JPH0420191Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to an inoculation machine for injecting cultured fungi of mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms into transplant holes of wood grains.

(Prior art) Shiitake mushrooms are cultivated by culturing shiitake fungi in sawdust and planting the sawdust cultured fungus into a transplant hole formed in a tree such as a sawdust tree.
It is necessary to provide a lid at the entrance of the transplant hole to prevent the cultured bacteria implanted in the transplant hole from spilling to the outside.

By the way, the conventional inoculation method is to inoculate the transplant hole using a special inoculation device (for example, the inoculation machine disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 57-61373), and then
The entrance of the transplant hole was manually sealed (for example, by driving a wooden plug with a hammer). However, in such conventional inoculation methods, the implantation of cultured bacteria into the transplant hole and the capping must be performed separately.
There was a problem that the work was troublesome and required a long time.

(Purpose of the invention) In view of the above-mentioned problems with the conventional inoculation method, the present invention enables inoculation and lid application to be performed at the same time using the pressure action of an air cylinder, thereby simplifying and shortening the inoculation process. The first objective is to provide a seeding machine that can be used to inoculate cells in a short amount of time, and furthermore, the exhaust pressure of the air cylinder, which is not normally used in seeding machines that use an air cylinder, is used to sequentially inoculate lid materials. The second purpose was to enable supply to a predetermined position within the inoculator.

(Means for Achieving the Object) The inoculating machine of the present invention includes a fungus hopper that can store cultured mushroom bacteria and has a fungus takeout port at the bottom, and a fungus hopper that is connected to the fungus takeout port and that is connected to the fungus takeout port and that is connected to the fungus takeout port. A bacteria quantitative storage chamber that can accommodate cultured bacteria for one planting time and has a cylindrical shape with both left and right ends open, and one open end of the chamber is a bacteria discharge port, and a fixed amount of cultured bacteria in the bacteria hopper A bacteria filling device for filling the bacteria quantitative storage chamber, and a large number of cover materials for closing the entrance of the transplant hole after planting a certain amount of cultured bacteria into the transplant hole of the tree are held in a lined state. A cylindrical lid holding member that can be used as a lid, and lids are sequentially placed one by one from the outlet of the lid holding member into a lid waiting part provided at an end opposite to a bacteria discharge port in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber. It has a lid material supply device for supplying it, an air cylinder that is reciprocated by pressurized air supplied from a compressor via a switching valve, and a push rod that moves forward and backward in conjunction with the reciprocation of the air cylinder,
When the push rod moves backward, the bacteria filling device is used to fill a certain amount of cultured bacteria in the bacteria hopper into the bacteria quantitative storage chamber, and the lid material supply device is used to hold the lid material in the lid material waiting section. It is operated so as to supply one lid material from the outlet of the member, and when the member is moved forward, a certain amount of cultured bacteria stored in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber and one lid material supplied to the lid material standby section are and an operating device capable of simultaneously pushing out a certain amount of the cultured bacteria to the outside from the bacteria outlet, with the cultured bacteria coming first and the lid material following, and an exhaust port of the switching valve. The lid material inlet of the lid material holding member is connected with a connecting pipe, and the lid material in the lid material holding member is connected to the lid material holding member outlet by pressurized air discharged from the exhaust port of the switching valve. It is characterized by being configured so that it can be pressed to the side.

(Function) In the inoculation machine of the present invention, when the operating device is retracted, a certain amount of cultured bacteria is automatically filled into the bacteria quantitative storage chamber, and at the same time, the next lid material is automatically supplied to the lid material standby section. Further, when the operating device moves forward, the lid material is also pushed out from the bacteria discharge port following a certain amount of cultured bacteria stored in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber.
Therefore, by moving the operating device forward while the bacteria discharge port is applied to the transplant hole of the tree, a certain amount of the cultured bacteria and the lid material are also pushed into the transplant hole.

In addition, the inoculation machine of the present invention is used with the bacteria outlet facing downward or diagonally downward, but if a lightweight material such as Styrofoam is used as the lid material, the outer periphery of the lid material may Due to the frictional force generated between the surface and the inner surface of the cylindrical lid holding member, the lid may not fall smoothly inside the lid holding member. However, according to the present invention, the exhaust port of the switching valve and the inlet of the lid holding member are connected by a connecting pipe, so that when the air cylinder is extended or contracted, air can be supplied from the exhaust port of the switching valve to the When the pressurized air is discharged, the lid material can be automatically pressed toward the outlet side of the lid material holding member, and when the lid material supply device is activated, one lid material at the end of the lid material row is reliably pushed to the lid material. It becomes possible to supply it to the standby section.

