JP2021029192A - Cleaner for horticultural greenhouse, and cleaning system for horticultural greenhouse - Google Patents

Abstract

To make it adaptable for passages for cultivation management having various widths in a horticultural greenhouse that employs an elevated cultivation system.SOLUTION: A cleaner 2 for horticultural greenhouse of the present invention comprises: a vehicle body 12 supported by wheels 11 as traveling means capable of traveling in a horticultural greenhouse. A blower device 15 which generates pressure air, and a front nozzle group 16 which ejects the pressure air toward a front area in a traveling direction of the vehicle body 12 are mounted on the vehicle body 12. The front nozzle group 16 includes: a front inner nozzle 16a provided for a front part and a central part of the vehicle body 12; and a front outer nozzle 16b severally provided for a front part and both side parts of the vehicle body 12. The front outer nozzle 16b is provided such that an arrangement position of the vehicle body 12 in a width direction is adjustable.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

The present invention relates to a horticultural house vacuum cleaner that blows wind to clean the floor surface in a horticultural house that employs an elevated cultivation system, and a horticultural house cleaning system that includes the same.

As the first background technique, the grass collecting device described in Patent Document 1 is exemplified. As shown in FIG. 6, the grass collecting device 101 includes a blower pipe 111 that blows out wind for blowing grass scattered on the ground to one side, a rectifying plate 112 provided at the outlet of the blower pipe 111, and the same. The grass collecting member 113 is provided with a grass collecting member 113 provided at the outlet of the blower pipe 111, and the grass collecting member 113 has a front member 114 facing the outlet of the blower pipe 111 at a predetermined interval, and blows air from the upper portion of the front member 114. It is composed of an upper member 115 that connects to the upper part of the outlet of the pipe 111, and the grass collecting member 113 is formed with a large number of ventilation passages 116 that urge grass cutting but allow air to flow, and the front member 114. A guide body 117 that moves on the ground is provided at the lower part of the.

Moreover, as a second background technique, the surface cleaner described in Patent Document 2 is exemplified. As shown in FIG. 7, this surface cleaner has a blower 201 fixed to the mobile gantry 209, and has an inverted gutter-shaped cross section with an upper wall inclined forward and downward on the outlet side of the blower 201 of the gantry 209. The wind tunnel 202 is fixed with a slight gap between it and the ground, and casters 206 are attached to the lower edges of both side walls of the wind tunnel 202 and elastic so as to close the gap with the ground over the entire length. The board is attached.

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However, there are cases where rails for running other machines (harvesting carts, etc.) are installed in the cultivation management passages in horticultural greenhouses that employ an elevated cultivation system, and the width of the passages is the crops and their widths. Since it is not constant depending on the cultivation method and the like, the weed collecting device 101 and the surface cleaner according to the background technique need to move them to the left and right according to the width of the passage, which causes a problem of inefficiency.

In addition, a hot air duct for heating the house may be hung from the lower part of the cultivation bed, and the grass collecting device 101 and the mechanical part as a vacuum cleaner in the surface cleaner cannot be inserted into the duct to clean the greenhouse. It can be a situation. In that case, for example, a sweeping operation using a broom is performed, but this operation is inefficient and at the same time, there is a problem that minute dust such as pollen that has entered the recess of the passage surface cannot be cleaned cleanly.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the vacuum cleaner for a gardening house of the present invention can be used.
A vehicle body supported by a traveling means capable of traveling in a gardening house is provided, and the vehicle body is equipped with a blower device that generates pressure air and a group of front nozzles that eject the pressure air forward in the traveling direction of the vehicle body. Has been
The front nozzle group includes a front inner nozzle provided at the front portion of the vehicle body and a central portion in the width direction of the vehicle body, and a front outer nozzle provided at the front portion of the vehicle body and both side portions in the width direction of the vehicle body. Including
The front outer nozzle is provided so that the arrangement position in the width direction of the vehicle body can be adjusted.

The traveling means is not particularly limited, and examples thereof include wheels or tracks traveling on a road surface or rail.

According to this configuration, by adjusting the arrangement position of the front outer nozzle in the width direction of the vehicle body, it is possible to correspond to the width of various passages. Further, when a pair of rails are laid in the passage, the inside and the outside of the rails can be cleaned by the front inner nozzle and the front outer nozzle, respectively. Further, if there is an obstacle in the passage that interferes with the front outer nozzle, the obstacle can be avoided by moving the arrangement position of the front outer nozzle inward in the width direction of the vehicle body.

As the vacuum cleaner for the gardening house,
A side nozzle for ejecting pressure air from the blower device to the side of the vehicle body is provided.
The side nozzle exemplifies an embodiment in which the arrangement position is adjustable integrally with the front outer nozzle.

According to this configuration, by blowing pressure air from the side nozzle toward the side of the vehicle body, dust below the cultivation bed installed along the passage can be pushed out to the adjacent passage. The debris can be easily cleaned when working in the adjacent aisle.

As the vacuum cleaner for the gardening house,
An embodiment in which a front steering wheel and a rear steering wheel are arranged on the front portion and the rear portion of the vehicle body, respectively, and the vehicle body can be operated by each of the front steering wheel and the rear steering wheel is illustrated.

According to this configuration, the vehicle body operation of moving the vehicle body forward or backward along the aisle or lifting or turning the vehicle body to move the vehicle body to another passage is performed on the front portion and the rear portion of the vehicle body. It can be done on both sides.

As the vacuum cleaner for the gardening house,
Each nozzle and the side nozzle of the front nozzle group exemplifies an embodiment in which the arrangement position in the vertical direction with respect to the ground plane of the traveling means is adjustable.

The phrase "the position of the traveling means in the vertical direction with respect to the ground plane is adjustable" is not particularly limited, but exemplifies the following aspects.
(A) A mode realized by making it possible to adjust the support height of the vehicle body by the traveling means. According to this aspect, the arrangement positions of the nozzles of the front nozzle group and the side nozzles in the vertical direction can be adjusted collectively.
(B) An embodiment realized by making it possible to adjust the vertical arrangement positions of the nozzles and the side nozzles of the front nozzle group with respect to the vehicle body. According to this aspect, the arrangement positions of the nozzles of the front nozzle group and the side nozzles in the vertical direction can be adjusted collectively or individually.
(C) A mode in which the above (a) and (b) are combined.

According to this configuration, the arrangement position of the nozzle in the vertical direction can be appropriately adjusted according to the type of dust, the height of the rail, and the like.

Further, the cleaning system for a gardening house of the present invention is
It is provided with one of the above-mentioned gardening house vacuum cleaners and a collection net which is installed at a distance in front of the gardening house vacuum cleaner in the traveling direction and collects dust blown off by the pressure air ejected from the front nozzle group. ing.

According to this configuration, the garbage can be collected in the collection net by running the vacuum cleaner for the gardening house toward the collection net.

According to the horticultural house vacuum cleaner and the horticultural house cleaning system according to the present invention, there is an excellent effect that it is possible to correspond to various widths of cultivation management passages in the horticultural house adopting the elevated cultivation system. Play.

It is a top view of the vacuum cleaner for a gardening house which concerns on one Embodiment which embodied this invention. It is a right side view of the vacuum cleaner for the gardening house. It is a front view which shows the arrangement of the front nozzle group of the vacuum cleaner for the gardening house. It is a figure which shows the nozzle mounting structure of the vacuum cleaner for the gardening house, (a) is the figure which looked at the mounting structure of the front inner nozzle in the front nozzle group from the right side side of the vacuum cleaner for the gardening house, b) is a view of the front outer nozzle mounting structure in the front nozzle group as viewed from the right side, and (c) is a view of the side nozzle mounting structure as viewed from the back side of the horticultural house vacuum cleaner. .. It is a top view which shows the usage method of the cleaning system for a gardening house of this invention. It is a side view which showed by breaking a part of the grass collecting device as a 1st background technique. It is a side view which showed by breaking a part of the surface cleaner as a 2nd background technique.

1 to 5 show a horticultural house vacuum cleaner 2 and a horticultural house cleaning system 1 including the vacuum cleaner 2 according to the embodiment of the present invention, and are used in a horticultural house that employs an elevated cultivation system. It cleans the floor. The gardening house cleaning system 1 of this example includes a gardening house vacuum cleaner 2 and a collection net 3. In each figure, the arrow F points to the front side of the machine body.

In the gardening house of this example, a plurality of cultivation beds 5 are arranged in parallel with each other at regular intervals in the width direction of the cultivation beds 5. Some cultivation beds 5 have a hot air duct 5a for heating a house suspended below the cultivation bed 5. Management passages 6 are provided between the adjacent cultivation beds 5 and outside the width direction of the cultivation beds 5 at both ends. A pair of traveling rails 7 are laid in each management passage 6 over the entire length of the passage, and a working carriage such as a harvesting carriage can travel on the traveling rail 7.

