JPH0111016Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a soil block manufacturing apparatus, and more particularly to a soil block manufacturing apparatus including a mechanism for seeding a formed soil block.

[Conventional technology]

Soil block is a method in which seeds or young seedlings are applied to each plant and grown to the required size.
After growing, the seedlings can be transplanted to the field without changing the root environment, which allows the seedlings to grow well.
It is used in a cultivation method that has recently been in the spotlight. Soil block manufacturing equipment is used to form soil blocks accurately and efficiently, and includes, for example, a belt conveyor that is attached to a machine frame and feeds the soil intermittently, and a belt conveyor that is attached to a machine frame and conveys the soil intermittently. A soil hopper is arranged along the soil supply port and has a sliding hole that slides on the soil surface to stabilize it, and a slit that moves up and down against the soil supplied from the soil hopper onto the belt conveyor to make the blocks independent. It has been proposed that the block molding section has a punch for punching holes in the block, and a seed feeder for supplying seeds to the block.

[The problem that the idea attempts to solve]

In such soil block manufacturing equipment, the nozzle in the seed feeder that supplies seeds to the slots formed in the soil block is fixed to the machine frame, so it is troublesome to adjust the nozzle up and down and back and forth. . However, the width and thickness of the soil block are selective depending on the use, and adjustment is required each time because seeds must be properly introduced into the trench.

[Means and actions for solving problems]

This invention was made based on the above circumstances,
The seed feeder has a plurality of nozzles that open above the soil block via a sowing hose, and is fixed to a support member equipped with a support arm extending upward, and the support arm is connected to a bracket having vertically long slits. By inserting a bolt into the seed feeder and tightening it with a nut, multiple nozzles can be suspended and adjusted up and down and back and forth at the same time. By fixing the bracket to the seed feeder, the bolts and nuts can be easily tightened and loosened. A soil block manufacturing apparatus is obtained in which the height and longitudinal position of a plurality of nozzles can be easily adjusted by the following operation.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be specifically explained based on illustrated embodiments.

In the figure, reference numeral 10 denotes a machine frame, which has casters 11 and support legs 12 on the lower side, so that it can be stably installed on the ground. Pulleys 13 and 14 are provided at the front and rear ends of the machine frame 10, and the pulley 13 is mounted coaxially with a drive ratchet wheel 15. An endless belt 16 is wound between the pulleys 13 and 14, and constitutes a belt conveyor in which a conveying portion is formed along a guide plate 17 provided on the upper surface of the machine frame 10. The belt 16 is
A pair of front and rear floating pulleys 1 provided at the bottom of the machine frame 10
8 and 19, and the floating pulleys 19 and 14 have their bearing chocks 19a and 14a inserted into slits 20 and 21 that are formed long in the longitudinal direction relative to the machine frame 10, and the tension bolts・Natsuto 22 and 23
so that the belt 16 can be tensioned with
It is held in the machine frame 10. Further, in correspondence with the support leg 12, a telescopic support leg 24 is provided at the rear of the machine frame 10.

At the center of the machine frame 10 is a motor 25 that is a drive source.
is mounted on the output shaft 26 of the motor 25.
A sprocket wheel 27 is attached to the sprocket wheel 27. A pin 28 for providing cranking action is eccentrically attached to the sprocket wheel 27, and an interlocking rod 29 pivotally supports the rear end of this pin. A roller pin 30 is provided at the front end of the interlocking rod 29, and the roller pin 30 is inserted into a slit 32 of a pitch adjustment lever 31 rotatably supported coaxially with the pulley 13.
It can be slid in the direction of the slit 32, tightened with a nut 33 at a desired location, and fixed to the pitch adjustment lever 31. The pitch adjustment lever 31 has a ratchet pawl 3.
4 is provided and is adapted to mesh with the ratchet wheel 15 to perform intermittent feeding.

On the other hand, a soil hopper 35 is provided on the machine frame 10 at the rear thereof, facing the conveying section of the belt conveyor. Above soil hopper 35
The soil hopper 3 has a funnel-shaped upper part and a parallel part at the lower part when viewed from the front.
A soil supply port 36 is opened in the front part of 5.

At the bottom of the soil hopper 35, the belt 16 is driven by the pulley 13 by the intermittent operation of the ratchet wheel 15, so that the hopper 35 is intermittently moved.
It works to push the soil inside forward.

