JPH10234227A - Spawn container supply mechanism in spawn inoculation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a spawn inoculation device capable of efficiently performing the supply and exchange work of spawn containers by successively supplying the plural spawn containers to the spawn inoculating device. SOLUTION: The exchange mechanism of the spawn containers is provided with a spawn container loading member 12 composed of a loading plate 12B provided with a mounting hole 12A for mounting the spawn containers while inverting the side of the neck part matched with the number of the horizontal column unit of cultivation containers, a spawn container supply part 44 capable of mounting the prescribed number of the spawn container loading members 12 and successively and intermittently supplying the spawn container loading members 12, a guide part 13 provided on the carry-away side of the spawn container supply part 44 and tilted for a prescribed angle for slidably guiding the spawn container loading member 12 by the gravity and a position control part 29 for fixing and supporting the spawn container loading member 12 on the guide part 13 at the rake-out position of spawns from the spawn container.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an inoculum inoculating apparatus for inoculating a culture medium filled in a mushroom cultivation container with a mushroom inoculum.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional device of this kind is disclosed in
No. 42802 is known. This conventional structure,
Equipped with a turntable, a lid opening device, a lid closing device, an inoculum filling device, a supply conveyor, and an unloading conveyor, a plurality of cultivations in which a fungus bed is stored and sealed with a lid when rooting mushroom seed bacteria. The operator takes out the containers one by one from the container and supplies them to the supply conveyor. This allows
In the process in which the cultivation container supplied on the turntable moves along the circumference, first, the lid is opened by the lid opening device, and then the inoculum is filled into the cultivation container by the inoculum filling device, and then the lid is closed by the lid closing device. Sealing is performed by
It is unloaded on the unloading conveyor.

[0003] The cultivation containers carried out in this way are stored in containers one by one by an operator, and a predetermined number of containers are stored in a cultivation shelf. However, in this apparatus, the operator has to supply the cultivation containers one by one from the container to the supply conveyor, and store the rooted cultivation containers one by one from the carry-out conveyor, which is a problem that the working efficiency is poor. was there.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-174311 discloses a container in which a cultivation container is accommodated in a state where the container containing the cultivation container is supplied to a position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation by a supply conveyor so that the container is accommodated in the container. It is proposed in the gazette. In this method, containers in which cultivation container groups are arranged in a plurality of rows are supplied to a position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation by a supply conveyor, and the containers are collectively collected by the suction cups of the vacuum device which is a lid opening / closing device provided above the position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation. The lid of the cultivation container group inside is opened.

[0005] Further, as a seed filling device, the seeds in the seed container are scraped off by a scraper, and the scraped seeds are dropped and stored in a channel bracket serving as a seed guiding member. Two flat shutters are arranged below, and the shutters arranged above the shutters are provided with round holes corresponding to the mouths of the cultivation containers in the container, and the channel bracket is slid relative to the shutters. By supplying and filling a set amount of inoculum in each round hole by passing through and retreating, then inoculating the inoculum collectively into the cultivation container group in the container by opening the lower shutter for each row, After the lid is closed by the lid opening / closing device,
The container is moved to and carried out from a carry-out conveyor provided horizontally on the conveyor, so that the operation of taking in and out the cultivation containers in the container one by one can be omitted.

[0006] Further, a seed filling device used for the above-mentioned various types of mushroom seed inoculating devices is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-258.
No. 519 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-258520, the seed bacterium container containing the seed bacterium is mounted upside down and mounted on a receiving member provided on the main body frame. By rotating the seed container by rotating the scraping rod provided with a scraping blade from the mouth of the seed container, the seed is scraped in a predetermined amount by rotating the scraping rod into the container, filling the cultivation container and inoculating it. Make up.

In this case, when the inoculum in the inoculum container disappears due to the inoculation of the inoculum by the scraping blade, the empty inoculum container is manually removed from the receiving member one by one, and the inoculum containing the inoculum is newly added. The container must be mounted on the receiving member provided on the main body frame, and at the time of replacing the various bacterial containers, the inoculum inoculation device is not operated and is stopped, and as a result, the operating rate of the inoculation operation is reduced. There is a problem that it is easy to cause a decrease.

