JPH0731289A - Washing apparatus for raising seedling pot sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a washing apparatus provided with a raising seedling pot sheet, a washing room having upper and lower washing pipes and a brush rotating on a vertical axis and capable of surely washing the space in the pot in high efficiency. CONSTITUTION:This apparatus is provided with a raising seedling pot sheet 1 having a number of pots arranged on a square thin plastic sheet in longitudinal and lateral directions interposing prescribed spaces, a washing room 16 composed of the right and left side plates, a top plate 14 and a bottom plate 15 and having a feeding port 17 at a side to receive the pot sheet 1 and an outlet port 18 at the other side of the room to deliver the pot sheet 1, upper and lower washing pipes 22, 23 placed in the washing room 16 and a brush to be inserted into the pot group of the pot sheet 1 from above and extracted upward under rotation on a vertical axis.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Although it has not been publicly known, the prior application, Japanese Patent Application No. 4-1.
The specification of 28256 describes a used seedling raising pot sheet having a large number of pots formed at predetermined intervals in front, rear, left and right, and a seedling raising pot being transferred into a washing chamber surrounded by left and right side plates, a top plate and a bottom plate. A seedling raising pot sheet washing device is described and proposed, which comprises an upper washing pipe and a lower washing pipe for spraying a washing liquid on the sheet, and a horizontal axis rotating washing brush whose left and right direction is the axis for washing the upper and lower surfaces of the seedling raising pot sheet. ing.

[0003]

When the horizontal axis rotary cleaning brush of the prior application has a lateral axis, the tip of the brush cannot be completely inserted into the pot and dirt such as stuck soil cannot be completely cleaned. There is a problem that there is.

[0004]

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION To ensure the cleaning of the pot.

[0005]

Therefore, the present invention provides a seedling-growing pot sheet 1 in which a large number of pots 3 are formed on a quadrangular thin sheet 2 made of synthetic resin at predetermined intervals in the front-rear and left-right directions. A cleaning formed by left and right side plates 13, a top plate 14 and a bottom plate 15 having a supply port 17 on one side of a side to which the pot sheet 1 is supplied and an extraction port 18 on the other side from which the pot sheet 1 is taken out. The chamber 16 and the upper and lower cleaning pipes 22 and 23 provided in the cleaning chamber 16 and the vertical rotation of the vertical direction that fits into the pot 3 group of the pot sheet 1 while rotating from above and slips upward while rotating. A seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device provided with a brush section 26, and the brush section 26.
Is a seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device provided side by side in the same number as the number of the pots 3, and the brush portion 26 is fitted to the preceding pot 3 from above and then pulled out to the next succeeding pot 3. In contrast, the seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device is configured to be fitted from above, and the brush portion 26 is moved to the succeeding pot 3 before being completely removed from the preceding pot 3.

[0006]

EXAMPLE An example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 shown in FIG. 2 is a seedling raising pot sheet (seedling box) for sowing seedlings such as vegetables and flowers such as eggplant and tomato, and seeds such as rice. There are a large number of pots 3 formed on a synthetic resin square sheet 2 (thin plate) at predetermined intervals in the front, rear, left and right, and the left and right sides of the sheet 2 are arranged at predetermined intervals in a line. The engaging holes 4 are arranged side by side, and the outer edge of the engaging holes 4 is formed in a sliding contact portion 5 which is in sliding contact with the upper surface of a support member 51 described later.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a transfer table for transferring the seedling-growing pot sheet 1, and a support rail 7 for supporting the lower surface of the sliding contact portion 5 of the seedling-growing pot sheet 1 and left and right engagement of the seedling-growing pot sheet 1. A transfer claw wheel 8 that engages with the hole 4 is provided and configured to transfer the seedling raising pot sheet 1. The transfer table 6 is divided into front and rear parts, and a seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device 11 is provided at an intermediate portion of the front and rear seedling raising pot sheet 1.

The seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device 11 forms a cleaning chamber 16 surrounded by left and right side plates 13, a removable top plate 14 and a bottom plate 15 above a frame 12 placed on the floor. Supply port 17 at the beginning,
The discharge ports 18 are formed at the end portions. On the left and right sides of the cleaning chamber 16 near the supply port 17, there are provided supply side ratchet wheels 20 having protrusions 19 that engage with the left and right engaging holes 4 of the seedling raising pot sheet 1. The seedling pot sheet 1 is transferred.

A pair of upper and lower washing pipes 22 and 23 in the left-right direction are provided on the front side of the supply side ratchet wheel 20 to jet a washing liquid such as water toward the seedling raising pot sheet 1, and the upper washing pipe is provided. A water supply pipe connected to an arbitrary water source such as a pump or water supply is connected to each of the lower cleaning pipe 22 and the lower cleaning pipe 23. Although not shown, the lower cleaning pipe 23 is rotatably attached to the frame 12, and the horizontal cleaning brush 24 is provided on the outer periphery of the lower cleaning pipe 23.

The upper cleaning pipe 22 is provided with a pot cleaning brush device 25 for cleaning the inside of the pot 3 of the seedling raising pot sheet 1. Pot cleaning brush device 25
Attaches the shaft part 37 of the upper part of the brush part 26 to the lower part of the vertical rotation shaft 27 in a detachable manner, and attaches the vertical rotation shaft 27 to the transmission case 28.
Is installed side by side in the left-right direction so as to correspond to the pot 3 of the seedling raising pot sheet 1, a gear 29 is fixed to the vertical rotation shaft 27 in the transmission case 28, and the gears 29 are rotated by meshing with each other. Is configured to transmit. The transmission case 2
8 is provided with an input gear 30 at the right and left intermediate position,
The upper part of the shaft 31 of 0 is projected on the upper surface of the transmission case 28 to fix the passive pulley 32. A rotary shaft 33 whose axis is parallel to the transfer direction of the seedling-growing pot sheet 1 is provided on a side portion of the transmission case 28, and a guide pulley 34 is fixed to the rotary shaft 33. Further, below the guide pulley 34, a drive pulley 35 which is rotated by the rotation of a motor is provided, and the elastic belt 3 which can be expanded and contracted between the drive pulley 35 and the passive pulley 32 via the guide pulley 34.
Multiply by 6.

An arm portion 38 projecting to the rear side is formed at a rear portion of the transmission case 28, and a rear end of the arm portion 38 is rotatably attached to the upper cleaning pipe 22. Rotating rollers 39 projecting laterally are provided on both front side portions of the transmission case 28, and the rotating rollers 39 are brought into contact with the outer periphery of the rotating cam plate 40. A concave portion 41 and an inclined portion 42 are provided on the outer periphery of the rotating cam plate 40, and when the rotating cam plate 40 rotates, the inclined portion 42 moves the rotating roller 39 upward to move the transmission case 28 upward with the upper cleaning pipe 22 centered. When the brush portion 26 is rotated to move upward from the pot 3, and then the rotary roller 39 enters the recess 41, the front end portion of the transmission case 28 moves downward, and the brush portion 26 fits into the pot 3.

In this case, the rotary cam plate 40 has the brush portion 2
6 does not move up enough to come out of pot 3 completely,
The lower end of the brush portion 26 descends while sliding on the upper surface of the seedling raising pot sheet 1 so as to fit into the next pot 3. Further, while the transfer speed of the seedling raising pot sheet 1 and the vertical speed of 26 are synchronized, 26 is also arranged in parallel in the transfer direction of the seedling raising pot sheet 1 so that the juxtaposed 26 are fitted in the pot 3 in an overlapping manner. Alternatively, the number of times that 26 is fitted to one pot 3 can be changed by changing the transfer speed of the seedling raising pot sheet 1 and the vertical speed of 26, and is arbitrarily changed. Reference numeral 44 is a mounting shaft of the rotating roller 39, and 45 is a mounting shaft of the rotating cam plate 40. Therefore, a pair of upper and lower cleaning pipes 46 and 47 are provided on the front side of the horizontal axis rotary cleaning brush 24 and the pot cleaning brush device 25, and a discharge side pawl wheel discharge side pawl is provided on the front side of the cleaning pipe 46 and the cleaning pipe 47. A car 48 is provided. Reference numeral 49 denotes a drain port, and 50 denotes a space portion formed below the bottom plate 15, which accommodates a water storage tank, a pump, a motor (variable speed motor), etc., although not shown. Reference numeral 52 is a shaft of the supply side ratchet wheel 20, and 53 is a shaft of the drive pulley 35.

[0013]

[Operation] Next, the operation will be described. When the used dirty seedling raising pot sheet 1 is supplied to the transfer table 6, the seedling raising pot sheet 1
The transfer ratchet wheel 8 engages with the engaging hole 4 of the seedlings and is transferred, and the seedling-growing pot sheet 1 is supplied to the feeding port 17 of the seedling-growing pot sheet cleaning device 11.
From the inside into the washing room 16 where the nursery pot sheet 1
The protrusion 19 of the supply side ratchet 20 is engaged with the engaging hole 4 of the feeding seedling pot sheet 1, the seedling raising pot sheet 1 is further transferred, and the washing liquid is injected from the upper side upper cleaning pipe 22 and the lower lower cleaning pipe 23, Moreover, the seedling raising pot sheet 1 is rotated by the rotating horizontal shaft rotating cleaning brush 24 provided on the outer periphery of the lower cleaning pipe 23.
The bottom surface of is cleaned.

Next, the rotation from the motor is transmitted to the drive pulley 35, the elastic belt 36, the passive pulley 32, the shaft 31, the input gear 30, the gear 29, and the respective gears 29, and the vertical rotation shaft 27 rotates and the brush. When the portion 26 rotates and the inclined portion 42 of the rotating cam plate 40 that is rotated by the motor moves the rotating roller 39 upward, and the end of the inclined portion 42 passes the lower surface of the rotating roller 39, the rotating roller 39 is recessed. Since it falls into 41, the transmission case 28 rotates up and down around the upper cleaning pipe 22, and the brush portion 26 rotates into the pot 3 of the seedling raising pot sheet 1 being transferred, and then rotates. It moves up and the inside of the pot 3 is washed.

In this case, the height at which the brush portion 26 moves upward is set such that the lower end of the brush portion 26 stays in the pot 3 without being completely removed from the pot 3, so that the brush portion 26 is Not only the lower end cleans the inside of the pot 3, but also the upper surface of the sheet 2 of the seedling raising pot sheet 1 is slid on and washed, and then fitted into the next succeeding pot 3.

The seedling pot sheet 1 whose lower surface is washed by the horizontal axis rotary washing brush 24 and whose upper surface and inside the pot 3 are washed by the pot washing brush device 25 is the washing pipe 4.
6 and the cleaning liquid from the cleaning pipe 47 are used for final cleaning, discharged from the discharge port 18, further transferred to the front side by the transfer table 6, and taken out from the cleaning chamber 16.

[0017]

According to the present invention, a large number of pots 3 are formed on a synthetic resin quadrangular thin plate-like sheet 2 at predetermined intervals in the front-rear and left-right directions.
The left and right side plates 13 having the seedling-growing pot sheet 1 having the above-mentioned structure, a supply port 17 on one side of a side portion to which the pot sheet 1 is supplied, and an outlet port 18 on the other side from which the pot sheet 1 is taken out.
A cleaning chamber 16 formed by a top plate 14 and a bottom plate 15, upper and lower cleaning pipes 22 and 23 provided in the cleaning chamber 16, and a fitting unit while rotating from above to the pot 3 group of the pot sheet 1. Since the seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device is provided with the brush portion 26 of the vertical axis rotation that is pulled out while rotating together, it is possible to wash the seedling raising pot sheets 1 one by one and reuse the seedling raising pot sheets 1. Not only can the required cleaning work be performed easily, but the inside of the pot 3 can be reliably cleaned. Further, since the brush section 26 is a seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device provided side by side corresponding to the number of the pots 3, it can be efficiently cleaned. Further, the brush portion 26 is configured so as to be fitted to the preceding pot 3 from above and then to come out upward, and then to be fitted to the next succeeding pot 3 from above, and the brush portion 26 is Since the seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device is configured to transfer to the succeeding pot 3 before being completely removed from the preceding pot 3, not only the inside of the pot 3 but also the upper surface of the seedling raising pot sheet 1 can be reliably washed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall side view.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a seedling raising pot sheet.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a nursery pot sheet.

FIG. 4 is a plan view.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a main part.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing the operating state.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing the operating state.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Seedling pot sheet, 2 ... Sheet, 3 ... Pot, 4 ...
Engagement holes, 5 ... Placement part, 6 ... Transfer table, 7 ... Support rail, 8
… Transfer claw wheel, 11… Nursing pot sheet cleaning device, 12…
Frame, 13 ... Left and right side plates, 14 ... Top plate, 15 ... Bottom plate,
16 ... Washing chamber, 17 ... Supply port, 18 ... Discharge port, 19 ... Protrusion, 20 ... Supply side ratchet wheel, 22 ... Upper washing pipe, 23 ...
Lower cleaning pipe, 24 ... Horizontal rotary brush, 25 ... Pot cleaning vertical rotary brush, 26 ... Brush part, 27 ... Vertical rotary shaft, 28 ... Transmission case, 29 ... Gear, 30 ... Input gear, 31 ... Shaft , 32 ... Passive pulley, 33 ... Rotating shaft, 3
4 ... Guide pulley, 35 ... Drive pulley, 36 ... Elastic belt, 37 ... Shaft portion, 38 ... Arm portion, 39 ... Rotating roller, 40 ... Rotating cam plate, 41 ... Recessed portion, 42 ... Inclined portion, 4
4 ... Mounting shaft, 45 ... Mounting shaft, 46 ... Washing pipe, 47 ...
Cleaning pipe, 48 ... Discharge side ratchet wheel, 49 ... Drainage port, 50 ...
Space portion, 51 ... Support member, 52 ... Shaft, 53 ... Shaft.

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] September 21, 1993

[Procedure Amendment 1]

[Document name to be corrected] Drawing

[Correction target item name] All drawings

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A rectangular thin sheet 2 made of synthetic resin.
The seedling raising pot sheet 1 in which a large number of pots 3 are formed at predetermined intervals in the front-rear and left-right directions, a supply port 17 on one side of the side to which the pot sheet 1 is supplied, and the pot sheet 1 are taken out. Cleaning chamber 16 having left and right side plates 13, a top plate 14, and a bottom plate 15, upper and lower cleaning pipes 22 and 23 provided in the cleaning chamber 16, and the pot sheet 1 described above. A seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device provided with a brush portion 26 which is fitted to the group of pots 3 while rotating from above and which rotates upward and rotates out of the pot 3 group. 2. The brush portion 26 according to claim 1,
Is a seedling raising pot sheet cleaning device that is provided side by side in the same number as the pots 3. 3. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the brush portion 26 is fitted to the preceding pot 3 from above, then is pulled out upward, and then fitted to the next succeeding pot 3 from above. In addition, the brush portion 26 is moved to the succeeding pot 3 before the brush portion 26 is completely removed from the preceding pot 3.