JP3206903B2 - Mushroom seed inoculation machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cultivation bottle support mechanism for a mushroom inoculum inoculator.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In artificial cultivation of mushrooms using cultivation bottles, a cultivation bottle is filled with a culture medium, and then the culture medium is inoculated with a seed fungus and proceeds to a culture step. The inoculum inoculation is performed after filling the culture bottle with the culture medium and sterilizing, but when inoculating the inoculum, remove the cap from the culture bottle and drop a certain amount of the inoculum on the culture medium in the culture bottle, After inoculation of the inoculum, the cap is again put on and the culture proceeds. Conventionally, various devices have been used as inoculum inoculation machines that automate this inoculation. For example, there is a container in which cultivation bottles are taken out of a container one by one, and a cap is removed from the cultivation bottle to inoculate a seed (Japanese Patent Publication No. 55-41731). There is a device (Japanese Patent Publication No. 3-76885) that takes out the seed, transfers it to the inoculation position on a conveyor, inoculates the inoculum, and returns the cultivation bottle to the container again so that the entire container can be inoculated by inoculating the inoculum.

[0003]

However, since the scale of cultivation of mushrooms has recently been expanded and a large number of cultivation bottles have been handled, an apparatus capable of inoculating seeds at a higher speed to improve workability. Is required. Since the conventional apparatus described above takes out the cultivation bottle from the container and inoculates the inoculum, there is a problem in that even if the cultivation bottle is taken out of the container mechanically, the working efficiency is improved.

A method of once removing a cultivation bottle from a container and inoculating a seed with a conventional apparatus is effective in that the seed can be inoculated to each cultivation bottle with certainty. When inoculating the inoculum, care must be taken to prevent invasion of various bacteria into the bottle.In addition, the inoculated inoculum will fall onto containers, etc. to prevent invasion of bacteria in the culture room. It is not desirable to do so. As described above, it is an important requirement that the inoculum inoculation step of the mushroom can be efficiently performed, and that the inoculation of the inoculum ensures that the inoculum does not spill into the container.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to inoculate a cultivation bottle together with a container by using an inoculum inoculating machine to inoculate the inoculum. Inoculum inoculation that makes it possible to inoculate cultivation bottles with inoculum
To provide a machine .

[0006]

The present invention has the following arrangement to achieve the above object. That is, in the inoculum inoculating machine that intermittently feeds the container storing the cultivation bottles and inoculates the cultivation bottles one by one from the front row in the transport direction to inoculate the cultivation bottles with all the cultivation bottles in the container, inoculation column cultivation bottle pressing the shoulder restraining the bottle supporting by standing cultivation bottles mechanism, cultivation bottles are accommodated
Support that straddles the transport path in the width direction above the container
Rotating plate that is rotatably mounted on the holding frame in a vertical plane
, Attached via a spring, next to the inoculum row
At the middle position of the cultivation bottle,
The cultivation bottle is located at the position where it can be pressed and
The position of the cultivation bottle in the inoculum inoculation line with the position where the shoulder can be pressed
The cultivation bottle so that it can be pressed elastically.
The driven bottle cooperating with the rotating plate
The position where the bottle holding plate presses the shoulder of the cultivation bottle
The pivoting plate for pivoting between the position and a position remote from the shoulder
The body is provided so as to be rotatable in a vertical plane, and the bottle holding plate is provided.
When inoculating the inoculum, put it on the shoulder of the cultivation bottle in the inoculum inoculation row.
When pressing the container occasionally and intermittently feeding the container, the shoulder of the cultivation bottle
And a drive mechanism that separates from the drive mechanism .

[0007]

When the cultivation bottle moves to the seed inoculation position, the container stops once, and the seed bacterium inoculation operation is performed on the cultivation bottles in the row. The bottle holding mechanism presses the shoulders of the cultivation bottles in a row at the inoculation position of the inoculum from above, and supports the cultivation bottles upright in the container. The bottle holding plate placed at the middle position of the adjacent cultivation bottles in the cultivation bottles of the inoculum inoculation row presses both shoulders of the cultivation bottles on both sides, and the cultivation bottles at both ends of the inoculum inoculation row are located at the outer positions The plate holds the outer shoulder of the cultivation bottle. By the pressing operation using the bottle holding plate, all the cultivation bottles in the inoculum inoculation row are securely held in the container, and the cap can be removed while the main body of the cultivation bottle is pressed by the bottle holding plate. Also,
By pressing the cultivation bottle with the bottle holding plate, the container can be reliably stopped at the time of inoculation of the inoculum.

