JPH089751A - Raw tea leaf-holding device in self-propelled tea plucking machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a raw tea leaf holding device low in cost in terms of mechanical power and enabling work safety to be secured. CONSTITUTION:This raw tea leaf-holding device 1 is made up of a holding device body 2 composed of a table 5' fixed to a machine body frame 4 and six holding bags 7 placed on this table 5, a stationary cylinder 8 connected to a plucking device and fixed to a frame 4, a mobile cylinder 9 connected to this stationary cylinder 8 and movable so that its discharge end face above the six holding bags 7, and a driving control means 11 to face the discharge end above those bags 7 intermittently. By this device 1, plucked raw tea leaves are evenly and uniformly held in good balance into the respective bags 7.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a self-propelled tea plucking machine, and more particularly to a fresh tea leaf accommodating device for accommodating and evenly accommodating tea leaves in a tea leaf accommodating body.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional tea leaf storage device of this type,
There is one described in JP-A-3-119919. This is to store tea leaves in a well-balanced manner by sequentially circulating a plurality of tea leaf storage bags attached to a storage cage on the mounting table of the storage device together with the mounting table under the fixed tea leaf discharge casing. .

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional fresh tea leaf accommodating apparatus, the weight of the placing table increases as the fresh tea leaf accommodation amount increases, and a large amount of power is required to circulate and rotate the placing table. However, the cost is high, and the work of traveling while rotating a heavy mounting table in a circulating manner makes the machine unstable and is dangerous.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and is a method for accommodating fresh tea leaves in a self-propelled tea plucking machine that is low in power cost and can secure work stability. The purpose is to provide a device.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, an apparatus for storing fresh tea leaves, which collects tea leaves of the tea ridges on a machine frame formed so as to straddle the tea ridges, and conveys and stores the tea leaves. A self-propelled tea plucking machine equipped with the tea fresh leaf accommodating device, wherein the accommodating device main body includes a mounting table provided on the machine body and a plurality of accommodating bodies mounted on the mounting table, and a plucking section. A conveying cylinder that is in communication with each other and is provided with a fixed cylinder and a movable cylinder that is connected to the fixed cylinder and has a discharge end that is movable above each of the plurality of containers; and a discharge end of the movable cylinder. It is characterized by comprising a drive control means for intermittently or continuously exposing each of the containers.

[0006]

According to the present invention having the above-described structure, when the fresh tea leaves to be plucked in the plucking section are conveyed to the accommodating device by the conveying cylinder while the self-propelled tea plucking machine is running, the drive control means causes the conveying cylinder to move. The green tea leaves are evenly and uniformly housed in each of the containers by rotating and circulating the discharge end of each of the containers so as to face the plurality of containers mounted on the mounting table.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a side view of a fresh tea leaf accommodating apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view of the same tea fresh leaf accommodating apparatus. The fresh tea leaf accommodating apparatus 1 is mainly composed of an accommodating apparatus main body 2 and a conveying apparatus 3.
It consists of and.

The accommodating device body 2 includes a body frame 4 (see FIG. 5).
Disk-shaped mounting table 5 fixedly provided with respect to
It is composed of six storage bags 7 mounted on each of the six storage cages 6 having a concentric fan-shaped cross section formed integrally with the mounting table 5.

The mounting table 5 is mounted on the machine body frame 4,
It may be installed so that it can be rotated or moved back and forth, left and right,
The number of cages 6 may be plural other than six.

The transfer device 3 comprises a transfer cylinder 10 composed of a fixed cylinder 8 and a movable cylinder 9, and a drive control device 11 for driving the movable cylinder 9 to rotate.

The base end portion of the fixed barrel 8 is connected to the hood 13 of the plucking device 12 shown in FIG. 5 and communicates with the plucking blade portion, and the discharge end portion of the fixed barrel 8 is the base end portion of the movable barrel 9. It is connected to the. The drive control device 11 is provided at this connection.

The movable cylinder 9 is formed in a curved shape so that the axes y ₁ and y ₂ of the base end and the discharge end have a space d, and the axis y ₁ of the base end is the same as that of the mounting table 5. It coincides with the central axis, and the axis y ₂ of the discharge end is set so as to be located on the rotation circle locus line x drawn by connecting the centers of the accommodating bags 7.

The drive control device 11 controls the movable cylinder 9 by 60.
A rotating mechanism 14 such as a gear that rotates intermittently or continuously at an interval, and a drive motor 15 that rotates the rotating mechanism 14.
And a control unit 16 which issues a command to rotate the motor 15 intermittently or continuously at a predetermined timing by a sensing signal input from a weight sensor (not shown) or the like.