In consideration of this point, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-328843,
The seed culture container is set upside down by supporting the seed culture container upside down in accordance with the container position of the cultivation container in the container.The seed culture is inoculated from the seed culture container, and the seed culture is retracted to the side from this inoculation position. Set to the position where you want to replace the container,
Moving means for moving the seed container between the seed inoculation position and the position retracted to the side is provided to constitute a seed container exchange mechanism.

[0009]

However, even with this mechanism for exchanging the inoculum container, each empty inoculum container on the main frame of the inoculum inoculation device is removed, and the inoculum containing the inoculum is newly removed. Containers must be individually set on the main body frame of the inoculation device, and consequently, when carrying out other work such as carrying-in or carrying-out work of the container, it is necessary to replace the inoculum container. If they do, there is a problem that other work cannot be performed at all, resulting in a work loss.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for inoculating a seed container by setting the neck portion of the seed container in advance in an inverted state on a seed container loading member and sequentially supplying the set seed containers to an inoculation device. It is an object of the present invention to provide an inoculum inoculation device capable of efficiently performing supply and exchange operations.

[0011]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a container in which a group of cultivation containers is arranged in a plurality of rows is intermittently transferred in row units, and a lid of the cultivation container group is opened and closed in row units.
When the lid is opened, in the inoculum inoculation device in which a predetermined amount of the inoculum in the inoculum container is scraped out in a row unit and filled in the cultivation container and inoculated, the inoculum container is adjusted according to the number of row units of the cultivation container. Seed container loading member comprising a loading plate provided with a mounting hole for mounting the neck portion upside down, and a seed bacterium capable of mounting a predetermined number of the seed bacterium container loading members and supplying the seed bacterium container loading member sequentially and intermittently. A container supply unit, a guide guide unit provided on the unloading side of the seed container supply unit, and a guide guide unit inclined at a predetermined angle for slidably guiding the seed cell container loading member by its own weight; And a position regulating portion for fixing and supporting the seed container loading member on the guide guide portion at the scraping-out position. According to the present invention, there is provided a seed container in which the seed container container is disposed together with the seed container in which the seed cells are emptied from above the guide member when the position restricting portion is opened. That is, a carry-out receiving section is provided. Further, in the present invention, the inoculum container supply unit is provided with a carry-in supply drive unit that can intermittently supply the inoculum container loading member provided with the same number of mounting holes as the number of rows of the cultivation container in row units. It is in. Further, in the present invention, in the guide portion located on the downstream side of the position restricting portion, the sliding movement region of the seed cell container loading member is defined together with the seed container in which the seed cells are empty when the position restricting portion is opened. To provide a stopper. Further, in the present invention, the stopper is provided with a stopper releasing means that can open the state of restricting the position of the seed cell loading member by the stopper.

