JPH04131021A - Tunnel mulching work machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform a series of works with a working machine by disposing a tilling.land-grading.ridging mechanism, a mulching film-spreading mechanism, a sowing or seedling-transplanting mechanism, a tunnel support-inserting mechanism, and a mulching film-covering mechanism. CONSTITUTION:A field is tilled with a rotary tiller 4 and subsequently land- graded.ridged with a land-grading.ridging plate 5. A mulching film taken out from a roll 6 with a roller 7 is bored, spread on the field with a press roller 8, sowed with a sowing device or subjected to a seeding-transplanting work, and subsequently partially covered with soil by the use of soil-covering disks 9. Tunnel supports 12 are pressed down in the field with a hydraulic cylinder 14 so as to stride over the row of the sowed or seedling-transplanted mulching film, and a mulching film 16a is delivered through a central press roller 17 and a side press roller 18. The earthing slope portions of the mulching film 16a are pressed with soil-ridging disks 19.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention is applicable to fields ranging from plowing and land leveling to ridge-raising work, to work of laying a mulch film on the surface of a field, and to a work of laying a mulch film on a field surface. The work of sowing seeds or transplanting seedlings into the field in the hole area, the work of pushing tunnel supports into the field and setting them up at specified intervals so as to straddle the rows of mulch film that have been sown or transplanting seedlings, and the work of erecting the tunnel supports erected in the field at specified intervals. This invention relates to a tunnel mulch work machine that can perform a series of tasks such as covering the ground with a mulch film and pressing down the ground-contact hem of the film in a single process.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, mulch film laying equipment that lays mulch film on the surface of fields that have been plowed, leveled, and ridged, and sowing that sows seeds or transplants seedlings into holes made in the mulch film that has been laid on the field. Alternatively, using a seedling transplanting device, manually push the tunnel supports into the field so as to straddle the rows of mulch film that have been sown or transplanted, and erect them at approximately predetermined intervals. There is a known multi-film coating device that unrolls and covers the film, and presses down the ground-contact hem of the film with soil.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Each of the devices in the prior art described above is independent, and some of them are combined. In order to carry out the series of operations from covering the film to filling and pressing the ground-contact hem of the film, it was necessary to carry out the work in at least two to three steps.

This not only necessitates the preparation of a plurality of working devices (but also increases the working time).

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a traveling vehicle body with at least a mechanism for plowing, leveling, and ridge-raising, and a mulch film laying mechanism for laying a mulch film on the surface of a field that has been tilled and leveled. , a sowing or seedling transplanting mechanism that sows seeds or transplants seedlings into the field in holes made in the mulch film laid on the field, and a tunnel support supply system that straddles the mulch film rows where the seeds or seedlings have been transplanted. A tunnel support insertion mechanism that pushes the tunnel supports supplied by the device into the field using a cylinder device to erect them at approximately predetermined intervals, and a mulch film that is paid out and covered along the outer periphery of the tunnel supports erected in the field, and the film is grounded. It is characterized by the following: a multi-film covering mechanism that presses down the hem by filling it with soil;

[For production]

With the above configuration, the present invention can perform tasks ranging from plowing, land leveling, and ridge-raising, to laying a mulch film on the surface of a field, and sowing or transplanting seedlings into the field in holes made in the mulch film laid on the field. The work to be carried out is to push the tunnel supports into the field so as to straddle the rows of mulch film that have been sown or transplanted, and to set them up at specified intervals. A series of tasks, such as filling the hem with earth and pressing it down, are performed in a complex manner in one process.

Therefore, work can be carried out efficiently and with high precision, and there is no need to prepare multiple work devices.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a traveling vehicle body, and this traveling vehicle body 1 is equipped with a crawler-type traveling device 3 on the underside of the body 2. A rotary tillage device f14 is provided below the machine body 2, and a ground leveling and ridge-making plate 5 is provided behind the rotary tillage device 4. A mulch film roll 6 for laying a mulch film on the surface of the field F that has been tilled, leveled, and ridged is mounted on a shaft above the land leveling and ridge making board 5, and the mulch film is fed out from this mulch film roll 6. At the same time, holes are made in the mulch film at predetermined intervals for seeding or transplanting seedlings. The film presser/piercer is provided with a roller 7 diagonally below the rear of the multi-film roll 6, and the film presser/piercer is further provided with a film presser roller 8 and an upper hook attached to the left and right sides of the film at the rear of the roller 7 to hold it down. A disc 9 for use is provided.

In addition, a seeding device IO is provided behind the roller 7 in the film presser and aperture, and the sowing device [10 is a seed feeding portion thereof, and the film presser and aperture is rotated synchronously by the roller 7 and chain transmission system] 1. The film holder and perforator is designed to sow seeds into the holes in the mulch film made by the roller ruff. The above Wi seed device 1o may be replaced with a seedling transplanting device.

