JPH0514756Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (a) Industrial application field The present invention relates to a seedling growing mat filling device that fills seedling growing boxes one by one with seedling growing mats used as a substitute for soil in the seedling growing box.

(b) Conventional technology Conventionally, as a seedling growing pine filling device,
The technology described in Japanese Patent No.-118128 was known to the public.

In the case of the prior art, the seedling growing mats are fed out one by one into the seedling growing box by a feeding device, but
It was necessary to manually move the seedling pine to the feeding device.

The seedling raising pine may be made of foamed urethane or paper as in the past and is relatively easy to handle, but recent seedling raising pine are made of lock fiber, pulp, etc. as raw materials.
Furthermore, the seedling pine is impregnated with fertilizer. Therefore, when feeding the seedling pine into the seedling box, the fertilizer impregnated into the seedling pine becomes dust and scatters, which is very unhygienic and causes problems such as deterioration of the working environment at the site. There was.

In addition, in the case of seedling growing pine made of rock fiber, etc., the fibers are arranged in the same direction and compressed, so they are relatively easy to break.
When artificially filling the mats, the holding power of the mats varied depending on the operator, causing problems such as damage to the seedling mats made of the above-mentioned lock fibers and the like.

(c) Problems to be solved by the invention The present invention can automatically fill seedling boxes with seedling mats, for example, when filling seedling mats made of rock fiber with fertilizer impregnated. No dust is scattered even when
The present invention also provides a seedling growing pine filling device that can prevent damage to the pine.

(d) Means for solving the problem The purpose of the present invention is as above, and the structure to achieve the purpose will be explained below.
Accordingly, in the configuration in which the seedling growing mats a are separated one by one and packed into the seedling growing box b, the horizontal conveying device 1 is provided above the stacked mat A placed on the lift device 4, and the horizontal conveying device 1 protrudes from the bottom surface of the horizontal conveying device 1. The locking device is configured to lock the seedling pine a and move the seedling pine a to the stock conveyor B or above the filling device 9.

(E) Embodiment The purpose and structure of the present invention are as described above, and next, the structure of the embodiment shown in the attached drawings will be explained.

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of the seedling growing pine filling device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a rear sectional view, FIG. 3 is a perspective view with the horizontal conveyance device 1 and lift device 4 removed, and FIG. The stock conveyor B is arranged on the seedling box conveyor 10, and the horizontal conveyor 1 is placed on the side thereof.
FIG. 5 is a plan view of the embodiment in which the filling device 9 is arranged.
A plan view of an embodiment in which a stock conveyor B is disposed on the side of the vehicle, and a lift device 4 is further disposed on the side of the stock conveyor B,
6, 7, and 8 are side views showing the state of transportation to the stock conveyor B by the horizontal conveyance device 1, and FIGS. It is a side view which shows the state which fills the seedling-growing box b with the seedling-growing pine a.

The overall structure of the seedling growing pine filling device will be explained with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3.

The seedling growing pine filling device is composed of the following main parts.

A carry-in conveyor L transporting the laminated matte A,
A lift device 4 that places the laminated mats A carried in from the carry-in conveyor L, a horizontal transport device 1 that moves the stacked mats A on the lift device 4 one by one from the upper end, and the horizontal transport device 1 transports and arranges them. A stock conveyor B, a box feeding device D placed upstream of the stock conveyor B and feeding out the seedling boxes b in order, a seedling box conveyor 10 placed below the stock conveyor B and the box feeding device D, and a stock conveyor The filling device 9 and the like are arranged downstream of B.

A box delivery device D, a stock conveyor B, and a filling device 9 are arranged on the seedling raising box conveyor 10, and a lift device 4 and a carry-in conveyor L are arranged on the side of the main route.

The seedling raising pine A is packed in a set of several pine trees as a laminated pine A, and the unpacked laminated pine A is placed on the carry-in conveyor L and placed on the lift device 4. That's what I do.
The lift device 4 is configured to be lifted by the thickness of the seedling pine a by a lift cylinder 6. When the laminated mat A is conveyed and placed on the carry-in conveyor L at the lowest position of the lift device 4,
The tip thereof is configured so that one piece protrudes from the upper surface of the L-shaped locking plate 7.

A conveyor section 5 is also configured on the upper surface of the lift device 4, and the laminated mat A placed on the conveyor section 5 is conveyed from the carry-in conveyor L so that it comes to a fixed position directly above the lift device 4. be.

A lateral conveyance device 1 is disposed above the laminated mat A, and a locking device 1a projects from the lateral conveyance device 1. In this embodiment, the locking device 1a has a needle-like configuration.

By lift cylinder 6, raising seedling pine a.
It rises by the thickness of the two pieces, and one piece at the upper end protrudes above the L-shaped locking plate 7. The protruding seedling growing pine a is hooked by the locking device 1a and slid on the sliding surface 7a of the L-shaped locking plate 7.

In addition to the sliding surface 7a, the L-shaped locking plate 7 has a locking surface 7b that prevents the seedling growing pine a located below from moving along with the seedling growing pine a located at the upper end.

The process of transporting the seedling pine a on the lift device 4 into the stock conveyor B is shown in Figs.
Details are shown in FIG. 8. The lateral conveyance device 1 does not rotate in one direction only, but reciprocates in response to commands from the controller C shown in FIG.