(Example) A preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to Figs. 1 to 8. The inoculation machine of this embodiment stores cultured bacteria A (seed cultured in sawdust). A bacteria hopper 1 for removing bacteria and a bacteria extraction port 1 of the bacteria hopper 1
Cultured bacteria A in the bacteria hopper 1 connected to 3.
A bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 that can accommodate a certain amount (one time of planting) of bacteria, a bacterial filling device 3 for filling a certain amount of cultured bacteria A in the bacterial hopper 1 into the bacterial quantitative storage chamber 2, and a transplant hole. A lid material holding member 4 that holds a large number of lid materials 10 in an array for blocking the entrance of C;
The lid materials 10 are sequentially placed one by one from the outlet 4a of the lid material holding member 4 through the bacteria discharge port 21 in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2.
A lid material supply device 5 for supplying the lid material to the lid material standby section 59 provided at the end opposite to the lid material, and an air cylinder 7.
It is a reciprocating operation type using the bacteria filling device 3 and the lid material supplying device 5 during the backward operation to fill a fixed amount of the cultured bacteria A in the bacteria hopper 1 into the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2, and at the same time, the lid is removed. One lid material 10 is supplied to the material standby section 59 from the outlet 4a of the lid material holding member 4, and a fixed amount of cultured bacteria Aa filled in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 and the lid material are fed during the forward movement. The basic component (device) is an operating device 6 that operates to simultaneously push out the lid material 10 supplied to the standby section 59 from the bacteria discharge port 21 to the outside.

The lid material 10 used in this inoculation machine is formed into a disc shape from an elastic material such as styrofoam. The outer diameter L (6th
Figure) shows the inner diameter M of the transplant hole C formed in the Hoda tree B.
(Fig. 4, M = approx. 14 mm) is slightly larger (L = 15
~16 mm), and after the lid material 10 is press-fitted into the transplant hole C, it is prevented from accidentally coming out due to frictional force. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the lid material 10 is continuous in a rod shape with a part of the center (diameter 2 to 3 mm) successively continuous, and as described later, the lid material 10 is shaped like a bar. When the materials are supplied from the outlet 4a of the lid material holding member 4 to the lid material standby section 59, they are cut off one by one one by one.

The fungus hopper 1 has a cylindrical hopper body 1 with a bottom.
1 is formed by applying a lid 12 to the upper opening.
The hopper main body 11 has a lower half portion as a container portion 11b and an upper half portion as a cylindrical portion 11a. Cylindrical part 11
A is made of a transparent material such as acrylic, so that the remaining amount of cultured bacteria A contained inside can be visually confirmed from the outside. At the lower end of the side wall 11c of the container portion 11b of the hopper main body 11,
A slot-shaped bacteria outlet 13 is formed over an appropriate angle range (for example, an angle range of about 60°).

Further, the container portion 11b of the bacteria hopper 1 is provided with an opening area adjustment device 9 for adjusting the opening area of the bacteria extraction port 13. This opening area adjusting device 9 has an opening height and width of the bacteria extraction port 13 and is curved with the same curvature as the inner circumferential surface of the container portion 11b.
It has a shaped strip plate 91 and an operation part 92 for sliding the strip plate 91 in the horizontal rotation direction. The operating portion 92 includes a bolt 93 fixed outwardly to the outer surface of the strip plate 91 and a thumbscrew 9 screwed into the bolt 93.
It consists of 4. On the other hand, a notch 95 is formed near the lower end of the container portion 11b of the germ hopper 1 by an appropriate angle range (for example, 30 to 50 degrees) for guiding the bolt 93 in the horizontal circumferential direction. . And this opening area adjustment device 9
The belt-shaped plate 91 is placed along the inner surface of the container portion 11b, the bolt 93 is protruded from the notch 95 to the outside of the container, and a wing nut 94 is screwed onto the bolt 93 from the outside of the container. This opening area adjustment device 9 can be rotated in an arc in the left-right rotation direction by loosening the wing nut 94 and pinching the wing nut portion (operating section 92) (in FIG. 5, the operating section 92 is moved from the position shown by the solid line to the position indicated by the chain line 92' By rotating the operating portion 92 in an arc in this manner, the opening area of the bacteria outlet 13 can be adjusted using the strip plate 91. That is, when the operating section 92 is at the position shown by the solid line in FIG. 5, the strip plate 91 opens the bacteria extraction port 13 wide, and when the operating section is moved to the position indicated by the chain line 92', the tip side of the strip plate is located at the position indicated by the chain line 91'. As shown in , the front surface of the bacteria extraction port 13 is covered to reduce the opening area.

In this embodiment, the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 uses a cylindrical pipe material 20 with both ends open.
The inner diameter of this pipe material 20 is the transplant hole C of the hodaki tree B.
(Fig. 4, Fig. 7, and Fig. 8) has approximately the same inner diameter. In addition, the inside of this pipe material 20 is
The inner diameter of the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 is made slightly larger than the inner diameter of the transplant hole C, and a certain amount of cultured bacteria Aa stored in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 is transferred to the transplant hole C as described later.
The cultured bacteria Aa may be implanted in a compressed state. Further, an elongated opening 22 having approximately the same size as the bacteria outlet 13 at the bottom of the bacteria hopper is formed on the side surface of the pipe material 20. This pipe material 20 is fixed (welded) to the side surface of the bacteria hopper 1 with its opening 22 completely polymerized to the bacteria outlet 13 on the bacteria hopper side. One end of this pipe material 20 projects considerably outward from the outer periphery of the bacteria hopper 1, and this outwardly projecting end forms a bacteria discharge port 21.

At the end of the antibacterial discharge port side of this bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2,
A lid material standby section 59 is provided in which the lid material 10 for blocking the entrance of the transplant hole C is temporarily placed on standby.
As shown in FIG. 6, the lid material standby section 59 is an inverted U-shaped space that is open at the bottom. The inner diameter D of this lid material standby section 59 is determined by the lid material 10 used.
The outer diameter L (L=15 to 16 mm) is slightly smaller (D=about 14 mm). In addition, the lid material standby section 59
The inner diameter D may be the same as the outer diameter L of the lid member 10. This lid material standby section 59 has an inlet 59a on the lower side, and the lid material 10 is inserted into the lid material standby section 59 through the inlet 59a.
It is designed to be pushed upward from point a. Moreover, the opening width W (FIG. 6) of this inlet 59a is:
smaller than the inner diameter D of the lid material standby part 59 (for example, W=
12 mm), and the lid material 10 is placed in the lid material standby section 59.
When feeding the lid material 10 into the interior, the lid material 10 is pushed in while being elastically deformed at the entrance 59a. In this way, the inner diameter D of the lid material standby part 59 is made slightly smaller (or the same diameter) than the outer diameter L of the lid material 10,
Furthermore, if the opening width W of the inlet 59a of the lid material standby section 59 is made slightly narrower than the inner diameter D of the lid material standby section 59, the lid material 10 supplied into the lid material standby section 59 can be is in pressure contact with the inner surface of the lid member standby part 59 and is supported from below by the edge of the inlet 59a, so that it is always held in an accurate posture.

In this embodiment, the operating device 6 includes a push rod 61 in the shape of a long round bar and an air ring 71 for moving the push rod 61 forward and backward.

The air cylinder 71 selectively supplies pressurized air from the compressor 72 to each air outlet (tail side port 71Aa and top side port 71Bb) of the cylinder tube 71A via a switching valve (electromagnetic switching valve) 73. It is now possible to expand or reduce the size. That is, the switching valve 7
3 is operated by a push button 83. For example, when the switching valve 73 is operated to move rightward from the neutral state in the cylinder contracted state shown in FIG. , air pipe 78, air supply port 74 of switching valve 73,
Air is supplied from the tail side port 71Aa to the tail side of the cylinder tube 71A through the switching valve internal passage and the air pipe 79A, causing the cylinder rod 71B to protrude, and at this time, the air inside the top side of the cylinder tube 71A is supplied to the top side port 71Ab, Air pipe 79B, switching valve internal passage, exhaust port 7 of switching valve 73
5 and is discharged to the outside. Furthermore, when the switching valve 73 is operated to move leftward from the neutral state in the cylinder extended state shown in FIG. passage, from the top side port 71Ab to the cylinder tube 7 through the air pipe 79B.
1A, the cylinder rod 71B is retracted, and at that time the cylinder tube 7
The air inside the tail side of 1A is transferred to the tail side port 71.
Aa, air pipe 79A, switching valve internal passage, switching valve 73
The air is discharged to the outside from an exhaust port 75.