A tunnel support conveyor 13 is provided on the body 2 to sequentially transport a large number of tunnel supports 12 in a rearward direction. Located at the end of the conveyance of this tunnel support conveyor I3, the tunnel support conveyor I3 picks up the tunnel supports 12 supplied from the tunnel support conveyor 13 one by one, pushes them into the field F using the hydraulic cylinder 14, and erects tunnels at approximately predetermined intervals. A column support 15 is provided. And the hydraulic cylinder 14 and the tunnel support support 15
Accordingly, the tunnel supports 12 are pushed into the field F by a hydraulic cylinder 4 so as to straddle the mulch film rows on which seeds or seedlings have been transplanted, and are erected at approximately predetermined intervals.

The above hydraulic cylinder 14 and tunnel support support 15
A multi-film roll 16 is mounted on a shaft behind the multi-film roll 16, and a central press roller 17 that presses down the multi-film lea that is fed out from the multi-film roll 16 and side press rollers 18 that press both left and right sides of the multi-film 16a are provided. , Tunnel support 1 erected in the field
The mulch film is rolled out along the outer periphery of 2 to cover it.

Further, behind the side pressing roller I8, a top disc 19 is provided for pressing the film against the ground hem.

In the tunnel multi-working machine having such a configuration, the traveling vehicle body 1 is driven at a substantially constant moving speed in the field, and each device and mechanism is operated at the same time. Then, the field F is first tilled by the rotary tiller 4, and the tilled soil is leveled and ridged by the leveling and ridge-making board 5. Then, the mulch film is applied from the mulch film roll 6 onto the leveled soil @ the ridged soil, and the film presser and comb roller 7 and the film presser roller 8 are used to hold the mulch film and pay it out to cover the soil. Collect and press the earth with the disc 9.

This mulch film has holes for sowing or transplanting seedlings made at predetermined intervals by a film presser and perforator at predetermined intervals, and seeds are sown into these holes by a seeding device 10. (Alternatively, seedlings are transplanted using a seedling transplanting device).

On both sides of this mulch cultivation row where seedlings or seedlings were transplanted,
The tunnel struts 12 are conveyed by the conveyor 13, and one by one the tunnel strut supports 15 are
, and are pushed in and erected at approximately predetermined intervals by the expansion of the hydraulic cylinder 14.

Then, the mulch film roll 1
From 6 onwards, the multi-film lea is placed on the central pressing roll 17.
and the side pressing rolls 18 and let out,
The outer periphery of the tunnel support 12 is covered and both left and right end portions are grounded. The ground-contact hem of the mulch film 16a is pressed down by the upper disk 19, and the tunnel mulch installation is completed.

Therefore, during the tillage work of the field F using the rotary tillage device 4, the tunnel supports 12 erected on both sides of the mulch cultivation ridges in which seeds or seedlings have been transplanted are covered with mulch film 16a, and a series of steps are carried out to cover the ground bases with soil. Work is performed in one step, and moreover, these works are performed continuously, resulting in efficient and highly accurate work.

The tunnel mulch work machine of the present invention may incorporate other work devices such as a fertilization device, a pest control device, and an irrigation device in addition to the above-mentioned work devices.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the tunnel mulch work machine of the present invention, while the traveling vehicle body is running, the work from plowing, leveling, and ridge-building to laying a mulch film on the surface of a field,
The process involves sowing seeds or transplanting seedlings into holes made in the mulch film laid on the field, and pushing tunnel supports into the field at specified intervals so as to straddle the rows of mulch film in which seeds or seedlings have been transplanted. erecting the tunnel, covering the outer periphery of the tunnel support erected in the field with mulch film, and pressing the bottom of the film against the ground with soil.
A series of tasks such as these can be performed in a single step.

Therefore, work can be carried out efficiently and with high precision, and there is no need to prepare a plurality of work devices, which is economical.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of the entire tunnel multi-working machine showing an embodiment of the present invention. ■... Traveling vehicle body, 2... Machine body, 3... Crawler type traveling device, 4... Rotary tilling device, 5... Land leveling.
Ridge board, 6, 16...Multi film roll, 7
...Film press and hole is a roller, 8...Film press roller, 9, 19...Upper is a disc, 10
... Seeding device, 11... Chain transmission system, 12...
l. Tunnel support, 13... Tunnel support conveyor, 14... Hydraulic cylinder, 15... Tunnel support support, 17... Center holding roller, 18... Side holding roller, F... Field. Patent Applicant Kobashi Kogyo Co., Ltd. Representative Patent Attorney Makoto Kobashi Kokura Ukimasa

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A traveling vehicle body includes at least a plowing, leveling, and ridge-raising mechanism, a mulch film laying mechanism for laying a mulch film on the surface of a field that has been tilled, leveled, and ridged, and a mulch film laying mechanism for laying a mulch film on the surface of a field that has been tilled, leveled, and ridged. A sowing or seedling transplanting mechanism that sows seeds or transplants seedlings into the field in the holes made in the mulch film, and a tunnel supplied by a tunnel support supply device that straddles the mulch film row where the seeds or seedlings have been transplanted. A tunnel support insertion mechanism uses a cylinder device to push the supports into the field and erect them at approximately predetermined intervals, and a mulch film is rolled out and covered along the outer periphery of the tunnel supports erected in the field, and the ground-contact hem of the film is filled with soil. A tunnel mulch work machine characterized by having a mulch film covering mechanism for holding down, and the following.