be supplied.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a device for supplying an agricultural product conveyed by an upstream conveying device to a plurality of processing devices arranged side by side by a predetermined distance on the downstream side of the conveying device, for example, The one disclosed in Kaihei 10-113623 is known. This device has two branch conveyors that can branch the fruits sent from the container damper into two grades, one on the left and one on the right, in the horizontal (right and left) direction that is orthogonal to the direction in which the container damper is sent. The number of branches of this branch conveyor is configured so that a greater number can be installed in parallel depending on the amount of agricultural products sent from the upstream side.

[0003]

However, in this apparatus, the branch conveyor has a plurality of strips (2 to 3) only on one side.
4) In some cases, there is a problem that agricultural products sent from the upstream-side transport device cannot be smoothly carried on the branch conveyor farthest from the upstream-side transport device (downstream side). Therefore, the agricultural products transported by the transport device are transported only by the branch conveyor at the position closest to the transport device (upstream side), and the transport appearance in the subsequent process is, for example, one of the widthwise directions on the hand-selected conveyor. Since the sheets are transported in a biased manner to the side, it is easy to cause a situation in which it is difficult for a hand-selection operator to perform the selection work.

If the agricultural products are not smoothly delivered from the upstream conveying device onto the branch conveyor, troubles such as biting of agricultural products may occur at the boundary between the conveying device and the branch conveyor, and it is particularly difficult for the agricultural products to roll. In the case of agricultural products or easily damaged products, the risk is high. Therefore, in order to eliminate these problems as much as possible, measures such as suppressing the amount of agricultural products supplied from the upstream side may be taken, but in this case, the efficiency of supplying agricultural products to, for example, a hand-selected conveyor is The situation is that it has not risen and that improvement is desired.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to make an agricultural product conveyed from a previous process substantially even and smoothly with respect to a plurality of processing devices arranged in parallel in a subsequent process. An object of the present invention is to provide a distribution and supply device for agricultural products that can be distributed and supplied and can be processed in large quantities.

[0006]

In order to achieve such an object, the invention according to claim 1 of the present invention is an upstream side conveying means and a conveying direction of the conveying means on the downstream side of the conveying means. A distribution and supply device for agricultural products provided between a plurality of processing devices arranged side by side at a predetermined interval in a width direction that is substantially orthogonal to each other, wherein the distribution means is provided at a substantially central position in the width direction of a terminal end portion of the transfer means. A conveyer having a width narrower than the effective conveying width of the conveyer, and the conveyer is provided on both sides of the conveyer such that its convey direction is outside in the width direction, and the convey width is substantially the same as the length of the conveyer. A first branch conveyor, and a second branch conveyor corresponding to the first branch conveyor and provided at an end portion of the transfer conveyor so that the transfer direction is outside in the width direction, 1 branch The end portion of the bare and second branch conveyors, characterized in that connected to each of the processing apparatus.

With this configuration, among the agricultural products transported by the upstream transportation device, the agricultural products located on both sides in the transportation width direction at the terminal end of the transportation device are transferred from the transportation device to the first branch conveyor. Each is sent out, conveyed to the downstream side, and supplied to each processing device connected to the first branch conveyor. Further, the agricultural product located at the substantially central portion in the transport width direction of the transport means is sent to the transport conveyor and transported downstream, and the second product provided at the end portion thereof.
And is supplied to the processing devices connected to the second branch conveyor. This allows
Agricultural products transported by the transport means are distributed to the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor via the transport conveyor and are supplied to the processing devices, respectively. Therefore, depending on the position of the agricultural products on the transport means. It can be sent to a predetermined branch conveyor, and the agricultural products in a substantially evenly distributed state can be smoothly supplied to the processing device.

Further, it is preferable that the effective convey width of the convey conveyer is set to be approximately 1/2 of the effective convey width of the convey means. With such a configuration, by setting the transport effective width of the transport conveyor to a predetermined value, the transport effective width of the transport means is divided into a predetermined ratio, and the agricultural products on the transport means are transferred to the predetermined branch conveyor. It can be sent out evenly.