The horticultural house vacuum cleaner 2 includes a vehicle body 12 supported by four wheels 11 as a traveling means, and the vehicle body 12 has front handles 13 disposed at the front and rear portions of the vehicle body 12, respectively. A rear handle 14, a blower device 15 for generating pressure air, a front nozzle group 16 for ejecting the pressure air, and a side nozzle 17 are mounted.

The vehicle body 12 is formed in a substantially rectangular frame shape in a plan view, and wheels 11 are rotatably provided on both side portions of the front portion and the rear portion via shafts extending in the width direction of the vehicle body. A flange-shaped annular portion 11a is provided outside the width direction of the vehicle body on each wheel 11, and the annular portion 11a positions the vehicle body 12 in the vehicle body width direction with respect to the traveling rail 7. ing.

The front handle 13 is erected at the center of the front portion of the vehicle body 12 in the width direction of the vehicle body, and its handle 13a is projected forward. The rear handle 14 is formed in a substantially inverted U shape, and its lower ends are supported on both sides of the rear portion of the vehicle body 12 so as to extend diagonally upward rearward in a side view. A throttle lever 18 for controlling the strength of the pressure air of the blower device 15 is provided at the upper end of the rear handle 14.

The blower device 15 is mounted substantially in the center of the vehicle body 12 in a plan view, and a main duct hose 21 for sending pressure air is extended toward the front portion of the vehicle body 12. The tip of the main duct hose 21 is provided at the front of the vehicle body and is connected to a distribution case 22 that distributes pressure air to the front nozzle group 16 and the side nozzles 17, and the distribution case 22 is connected to the main duct hose 21. The pressure air sent from the blower device 15 is introduced through the blower device 15.

The front nozzle group 16 blows the pressure air from the blower device 15 forward in the traveling direction of the vehicle body 12, and is provided with a pair of front inner nozzles 16a provided in the front portion of the vehicle body 12 and the central portion in the width direction of the vehicle body 12. , 16a, and front outer nozzles 16b and 16b provided on the front portion of the vehicle body 12 and both side portions in the width direction of the vehicle body 12, respectively. In this example, the front inner nozzle 16a is attached to the distribution case 22 so as to be able to adjust the rotation position around a virtual axis extending in the vehicle body width direction, and is directed in the traveling direction of the vehicle body 12 in a plan view. Moreover, the rotation position is adjusted so as to blow out the pressure air slightly downward from the traveling direction of the vehicle body 12 in the side view. The front outer nozzle 16b ejects pressure air slightly inward in the vehicle body width direction from the traveling direction of the vehicle body 12 in a plan view and slightly downward in the traveling direction of the vehicle body 12 in a side view. The arrangement position in the width direction of the vehicle body 12 is adjustable, and is connected to the front outer nozzle piping port 22a provided in the distribution case 22 via the duct hose 24. In this example, a substantially square tubular slide pipe support 26 provided at the front portion of the vehicle body 12 and extending in the width direction of the vehicle body 12 and a slide rod slidably inserted into the openings at both ends of the slide pipe support 26. 27 and a fixing screw 28 as a fixing means for fixing the slide position of each slide rod 27 with respect to the slide pipe support 26 are provided, and the front outer nozzle 16b is supported on the tip portions of both slide rods 27 to support the front outer nozzle 16b. The arrangement position of the nozzle 16b can be adjusted. The front outer nozzle 16b is attached so that the vertical position, the horizontal direction, and the vertical direction with respect to the tip of the slide rod 27 can be adjusted.

The side nozzle 17 blows the pressure air from the blower device 15 toward the side of the vehicle body 12, and is provided at the tip of the slide rod 27 on both sides of the vehicle body 12 and is integrally with the front outer nozzles 16b. , The arrangement position in the width direction of the vehicle body 12 is adjustable. As described later in How to use the gardening house cleaning system, only one of the side nozzles 17 is provided in the distribution case 22 according to how the gardening house vacuum cleaner 2 is moved in the gardening house. It is connected to the side nozzle piping port 22b via a duct hose 25. The side nozzles 17 are provided so as to eject pressure air toward the side of the vehicle body 12 in a plan view and slightly downward from the side of the vehicle body 12 in a front view. The side nozzle 17 is attached so that the vertical position, the horizontal direction, and the vertical direction with respect to the tip of the slide rod 27 can be adjusted.