In the above embodiment, the accommodating device main body 2 is constructed so that the six accommodating bags 7 form a cylindrical shape. However, as a modified embodiment, as shown in FIG. The accommodating device main body 2 may be configured by arranging the rectangular parallelepipeds in a horizontally long shape. In this case, the guide rail 1 is arranged so that the discharge end of the movable barrel 9 is located on the rotating rectangular trajectory line z.
7 (FIG. 3) and the like. Reference numeral 18 is a guide roller, which is rotated by a drive control device 11 having an HST 19 and the like, as shown in FIG.

The rotation path of the discharge end of the movable cylinder 9 is set so as to draw a circle, and the accommodating apparatus main body 2 can be moved so that the accommodating bag 7 is positioned below the circular trajectory line. Sometimes.

In this embodiment, the plucking device 12 employs a suction-type leaf collecting mechanism 21 with a rotary blade 20 having a cutting blade structure by half-plucking, as shown in FIG. However, it is also possible to adopt a single pick, select a cylinder blade or a reciprocating blade, and use a blower type leaf collecting mechanism. In FIG. 5, M is a self-propelled tea plucking machine, A
Is a tea ridge, and 22 is a fresh tea leaf.

Next, the operation of the above-mentioned embodiment will be described.

As shown in FIG. 5, when the self-propelled tea plucking machine M travels over the tea ridges A and the tea plucking device 12 is activated, the tea leaves 22 plucked by the rotary blade 20 are suction type. The leaf collecting mechanism 21 conveys the hood 13 to the movable cylinder 9 through the fixed cylinder 8 and discharges it into the accommodation bag 7.

At this time, in the movable cylinder 9, the control unit 16 inputs a signal output from a sensor (not shown) such as a sensor for sensing the amount of green tea so that the six storage bags 7 are evenly and uniformly filled with the green tea leaves 22. By driving the output motor 15 and activating the rotating mechanism 14 linked to the motor 15, the discharge end of the movable cylinder 9 is rotated circular locus line x shown in FIG. 2 or rotational rectangular locus line shown in FIG. It intermittently or continuously rotates on z, faces the upper side of each accommodation bag 7, and discharges the fresh tea leaves 22 that have been conveyed.

The accommodating work by the intermittent rotation is not carried out from the safe traveling of the machine body to the accommodating work in the other accommodating bags 7 after filling the accommodating bags 7 one by one.
Further, the discharge end of the movable cylinder 9 is intermittently rotated on the locus line x or z at a timing when the difference in the stored tea fresh leaf amount does not become extremely large.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, the machine frame formed so as to straddle the tea ridge is equipped with the fresh tea leaf accommodating device that plucks the tea leaves of the tea ridge and conveys and stores the tea leaves. A tea plucking machine, wherein the fresh tea leaf accommodating device is provided in the machine body that is in communication with the accommodating device main body including a placing table provided in the machine body and a plurality of accommodating bodies placed on the placing table, and the plucking section. A fixed barrel and a transport barrel connected to the fixed barrel and having a discharge end movable above the plurality of containers, and a discharge end of the movable barrel intermittently or continuously. Since it is composed of the drive control means for allowing each of the containers to be exposed, it is possible to rotate the movable cylinder having a small weight without rotating the mounting table itself on which the container having a large weight is mounted unlike the conventional case. Since it only has to move, even if the weight of those containers increases, they are small all the time. The green tea leaves can be evenly and uniformly stored in multiple containers by force, the cost is low in terms of power economy, and the movable cylinder that rotates even in the surface of plucking work has a small capacity, ensuring safety for workers etc. it can.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a fresh tea leaf storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line II-II in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side view of a fresh tea leaf storage device according to a modified embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a sectional view taken along line IV-IV in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a self-propelled tea plucking machine equipped with a fresh tea leaf storage device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Tea Fresh Leaf Storage Device 2 Storage Device Main Body 3 Transport Device 4 Machine Frame 5 Loading Table 6 Storage Cage 7 Storage Bag (Body) 8 Fixed Cylinder 9 Movable Cylinder 10 Transport Cylinder 11 Drive Control Device 12 Plucking Device 13 Hood 14 Rotation Mechanism 15 Drive Motor 16 Control unit 17 Rail 18 Roller 19 HST 20 Rotary blade 21 Suction-type leaf collecting mechanism 22 Tea fresh leaf A Tea ridge M Self-propelled tea plucking machine

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A self-propelled tea plucking machine equipped with a fresh tea leaf accommodating device that plucks tea leaves of the tea ridges and conveys and stores the tea leaves in a machine frame formed so as to straddle the tea ridges. The accommodating device is connected to the accommodating device main body including a mounting table provided on the machine body and a plurality of accommodating bodies mounted on the mounting machine, a fixed cylinder connected to the plucking section and provided on the machine machine, and the fixed cylinder. A conveying cylinder having a movable cylinder whose discharge end is movable above each of the plurality of containers and a discharge end of the movable cylinder intermittently or continuously facing each of the containers. A device for storing fresh tea leaves in a self-propelled tea plucking machine, which is configured by a drive control means.