[0008]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, an overall configuration and an operation of an embodiment of a mushroom seed inoculant in which the cultivation bottle supporting mechanism of the mushroom seed inoculant according to the present invention is applied will be described. FIG. 1 shows an external view of the mushroom inoculum inoculator. This mushroom inoculum inoculation machine is configured so that the cultivation bottle is housed in a container and is applied to the inoculation machine. In the figure, part A is a part for carrying in the container, part B is a part for inoculating the whole line of the container, part C. The part is a part for taking out the container after inoculation of the inoculum.

Since the cultivation bottle is set in the inoculator with the cap sealed, the operation of removing the cap from the cultivation bottle, the operation of dropping a certain amount of the inoculum into the cultivation bottle, and the capping of the cultivation bottle again are performed at the portion B for inoculating the seed bacterium. Perform the operation of putting on. The apparatus inoculates all the cultivation bottles in a row perpendicular to the direction of travel of the container at once. The container is intermittently fed at the bottle interval of the cultivation bottle, so that all the cultivation bottles in the container can be inoculated with the inoculum. Since the containers are automatically intermittently fed, the seeds can be continuously inoculated by sequentially feeding the containers following the previous container.

In FIG. 1, part D is a part for setting a bottle containing the inoculum. The bottle containing the inoculum is the same plastic bottle as the cultivation bottle. At the time of inoculation of the inoculum, a predetermined amount is inoculated each time by scraping the inoculum surface with a sharpening blade. FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the mushroom seed inoculator. The apparatus shown in the figure is an example of an apparatus for inoculating a container containing four rows of cultivation bottles, four in a row, with a seed bacterium.
Bottles containing the inoculum are stored.

Next, the structure of the cap detaching mechanism and the inoculum of the inoculum will be described with reference to FIG. The figure shows a state in which the container 12 containing the cultivation bottle 10 is set on the container loading side of the inoculator, as viewed from the loading side. Reference numeral 14 denotes a base of the inoculating machine, and the container 12 holds the base 1 parallel to the transport direction.
4 and is conveyed while being mounted on a chain 18 circulating and moving on a support plate 16 attached to the support plate 4. Reference numeral 20 denotes a support frame installed so as to straddle the transport surface in the width direction above the container 12 at the transport position. The support frame 20 is a container 12
Is provided so as to straddle at a position slightly higher than the height position of the cultivation bottle 10 housed in the container.

The cultivation bottle 1 to be sent to the support frame 20
A bottle holding mechanism E for holding 0 at the shoulder and a cap attaching / detaching mechanism F for attaching / detaching the cap 10a attached to the cultivation bottle 10 are installed. The bottle holding mechanism E holds the cultivation bottle, which has been moved to the position where the inoculum is to be inoculated, by holding the cultivation bottle upright, thereby supporting the cultivation bottle in an upright position, thereby accurately positioning each cultivation bottle and ensuring the inoculation of the inoculum. To make it possible. If the cultivation bottle is slanted when inoculating the seed, the bottle mouth will shift from the inoculation position, and when the seed is dropped, it will not be able to enter the bottle mouth exactly and the seed will spill out of the cultivation bottle . In FIG. 3, reference numeral 80 denotes a hopper for guiding the seeds scraped from the seed bottle to each of the cultivation bottles, 82, a shutter for removing the seeds, 84: a guide for the seeds, and 84: It is a shooter for dropping.

As shown in FIG. 3, the bottle holding mechanism E holds the shoulder of the cultivation bottle 10 transferred to the inoculum inoculating position by the bottle holding plate 2.
The cultivation bottle 10 is supported by pressing down with 2. FIG. 5 shows a state where the cultivation bottle 10 is pressed by the bottle holding plate 22. The cultivation bottle 10 of FIG. 5 is in a state immediately below the shooter 84 inoculating the inoculum. The bottle holding plate 22 is disposed so that the tip side extends from the loading side toward the cultivation bottle at the inoculation position because the cap removing mechanism is located above the cap position of the cultivation bottle 10. In this way, the bottle holding plate 22 is configured to hold the cultivation bottles on both sides with one sheet in the cultivation bottles adjacent to each other. I try to hold it in the department.

When the container 12 is fed in a fixed size, the bottle holding plate 22 is released so that the cultivation bottle 10 can pass freely. As described above, the bottle presser plate 22 presses the cultivation bottle 10 in synchronization with the inoculum inoculation, and in the embodiment, as a method of operating the bottle presser plate 22, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 7, a pivot plate 26 is rotatably mounted on a support shaft 24 provided laterally on the support frame 20, and the drive rod 28 is moved up and down to pivot the pivot plate 26 via the arm 30. As a result, the bottle holding plate 22 attached to the rotating plate 26 is pushed. The bottle holding plate 22 is attached to the rotating plate 26 by a spring 32 so as to hold the cultivation bottle 10 with a certain elasticity. The bottle holding plate 22 sets an installation height position and an interval according to the size of the cultivation bottle, and changes the installation number according to the number of bottles.

The bottle holding mechanism E is for erecting and holding the cultivation bottle when inoculating the inoculum as described above. It is equipped with a mechanism to drop the inoculum surely. Next, the cap attaching / detaching mechanism F will be described. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 40 denotes a pressing roller provided in the cap attaching / detaching mechanism. The pressing roller 40 is a roller for pressing the upper surface of the cap 10a of the cultivation bottle 10 conveyed together with the container 12, and is arranged corresponding to each of the cultivation bottles 10 in the container 12. In the embodiment, four cultivation bottles 10 are arranged in one row.
Therefore, four pressing rollers 40 are provided. The outer surface of the pressing roller 40 is a rubber roller to prevent slippage.

The pressing roller 40 has a single support shaft 42.
, And both ends of the support shaft 42 are pivotally supported by a reversing arm 44 rotatably attached to the support frame 20. One end of the reversing arm 44 is locked by the drive rod 45 and rotates in a vertical plane parallel to the transport direction of the container 12. FIG.
Shows a state in which the pressing roller 40 presses the upper surface of the cap of the cultivation bottle 10. Reference numerals 46 denote support arms arranged on both sides of the pressing roller 40. Both ends of the support arm 46 are fixedly supported by the reversing arm 44. That is, the pressing roller 40 is supported by the support shaft 42 and the support arm 46 and installed so as to cross the transport surface at a predetermined height from the transport surface.

FIG. 8 is a top view of the support shaft 42 and the support arm 46 for supporting the pressing roller 40. The pressing roller 40 is fixedly supported on the support shaft 42 as described above, and the support shaft 42 is attached to the upper end surface of the support arm 46 by the connecting plate 4.
8, and a spring 50 is attached to the connecting plate 48 to constantly urge it downward to support it. As described above, both ends of the support shaft 42 are attached to the reversing arm 44,
At the position where the reversing arm 44 is mounted, the support shaft 42 is supported by a long hole and is supported to be slightly movable in the vertical direction. FIG. 7B shows a state in which the support arm 46 is slightly lifted in order to remove the cap. However, when the support shaft 42 is urged by the spring 50, the pressing roller is relatively moved with respect to the upward movement of the support arm 46. 40 indicates that the lower cap 40 acts to hold down the upper surface of the cap.

As described above, the pressing roller 40 presses the cap of the cultivation bottle from above to erect the cultivation bottle 10,
This is for removing the cap in an upright state. Therefore, when pressing the upper surface of the cap with the pressing roller 40, it is necessary to prevent the cultivation bottle from being inclined by the pressing operation of the pressing roller 40. For this reason, in the apparatus of the embodiment, the pressing roller 40 is rotated in accordance with the transport direction of the cultivation bottle, and the moving speed when the cultivation bottle is transported and the peripheral speed of the pressing roller 40 are set to match.

The bottle holding plate 22 presses the shoulder of the cultivation bottle in order to erect the cultivation bottle when the cultivation bottle has moved to the seed inoculation position. Set the height to the cap position of the bottle, and when the cultivation bottle moves from the loading side to the seed inoculation position, ride on the top surface of the cap from the front edge of the cap, and press the cap while rolling on the top surface of the cap Act on. The position is set so that the press roller 40 presses the center of the upper surface of the cap when the cultivation bottle has just moved to the seed inoculation position.

As shown in FIG. 3, the cultivation bottle 10 is
2 and is conveyed, it is unavoidable that it slightly swings due to vibration or the like during the conveyance. However, the cultivation bottle 10 is securely erected at the inoculum inoculation position by holding down the shoulder of the cultivation bottle with the bottle holding plate 22 as described above and pressing the bottle by rolling the holding roller 40 on the upper surface of the cap. Can be supported. When inoculating a seed bacterium while transporting with the cultivation bottle stored in the container,
It is more difficult to properly hold the cultivation bottle at the seed inoculation position than in the case where the conventional culture bottle is taken out of the container and inoculated with the seed, and it is more difficult to reliably inoculate the seed. Therefore, the operation of accurately holding the cultivation bottles as in the present apparatus is very important for accurate inoculum inoculation.

The rotation speed of the holding roller 40 is made to match the moving speed of the cultivation bottle so that the cultivation bottle can be moved upright without being settled when the holding roller 40 presses the upper surface of the cap. This is a necessary condition. FIG.
And 54 and 56 are support shafts 4 to which the holding roller 40 is attached.
2 is a gear for rotationally driving the motor 2. The support shaft 42 is rotatably supported by a reversing arm 44 and connected to a gear 54 to rotate. The gear 56 is driven to rotate by a chain. The peripheral speed of the pressing roller 40 is set so as to match the transport speed of the cultivation bottle by appropriately setting a gear ratio and the like.

In FIG. 7, reference numeral 60 denotes a holding claw attached to the lower surface of the support arm 46. The holding claw 60 is attached to the lower surface of the support arm 46 so as to be located between the caps 10a of the adjacent cultivation bottles as shown in the figure. Pressing nail 60 is cultivation bottle 10
When the cap is removed from the cap, the upper edge portion protruding to the side of the cap 10a comes into contact with the lower surface and acts to remove the cap. In the embodiment, the planar shape is formed to be slightly arcuate in accordance with the curvature of the outer periphery of the cap 10a so that the pressing claw 60 securely locks the cap. As shown in FIG. 3, the holding claws 60 are arranged on both sides of each cap for each cultivation bottle 10, and have a small diameter slightly lowered from the upper edge of the cap 10 a so as not to hit the cap when the cultivation bottle is transported. It is set to pass through the part.

The cultivation bottle that has moved to the inoculum inoculation position is stopped when the pressing claw 60 is positioned on both sides of the cap 10a while the upper surface of the cap 10a is pressed by the pressing roller 40 as shown in FIG. From this state, the support arm 46 starts to rise as the reversing arm 44 starts to be inverted. The rotation of the press roller 40 is linked to the transport of the container 12, and when the container is stopped in the state of inoculation of the inoculum, the press roller 40 stops rotating. FIG. 7B shows a state in which the support arm 46 is slightly raised and the pressing claw 60 is in contact with the outer peripheral edge of the cap 10a. As described above, since the pressing roller 40 is urged downward by the spring 50, when the supporting arm 46 is raised, the pressing roller 40
The cap 10a is pressed by the pressing claw 60 and the pressing roller 40 by pressing the upper surface of the cap 10a.

As shown in FIG. 7 (b), when the cap 10a is sandwiched between the holding claw 60 and the holding roller 40, the support arm 46 is further raised, so that the cultivation bottle 10 is held at its shoulder by the bottle holding plate 22. , The main body of the cultivation bottle remains on the container 12 and the cap 1
0a is removed. FIG. 9 shows a state in which the cultivation bottle 10 in the front row of the container 12 has moved to the seed inoculation position and the cap 10a has just been removed from the bottle mouth, as viewed from the side. The support shaft 42 supporting the pressing roller is supported by a long hole 43 of a reversing arm 44 as shown in the figure, whereby the support shaft 42 can move up and down.

The reversing arm 44 is rotatably supported on a support frame 20 provided on the side surface of the transfer surface so as to be rotatable about a shaft 44a. The driving rod 45 is attached to the end of the reversing arm 44 on the side opposite to the side to which the support arm 46 is attached, and the driving rod 45 is pushed up and down so that the reversing arm 4 is moved.
4 moves in reverse. FIG. 9 shows a state in which a cap gripping mechanism such as a pressing roller and a support arm is positioned above the cap.
4 starts rotating, and as shown in FIG. 7 (b), the cap is gripped by the pressing claw 60 and the pressing roller 40, and the cap 10
Remove a from the bottle mouth and rise upward.

FIG. 10 shows a state where the reversing arm 44 has been reversed and the cap has reached the upper position. The cap 10a is gripped by the pressing roller 40 and the pressing claw 60.
FIG. 4 shows a state in which the cap 10a is in the upper position as viewed from the loading side. The cap 10a is supported by the reversing arm 44 and lifted, thereby retreating to the lateral position of the cultivation bottle 10 as shown in FIG. Allow inoculation.