The recovery net 3 includes a frame body 31 formed in a substantially rectangular frame shape in front view, legs 32 that support the frame body 31 in an upright state with the opening 31a facing the front, and surroundings of the frame body 31. Is composed of a net 33 supported by the above. The collection net 3 is installed at the end of the management passage 6 in front of the gardening house vacuum cleaner 2 in the traveling direction so that the opening 31a faces the starting end of the management passage 6, and the gardening house vacuum cleaner 2 The dust blown off by the pressure air blown from the front nozzle group 16 of the above is collected.

Next, an example of how to use the horticultural greenhouse cleaning system 1 will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 5, the outer frame shows the position of the inner surface of the wall of the gardening house 9, and four cultivation beds are installed on both sides of the central work passage 8 in the gardening house 9 and are adjacent to each other. Management passages 6 are provided between the cultivation beds 5 to be used and outside the cultivation beds 5 at both ends in the width direction. In the management passage 6 of this example, the work passage side thereof is the end portion, and the opposite side thereof is the start end portion. First, as shown by the alternate long and short dash line in FIG. 5, the gardening house vacuum cleaner 2 is placed backward on the rail 7 at the end (working passage side) of the management passage 6 on the upper right side in the figure. Next, by adjusting the slide position of each slide rod 27 with respect to the slide pipe support 26, the arrangement positions of the front outer nozzle 16b and the side nozzle 17 in the width direction of the vehicle body are adjusted according to the width of the management passage 6. The vertical position, left-right orientation, and up-down orientation of the front nozzle group 16 and the side nozzle 17 with respect to the tip of the slide rod 27 are adjusted. Next, as shown by a solid line in FIG. 5, the gardening house vacuum cleaner 2 is moved to the start end of the management passage 6, and the collection net 3 is installed at the end of the management passage 6. Next, standing behind the gardening house vacuum cleaner 2, the blower device 15 is started, and the rear handle 14 is held and pushed forward to advance the vehicle body 12 forward. Then, the dust on the management passage 6 is blown off by the pressure wind and collected by the collection net 3, and the dust below the cultivation bed 5 on the left side in the traveling direction of the vehicle body 12 is managed on the left side in the same traveling direction. It is blown off by pressure air to the 6 side of the passage. After that, the passages are sequentially moved to the management passage 6 on the left side in the same traveling direction, and the same cleaning is performed. Then, when the cleaning of the management passage 6 on the lower right side in FIG. 5 is completed, the process shifts to the management passage 6 on the lower left side in the figure, and then sequentially shifts to the management passage 6 on the left side in the same traveling direction. Then, when the management passage 6 on the upper left side is cleaned, the cleaning of the entire gardening house 9 is completed. When cleaning is started from the management passage 6 on the lower right side in FIG. 5 and ends in the management passage 6 on the lower left side in the figure, the side nozzle piping port 22b is on the side opposite to that in the figure. It is connected to the nozzle 17 with a duct hose 25.

The horticultural house vacuum cleaner 2 of the present example configured as described above includes a vehicle body 12 supported by wheels 11 as a traveling means capable of traveling in the horticultural house, and pressure air is generated in the vehicle body 12. A blower device 15 for causing the pressure air to be blown and a front nozzle group 16 for ejecting the pressure air forward in the traveling direction of the vehicle body 12 are mounted, and the front nozzle group 16 is located at the front portion of the vehicle body 12 and at the center portion in the width direction of the vehicle body 12. The front outer nozzles 16a include a pair of front inner nozzles 16a provided and front outer nozzles 16b provided on the front portion of the vehicle body 12 and both side portions in the width direction of the vehicle body 12, and the front outer nozzles 16b are arranged in the width direction of the vehicle body 12. The installation position is adjustable. According to this configuration, by adjusting the arrangement position of the front outer nozzle 16b in the width direction of the vehicle body 12, it is possible to correspond to the width of various passages. Further, even when a pair of traveling rails 7 are laid in the management passage 6, the inside and outside of the traveling rails 7 can be cleaned by the front inner nozzle 16a and the front outer nozzle 16b, respectively. Further, if there is an obstacle in the passage that interferes with the front outer nozzle 16b, the obstacle can be avoided by moving the arrangement position of the front outer nozzle 16b inward in the width direction of the vehicle body 12.

Further, a side nozzle 17 for ejecting pressure air from the blower device 15 toward the side of the vehicle body 12 is provided, and the side nozzle 17 is provided so as to be integrally with the front outer nozzle 16b so that the arrangement position can be adjusted. According to this configuration, by blowing pressure air from the side nozzle 17 toward the side of the vehicle body 12, dust below the cultivation bed 5 installed along the passage can be pushed out to the adjacent passage. , The dust can be easily cleaned when working in the adjacent passage.