[0012]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A seed cell container loading member comprising a mounting plate provided with a mounting hole for mounting the seed cell container upside down in accordance with the number of cultivation containers arranged in a row in the container, A predetermined number of pieces are placed on the container supply section, and the seed cell supply section is intermittently supplied by the seed cell supply section, so that the seed cell container loading member is slidably provided by its own weight on the guide guide section, and is provided by the position regulating section. At the fixed support position, the seed is scraped from the seed container at this fixed support position, a predetermined amount of the seed is supplied into the cultivation container, and when the seed is empty, the seed container is By opening the position restricting portion at the time of replacement, a plurality of inoculum containers are slid along the guide portion from the inoculation position of the inoculum and sent out. In addition, by providing the seed container carrying-out receiving portion on the carrying-out side of the guide guide portion, the seed container loading member loaded with the empty seed container is sequentially transferred to the seed container carrying-out receiving portion. Further, a stopper for defining a sliding movement area of the seed container loading member together with the seed container in which the seed cells are emptied when the position control unit is opened is provided at the guide portion located on the downstream side of the position restricting unit. With this arrangement, the inoculum container containing the inoculum newly set on the inoculum container loading member is slid and guided by its own weight to the inoculation position of the inoculum via the guide guide portion, and the evacuation position of the inoculation member is set at the extraction position. A predetermined amount of inoculum is inoculated into the cultivation container by the operation, and the stopper is provided with a stopper releasing means capable of opening the position regulation state of the inoculum container loading member by the stopper. The seed container loading member loaded with the seed container in which the seed bacteria have been emptied by the operation of the stopper releasing means is transferred to the seed container carrying-out receiving portion.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The schematic configuration and operation of the inoculum inoculation device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the overall schematic diagram of the inoculum inoculation device shown in FIGS. A transfer conveyor 2 is provided over substantially the entire length of the main body frame 1 of the inoculum inoculation apparatus. The transfer conveyor 2 is provided so as to be able to start and stop by operating a switch on an operation panel 3.
An endless chain 4 is stretched in parallel between a plurality of sprockets provided at both ends of the chain.

A cultivation vessel 6 filled with a culture medium mainly composed of sawdust and rice bran and sealed with a lid 5 is
For example, a plastic container 7 containing four columns and four rows is placed on the chain 4 of the transfer conveyor 2 at the transfer start end, and when the transfer conveyor 2 is started, the chain 4 travels to move the container 7 toward the transfer end. Can be transported.

At a substantially central position of the main body frame 1, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-103543 previously proposed by the present applicant, the cultivation container 6 has reached an appropriate inoculum inoculation position. And a container positioning device 8 for positioning the cultivation containers 6 in a horizontal row in the container 7 while detecting the center of the cultivation containers 6 is provided. A lid opening / closing device 9 for opening and closing the lid 5 of the grown cultivation container 6 is provided.

The lid 5 of the cultivation container 6 by the lid opening / closing device 9
When the cultivation container 6 is opened, a seed bacillus filling device 11 is configured to scrape a predetermined amount of the germ S in the germ container 10 and inoculate the cultivation container 6 thus opened.

The inoculum inoculation apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 6 in addition to FIGS. 1 and 2 described above. The inoculation apparatus corresponds to the horizontal row of cultivation containers 6 housed in the container 7. There is provided a seed container loading member 12 comprising a substantially flat loading plate 12B having a mounting hole 12A for inserting the neck 10A side of the four seed containers 10 to be turned upside down. The main body frame 1 is placed and supported on a guide portion 13 composed of guide rails 13A attached to both side portions of the main body frame 1.

In this embodiment, the guide rail 13A of the guide unit 13 is capable of mounting both ends of the seed container loading member 12 and is slidable by its own weight of the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12. The guide unit 13 is disposed at a predetermined angle and is fixed to the main body frame 1.
Guide plate 13 for preventing the flat loading plate 12B from floating at a position corresponding to the scraping position of
B is provided, and the guide rail 13A is disposed in an inclined state.
A stopper 14 is provided at the lower end of the guide unit 13 for defining a sliding movement area of the seed container loading member 12.

Further, plate-like supports 15 are provided upright on both sides of the body frame 1 corresponding to the position where the seeds S are scraped out of the seeds container 10, and an air cylinder 16 is attached to each of the supports 15, Air cylinder 16
The support plate 17 is fixed between the upper ends of the pistons 16A,
The support plate 17 has a sprocket 18 serving as a rotation transmitting member at a position corresponding to the bottom 10B of the inoculum container 10.
Are rotatably supported via a rotary shaft 19, and a pressing support member 20 is provided at a lower end of the rotary shaft 19.
The pressing support member 20 is provided with a disk-shaped pressing plate 21 having the same size as the bottom portion 10B of the seed container 10 in a detented state with respect to the rotation shaft 19 and resiliently. 10B is configured to be pressed and biased.