At the front of the hopper 35, a frame 37 for holding various mechanisms for forming soil blocks is installed so as to straddle the belt 16. A driven sprocket wheel 3 is mounted on the top of the underframe 37.
8 is provided, and the sprocket wheel 38 is
Power is obtained from the motor 25 through an endless sprocket chain 39 wound between and 27. Shaft 40 of the sprocket wheel 38
A crank arm 41 is provided, and a pin 42 provided thereon is inserted into a slit 45 of a swinging lever 44 which is pivotally supported on the underframe 37 by a pin 43. The rear end of the swing lever 44 has a hopper 35
It faces the supply port 36, and the Yasuson 46 is equipped there. The above-mentioned Yasuson 46 is approximately J when viewed from the side.
The mounting bracket 46a has a vertically elongated slit 46b, and is connected and fixed to the swing lever 44 by a wing nut bolt 47 inserted therethrough. In this case, a pin 48 is provided at the end of the swing lever 44, and this pin 48 is inserted into the slit 46b, so that the mounting angle between the swing lever 44 and the anchor 46 is adjusted so that the wing nut bolt can be tightened during operation. I'm trying not to go crazy due to slack in my 47. Also, due to the function of the wing nut bolt 47 and the slit 46b, the Yasuson 4
6 installation levels can be adjusted.

An auxiliary anchor 46c made of wire is protruded from the anchor 46 and extends into the supply port 36.

Further, in the underframe 37, a slide piece 50 provided with a pinch roller 49 is inserted through a slit 5 provided therein.
The pinch roller 49 tensions the endless sprocket chain 39. The pinch roller 49 tensions the endless sprocket chain 39.

At the front of the underframe 37, a slider block 53 of a soil block forming apparatus is arranged, in which a support arm 53a is slidably fitted to slide shafts 52 installed on the left and right sides of the slider block 53. A slide shaft 54 is separately provided on the slider block 53, and a slide block 56 is slidably fitted and supported via a compression coil spring 55. And on the top is a washer 5 to prevent it from falling out.
7 and bolt 58 are attached. A slider 60 is connected to the slider block 56 via a cross pin 59.
connects its upper end to the pin 4 of the crank arm 41.
2, and is reciprocated up and down by the operation of the crank arm 41. The slider block 53 has a crosscut cutter 61.
and a vertical cutter 62, and the rear side divided by the cutters 61 and 62 is equipped with
An L-shaped molded plate 63 having a slit 63a through which the cutter 62 is passed is arranged, and a restraining plate 64 is arranged on the front side, and these are connected to the slide shafts 65 and 66.
installed on. Above slide shaft 65
and 66 pass through two upper and lower support plates 67, 67a and 68, 68a extending before and after the block 53, and the spring seats 65a, 66a provided in the middle of the slide shafts 65 and 66 and the upper support plate. A restraining plate 64 is provided between 67a and 68a.
There are also compression coil springs 69 and 70 that suspend the molded plate 63.

Further, a punch 71 for forming a groove for seeding in the soil block is attached to the support plate 68, and the upper limit of the rise of the forming plate 63 for forming the soil by pressure is regulated by a stopper 72 using bolts and nuts. ing. The stopper 72 has a bolt 72
The level of restriction can be adjusted by turning a.

The holding plate 64 is provided with a slit 64a for inserting and removing the punch 71 into the soil. Further, in front of the underframe 37, a seeding device is provided. The above seeding device has a seed discharge port 74 provided on a slide surface 73a provided on a seed feeder 73 provided in the front part of the underframe 37, and
5 on the conveying section of the belt conveyor, and is adapted to correspond to the slots of the compression-molded soil blocks. A nozzle 76 is provided at the tip of the hose 75, and these are attached to a positioning support member 77. The positioning support member 77 is connected to a bracket 78 provided on the feeder 73.

To explain further, the support member 77 is a U-shaped member, and has support arms 77a extending upward.
A bolt insertion hole 77b is bored in the hole, and a fixing bolt 77c is inserted through this hole. The bracket 78 also has a vertically long slit 78a, through which the bolt 77c is inserted and tightened with a nut 77d from the opposite side.
The support arm 77a can be fixed to a bracket 78.

A gate plate 79 is slidably mounted on the slide surface 73a, and the seed discharge port 7 is mounted on the slide surface 73a.
A seed outlet 79a corresponding to No. 4 is bored. The gate plate 79 is provided with an engagement hole 79b on the outside of the seed supply device 73, and the engagement hole 79b is provided in the underframe 3.
A pin 81 provided at the tip of a swing lever 80 pivotally connected to 7 is inserted. The lower end of the swing lever 80 is in contact with the circular head 29a at the rear end of the interlocking rod 29, and in order to maintain this contact state,
A torsion spring 82 is provided at the pivot portion 37a to the underframe 37.

Next, the operation of this soil block manufacturing apparatus will be specifically explained. First, soil suitable for the soil block is stored in the soil hopper 35, and a certain amount of soil is allowed to flow out from the soil supply port 36 onto the belt 16 of the conveyor. When the motor 25 is driven in this state, the lever 31 swings through the interlocking rod 29 by cranking, and the ratchet wheel 15 is intermittently driven through the ratchet pawl 34. The rotation of the ratchet wheel 15 drives the pulley 13 coaxial therewith, and the belt 16 is intermittently fed. Since the stroke of this intermittent feed determines the width dimension of the block to be molded, it can be adjusted to some extent by selecting the fixing position of the interlocking rod 29 relative to the lever 31 (movement within the slit 32). Since the belt 16 moves on the bottom surface of the soil hopper 35 by intermittent feeding of the belt 16, soil is taken out from the soil supply port 36. An anson 46 is provided near the soil supply port 36, and since it swings in an arc in conjunction with the motor 25, it scrapes out the soil flowing out from the soil supply port 36 and removes it. It works to press from the top.