Further, it is preferable that the conveyer is formed in a short shape as in the third aspect of the invention. With this configuration, since the length of the transfer conveyor to which the second branch conveyor is connected is set to be short, the delivery time of the agricultural product to the second branch conveyor via the transfer conveyor is reduced. The time difference can be shortened, and the difference in delivery time of agricultural products on the conveying means to both branch conveyors can be minimized.

Further, in the second branch conveyor, as in the invention described in claim 4, the height of the transport surface is the first.
It is preferable that the height is lower than that of the branch conveyor. By configuring in this way,
Since the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor are provided in a downward staircase shape toward the downstream side, it is possible to move the agricultural products on the conveying means using the downward inclination.
Agricultural products can be smoothly supplied to the respective branch conveyors from the transport means regardless of the types of agricultural products.

Further, as in the invention described in claim 5, a branch wall may be provided between the transfer conveyor and the first branch conveyor and between the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor. preferable. By configuring in this way,
Since the branch wall reliably prevents the agricultural products from moving between the transport conveyor and the first branch conveyor or between the two branch conveyors, the state of the agricultural products evenly distributed to both branch conveyors is stabilized.

Further, as in the invention described in claim 6, at least one of the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor is set to a plurality of lines, and the length of each line is such that the upstream side is the downstream side. It is preferably set longer. With this configuration, since the agricultural products can be respectively conveyed by the plurality of branch conveyors having different lengths and supplied to the processing device from the end portions at different positions, the agricultural products can be supplied to the processing device in a more even distribution state.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the conveying means includes an oscillating conveyor that oscillates in a width direction thereof. In this case, the oscillating conveyor has the eighth aspect. As in the invention of (1), it is preferable to swing in association with the timing of supplying the agricultural product from the container reversing damper provided on the upstream side. By configuring in this way, since it is possible to evenly disperse the agricultural products on the transport means in the transport width direction by the swing of the swing conveyor,
The distribution by the two branch conveyors is further equalized. Further, by swinging the swing conveyor in association with the timing of supplying the produce from the container reversal damper, a uniform dispersed state of the produce on the swing conveyor can be easily obtained.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 4 show an embodiment of an agricultural product distribution and supply apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is a plan view thereof, FIG. 2 is a view taken along the line AA of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a view taken along the line BB of FIG. 2 and a view taken along the line BB of FIG.

1 to 4, the distribution / supply device 1 is
It is arranged between the transport means 2 arranged on the upstream side and the primary hand selection roller conveyor 3 as two processing devices arranged on the downstream side. The transfer means 2 includes a container reversal damper 4, a swing conveyor 5, a cleaner 6, and the like. The container reversal damper 4 reverses a container 8 containing agricultural products conveyed by a container transfer conveyor 7 containing agricultural products, The agricultural products inside are discharged onto the conveyor 9 provided at the discharge port. In addition, an empty container collection device 10 for collecting the empty container 8 that has been emptied due to the agricultural product inside being discharged is arranged at the discharge port of the container inversion damper 4, and the empty container collection device 10 includes an empty container collection device 10. The transport conveyor 11 is connected.

The oscillating conveyor 5 is provided such that its conveying surface is slightly inclined downward toward the downstream side, and
Further, as shown in FIG. 4, it has a swing frame 13 arranged on the frame 12. The swing frame 13 is connected to a rotating shaft of a motor 14 fixed to the pedestal 12 via a link 15, and the pedestal 12 is provided with a rail 16 with which a guide 21 of the swing frame 13 is slidably engaged. Has been. Then, by driving the motor 14 to rotate,
The swing frame 13 moves alternately along the rails 16 of the gantry 12 through the links 15 in the directions of arrows B and C (directions orthogonal to the transfer direction B of the transfer unit 2) around the base point O shown in FIG. It is configured to swing.