Further, a front handle 13 and a rear handle 14 are arranged on the front portion and the rear portion of the vehicle body 12, respectively, and the vehicle body can be operated by each of the front handle 13 and the rear handle 14. According to this configuration, the vehicle body operation of moving the vehicle body 12 forward or backward along the passages 6 and 7 and lifting or turning the vehicle body 12 to move the vehicle body 12 to another passage 6 and 7 is performed by the vehicle body 12 It can be done on both sides of the front and back of the.

Further, each of the nozzles 16a and 16b and the side nozzles 17 of the front nozzle group 16 is configured so that the arrangement position in the vertical direction with respect to the ground contact surface of the wheel 11 as the traveling means can be adjusted. According to this configuration, the arrangement position in the vertical direction can be appropriately adjusted according to the type of dust, the height of the traveling rail 7, and the like.

Further, the gardening house cleaning system 1 of the present invention is installed at a distance in front of the gardening house vacuum cleaner 2 and the gardening house vacuum cleaner in the traveling direction, and is generated by the pressure air ejected from the front nozzle group 16. It is equipped with a collection net 3 that collects the dust that is blown away. According to this configuration, the dust can be collected in the collection net 3 by running the gardening house vacuum cleaner 2 toward the collection net 3.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be appropriately modified and embodied as described below without departing from the spirit of the invention.
(1) By mounting the drive unit of the wheel 11 on the vehicle body 12, the vehicle body 12 is configured to be self-propelled.
(2) As a traveling means, a wheel traveling on the road surface shall be provided, and the vehicle shall be used in the management passage 6 in which the traveling rail 7 is not laid.
(3) A mode in which the arrangement position of the wheel 11 as a traveling means in the vertical direction with respect to the ground contact surface is adjustable is described in the mode of the embodiment, that is, "each nozzle 16a of the front nozzle group 16 with respect to the vehicle body 12". Instead of or in addition to "a mode realized by making the arrangement positions of the 16b and the side nozzle 17 in the vertical direction adjustable", "a mode realized by making the support height of the vehicle body 12 by the wheels 11 adjustable". To be prepared.

1 Garden house cleaning system 2 Garden house vacuum cleaner 3 Recovery net 5 Cultivation bed 6 Management hose 7 Traveling hose 8 Work hose 9 Garden house 11 Wheels 11a Ring part 12 Body body 13 Front handle 13a Handle 14 Rear handle 15 Blower device 16 Front nozzle group 16a Front inner nozzle 16b Front outer nozzle 17 Side nozzle 18 Throttle lever 21 Main duct hose 22 Distribution case 22a Front outer nozzle piping port 22b Side nozzle piping port 24 Duct hose 25 Duct hose 26 Slide pipe support 27 Slide rod 28 Fixing screw 31 Frame body 31a Opening 32 Leg 33 Net F Front side of the machine

Claims (5)

A vehicle body supported by a traveling means capable of traveling in a gardening house is provided, and the vehicle body is equipped with a blower device that generates pressure air and a group of front nozzles that eject the pressure air forward in the traveling direction of the vehicle body. Has been
The front nozzle group includes a front inner nozzle provided at the front portion of the vehicle body and a central portion in the width direction of the vehicle body, and a front outer nozzle provided at the front portion of the vehicle body and both side portions in the width direction of the vehicle body. Including
The front outer nozzle is a vacuum cleaner for a horticultural house provided with an adjustable arrangement position in the width direction of the vehicle body. A side nozzle for ejecting pressure air from the blower device to the side of the vehicle body is provided.
The vacuum cleaner for a gardening house according to claim 1, wherein the side nozzle is provided integrally with the front outer nozzle so that the arrangement position can be adjusted. The horticultural house cleaning according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a front handle and a rear handle are arranged on the front portion and the rear portion of the vehicle body, respectively, and the vehicle body can be operated by each of the front handle and the rear handle. Machine. The horticultural house cleaning according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein each nozzle and the side nozzle of the front nozzle group are configured so that the arrangement position in the vertical direction with respect to the ground plane of the traveling means can be adjusted. Machine. The horticultural house vacuum cleaner according to any one of claims 1 to 4 is installed at a distance in front of the horticultural house vacuum cleaner in the traveling direction, and is blown off by the pressure air ejected from the front nozzle group. A cleaning system for gardening houses equipped with a collection net that collects garbage.

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