In this case, since the above-mentioned Yasuson 46 has an auxiliary Yasuson 46c extending rearward, the soil is temporarily raked out far behind the Yasuson 46, so that the soil can be scraped out from the supply port 36 to the back of the Yasuson 46. Preventing the soil from collapsing and leaning back will prevent it from becoming too compact.

Also, the slide block 5 is connected via the crank 41.
3 and 56 move up and down. First, block 53
A forming plate 63 provided on the belt 16 compacts the soil on the belt 16. This pressing force is automatically adjusted by the elastic force of the spring 69 against the forming plate 63, and stops at the position where it hits the stopper 72, so that the thickness of the soil block is set. At the same time, the soil blocks in front and behind the cutter 61 are cut, and the soil block on the front side of the cutter 61 is cut in the width direction by the cutter 62. At the same time, the punch 71 forms a slot in the center of the top surface of the cube-shaped block. Next, the slide block 53 rises, the cutters 61 and 62 rise, and the punch 71 also rises, but the holding plate 64 and the forming plate 63 do not rise at this stage. This is next spring 70
and remains on the block until suspended at 69.
Therefore, when the cutters 61 and 62 leave the block, they do not take the soil block with them.

The block, which is slotted and shaped into a regular cube, receives seeds that are intermittently supplied from the nozzle 76 in conjunction with the operation of the gate plate 79.

In this case, when the gate plate 79 rises, one seed is placed in the through hole 79a and lifted, so when the through hole 79a matches the supply port 74, one seed is placed in each of the hoses 75. It will be in the form of supply. For this purpose, the seed supply device 73 has a weir plate 7.
3a is working effectively.

When the seed dropping position shifts due to changing the intermittent feed pitch of the belt 16 or changing the thickness of the soil block by adjusting the stopper 72, the bolt 77
The height is adjusted by loosening the nut 77d on the bolt 77c, and the height is adjusted by moving the bolt 77c up and down within the slit 78a, and the nozzle 76 is adjusted back and forth by swinging the support arm 77a. Once the proper position has been determined, the support member 77 is fixed to the bracket 78 by tightening the nut 77d again.

[Effect of idea]

As described in detail above, the present invention provides a seed feeder in which a plurality of nozzles opening above a soil block are fixed to a support member provided with an upwardly extending support arm through a seeding hose, and was suspended by inserting a bolt into a bracket with long vertical slits and tightening it with a nut, allowing multiple nozzles to be adjusted up and down and back and forth at the same time.The bracket was fixed to the seed feeder, so the bolt was tightened with a nut.・A new nozzle position can be set by simply loosening the nut, sliding the bolt in the slit, or swinging the support arm back and forth around the bolt, and then simply tightening the bolt and nut. Therefore, the seed input position can be easily adjusted when changing the intermittent feed pitch of the soil block by the belt, changing the thickness of the soil block, etc.

In addition, the vertical and longitudinal positions of a plurality of nozzles can be adjusted at the same time, resulting in consistent and efficient adjustment.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a partially longitudinal side view showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a partially transverse plan view, Fig. 3 is a partially longitudinal front view, Fig. 4 is a side view of the molding part, and Fig. 5 is a partially longitudinal side view showing an embodiment of the present invention. The figure is a perspective view of main parts. 10... Machine frame, 16... Belt, 35... Hopper, 72... Stopper, 73... Seed feeder, 7
4... Supply port, 75... Hose, 76... Nozzle, 77... Support member, 77a... Support arm,
77b...Insertion hole, 77c...Bolt, 77d...
...Natsuto, 78...Bracket, 78a...Slit.

Claims (1)

[Scope of claim for utility model registration] A belt conveyor that is attached to the machine frame and feeds intermittently, and a belt conveyor that is placed along the feeding direction of the conveying section of this belt conveyor and that slides on the soil surface to stabilize the soil supply port. a soil hopper having a sliding hole to make the blocks independent, and a block forming section having a punch for punching the blocks by moving up and down against the soil supplied from the soil hopper onto the belt conveyor to form slits to make the blocks independent; A soil block manufacturing apparatus is equipped with a seed feeder that supplies seeds to the blocks, and the seed feeder has a support arm that extends upward through a plurality of nozzles that open above the soil block via a seeding hose. fixed to the member,
The support arm is suspended by inserting a bolt into a bracket having a vertically long slit and tightening it with a nut so that a plurality of nozzles can be adjusted up and down and back and forth at the same time, and the bracket is fixed to the seed feeder. Soil block manufacturing equipment featuring: