JPH0739258A - Transference facility for seedling raising box - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obviate the necessity of operational suspension of respective devices before the seedling raising box transference facility, during transferring seedling raising boxes onto a supporting table after supporting a specified number of seedling raising boxes by a supporting device, by temporarily reserving the seedling raising boxes before said transference in an auxiliary seedling raising box supporting device. CONSTITUTION:Seedling raising boxes 1 fed from a seedling raising box feeder 6 to a conveyer-type carrier 2 are conveyed in the arrow direction and supported up to a specified number by a seedling raising box supporting device 3 via a soil feeder 7, an irrigator 8, a seeder 9, a second soil feeder 11. The seedling raising boxes thus supported are transferred onto a supporting table by a vransferring device; during the period, another batch of seedling raising boxes fed by the carrier are temporarily reserved in an auxiliary seedling raising box supporting device 12.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a nursery box transfer facility for transferring a plurality of seeded nursery boxes which have been sowed to a support table capable of vertically supporting the nursery box at predetermined vertical intervals.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 8 shows an example of a nursery box transfer facility as described above. In this structure, the nursery box 1
Are transported one by one from the left side of the paper surface of FIG. 8 by the transport device 2, and the seedling raising box 1 is transferred from the transport device 2 to the seedling raising box supporting device 3
The first stage support plate 15a is fed. Each time the seedling raising box 1 is sent in this way, the seedling raising box supporting device 3 causes the seedling raising boxes 1 to
Lift up to a specified height and operate.

When a predetermined number of seedling raising boxes 1 are supported by the support plates 15a of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 as described above, the seedling raising box supporting device 3 and the carrier device 2 are temporarily stopped, A transfer device (not shown) (see transfer device 4 in FIG. 4) pushes out each seedling raising box 1 of the seedling raising box supporting device 3, and a support base (not shown) (support carriage 5 in FIG. 4).
(Refer to the above), and is transferred to each support portion.

[0004]

In the conventional structure shown in FIG. 8, after a predetermined number of nursery boxes 1 are supported by the support plates 15a of the nursery box support device 3, each nursery box 1 is transferred to a support base. In this case, since the transfer takes a little time, it is necessary to temporarily stop the transfer device 2 so that the transfer box 2 does not send the transfer box 2 to the transfer box support device 3 during the transfer. is there.

When the carrier device is temporarily stopped in this way, it is necessary to similarly suspend each device on the superior side of the carrier device. Therefore, all of the nursery box transfer facility and each of the relevant superior devices are also suspended. As a result of the temporary stop, the work efficiency as a whole decreases. The present invention, when a predetermined number of nursery boxes are supported by each support claw of the nursery box support device and then transferred to each of the nursery boxes to a support base, it is not necessary to temporarily stop the carrier device or the like. It is an object.

[0006]

The feature of the present invention resides in that the seedling raising box transfer facility as described above is configured as follows. In other words, a carrier that transports the nursery boxes one by one, and one nursery box from the carrier is received and supported, and the nursery boxes are lifted by a predetermined height to operate.
When the next nursery box is received from the transport device, this nursery box and the nursery boxes already supported are lifted by a predetermined height while maintaining the vertical spacing between each nursery box at a predetermined interval. And a seedling raising box support unit having a plurality of raising and lowering support portions of the raising seedling box at the same vertical interval as the raising and lowering distance of the raising seedling box supported by the raising seedling box supporting device, and raising seedlings from the carrier device. With the feeding of the box, when the number of seedling raising boxes vertically supported by the seedling raising box support device reaches a predetermined number, a transfer device that pushes each seedling raising box of the seedling raising box support device and transfers it to a support base, While the transfer device is transferring each nursery box of the nursery box support device to the support base, at the position before the nursery box support device, it receives and supports one nursery box from the transport device and supports the nursery box. And lift it up to a specified height When the next nursery box is received from the transport device, this nursery box and the nursery boxes already supported are lifted by a predetermined height while maintaining the vertical spacing between each nursery box at the same predetermined interval as the nursery box support device. When the auxiliary nursery box support device and the transfer device complete the transfer of the nursery box support device to the support table of each nursery box support, push each nursery box of the auxiliary nursery box support device to support the nursery box support. And an auxiliary transfer device for transferring to the device.

[0007]

With the construction of the present invention, for example, as shown in FIG. 1, the nursery boxes 1 are conveyed one by one from the left side of the drawing by the conveying device 2 and fed to the nursery box supporting device 3 to support the nursery boxes. Each nursery box 1 supported by the device 3 is sequentially lifted. When a predetermined number of seedling raising boxes 1 are supported by the seedling raising box supporting device 3 as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, the transfer device 4 transfers the seedling raising boxes 1 of the seedling raising box support device 3 from the seedling raising box support device 3 to the support parts 5 a of the support base 5.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4 and 7, while the seedling raising box 1 is being transferred to the support base 5, the succeeding seedling raising box 1 is transferred from the carrier device 2 to the seedling raising box support device. Three
Try to be sent to. In this case, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 6, the auxiliary nursery box supporting device 12 in front of the nursery box supporting device 3 starts to operate, and the carrier device 2 reaches the front of the nursery box supporting device 3 by the transport device 2 But, auxiliary nursery box support device 1
It is supported by 2 and is lifted by a predetermined height.
When the new nursery box 1 reaches the front of the nursery box support device 3 by the transport device 2, the nursery box 1 is supported by the auxiliary nursery box support device 12 and lifted by a predetermined height. Each seedling raising box 1 supported by the box supporting device 12 is sequentially lifted.

As described above, while the plurality of nursery boxes 1 are temporarily supported by the auxiliary nursery box support device 12,
The seedling raising box supporting device 3 transfers the seedling raising boxes 1 to the support table 5. When the transfer of the seedling raising box 1 to the support base 5 is completed, the auxiliary transfer device 17 transfers each seedling raising box 1 of the auxiliary seedling raising box support device 12 to the seedling raising box support device 3 as shown in FIG. Then, the operation returns to the initial state shown in FIG. 1, and the above-mentioned operation is repeated thereafter.

[0010]

As described above, while the predetermined number of nursery boxes are supported by the nursery box supporting device and then this nursery box is transferred to the support base, the nursery boxes sent by the carrier device are supplemented by the auxiliary nursery boxes. By temporarily supporting the supporting device, it is not necessary to suspend the transfer device. As a result, the nursery boxes can be smoothly transported and processed without temporarily stopping the nursery box transfer facility and each related equipment on the good side, and the overall work efficiency can be prevented from lowering. I was able to.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. (1) Fig. 1 shows the whole of the seeding facility (left side of the paper) and the nursery box transfer facility (right side of the paper). In the seeding facility, the nursery box feeders 6 supporting a large number of empty nursery boxes 1 drop the nursery boxes 1 one by one onto a conveyor type carrier device 2, and the carrier devices 2 bring the nursery box 1 to the right side of the drawing. It will be transported. Along with this, the soil feeding device 7 is used to raise the seedling box 1
Soil is supplied to the bed soil, water is sprayed on the bed soil of the seedling raising box 1 by the irrigation device 8, seed rice is sown on the bed soil of the seedling raising box 1 by the seeding device 9, and seed seed of the seedling raising box 1 is seeded by the soil supply device 11. The seeds are covered with soil and the seeding work of one seedling raising box 1 is completed.

(2) The nursery box transfer facility shown in FIGS. 1, 4 and 7 is also used in the above-mentioned seeding facility, which is a carrier device 2 for the nursery box 1, a nursery box support device 3 and an auxiliary nursery box support device 1.
2, a transfer device 4, an auxiliary transfer device 17, and a support carriage 5 (corresponding to a support base) are provided as main components.
The transfer device 2 is installed at a predetermined height from the floor surface G, and the seedling raising boxes 1 in the state where seeding, soil covering and watering have been completed are transferred one by one from the left side of the paper surface of FIG. 1 by the transfer device 2.

(3) Next, the nursery box supporting device 3 will be described. As shown in FIGS. 1, 4, and 7, four sprockets 13 are supported on the upper side and four sprockets 14 are supported on the lower side, and four chains 15 are wound around the upper and lower sprockets 13, 14. . A large number of support plates 15a are connected to each pair of chains 15 at predetermined vertical intervals. The vertical intervals of the support plates 15a are the vertical intervals of the push operation members 10 of the transfer device 4 described later, and also the later described. It is set to be the same as the vertical interval of each support portion 5a of the support carriage 5.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 1, the seedling raising box 1 for which the seeding work has been completed is carried by the carrying device 2,
The seedling raising box supporting device 3 is fed to the support plates 15a in two stages, and when the seedling raising box 1 is fed in this way, the sprocket 14 is rotationally driven by a predetermined amount, and the seedling raising box 1 is rotated.
Is lifted by a predetermined height (the vertical spacing between the push operation members 10 of the transfer device 4, the vertical spacing between the support portions 5a of the support carriage 5). Then, the next seedling raising box 1 for which the seeding work has been completed is transferred to the next 1
When fed into the two sets of support plates 15a, the sprocket 14 is rotationally driven by a predetermined amount as described above, and the seedling raising boxes 1 supported by the seedling raising box supporting device 3 are sequentially lifted.

(4) As shown in FIGS. 4 and 7, the support carriage 5 is supported by four wheels 16 and is provided with a plurality of shelf-like support portions 5a in the vertical direction. Part 5a
Up to four nursery boxes 1 can be placed in. Transfer device 4
As shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 7, it is arranged on the lateral side of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 and is configured to be moved and operated in a direction orthogonal to the carrying direction of the carrying device 2, and has a rod shape. A plurality of pushing operation members 10 are provided in the vertical direction.

In this case, the vertical intervals of the support portions 5a of the support carriage 5, the vertical intervals of the push operation members 10 of the transfer device 4, and the vertical intervals of the support plates 15a of the nursery box support device 3 are respectively set. They are set equal to each other, and the upper and lower intervals are set so as not to interfere with the growth of the seedlings in the nursery box 1. Further, as shown in FIG. 7, the lateral width of the transfer device 4 (pushing operation member 10) is set to be narrower than the lateral distance between the sprockets 13 and 14 (chain 15) of the nursery box support device 3, The pushing operation member 10 of the transfer device 4 is the sprocket 13 of the nursery box supporting device 3,
It is set so that the seedling raising box 1 can be pushed out to the side of the supporting carriage 5 by passing between 14 (chain 15).

(5) As shown in FIG. 1, an auxiliary nursery box supporting device 12 and an auxiliary transfer device 17 are arranged in front of the nursery box supporting device 3, and then the auxiliary nursery box supporting device 12 is arranged. The auxiliary transfer device 17 will be described.
As shown in FIGS. 1, 6 and 7, four sprockets 18 are supported on the upper side and four sprockets 19 are supported on the lower side on both sides of the carrier device 2 at a position before the nursery box supporting device 3. Four chains 20 are wound around the upper and lower sprockets 18 and 19. A large number of support plates 20a are connected to each pair of chains 20 at predetermined vertical intervals, and the vertical intervals of the respective support plates 20a are set to the seedling box support device 3.
It is set to be the same as the vertical interval of the support plate 15a.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 7, the auxiliary transfer device 17 is arranged above the carrier device 2 in front of the auxiliary nursery box support device 12 so that it can be moved in the carrying direction of the carrier device 2. It is configured and has a rod-shaped pushing operation member 21.
Are provided in the vertical direction. The vertical spacing between the push operation members 21 of the auxiliary transfer device 17 is set to be equal to the vertical spacing between the support plates 20a of the auxiliary nursery box support device 12.