A motor 22 having a gear head is mounted on and fixed to the support plate 17 facing the sprocket 18, and a driving sprocket 23 is provided on a rotating shaft of the motor 22. An endless roller chain 25 is bridged between the motor 22 and the sprockets 18 for rotating the respective pressing plates 21 and the driven sprockets 24 provided on the support plate 17.
3, 24 and a roller chain 25 constitute a seed container rotation driving member 26. A plurality of sprockets 18 are rotationally transmitted through an endless roller chain 25 by the rotation drive of the motor 22.
The rotation of the pressing plate 21 through the rotation shaft 19 causes the rotation of the pressing plate 21 to be transmitted.

At the scraping position where the seeds S are scraped out of the seed container 10, positioning shafts 27 are provided at both ends of the support plate 17 so as to project right and left toward the seed container loading member 12. Fitting holes 28 are formed at both ends of the loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 facing the tip of the positioning shaft 27, respectively.
The positioning shaft 28 and the fitting hole 28 constitute a position regulating portion 29 for fixing and supporting the loading plate 12B constituting the inoculum container loading member 12 on the guide portion 13.

In this embodiment, the position regulating section 2
9 is formed so as to reciprocate in the axial direction thereof along with the operation of the piston 16A of the cylinder 16, and the shaft 15 is provided by a bearing 15A provided on the column 15 to stabilize the reciprocating operation. The insertion of the positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 28 can be performed smoothly by forming the tip of the positioning shaft 27 or the insertion side of the fitting hole 28 into a tapered shape. It is formed as follows.

In the above-described embodiment, when the inoculum container 10 is loaded and held in the inoculum container loading member 12, the inoculum container 10 filled with the inoculum S is turned upside down and the loading plate is formed in a flat plate shape. The neck 10A of the inoculum container 10 is mounted and set in the four mounting holes 12A of the airbag 12B, while the air cylinder 16 is operated to maintain the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16 at the raised position.
With the rise of A, the support plate 17 and the pressing plate 21 side attached to the support plate 17 and the positioning shaft 27 of the position regulating portion 29 attached to the support plate 17 are kept in the raised state, and in this raised state, the seed container 10 is moved. The guide plate 1 which is located on the lower side of the pressing plate 21 side, which is the position where the seeds S are scraped out, with the loading plate 12B of the seed bacteria container loading member 12 set in advance in an inverted state.
The support plate 17 fixed on the piston 16A is also lowered by lowering the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16 by lowering the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16, and attached to the support plate 17 with this lowering operation. The pressing plate 21 and the positioning shaft 27 of the position regulating portion 29 are lowered, the pressing plate 21 presses and supports the bottom portion 10B of each of the inoculum containers 10, and the distal end of the positioning shaft 27 has a flat plate-like shape. The guide member 13 is inserted into a fitting hole 28 which forms a part of a position regulating portion 29 provided on the plate 12B.
The inoculum container loading member 12 slidably mounted on the inoculum container 10 is fixedly supported at a predetermined position by the insertion of the positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 28 which are the position regulating portions 29, and the inoculum container 10
The preliminary preparation in the step of scraping out the inoculum S is completed.

Further, in this embodiment, according to the number (four) of the cultivation containers 6 accommodated in the container 7 in a row unit, the loading plate 12B constituting the inoculum container loading member 12 has Four mounting holes 12A for receiving the neck 10A are formed, and support shafts 30 are respectively erected between the mounting holes 12A. The inoculum container 10 is provided at the upper end of each support shaft 30.
A substantially cylindrical piece 30A that supports the body 10C is mounted and fixed. Although not shown, the mounting holes 12
A shoulder 10D between the trunk 10C and the neck 10A of the inoculum container 10 inserted concentrically with A and upside down
May be mounted and fixed on the loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 to rotatably support.

The positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 2
8, a position where the loading plate 12B constituting the inoculum container loading member 12 is fixedly supported on the guide portion 13 via the position regulating portion 29, ie, the inoculum container 1
At the scraping position where the 0 inoculum S was scraped out, the inoculum was scraped off at one location on the main body frame corresponding to the position below the neck 10A of each of the inoculum containers 10 which were placed upside down in the mounting holes 12A of the loading plate 12B. A tubular inoculum guide cover 31 capable of guiding the inoculum S is provided.

Each of the mounting holes 1 provided in the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12 fixedly supported by the position regulating portion 29 is provided in the above-described seed filling device 11.
A scraping rod 32 having a scraping blade 32A serving as a scraping member for scraping the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 via 2A is provided, and each of the scraping rods 32 is provided with a scraping rotation drive unit. The motor 33 is configured to transmit rotation through a chain 34, and the scraping rod 32 is mounted on the plate 35 together with the motor 33.

The scraping rod 32 provided with a scraping blade 32A serving as the scraping member is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-1 which was previously proposed by the present applicant.
No. 03543, the scraping blade 32A
The plate 35 that supports each scraping rod 32 is provided so as to be able to move up and down with the rotation of.

In this embodiment, a screw rod 37 is screwed into a female screw cylinder 36 provided on a plate 35, and the screw rod 37 is connected to a motor 39 serving as a scraping-up drive section via an endless chain 38. The rotation of the motor 39 is transmitted to the screw rod 37 via the endless chain 38, and the plate 35 is raised with the rotation of the screw rod 37.
The scraping rod 32 having the scraping blade 32A mounted on the plate 35 is guided upward.

When the scraping rod 32 reaches the rising end, the motor 39 serving as the scraping raising drive unit rotates in the reverse direction so as to return to the falling end, and the reverse rotation causes the screw 39 to move through the screw rod 37. The plate 35 is configured to return downward.

Further, the 4 provided on the inoculum container loading member 12
A seed tube 40 for guiding and storing the seed bacteria S is provided below each of the mounting holes 12A, and a shutter 41 for opening and closing the lower end of the opening is provided at the lower end of the various tube guides 40. ing.

Below the shutter 41, there is provided a seed supply tube 42 for guiding the seed S to the opening of the cultivation container 6 when the shutter 41 is opened. Along with the opening / closing device 9, it is movably provided via a link arm, and when the lid 5 is opened by the lid opening / closing device 9 with the operation of the cylinder 43, the inoculum supply cylinder 42 moves to the cultivation container 6 position. The inoculation tube 42 is movably disposed so as to move and retreat to a position away from the cultivation container 6 when the cover 5 is closed by the cover opening / closing device 9.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a predetermined number of loading plates 12B constituting the inoculum container loading member 12 can be placed at the upper position of the main body frame 1, that is, at the loading side of the guide unit 13. , Its loading plate 1
Seed container supply unit 44 that can supply 2B intermittently sequentially
Is installed.

In the inoculum container supply section 44, an endless chain 46 is hung in parallel between respective sprockets 45 provided at both ends of the main frame 1 at a flat upper surface portion thereof. A motor 47 serving as a carry-in / supply driving means is connected to one portion of the shaft 45 via a gear, and the rotation drive of the motor 47 intermittently feeds the seed cell container loading member 12 placed on the endless chain 46. It is configured as follows.

Further, between the upper and lower ends of the endless chain 46 spanned between the sprockets 45, a regulating plate 48 for suppressing the slack of the chain 46 is provided. A guide side plate 49 for guiding the inoculum container loading member 12 is provided on both sides, and a guide rail 13A of the guide portion 13 is provided at a predetermined angle adjacent to the unloading side of the endless chain 46. And
A transfer guide piece 50 is attached and fixed to the guide side plate 49 located at the end of the chain 46 on the carry-out side, and a guide rail on which the seed cell container loading member 12 is arranged obliquely from the chain 46 by the transfer guide piece 50. 13A
When moving to, the rear end side of the loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 is prevented from rising up from the guide rail 13 and inverting.

In this embodiment, the guide 1
On the unloading side of the third guide rail 13A, an inoculum container unloading receiving portion 51 to which the inoculum container loading member 12 is delivered is installed. The inoculum container unloading receiving portion 51 is formed in a frame shape as a whole. An unloading rail 51A is disposed on both sides in accordance with the width of the guide rail 13A, and a drop-preventing stopper 51B is formed at the unloading end of the unloading rail 51A.

The stopper 14 is connected to a cylinder 52 serving as a stopper releasing means so as to be able to protrude and retract from the conveying surface of the guide rail 13A. The loading plate 12B, on which the inoculum S on the guide rail 13A is empty, loaded with the inoculum container 10 is slid along the inclined surface, and is received by the unloading rail 51A, which is the inoculum container unloading receiving portion 51. The loading plate 12B is formed so as to be positioned and stopped by the drop prevention stopper 51B.

Next, the operation of the normal inoculation step in the above configuration will be described. First, the air cylinder 16 is operated to maintain the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16 at the raised position. With the rise of the piston 16A, the piston 16A is attached to the support plate 17 and the pressing plate 21 side attached to the support plate 17 and the support plate 17. The positioning shaft 27 of the position restricting portion 29 is kept in the raised state, and in this raised state, the loading plate 12B of the seed-bacteria container loading member 12, which is previously set to the state where the seed-bacteria container 10 is turned upside down, is the position where the seed B is scraped out. The support plate 17 fixed to the piston 16A is also lowered by placing it on the guide rail 13A of the guide portion 13 located below the pressing plate 21 and then lowering the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16. , The supporting plate 17
The pressing plate 21 and the positioning shaft 27 of the position restricting portion 29 attached to the bottom move down, and the pressing plate 21 causes the bottom portion 10B of each inoculum container 10 to move.
And the leading end of the positioning shaft 27 is inserted into a fitting hole 28 which constitutes a part of a position regulating portion 29 provided in the flat loading plate 12B, whereby the positioning shaft 27 slides on the guide 13. The inoculated seed container loading member 12 is fixedly supported at a predetermined inoculum inoculation position by inserting the positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 28 serving as the position restricting portion 29, and the step of scraping out the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 is performed. Preparations for are completed.

After the preparation is completed, a container 7 containing a predetermined number of cultivation containers 6 with lids 5 is placed on the transfer conveyor 2 and the container 7 is transferred. Upon reaching the inoculation position, the transfer conveyor 2 stops, and then the cultivation container 6 is positioned and fixed to the seed inoculation position with the container positioning device 8 regulating the vertical direction and the center position of the cultivation container 6.

At the time of positioning by the container positioning device 8, in this embodiment, the motor 33, which is a scraping rotation drive member, is also driven for a preset time, and the seed rod S in the seed container 10 is rotated by the rotation of the scraping rod 32. The seed S is scraped off by the scraping blade 32A, and the seed S is scraped off.
0 is stored at the lower end.

At this time, when the scraping rod 32 rotates, the motor 22 constituting a part of the inoculum container rotation driving member 26 also operates, and the rotation of the motor 22 causes the pressing plate 21 to rotate via the rotating shaft 19. Then, while the pressing plate 21 presses and supports the seed container 10, the seed container 10 is rotated, and the screw rod 37 rotates with the rotation of the motor 39 serving as a scraping-up driving unit to raise the plate 35, The scraping rod 32 provided with the scraping blade 32A mounted on the plate 35 is guided upward in the depth direction of the inoculum container 10.

The rotation direction of the seed container 10 by the seed container rotation drive member 26 and the rotation direction of the scraping blade 32A by the rotation of the motor 33, which is the scraping rotation drive unit, are relatively rotated in reverse. To increase the scraping efficiency in the scraping of the inoculum S,
It is intended that the inoculum S close to the inner wall of the inoculum container 10 be scraped out well by the rotation of the inoculum container 10.

Next, after the positioning by the container positioning device 8 is performed, the lid 5 of the cultivation container 6 is rotated to the lid open position by the lid opening / closing device 9 with the operation of the cylinder 43,
In conjunction with this lid opening operation, the inoculum supply cylinder 42 moves right above the cultivation container 6 from which the lid 5 has been removed, and the inoculum supply cylinder 42 is disposed on an axis connecting the inoculum guide cylinder 40 and the cultivation container 6. Is done.