As shown in FIG. 1, the swing width of the swing conveyor 5 is such that the end of the swing conveyor 5 in the transport width direction is always inside the transport width of the transport conveyor 9 of the container reversing damper 4. It is set so that it is not located, that is, the effective transport width of the swing conveyor 5 at the time of maximum amplitude swing does not deviate from the effective transport width of the transport conveyor 9. The rotation drive of the motor 14 of the swing conveyor 5 is controlled in association with the reversing operation of the container 8 of the container reversing damper 4.

That is, for example, two container detection sensors 17 are arranged at predetermined positions of the container reversing damper 4,
The container detection sensor 17 detects the feed interval of the container 8, and the control device 18 controls the rotation drive of the motor 14 so that the feed interval and the swing cycle of the swing conveyor 5 match. As a result, the agricultural products on the conveyor 9 of the container reversal damper 4 are supplied in the width direction of the swing conveyor 5 in a predetermined state (for example, in a state where the agricultural products are not supplied to the same position as the previous time).

The purifier 6 has a large number of rotating brushes 19 whose transporting surface is flat and rotatably arranged.
Below the rotating brush 19, a tray 20 for storing the removed dust and the like is arranged. Then, the agricultural product moves while rolling on the rotating rotary brush 19, so that the dirt on the surface of the agricultural product is removed and cleaned. The configuration of the purifier 6 is not limited to this example, and other appropriate configurations can be adopted.

The distribution and supply device 1 arranged on the downstream side of the cleaner 6 of the conveying means 2 has a short conveyer 22 as a conveyer of the present invention, a pair of first branch conveyers 23 and a pair of conveyers. The second branch conveyor 24 and the like are provided. The short conveyor 22 is connected to the upstream end of the cleaner 6 at an intermediate position in the conveyance width direction, with its conveyance surface lower than the conveyance surface of the cleaner 6, and as shown in FIG. Is set to 1/2 of the effective conveyance width L of the cleaner 6 (that is, L / 2), and the effective conveyance width L of the cleaner 6 is at the L / 2 portion of the short conveyor 22 and both sides thereof. It is divided into the L / 4 part formed respectively.

Further, the length (machine length) of the short conveyor 22 is set to be substantially the same as the effective transport width of the first branch conveyor 23 composed of the two-branch conveyors 23a and 23b. Of the first branch conveyor 23 (two-way branch conveyor 23
a, 23b) are connected to the outside, for example, both transport surfaces are substantially flush with each other. This pair of first branch conveyors 23 has two branch conveyors 23a and 23b.
Are set so that their conveying directions d and e are respectively outward in the conveying width direction of the short conveyor 22 (that is, the pair of first branch conveyors 23 are opposite to each other), and the upstream branch conveyor is The length of 23a is set to be a predetermined dimension longer than the length of the branch conveyor 23b on the downstream side,
It is set so that the end portion of the upstream branch conveyor 23a is located outside the end portions of the downstream branch conveyor 23b in the transport direction d and e, respectively.

Further, on the downstream side of the short conveyor 22,
The pair of second branch conveyors 24 are connected in a state where the transport surface is lower than the transport surface of the short conveyor 22. Each of the second branch conveyors 24 is composed of two branch conveyors 24a and 24b.
The upstream end faces of a and 24b are butt-connected at the center position of the short conveyer 22 in the conveying width direction, and in the conveying direction, the g faces outward in the conveying width direction of the short conveyer 22 (that is, a pair of second It is set so that the branch conveyors 24 face in opposite directions. The second branch conveyor 24 is also a two-row branch conveyor 24a, 24.
By making the lengths of the upstream branch conveyor 24a and the downstream branch conveyor 24b of b different from each other, the end portion of the upstream branch conveyor 24a is the downstream branch conveyor 24b.
It is set so as to be located on the outer side of the g in the transport direction from the end portion of.