The push rod 61 has an outer diameter slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the pipe material 20 of the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2. Further, this push rod 61 is installed concentrically with the pipe material 20 of the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 on the side of the lid material standby part 59 of the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2,
As the air cylinder 71 expands and contracts, the tip 61a of the push rod 61 (which serves as a pressing part) can move into and out of the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2. Note that the air cylinder 71 and the push rod 61 are connected to the tip of the rod of the air cylinder 71 and the push rod 6.
A fixing ring 62 fixed to the end on the arrow Q side of No. 1 is connected and fixed to be integrated. In addition, this push rod 61 has its tip pressing portion 61a slightly further away from the bacteria discharge port 21 from a position (FIGS. 1 and 4) that is further outside the lid material standby portion 59 (on the side of the antibacterial quantitative storage chamber). The air cylinder 71 is arranged so that it can move forward and backward within the range of the protruding position (FIGS. 2 and 7).
The expansion and contraction length range is regulated.

The bacteria filling device 3 has a rotating shaft 31 installed vertically penetrating the center of the bottom of the bacterial hopper 1, and two upper and lower parts on the upper side of the rotating shaft 31 (inside the bacterial hopper 1).
Two rotary blades 32 and 33 are attached, and a small gear 34 is provided on the lower side of the rotating shaft 31 (outside the bottom of the bacteria hopper). 35 in mesh with each other. Furthermore, when the air cylinder 71 is extended or contracted by the entire expansion/contraction range from the most extended state to the most contracted state, the rotating shaft 31 can be rotated to the right or left by exactly one rotation, respectively. ing. Further, the lower rotary blades 33 have a flat plate shape, and a total of four blades are provided on the same plane. These rotary blades 33, 33, . As if I could push it out,
It is tilted toward the rear side (clockwise rotation direction) in the pushing rotation direction. Also, these four lower rotor blades 33, 33
One of the blades has a lid-shaped portion 33a formed at the tip of the wing and having a size that can close almost the entire opening area of the bacteria outlet 13 of the bacteria hopper 1. The rotary blade 33 with the lid-shaped portion 33a is configured to stop at a position where the lid-shaped portion 33a substantially completely closes the bacteria extraction port 13 when the air cylinder 71 is in the fully extended state and in the fully contracted state. In this bacteria filling device 3, each time the push rod 61 moves forward or backward, the rotating shaft 31 and the rotary blades 32, 33 rotate clockwise or counterclockwise via the slide ring 36, the connecting rod 37, the rack gear 35, and the small gear 34. Especially the lower rotor blades 33, 33...
When ... is rotated to the left, a part of the cultured bacteria A in the bacteria hopper 1 (certain amount of cultured bacteria Aa) can be forcibly pushed into the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 through the bacteria extraction port 13. It's summery. The slide ring 36 for operating the bacteria filling device 3 consists of two fixing rings (intermediate fixing ring 38,
The tip fixing ring 62) is in a free state, and when the push rod 61 enters (in the direction of arrow P), as shown in FIG. The push rod 61 is moved in the direction of the arrow P by the ring 62, and when the push rod 61 is retreating (in the direction of the arrow Q), as shown in FIG. 38, it can be moved toward the arrow Q side. Moreover, the upper rotary blade 32 of the two rotary blades 32 and 33 is for stirring (disentangling) the cultured bacteria A contained in the bacteria hopper 1.

As the lid holding member 4, a cylindrical body 41 having an inner diameter slightly larger than the outer diameter of the lid 10 is used. The lid holding member 4 is fixed (welded) near the push rod 61 and parallel to and directly below the push rod 61. Further, the outlet 4a of this lid material holding member 4 is connected to the lid material standby section 5.
It is located directly below 9. In front of the lid holding member outlet 4a, an abutment plate 43 (FIG. 4) is provided at a distance of one thickness of the lid 10.

The exhaust port 75 of the switching valve 73 and the lid holding member 4
The inside of the inlet 4b side end of the connecting pipe (air pipe)
80, and the exhaust port 75 of the switching valve 73 is connected when the air cylinder 71 is extended or contracted.
The pressurized air discharged from the lid member 4 can be introduced into the inlet 4b of the lid member holding member 4. That is, a joint member 64 in which an air blowing hole 68 that opens toward the inside of the cylindrical body 41 is formed is screwed onto the end of the lid holding member 4 on the side of the inlet 4b (the end on the side of the arrow Q of the cylindrical body 41). The air blow hole 68 of the joint member 64 and the exhaust port 75 of the switching valve 73 are
and are connected by an air pipe 80. In this embodiment, the joint member 64 is a cylindrical member having the same inner diameter as the inner diameter of the lid holding member 4, and the joint member 64 is left attached to the inlet 4b of the lid holding member 4. The lid 10 can be inserted into the lid holding member 4 through the internal cavity 65 of the joint member 64. Further, the air blowing hole 68 formed in the joint member 64 is provided so as to be inclined inward from the inlet 4b side of the lid member holding member 4 toward the outlet 4a side, so that the air blowing hole 68 is inclined inwardly from the inlet 4b side to the outlet 4a side of the lid member holding member 4. Pressurized air discharged from the exhaust port 75 of the switching valve 73 during operation is stored in a row of lids 10, 10 in a bar shape in the lid holding member 4. (Lid row)
It is designed to be blown out instantaneously towards the rear end side. In this way, each time the air cylinder 71 is extended or contracted, the exhaust air from the air cylinder 71 is delivered to the rear end surface of a series of lid rows within the rear end side cavity S of the lid rows in the lid holding member 4. When the lid material is discharged instantaneously toward the side, the inside of the space S becomes temporarily in a high pressure state each time, and the lid material row is urged toward the arrow P side, thereby causing the lid material to As shown in FIG.
3 or, as shown in FIG. 4, to the side surface of a slide rod 54 of a lid material supplying device 5, which will be described next. The inoculating machine of this embodiment is normally used with the bacteria discharge port 21 facing downward (or diagonally downward), but the lid 10 is made of styrofoam and is lightweight. Even when the holding member 4 is in the vertical position, a frictional force is generated between the outer circumferential surface of the lid member 10 and the inner surface of the lid member holding member 4, so that the lid member 10 falls smoothly inside the lid member holding member 4. In this case, the lid material 10 cannot be supplied to the lid material standby section 59.
However, in this way, the expansion of the air cylinder 71
If the exhaust pressure from the air cylinder 71 is used to press the rear end face of a series of lid rows each time a contraction operation is performed, the tips of the lid rows can be reliably moved to the outlet 4a of the lid holding member 4. Misfeeding of the lid material 10 is eliminated.

The lid material supply device 5 includes an intermediate fixing ring 38 fixed to a push rod 61 and a push rod 6.
A slide ring 52 that is loosely fitted in 1 and is pressed and operated by the fixed ring 38, a bending lever 53 that is bent and stretched by the slide of the slide ring 52, and a bending and stretching lever 53 that is bent and stretched by the bending and stretching action of the bending and stretching lever 53. It has a slide rod 54 that can be slid in the vertical direction. The bending lever 53 is biased by a spring 56 in the direction in which the slide rod 54 enters (upward). Further, a side rod 55 installed parallel to the push rod 61 is fixed to the slide ring 52. When the push rod 61 is retracted (FIGS. 1 and 4), the lid material supplying device 5 is operated by the intermediate fixing ring 38.
moves in the direction of arrow Q and does not act on the slide ring 52, and the bending lever 53 is moved by the spring 56.
The slide rod 54 is biased in the extension direction by
7), from the time when the fixed ring 38 comes into contact with the slide ring 52, the slide ring 5
2 in the direction of arrow P, the bending lever 53 is bent against the spring 56, and the slide rod 54 is moved backward (downward).
When the slide rod 54 is in the advanced state, the chain line 5 in FIG.
As shown by 4', the tip of the slide rod approaches the lid material standby section 59 to move the lid material 10 to the lid material standby section 5.
9, and when the slide rod 54 is in the retracted state, the slide rod 54 is pushed in as shown by the solid line in FIG.
4 is positioned further below the outlet 4a of the lid holding member 4 to open the outlet 4a of the lid holding member 4 (the lid 10 at the tip comes into contact with the contact plate 43). ing. Note that when the push rod 61 moves back in the direction of arrow Q (the air cylinder 71 extends) from the retracted state of the slide rod 54 (the advanced state of the push rod 61 shown in FIG. 7), the pressing force on the slide ring 52 is released and the bending lever 53 is biased in the extension direction by the spring 56 (the slide rod 54 is biased upward), but the biasing force of the spring 56 alone does not have enough force to push through the continuous lid members 10, 10. After the push rod 61 is further retreated and the engagement piece 38a provided on the fixing ring 38 on the bacteria filling device 3 side comes into contact with the end of the side rod 55 on the arrow Q side, as shown in FIG. is forced to move in the direction of the arrow, thereby causing the slide rod 5 to move in the direction of the arrow.
4, one lid material 10 located at the tip is pushed out, and the lid material 10 is pushed out to the lid material standby section 59. Note that the lid material 10 is in the lid material standby section 59.
When entering the container, the tip pressing portion 61a of the push rod 61 moves further in the direction of the arrow Q
retreating to the side.

Reference numeral 81 denotes a side handle, 82 a lower handle, and the lower handle 82 is provided with a switch 83 for operating the changeover valve 73.

To explain how to use the inoculating machine according to the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 8, first, the opening area of the germ removal port 13 is adjusted using the opening area adjusting device 9. That is, by loosening the thumbscrew 94, pinching the operating section 92, and moving it in the left-right rotation direction, the strip plate 91
After adjusting the overlapping area between the cell and the bacteria outlet 13, the thumbscrew 94 is tightened. Then, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 7, with the air cylinder 71 contracted, the cultured bacteria A is accommodated in the bacteria hopper 1, and a large number of bacteria are stored in the lid holding member 4 (inside the cylindrical body 41). The lid materials 10, 10, . . . are inserted in a line (in this embodiment, each lid material is continuous by making a cut on the outer periphery with a part left in the center).
In this state, one lid 10 at the tip of the lid row protrudes forward (in the direction of arrow P) from the outlet 4a of the lid holding member 4. Next, the bacteria outlet 2 of the inoculator
With switch 1 facing downward, switch 8
3 to extend the air cylinder 71,
A bacteria extraction port 1 is provided in the lower end side wall of the bacteria hopper 1 by rotating the rotary blades 32 and 33 of the bacteria filling device 3.
3 to a certain amount of bacteria in quantitative storage chamber 2 (for one planting)
At the same time when the cultured bacteria Aa is filled, one lid material 10 is supplied into the lid material standby section 59 by the slide rod 54 of the lid material supply device 5, and the preparation for inoculation is completed (the state shown in FIG. 4). ). At this time, the lids 10, 10, . The lid member 10 at the tip of the row is in contact with the side surface of the slide rod 54.
To implant the cultured bacteria into the transplant hole C, turn the bacteria outlet 21 of the inoculator downward, and
1 is applied to the entrance of the transplant hole C, and when the switch 83 is operated to contract the air cylinder 71, the push rod 61 is moved in the direction of the arrow P, and the tip pressing portion 61a pushes the lid material standby portion 59. At the same time, the lid material 10 that is waiting and a certain amount of cultured bacteria Aa filled in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 are pressed, and the cultured bacteria Aa and subsequently the lid material 10 are placed in the transplant hole C. It is press-fitted and the inoculation work is completed (the state shown in Fig. 7). At this time, as the push rod 61 is moved in the direction of arrow P, the slide rod 54 retreats, and the pressurized air discharged from the tail side of the air cylinder 71 moves the lid material row in the lid material holding member 4. The cover member 10 at the tip thereof is urged toward the outlet 4a side and comes into contact with the contact plate 43. In this way, when the cultured bacteria is transplanted (when the air cylinder is reduced), the rotary blades 32 and 33 do not rotate.
A lid-shaped portion 33a provided on one of the lower rotary blades 33, 33, . Cultured bacteria filled
Aa is not pushed back to the bacteria hopper 1 side,
It becomes possible to accurately implant a certain amount of cultured bacteria Aa into the transplant hole C. In this state where the inoculation is completed as shown in Fig. 7, a certain amount of cultured bacteria is in the deep part of the transplant hole C.
Aa is pushed in, and the entrance of the transplant hole C is covered with the lid material 10.
Since the cultured bacteria Aa planted in the transplant hole C will not spill out from the transplant hole C to the outside. Furthermore, when the switch 83 is operated to extend the air cylinder 71 from the inoculation completion state shown in FIG. At the same time, the next lid material 10 is supplied to the lid material standby section 59, and preparation for the next inoculation is completed. In this way, with this inoculation machine, by simply operating a switch, the inoculation operation and the lid application operation can be performed automatically and in succession at the same time as the inoculation operation, and moreover, the lid material 10 can be reliably placed one by one in the lid material waiting section 59. We can supply up to

(Effect of the invention) As is clear from the above description, the inoculation machine of the present invention can inoculate a certain amount of cultured bacteria Aa into the transplant hole C and the entrance of the transplant hole C by simply operating the operating device 6. It is possible to simultaneously and automatically cover the cell, and the inoculation work (planting cultured bacteria and capping) can be performed easily and in a short time.