As shown in Fig. 6, the seedling pine a is raised by the locking device 1a.
One sheet is hooked up and placed on the locking plate 2a of the lowering conveyors 2 and 3 of the stock conveyor B from above the slide surface 7a, and horizontal conveyance is carried out. The device 1 starts rotating in the reverse direction, and as shown in FIG.
is removed and placed on the locking plates 2a and 3a as shown in FIG.

Therefore, the locking device 1a protruding into the lateral conveyance device 1 is
When moving in the direction of the stock conveyor B, the locking device 1a is projected, and when returning above the lift device 4, the locking device 1a is configured to be in the retracted state.

The stock conveyor B is composed of the above-mentioned descending conveyors 2 and 3, and the descending conveyors 2 and 3 descend at a constant speed in conjunction with the delivery of the seedling boxes b of the box delivery device D. It is. The seedling growing pine a opened at the lower ends of the descending conveyors 2 and 3 is placed on the pine conveyor 8 and conveyed below the filling device 9.

Temporary mounting tables 11L and 11R are provided below the filling device 9 and project from the left and right sides, and the seedling pine a is placed on the temporary mounting tables 11L and 11R. The temporary mounting tables 11L and 11R are opened by another opening cylinder 15 in conjunction with the pushing of the filling device 9 by the pressing cylinder 13, and are filled into the seedling growing box b with the seedling growing mat a fixed directly below.

The drawings of FIGS. 9 to 12 sequentially illustrate the filling states of the temporary mounting tables 11L and 11R, the filling device 9, and the seedling growing box b.

The box feeding device D fits the stacked seedling growing boxes b in the storage section 16, and has feeding claws 17 and 18 arranged in two stages at the lower end.
The feeding claws 17 and 18 are the box feeding cylinder 1.
4, the upper and lower claws are configured to protrude and store in the opposite direction, and when the lowest seedling growing box b falls, the feeding claw 17 locks the uppermost seedling growing box b, and the lowermost seedling growing box b is held. After dropping the seedling raising box b, the feeding claw 18 protrudes to the original position, the feeding claw 17 stores it, and the seedling growing box b, which was held by the feeding claw 17, is locked on the feeding claw 18. be.

Then, the seedling boxes b are dropped onto the seedling box conveyor 10 at regular intervals by the box feeding device D, and are transported to the position of the box stopper 19, where they are stopped at a defined position. . After the filling device 9 fills the seedling growing pine a, the box stopper 19 is opened by the stopper cylinder 20, and the seedling growing box b is transported downstream, where it is sown by the seeding device.

In FIG. 4, the positions of the stock conveyor B and the lift device 4 in the embodiments of FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 are shown in a plan view. As another example, as shown in FIG.
may be arranged on the side of the filling device 9, and further on the side of the stock conveyor B, the lift device 4 may be arranged.

(f) Effects of the invention Since the invention is constructed as described above, it has the following effects.

First, since the seedling pine tree is made of lock fiber, pulp, etc., it generates a large amount of dust, making the work unhygienic for the operator.
Since this device can automatically fill the seedling raising box b of be.

Second, since the seedling raising pine a is moved one by one from the top layer of the stacked pine A, when placing the stack pine A on the lift device 4 first, In this case, the stacked mat A can be placed at the lowest position of the lift device 4, the carry-in conveyor L can be constructed low, and the lifting device placed on the carry-in conveyor L can also be low. .

Thirdly, by providing the stock conveyor B, the stock conveyor B can buy enough time to replenish the stacked mats A when the stacked mats A are used up, thereby maintaining sufficient free time. With this structure, the stock conveyor B becomes tall, but in order to supply the stock to the upper end of the stock conveyor B, the laminated mat A is used as in the present invention.
A horizontal conveying device 1 is installed above the seedlings to separate them one by one and move them to the stock conveyor B, which does not take up much space, and a separate conveyor is provided to convey the lower seedling growing pine a to the upper end of the stock conveyor B. It is unnecessary and can be configured in the most compact way.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of the seedling growing pine filling device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a rear sectional view, FIG. 3 is a perspective view with the horizontal conveyance device 1 and lift device 4 removed, and FIG. The stock conveyor B is arranged on the seedling box conveyor 10, and the horizontal conveyor 1 is placed on the side thereof.
FIG. 5 is a plan view of the embodiment in which the filling device 9 is arranged.
A plan view of an embodiment in which a stock conveyor B is disposed on the side of the vehicle, and a lift device 4 is further disposed on the side of the stock conveyor B,
6, 7, and 8 are side views showing the state of transportation to the stock conveyor B by the horizontal conveyance device 1, and FIGS. It is a side view which shows the state which fills the seedling-growing box b with the seedling-growing pine a. A...Laminated mat, B...Stock conveyor,
D... Box feeding device, a... Seedling mat, b...
...Seedling box, 1...Horizontal conveyance device, 1a...Locking device, 2, 3...Descent conveyor, 4...Lift device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Laminated pine A with seedling growing pine A stacked on top of each other
Accordingly, in the configuration in which the seedling growing mats a are separated one by one and packed into the seedling growing box b, the horizontal conveying device 1 is provided above the stacked mat A placed on the lift device 4, and the horizontal conveying device 1 protrudes from the bottom surface of the horizontal conveying device 1. A seedling growing pine filling device characterized in that the seedling growing pine a is locked by a locking device and is configured to move the seedling growing pine a to a stock conveyor B or above a filling device 9.