Between the short conveyor 22 and the first branch conveyor 23, and between the downstream branch conveyor 23b of the first branch conveyor 23 and the upstream branch conveyor 24a of the second branch conveyor 24. Each of them is provided with a plate-shaped branch wall 25 having a predetermined height that prevents the agricultural products from moving between the adjacent conveyors. Further, the branch conveyors 24b on the downstream side of the second branch conveyor 24 are provided with drop prevention plates 28 each having a predetermined height.

Then, the branch conveyors 23a, 23b, 2 of the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24, respectively.
Belt conveyors 26 are arranged below the downstream sides of 4a and 24b, respectively, and at the boundary between the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24 on the belt conveyor 26, a chevron-shaped partition member 27 is provided. Are provided respectively. The downstream side of the partition member 27 is connected to the upstream side of the primary hand selection roller conveyor 3, and the downstream side of the primary hand selection roller conveyor 3 is connected to a not-illustrated distribution conveyor for distributing, for example, six lines, and further. 6 downstream
The article selection conveyor is connected.

Next, the operation of the distribution / supply device 1 will be described. First, the container 8 containing the received agricultural products, which is conveyed by the container conveyor 7 containing the agricultural products.
Is supplied to the container reversing damper 4, and the agricultural product inside is discharged onto the conveyor 9 by the reversing operation, and is supplied from the conveyor 9 to the swing conveyor 5. At this time, by controlling the feeding interval of the container 8 by the container reversing damper 4 and the swing operation of the swing conveyor 5 by the control device 18 as described above, the produce on the transport conveyor 9 is swinging. It is supplied to a predetermined position on the moving conveyor 5 (for example, a position not supplied by the previous container 8).

The agricultural products supplied on the swing conveyor 5 are
By the swinging motion of the swinging conveyor 5, the swinging conveyor 5 is dispersed in the width direction of the conveyor 5 and conveyed to the downstream side, and is supplied to the cleaner 6 for cleaning. Even during the transportation of agricultural products from the swing conveyor 5 to the cleaner 6, the swing operation of the swing conveyor 5 and the rotating operation of the rotating brush 19 of the cleaner 6 cause the agricultural products to be uniformly dispersed in the width direction. .

The agricultural products cleaned by the cleaner 6 are supplied to the distribution / supply device 1 and distributed as follows. That is, among the agricultural products transported by the cleaning device 6, the agricultural products located in the central portion in the transportation width direction at the end portion of the cleaning device 6 are delivered onto the short length conveyor 22 and transported to the downstream side thereof. Is supplied to the starting ends of the two branch conveyors 24a and 24b of the branch conveyor 24.

At this time, the agricultural products located in the central portion of the short conveyor 22 in the conveying width direction on the left side of the central position in the conveying direction B of FIG.
The agricultural products that are sent to the branch conveyors 24a and 24b of the strips and located on the right side in the conveying direction (a) are sent to the branch conveyors 24a and 24b of the strips of the other second branch conveyor 24, respectively, to the arrows in FIG. , And is transported in the direction G. At this time, since the transport surface of the second branch conveyor 24 is set lower than the transport surface of the short conveyor 22, the agricultural products on the cleaner 6 are transferred from the short conveyor 22 to the respective branch conveyors of the second branch conveyor 24. It is smoothly delivered onto the conveyors 24a and 24b in a state in which biting between the conveyors 22 and 24 is prevented.

On the other hand, the agricultural products located on both sides of the purifier 6 in the conveying width direction are directly sent to the branching conveyors 23a and 23b of the first branching conveyor 23. The agricultural products located in the first branch conveyor 23 are sent to the two branch conveyors 23a and 23b of the first branch conveyor 23, and the agricultural products located on the right side in the conveying direction of the cleaner 6 are the two branches of the other first branch conveyor 23. To the branch conveyors 23a and 23b.