(6) Next, the overall operation flow of the nursery box transfer facility will be described. As shown in Figure 1,
From the left side of the drawing, the nursery box 1 for which seeding work has been completed
When they are conveyed one by one, they are sent from the conveying device 2 to the support plates 15a in two stages of the seedling raising box supporting device 3. When the seedling raising box 1 is fed in this way, the sprocket 14 of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 is rotationally driven by a predetermined amount, and the seedling raising box 1 is moved to a predetermined height (the vertical spacing between the push operation members 10 of the transfer device 4, The sprocket 14 is raised every time a new seedling raising box 1 is fed to the support plates 15a of the two stages of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 by raising and lowering each supporting portion 5a of the supporting carriage 5). Each nursery box 1 that is rotatably driven by a predetermined amount and is supported by the nursery box supporting device 3
Are gradually lifted.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2, when a predetermined number of seedling raising boxes 1 are supported by the support plates 15a of the seedling raising box supporting device 3, the sprockets of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 are shown in FIG. 14 is driven in the reverse direction until each seedling raising box 1 supported by the seedling raising box supporting device 3 is in the same position as each supporting portion 5a of the supporting carriage 5 and each pushing operation member 10 of the transfer device 4, respectively. The whole nursery box 1 of the support device 3 is operated to descend. Then, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 7, the transfer device 4
4 moves to the right side of the paper surface of FIG. 4 (lower side of the paper surface of FIG. 7), and each pushing operation member 10 of the transfer device 4 pushes and operates each seedling raising box 1 of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 to raise each seedling. The box 1 is transferred from the supporting plate 15a of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 to each supporting portion 5a of the supporting carriage 5.

While the above operations shown in FIGS. 2 to 4 and 7 are being carried out, the subsequent seeding work of the seedling raising box 1 is being carried out in parallel with this, and the seedling raising work after the seeding work is completed. The box 1 is about to be sent from the carrier device 2 to the nursery box supporting device 3. In this case, as shown in FIG. 3, when a predetermined number of seedling raising boxes 1 are supported by the respective support plates 15a of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 and the whole seedling raising box 1 starts to descend, as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. The auxiliary nursery box support device 12 starts operating,
The nursery box 1 that has reached the front of the nursery box support device 3 by the transport device 2 is supported by the support plate 20a of the auxiliary nursery box support device 12 and has a predetermined height (the support plate 15a of the nursery box support device 3).
It is lifted up and down). When the new nursery box 1 reaches the front of the nursery box support device 3 by the transport device 2, the nursery box 1 is supported by the next support plate 20a of the auxiliary nursery box support device 12 and lifted by a predetermined height. Therefore, the respective nursery boxes 1 supported by the auxiliary nursery box supporting device 12 are sequentially lifted.

As described above, while the plurality of seedling raising boxes 1 are temporarily supported by the auxiliary seedling raising box supporting device 12,
Since the transfer of each seedling raising box 1 of the seedling raising box support device 3 to the support cart 5 is performed, and when the transfer device 4 returns to the position shown by the solid line in FIG. The auxiliary nursery box support device 12 stops and the auxiliary transfer device 1
7 moves to the right side of the drawing, and the push operation member 21 of the auxiliary transfer device 17 pushes each nursery box 1 of the auxiliary nursery box support device 12 and transfers it to each support plate 15a of the nursery box support device 3. At the same time, the nursery box 1 from the carrier device 2
Are sent to the support plate 15a of the nursery box support device 3.

When the above operation is completed, the auxiliary transfer device 17 returns to the original position shown in FIG. 1 and returns to the initial state. It is sent to the device 3, and is lifted and supported. Then, when a predetermined number of seedling raising boxes 1 are supported by the seedling raising box supporting device 3, the whole seedling raising boxes 1 of the seedling raising box supporting device 3 are moved down as described above, and the transfer device 4 causes each seedling raising box to move. 1 is transferred to each support portion 5a of the support carriage 5.

In this case, since the seedling raising box 1 is placed in front of each support portion 5a of the support carriage 5 (see the position of the chain double-dashed line in FIG. 7) in the previous state, the transfer device in the next state When each nursery box 1 is pushed to the side of each support portion 5a by 4, each nursery box 1 placed in front of each support portion 5a in the previous state
However, each nursery box 1 that is pushed this time is pushed to the back of each support portion 5a. As described above, four seedling raising boxes 1 are placed on each support portion 5a of the support cart 5.

