JPH08214705A - Raising seedling pot - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a raising seedling pot capable of relatively simply performing the pulling out of a pot from piled pots and arranging the piling by man power and relatively easily attaining an adaptation of a mechanical method therefor in case of raising seedling using the raising seedling pots. CONSTITUTION: This raising seedling pot is a flexible and straight cup-shaped raising seedling pot 10 having a larger circular cross section at the top opening area than that at the bottom surface 12. In the raising seedling pot, protrusions 14a-14c and 16a-16c are vertically formed inside upward direction on the periphery and in outside downward direction inside of bottom surface 12, respectively. Each of these protrusions is set not to uniformly divide included angles in radius direction passing the center of the bottom surface and arranged asymmetrically to the center of the bottom surface. The arrangement pattern of the protrusions is set to have a different phase in relation to both contiguous bottoms facing above and below to each other.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a nursery pot for growing seedlings such as vegetables and petals.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, this kind of seedling raising pot is usually formed in an upright pot having an upper opening surface larger than a bottom face, and most commonly, it is formed in a cup shape having a circular cross section made of a flexible material. Are configured so that they can be stacked and stacked on each other.

In raising seedlings in this type of pot, first, a required number of pots are taken out from the stacking pots, and then the pots are filled with a predetermined granular soil for seeding. Be seen.

[0004]

However, the above-mentioned conventional nursery pot has a serious problem to be improved as described below.

That is, in raising seedlings in the seedling raising pot, as described above, first, the pots are taken out from the stacking pots, and then the pots are filled with the soil and seeded. However, in the conventional seedling raising pot, the removal and arrangement of the pots from the stacking pot are flexible, and the pots are stacked in close contact with each other, which requires only manual work and no complicated manual work. Was unattainable. For this reason, there has been a strong demand for liberation from particularly complicated manual work by human hands, particularly in commercial seedling raising (thousands to tens of thousands units). It should be noted that filling of the soil and sowing are relatively easy even if they are manually carried out if the pots are arranged in a predetermined manner, and a mechanical method can be easily adopted, so that there is no major obstacle.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to relatively easily remove and arrange the seedling raising pots from the stacked seedling raising pots when raising seedlings by the seedling raising pots, even if manually.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a nursery pot in which a mechanical method can be adopted relatively easily.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the seedling-growing pot according to the present invention comprises an upright pot having an upper opening surface larger than a bottom surface thereof, and an inner upward and / or outer downward projection is provided on the bottom surface. The feature is that a plurality of each is set up.

In this case, in the most common cup-shaped seedling raising pot having a circular cross section, the upward and downward protrusions are provided on the peripheral portion and inside of the bottom face, respectively, and all of these protrusions are centered on the bottom face. The radial included angles passing through can be set to be non-uniform and arranged so as to be respectively asymmetric with respect to the center of the bottom surface.

[0009]

In the present invention, the seedling raising pot is provided with a plurality of upward and / or downward protrusions on the bottom surface thereof. Therefore, when the seedling-growing pots are inserted into each other and formed into a stacking pot, a gap is formed between each of the seedling-growing pots over the side surface and the bottom surface thereof. As described above, according to the present invention, the stacking pot is not stacked in close contact as in the conventional case,
It becomes possible to remove and arrange each pot from the stacking pot relatively easily even manually, and relatively easily to adopt a mechanical method.

[0010]

EXAMPLES Examples of the seedling raising pot according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 to 4, first, a seedling-growing pot 10 of the present invention is formed into a flexible upright cup having a circular cross-section whose upper opening surface is larger than that of the bottom surface 12. In addition,
The pot is not limited to a cup shape, and may be formed in a regular polygonal cross section, for example.