As a result, the agricultural products on the cleaner 6 are delivered to the second branch conveyor 24 via the short conveyor 22 or directly to the first branch conveyor 23, depending on the position of the end portion thereof. At this time, since two first branch conveyors 23 and two second branch conveyors 24 are provided, each branch conveyor 2 is provided depending on its position.
3a, 23b, 24a, 24b will be evenly distributed.

The agricultural products sent to the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24 in this way are downstream with the branch walls 25 prevented from moving to adjacent branch conveyors. From the end of each branch conveyor 23a, 23b, 24a, 24b.
It is discharged onto the belt conveyor 26 and supplied to the primary hand-selected roller conveyor 3 as indicated by arrows in FIG. Even during the transportation on the belt conveyor 26, the partition member 27 provided on the belt conveyor 26 allows the first branch conveyor 23
And the agricultural products carried by the second branch conveyor 24 are carried without being mixed, and the respective branch conveyors 23a, 23
The agricultural products b, 24a and 24b are supplied to the primary hand selection roller conveyor 3 in a uniformly distributed state in which the agricultural products are distributed.

That is, the distribution / supply device 1 is provided with the purifier 6
By connecting and arranging the short conveyor 22 having a predetermined width at the intermediate position in the transport width direction at the end portion of the, the transport width direction can be made into four divided states corresponding to the respective branch conveyors 23a, 23b, 24a, 24b. , The agricultural products dispersed on the purifier 6 are divided into four left and right branch conveyors 23a, 2
3b, 24a, 24b can be distributed substantially evenly.

As described above, the distribution and supply device 1 of the above embodiment
In this case, the short conveyor 22 is connected and arranged at a substantially central position in the width direction of the end portion of the purifier 6, and the pair of first first conveyors 22 each having a conveyance width substantially equal to the length of the short conveyor 22 are disposed on both sides of the short conveyor 22. While arranging and connecting the branch conveyor 23 of
Since the pair of second branch conveyors 24 are connected and arranged at the end portion of the short conveyor 22, the agricultural products on both sides in the transport width direction among the agricultural products transported by the short conveyor 22 are directly delivered to the first branch conveyor 23. Then, the intermediate product in the conveying width direction can be delivered to the second branch conveyor 24 via the short conveyor 22 and distributed, and the agricultural product on the cleaner 6 can be distributed depending on the position of the end portion. And evenly distribute to predetermined branch conveyors 23a, 23b, 24a, 24b,
This agricultural product can be smoothly supplied to the primary hand-selected roller conveyor 3.

In particular, since the effective transport width of the short conveyor 22 is set to about 1/2 of the effective transport width of the purifier 6, the first branch with the agricultural products on the purifier 6 divided into four equal parts. It can be distributed and delivered to the conveyor 23 or the second branch conveyor 24 substantially evenly. Further, since the length of the short conveyor 22 is set to be substantially the same as the conveyance width direction of the first branch conveyor 23, the agricultural product is sent to the second branch conveyor 24 via the short conveyor 22. The time can be shortened, and the time difference between the delivery times of the agricultural products on the cleaner 6 to the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24 can be minimized.

Further, since the purifier 6, the short length conveyor 22, the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24 are provided in a downward staircase shape, the agricultural products sent from the purifier 6 are inclined downward. Even if it can be moved in a predetermined direction along, for example, even agricultural products that are difficult to roll or that are easily damaged, it is possible to smoothly bite the first branch conveyor or Two
Can be delivered to the branch conveyor.

Since branch walls 25 are provided between the short conveyor 22 and the first branch conveyor 23 and between the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24, respectively, the branch walls 25 are provided. Short conveyor 2 by wall 25
The movement of agricultural products between the second branch conveyor 23 and the first branch conveyor 23 or between the two branch conveyors 23 and 24 can be reliably prevented, and a fall prevention plate 28 is provided on the branch conveyor 24b of the second branch conveyor 24. Therefore, the fall prevention plate 28 can reliably prevent the agricultural products from falling to the outside of the branch conveyor 24b.
The distribution state of the agricultural products distributed to 3, 24 can be stabilized.