When inoculating the inoculum, the hopper 8 for introducing the inoculum is used.
0 and the shooter 84 are located immediately above the bottle mouth of the cultivation bottle 10. The shooter 84 is provided to reliably guide and drop the inoculum falling from the hopper 80 into the bottle mouth of the cultivation bottle, but this shooter 84 removes the cap 10a from the cultivation bottle and retreats the cap to the side. So that it is located just above the bottle mouth. As shown in FIG. 9, before the cap is removed from the cultivation bottle, the shooter 84 is located away from the cultivation bottle and located on the carry-out side. As shown in FIG. 4, one shooter 84 is provided for each cultivation bottle 10. Each shooter 84 is attached to the shooter support plate 70, and the shooter support plate 70 is supported so as to protrude at both side positions thereof. It is supported by a rod 72. Reference numeral 74 denotes a connecting rod that connects between the side surfaces of the shooter support plate 70 and the reversing arm 44.

The connecting rod 74 is provided to move the reversing arm 44 and the shooter support plate 70 in conjunction with each other. When the reversing arm 44 starts reversing from the state shown in FIG. The shooter support plate 70 is pulled out by the connecting rod 74 toward the cultivation bottle at the seed inoculation position. By appropriately setting the inversion position of the inversion arm 44 and the arrangement positional relationship of the connecting rod 74 and the shooter 84, as shown in FIG.
When the cap is inverted and the cap is lifted, the shooter 84 can be supported by the guide rod 72 and pulled out to the bottle mouth of the cultivation bottle.

Since the shooter 84 is set at a position slightly higher than the bottle position of the cultivation bottle so as not to hinder the passage of the cultivation bottle, when the shooter 84 is pulled out to the bottle mouth of the cultivation bottle as shown in FIG. There is a slight gap between the bottle and the mouth of the cultivation bottle. In order to prevent the inoculum from spilling from the cultivation bottle, eliminate the gap between the shooter 84 and the bottle mouth,
It is necessary to prevent the inoculum from spilling out of the gap. For this reason, in the apparatus of the embodiment, when inoculating the inoculum, the shooter 84 is slightly sunk and the shooter 84 is inserted into the bottle mouth.
The lower edge part is slightly intruded. The shooter 84 is formed in a funnel shape, and the diameter of the lower edge thereof is slightly smaller than the diameter of the bottle so that it can be inserted into the bottle. Also,
The shooter 64 of the embodiment is provided with a protruding edge 84a for introducing a seed bacterium in a semicircular portion of one upper edge.

The mechanism for lowering the shooter 84 is shown in FIG.
0, an L-shaped arm 76 that rotates in conjunction with the opening and closing of the shutter 82, and a push-down arm 78 provided between one end of the L-shaped arm 76 and a support 77 that supports the guide rod 72.
And a push-down rod 79 that pushes down the support 77. As shown in FIG. 10, the shooter 84 pulled out by the reversal of the reversing arm 44 is supported by the guide rod 72 and located above the mouth of the cultivation bottle, and then the pushing rod 79 pushes the distal end side of the support 77 downward. Can be When the support 77 is pushed down, the distal end side of the guide rod 72 descends, and the lower edge of the shooter 84 enters the bottle mouth as shown in FIG.

The lowering operation of the support 77 by the lowering rod 79 is performed through the lowering arm 78.
6 is rotated clockwise in FIG. L-shaped arm 7
A chain for opening and closing the shutter 82 is attached to the other end of the shutter 6, and the shutter 82 is opened by the rotation of the L-shaped arm 76. FIG. 11 shows a state in which the shutter 82 is opened and the inoculum is inoculated into the bottle mouth. The chain attached to the L-shaped arm 76 is attached with some slack so that the shutter 82 opens slightly after the operation of lowering the shooter 84 by the push-down rod 79. In this manner, the shooter 84 can be guided to the inside of the bottle, and the seed can be reliably introduced into the bottle, so that the seed can be reliably inoculated.

After inoculating the cultivation bottle with the inoculum as described above, the shutter 82 is closed, and the shooter 8
4 is lifted and the reversing arm 44 is returned to the original position and reversed, so that the shooter 84 moves back to the original position and the cap 10a is supported by the reversing arm 44 and descends to the bottle opening. The cap that has descended to the bottle mouth returns to the state in FIG. 9, and the cap is pressed to the bottle mouth to seal the cultivation bottle with the cap. As shown in FIG. 7A, the pressing roller 40 comes into contact with and presses the upper surface of the cap 10a and rotates on the cap to advance the inoculated cultivation bottle.