However, the seedling-growing pot 10 has an inward upward and outward downward protrusion 14a-1 on the bottom surface 12 thereof.
4c and 16a to 16c are respectively provided upright, and these projections are provided on the bottom surface 12, the former 14a to 14c are provided on the peripheral portion, and the latter 16a to 16c are provided on the inside, and these projections are all shown in FIG. As best shown in FIG. 1, the radial clearance angles passing through the center of the bottom surface are set to be unequal, and the radial inclination angles are arranged so as to be asymmetric with respect to the center of the bottom surface. Further, the arrangement pattern of the protrusions is as shown in FIG.
6a to 16c (FIG. 3), and the pattern 14 immediately thereabove
As shown by a'to 14c 'and 16a' to 16c ', they are set differently corresponding to the stacking of the pots 10. The reference numeral 18 indicates a drain hole.

Therefore, in the stacked state of the seedling-growing pots 10 shown in the drawing, gaps s and c are formed between the pots 10 on the side surfaces and the bottom surface thereof, respectively, and the projecting portions are formed on the upper opening surfaces thereof. 1 is formed. In the configuration of the upward and downward protrusions 14 and 16, the number is at least two in the former and three in the latter.
One or more, and the arrangement pattern can be set to various patterns other than the above.

Therefore, according to the seedling raising pot 10 of the present invention, the stacking pots are not stacked in close contact as in the conventional case. Therefore, even when the pots 10 are taken out and arranged from the stacking pot manually, In this case, by grasping the upper protruding portion 1 of each pot 10 with a fingertip,
It can be performed relatively easily, and the adoption of a mechanical method can also be achieved relatively easily by using the gripping pad 20 that expands and contracts as shown in FIG. That is, in FIG. 5, for example, by inserting the gripping pad 20 at the tip of the arm portion 24 of the extracting and arranging machine 26 having the rotating shaft portion 22 and the telescopic arm portion 24, the respective pots 10 of the stacking pots are sequentially arranged. It can be withdrawn and automatically placed in place. Therefore, according to the present invention, in raising seedlings by using this kind of seedling raising pot (particularly, raising seedlings on a large-scale commercial scale), it is possible to largely free the complicated work manually required conventionally.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and many design changes can be made without departing from the spirit thereof.

[0016]

As described above, in the seedling raising pot according to the present invention, a plurality of upward protrusions on the inside and / or downward protrusions on the outside are provided on the bottom surface of an upright pot having a larger opening than the bottom surface. By configuring
Even when the seedling-growing pots are inserted into each other to form a stacking pot, gaps are formed between the respective pots in the stacking pot. That is, according to the present invention,
Unlike conventional stacking pots, the stacking pots are not stacked in close contact with each other. Therefore, the removal and placement of each pot from the stacking pot can be performed relatively easily even manually, and the mechanical method can be adopted relatively easily. It becomes possible.

Therefore, according to the present invention, in raising seedlings by this kind of raising seedling pot, particularly in raising seedlings on a large-scale commercial scale, it is possible to largely free the complicated work manually required in the past. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a stacking pot in which seedling raising pots according to the present invention are stacked on each other.

FIG. 2 is a partial side sectional view taken along the line II-II of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a bottom view taken along the line III-III in FIG.

4 is a bottom view showing an arrangement pattern of each protrusion on the bottom surface just above the bottom surface shown in FIG. 3 by overlapping with a dotted line.

FIG. 5 is an overall perspective view showing a withdrawing and arranging machine that sequentially withdraws each pot of the stacking pot and places it at a predetermined position.

6 is a plan view showing a grip pad of the extraction and placement machine shown in FIG. 5. FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Nursery Pot 12 Bottom 14 Upward Projection 16 Downward Projection 18 Drain Hole 20 Grip Pad 22 Rotating Shaft 24 Telescopic Arm 26 Extraction Arranger

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A seedling-growing pot, which comprises an upright pot having an upper opening surface larger than a bottom face, and a plurality of inward upward and / or outward downward protrusions are respectively provided on the bottom face. 2. The seedling raising pot according to claim 1, wherein the upright pot is cup-shaped with a circular cross section. 3. The upward and downward protrusions are provided at the peripheral portion and inside of the bottom face, respectively.
Seedling raising pot. 4. The seedling raising pot according to claim 3, wherein the upward and downward protrusions are arranged asymmetrically with respect to the center of the bottom face by setting the radial clearance angles passing through the center of the bottom face to be non-uniform.