Furthermore, the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24 are both two-row branch conveyors 23.
a, 23b, 24a, 24b, and the length of the upstream branch conveyors 23a, 24a is the downstream branch conveyor 23
Since it is set longer than b and 24b respectively,
Agricultural products distributed to the branch conveyors 23a, 23b, 24a, 24b of the respective strips can be discharged onto the belt conveyor 26 at different positions, and the partition member 27 can prevent the agricultural products from being mixed, and the branch conveyors 23a, 23b, 24a ,
The agricultural products on 24b can be uniformly dispersed in the width direction at the end portion of the belt conveyor 26.

From the above, it is possible to further equalize the distribution state of the agricultural products by the distribution and supply device 1 without suppressing the supply amount of the agricultural products by the conveying means 2, and it is possible to process the agricultural products in large quantities. By supplying the uniformly distributed primary selection roller conveyor 3 to the agricultural products, for example, the selection process of agricultural products can be performed easily and reliably.
It is possible to improve the efficiency of the selection processing of agricultural products.

Further, an oscillating conveyor 5 oscillating in the width direction is arranged on the conveying means 2 and the oscillating conveyor 5 is also provided.
Since the swinging movement of the container is performed in association with the timing of supplying the agricultural products from the container inverting damper 4, the agricultural products can be supplied from the container inverting damper 4 to the oscillating conveyor 5 in a dispersed state, and the oscillating conveyor 5 can be oscillated. This agricultural product can be dispersed more uniformly, and the agricultural product can be more uniformly dispersed on the cleaner 6.

Furthermore, by setting the length of the short conveyor 22 to be substantially the same as the effective transport width of the first branch conveyor 23, the short conveyor 22, the first branch conveyor 23, and the second branch conveyor 24 are Even if they can be arranged within the minimum area, they can be arranged efficiently.

In the above embodiment, the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24 are each formed of two-row branch conveyors, but the present invention is not limited to this and, for example, 1 The branch conveyor may be a single-branch conveyor or a branch conveyor having three or more branches, and the first branch conveyor 23 and the second branch conveyor 24 may have different numbers of threads. Further, the conveying width of the short conveyor 22, the constitution of the conveying means 2 and the constitution of the processing device in the above embodiment are also examples, and can be variously modified without departing from the gist of each invention of the present invention.

[0042]

As described in detail above, according to the invention described in claim 1, the agricultural products conveyed by the conveying means are sent to the second branch conveyor via the first branch conveyor and the transfer conveyor. Since it is supplied to each processing device, it is possible to send out and distribute the agricultural products according to the position on the transportation means without suppressing the supply amount of the agricultural products, and the agricultural products on the transportation means are evenly distributed to the processing devices. It can be supplied smoothly.

Further, according to the invention described in claim 2, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1, the effective transport width of the transport conveyor is set to approximately 1/2 of the effective transport width of the transport means. Therefore, the effective conveying width of the conveying means can be divided at a predetermined ratio, and the agricultural products on the conveying means can be sent to the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor substantially evenly.

Further, according to the invention described in claim 3, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1 or 2, the length of the transfer conveyor to which the second branch conveyor is connected is set to be short. Therefore, the delivery time of the agricultural product to the second branch conveyor via the transport conveyor is shortened, and the difference in the delivery time of the agricultural product on the transport means to both branch conveyors can be minimized.

According to the invention described in claim 4, in addition to the effects of the invention described in claims 1 to 3, the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor are stepped downward toward the downstream side. It is possible to move the agricultural products on the transportation means by using the descending inclination, so that the agricultural products can be smoothly supplied from the transportation means to each branch conveyor regardless of the type of the agricultural products. .