[Embodiment] In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, when a predetermined number of nursery boxes 1 are supported by the respective support plates 15a of the nursery box supporting device 3, each nursery box 1 is supported by a carrier. Although it is descending to the position of 5, the position of the floor surface G of the support carriage 5 and the transfer device 4 is raised to the position of the transport device 2, and a predetermined number of the nursery boxes 1 support the nursery box. When it is supported by each support plate 15a of the device 3, each seedling raising box 1 is directly transferred by the transfer device 4 without lowering each seedling raising box 1.
The nursery box supporting device 3 may be transferred to the supporting carriage 5.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the seedling raising box 1 is transferred to the support cart 5 with the wheels 16, which is used as the wheels 1.
Seedling raising box 1 on a fixed type support stand (not shown) without 6
May be configured to be transferred.

It should be noted that reference numerals are added to the claims for convenience of comparison with the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the structures of the accompanying drawings by the entry.

[Brief description of drawings]

[Fig. 1] An overall side view showing the whole of the seeding facility and the nursery box transfer facility, showing a state in which the seedling growing seedlings finished in the seeding facility are being sent to a seedling raising box support device by a transport device.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing a state where a predetermined number of seedling raising boxes are supported by a seedling raising box supporting device from the state shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a state in which, after the state shown in FIG. 2, the whole nursery box supported by the nursery box support device is operated to descend, and a subsequent nursery box is started to be supported by the auxiliary nursery box support device.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing a state in which, after the state shown in FIG. 3, each seedling raising box of the seedling raising box support device is transferred to a support cart by the transfer device.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing a state in which, after the state shown in FIG. 4, each auxiliary nursery box of the auxiliary nursery box supporting device is transferred to the nursery box supporting device by the auxiliary transfer device.

FIG. 6 is a front view of the auxiliary nursery box support device in the state shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the vicinity of a nursery box supporting device, a transferring device and a supporting carriage in the state shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a side view of the vicinity of a nursery box support device in a conventional nursery box transfer facility.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Nursery box 2 Transport device 3 Nursery box support device 4 Transfer device 5 Support stand 5a Support part of support stand 12 Auxiliary nursery box support device 17 Auxiliary transfer device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A carrier device (2) for transporting the nursery boxes (1) one by one, and one nursery box (1) from the carrier device (2) for receiving and supporting the nursery boxes one by one. (1) is lifted by a predetermined height to move the carrying device (2) to the next nursery box (1).
When receiving the seedling raising box (1) and the seedling raising box (1) already supported, the raising and lowering operation of the seedling raising box (1) is carried out by a predetermined height while maintaining the vertical intervals of the respective seedling raising boxes (1) at predetermined intervals. A plurality of supporting portions (5a) of the seedling raising box (1) are vertically arranged at the same vertical interval as that of the support device (3) and the seedling raising box (1) supported by the seedling raising box support device (3). A support stand (5) for the individual seedling raising boxes (1) is provided, and with the feeding of the seedling raising boxes (1) from the transport device (2), the seedling raising box supporting devices (3) are vertically moved. When the number of supported seedling raising boxes (1) reaches a predetermined number, the transfer device (4) for pushing each seedling raising box (1) of the seedling raising box supporting device (3) and transferring it to the support base (5). And the transfer device (4) attaches each nursery box (1) of the nursery box support device (3) to the support table ( While) in which was transferred, at a position in front of the nursery box suspension (3),
The seedling raising boxes (1) from the carrier device (2) are received and supported one by one, and the seedling raising boxes (1) are lifted up by a predetermined height to operate from the carrier device (2) to the next nursery box (1). 1)
When receiving the seedling raising box (1) and the seedling raising box (1) already supported, the seedling raising boxes (1) are maintained at the same vertical intervals as the seedling raising box support device (3). Auxiliary nursery box support device (1
2), and when the transfer device (4) completes the transfer of each seedling raising box (1) of the seedling raising box support device (3) to the support base (5), the auxiliary seedling raising box support device (12) ) A nursery box transfer facility equipped with an auxiliary transfer device (17) for pushing each nursery box (1) to transfer it to the nursery box support device (3).