Further, according to the present invention, the inlet 4 of the lid holding member 4
b is connected by a connecting pipe 80 to the exhaust port 75 of the switching valve 73 through which air discharged from the air cylinder 71 is discharged when the air cylinder 71 is extended or contracted, so that the air inside the lid member holding member 4 is Lid material 10,1
0... is pressed toward the lid holding member outlet 4a side by the pressurized air from the switching valve exhaust port 75 every time the air cylinder 71 expands or contracts. Even if a frictional force that stops the movement of the lid member 10 is generated between the inner surface of the holding member 4 and the lid member 4, the entire row of lid members is reliably moved to the lid member holding member outlet 4a side against the frictional force. This has the effect of eliminating the problem that the bacteria extrusion action is performed before the lid material 10 is supplied to the lid material standby section 59.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the inoculation machine according to the embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a state change diagram of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is the
4 is a sectional view taken along the line V-V in FIG. 4, FIG. Each figure is a longitudinal sectional view showing the operation of the inoculating machine shown in FIG. 1. 1... Bacteria hopper, 2... Bacteria quantitative storage chamber, 3...
...Bacteria filling device, 4...Lid material holding member, 4a...Outlet, 4b...Inlet, 5...Lid material supply device, 6...
Operating device, 10... Lid material, 13... Bacteria extraction port, 2
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Bacteria discharge port, 33...Rotary blade, 54...Slide rod, 59...Lid material standby part, 61...Push rod, 71...Air cylinder, 73...Switching valve, 75...Exhaust port, 80...Connecting pipe (air pipe),
A... Cultured bacteria, Aa... Certain amount of cultured bacteria, B...
Hodagi, C...transplant hole.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A bacteria hopper 1 capable of storing mushroom cultured bacteria A and having a bacteria extraction port 13 at the bottom; and the bacteria extraction port 1.
It has a cylindrical shape with both right and left ends open, and is connected to the bacteria discharge port 2 at one open end, which can accommodate the cultured bacteria A in the bacteria hopper 1 for one planting.
1, a bacterial quantitative storage chamber 2, a bacterial filling device 3 for filling a certain amount of cultured bacteria A in the bacterial hopper 1 into the bacterial quantitative storage chamber 2, and a transplant hole C of the hodagi B. A cylindrical lid holding member 4 capable of holding a large number of lid members 10 in an array for closing the entrance of the transplant hole C after a certain amount of cultured bacteria Aa is inoculated into the cell; The lid material 10 is sequentially placed one by one from the outlet 4a through the bacteria discharge port 2 in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2.
It is reciprocated by a lid material supply device 5 for supplying a lid material waiting section 59 provided at the end opposite to 1 and pressurized air supplied from a compressor 72 via a switching valve 73. It has an air cylinder 71 and a push rod 61 that moves forward and backward in conjunction with the reciprocating movement of the air cylinder 71.
1, the bacteria filling device 3 is used to fill a certain amount of cultured bacteria A in the bacteria hopper 1 into the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2, and the lid material supplying device 5
Then, one lid material 10 is supplied to the lid material standby section 59 from the outlet 4a of the lid material holding member 4, and further, during the forward movement, a certain amount of the bacteria stored in the bacteria quantitative storage chamber 2 is fed. The cultured bacteria Aa and one lid material 10 supplied to the lid material standby section 59 are simultaneously discharged from the bacteria outlet 21 to the outside, with a certain amount of the cultured bacteria Aa first and the lid material 10 following. A connecting pipe 80 is connected between the exhaust port 75 of the switching valve 73 and the inlet 4b of the lid member holding member 4, so that the switching valve 73 can be pushed out. The inoculation is characterized in that the lid material 10 in the lid material holding member 4 can be pressed toward the lid material holding member outlet 4a side by pressurized air discharged from the exhaust port 75 of the Machine.