According to the invention described in claim 5, in addition to the effects of the invention described in claims 1 to 4, a branch wall is provided between the conveyor and the first branch conveyor or between both branch conveyors. Therefore, the branch wall can reliably prevent the agricultural products from moving, and the uniform distribution state of the agricultural products by the two branch conveyors can be stabilized.

According to the invention described in claim 6, in addition to the effects of the invention described in claims 1 to 5, at least one of the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor has a plurality of different lengths. Since it is formed by the branch conveyor of the strip,
Agricultural products can be respectively conveyed by the respective branch conveyors and supplied to the processing devices from the end portions at different positions, and the agricultural products can be supplied to the processing devices in a more evenly distributed state.

According to the invention described in claim 7, in addition to the effects of the invention described in claims 1 to 6, since the conveying means includes a swing conveyor swinging in the width direction, the swing conveyor By swinging, the agricultural products on the conveying means can be evenly distributed in the conveying width direction, and the distribution by both branch conveyors can be made even more uniform.

According to the invention described in claim 8, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 7, since the swing conveyor swings in association with the timing of supplying the agricultural products from the container reversing damper, It is possible to easily obtain a state in which the agricultural products are uniformly dispersed on the swing conveyor, and it is possible to more evenly distribute the agricultural products on both branch conveyors.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a distribution and supply device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an arrow view taken along the line AA of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an arrow view taken along the line BB of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an arrow view taken along the line CC of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 --- Distribution supply device 2 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Transportation means ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Primary roller conveyor 4 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Container inversion damper 5 ... Oscillating conveyor 6 ... Purifier 9 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Conveyor conveyor 13 .... Swing frame 14 ... Motor 15 ... Link 17 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Container detection sensor 18 ... Control device 19 ... Rotating brush 22 ... ・ Short conveyor 23 ........ First branch conveyor 23a, 23b ... branching conveyor 24 .... Second branch conveyor 24a, 24b ... Branching conveyor 25 .... Branch wall 26 ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Belt conveyor 27 .... Partitioning member 28 ........ Fall prevention plate

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Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A transfer device provided between an upstream transfer means and a plurality of processing devices arranged downstream from the transfer means at predetermined intervals in a width direction substantially orthogonal to the transfer direction of the transfer means. An apparatus for distributing and supplying agricultural products, comprising a conveyor having a width narrower than the effective conveyance width of the conveyor, which is provided at a substantially central position in the width direction of the end portion of the conveyor, and conveys the conveyor on both sides. A first branching conveyor whose direction is on the outer side in the width direction and whose carrying width is substantially the same as the length of the carrying conveyor, and at the end of the carrying conveyor corresponding to the first branching conveyor. A second branch conveyor provided so that the conveyance direction is on the outer side in the width direction, and the end portions of the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor are respectively connected to the processing device. Distributing and supplying equipment for agricultural products. 2. The apparatus for distributing and supplying agricultural products according to claim 1, wherein the effective conveying width of the conveying conveyor is set to be approximately 1/2 of the effective conveying width of the conveying means. 3. The agricultural product distribution / supply apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the conveyor is formed in a short shape. 4. The second branch conveyor is provided such that the height of its conveying surface is lower than that of the first branch conveyor.
A distribution and supply device for agricultural products according to any one of 1. 5. A branch wall is provided between the transfer conveyor and the first branch conveyor and between the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor.
A distribution and supply device for agricultural products according to any one of 1. 6. At least one of the first branch conveyor and the second branch conveyor is set to a plurality of lines, and the length on the upstream side is set longer than that on the downstream side. Item 6. A distribution and supply device for agricultural products according to any one of Items 1 to 5. 7. The conveying means comprises an oscillating conveyor oscillating in the width direction thereof.
A distribution and supply device for agricultural products according to any one of 1. 8. The oscillating conveyor oscillates in association with a timing of supplying an agricultural product from a container reversing damper provided on the upstream side of the oscillating conveyor.
The agricultural product distribution and supply device according to.