Thus, one inoculum inoculation operation is completed. The inoculum is scraped by a predetermined amount from the inoculum bottle at each inoculation, dropped into the hopper 80, and transferred from the hopper 80 into the cultivation bottle each time. The container 12 is sent in a fixed size according to the inoculation operation of the inoculum. The conveyance of the container 12 detects that the cultivation bottle 10 has come to the seed inoculation position by the sensor 9.
Controlled by sensing at zero. That is, after the seed inoculation, when the sensor 90 detects that the container moves and the next cultivation bottle comes to the seed inoculation position, the transport of the container 12 is temporarily stopped, and the seed is inoculated by the above-described series of operations. In this way, while the container 12 is automatically intermittently fed, all the cultivation bottles in the container are inoculated with the inoculum.

The inoculum inoculation machine of the above embodiment inoculates the inoculation of the inoculum in rows one by one from the front row in the transport direction of the cultivation bottle stored in the container. Compared to the method of once removing the cultivation bottle from such a container and inoculating the inoculum, it has become possible to inoculate the inoculum much more efficiently. And in this example, when inoculating the inoculum, the cultivation bottle can be properly supported at the inoculum inoculation position, whereby the inoculum to be inoculated can be prevented from spilling out of the cultivation bottle. It is possible.

In the actual inoculum inoculating machine, the position or number of the bottle holding plates 22 and the number of the holding rollers 40 are determined according to the number of the growing bottles to be stored in the container, the size of the growing bottle, the diameter of the cap, and the like. The number and arrangement position of the rollers, the rotation speed of the pressing roller 40, and the arrangement of the hopper 80 and the shooter 84 are appropriately set and designed, whereby various products can be handled.

[0036]

According to the mushroom inoculum inoculator according to the present invention, as described above, the cultivation bottle in the inoculum inoculation row is pressed down and supported by the bottle holding mechanism. It is held in the inoculation position, and it is possible to inoculate the inoculum surely. In addition, by adopting a configuration in which the bottle holding plate is supported by the support frame and the shoulder portion of the cultivation bottle is pressed by the bottle holding plate, the cultivation bottle can be reliably supported with a simple configuration. By holding the cultivation bottle with the bottle holding plate, the cultivation bottle can be prevented from being lifted when the cap is removed from the cultivation bottle, and the cap removal operation and the cap mounting operation can be reliably performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a seed inoculator.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a state before inoculation of a seed bacterium with a seed bacterium inoculation machine as viewed from a loading side.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a state where a cap is removed by the inoculum inoculating machine.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a state in which a cultivation bottle is pressed by a bottle pressing plate.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a pressing operation by a bottle pressing plate.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing a state where the cap of the cultivation bottle is pressed by a pressing roller.

FIG. 8 is a top view of a pressing roller and a support arm.

FIG. 9 is a side view showing a state immediately before the cap is removed by the inoculum inoculating machine.

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

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 cultivation bottle 10a cap 12 container 18 chain 20 support frame 22 bottle holding plate 28 drive rod 32 spring 40 holding roller 42 support shaft 43 long hole 44 inversion arm 45 drive rod 46 support arm 50 spring 60 holding claw 70 shooter support plate 72 Guide rod 79 Push-down rod 80 Hopper 82 Shutter 84 Shooter 90 Sensor

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A seed inoculation machine for intermittently feeding a container containing cultivation bottles, inoculating the cultivation bottles one by one from the front row in the transport direction, and inoculating all the cultivation bottles in the container with the seed. bottle retainer mechanism holding the shoulder of the cultivation bottles seed inoculation row of containers supported by upright cultivation bottle, the conveying path in the width direction above the container cultivation bottle is housed
Attached to the support frame fixed straddling so that it can rotate freely in the vertical plane
Attached via a spring to the rotating plate
Planted on both sides in the middle position
Positions where the shoulders of the culture bottles can be pressed together
At the position where the shoulder of the cultivation bottle can be pressed against the outside position,
Extend the tip to the position of the cultivation bottle in the seed row,
A bottle holding plate provided so as to be capable of being sexually pressed, and the bottle holding by a driving rod cooperating with the rotating plate body;
The position where the board presses the shoulder of the cultivation bottle and the position away from the shoulder
The rotating plate can rotate in the vertical plane to rotate between
The bottle holding plate is provided at the time of inoculation with the inoculum.
Simultaneously press against the shoulder of the cultivation bottle in the inoculation row,
A drive mechanism that separates from the shoulder of the cultivation bottle when it is cut off
And mushroom seed inoculation and wherein the are.