When the cover of the cover opening / closing device 9 is completely opened, the shutter 41 is opened, so that the inoculum S in the inoculum guide tube 40 can be passed through the inoculum supply tube 42 in the horizontal direction in one row.
After the supply of the inoculum S is completed, the shutter 41 returns to close the lower open end of the inoculum guide tube 40, and the inoculum supply tube 42 is returned by the operation of returning the cylinder 43 to the cultivation container 6. Simultaneously with the evacuation and return from the position, the lid opening and closing device 9 is rotated and returned, and covers the lids 5 of the cultivation containers 6 in a horizontal row inoculated with the inoculum S.

Therefore, the cultivation container 6 in the container 7 is sequentially operated in a horizontal row unit by sequentially operating the series of steps.
Can be continuously inoculated with inoculum S.

In the above-described embodiment, the replacement mechanism of the seed container which is the main object of the present invention will be described.
In the process of inoculating the cultivation container 6 in the container 7 continuously while intermittently feeding the cultivation container 6 in a horizontal row unit, the inoculum container 10
In order to scrape out the inoculum S in the inoculum by a predetermined amount, the motor 33, which is a scraping rotation drive unit, is driven for a preset time, and the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 is rotated by the rotation of the scraping rod 32 so that the scraping blade 32
At the same time, the screw rod 38 intermittently rotates due to the rotation of the motor 39 serving as the scraping-up drive unit, and the plate 35 is guided upwardly. The scraping rod 32 provided with the scraping blade 32A attached to the ascending guide is also guided upward, and when the position of the scraping blade 32A reaches the rising end at the time of this rising guide, that is, the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 becomes empty. At this point in time, the motor 39 serving as the scraping-up driving unit is rotated in reverse by the operation of a sensor (not shown), and the plate 35 is returned to the lower end via the screw rod 37 to return downward.

At this time, that is, when the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 is empty, the support plate 17 is raised by the operation of the air cylinder 16, and the bottom portion 10B of the inoculum container 10 is pressed by the ascending operation. At the same time that the pressing support portion 20 is released, the positioning shaft 27 that constitutes a part of the position regulating portion 29 is also raised and the pressing and fixing support of the inoculum container 10 is released,
The positioning shaft 27 comes out of the fitting hole 28 provided in the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12, and as a result, the four seed containers 1 that are empty become empty.
0 is loaded from the position restricting portion 29, whereby the inoculated bacterial cell loading member 12 is slid along the slope of the guide rail 13A of the inclined guide portion 13, and the lower end of the slope of the guide rail 13A is moved. Is restricted by a stopper 14 provided on the side, and at the same time, the seed cell loading member 12 loaded with the four seed cells 10 which are waiting next.
Slides along the slope of the guide rail 13A to the position where the inoculum is scraped out, and the inoculum S in the standby state
The switching between the four inoculum containers 10 filled with and the four inoculated inoculum containers 10 is automatically performed.

After the replacement operation of the inoculum container 10,
When the piston 16A of the cylinder 16 descends, the support plate 17 fixed to the piston 16A descends. With this descending operation, the positioning shaft 27 attached to the support plate 17 and the pressing plate 21 descend. The tip of the positioning shaft 27 is inserted into the fitting hole 28 provided in the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12, and the bottom portions 10B of the four seed containers 10 newly supplied by the pressing plate 21 are removed. The seeds S are pressed and supported, thereby preparing for scraping out the inoculum S in the various inoculum containers 10. Then, as described above, the inoculation of the inoculum S is sequentially performed by the rotation drive of the incision blade 32 </ b> A and the inoculum container 10.

At the same time as the switching operation of the seed container 10, the endless chain is driven by the rotation of the motor 47 serving as the feed driving means from the seed container supply unit 44 provided on the loading side of the guide unit 13. The loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 placed on the 46 is intermittently fed, and by this feeding, the loading plate 12B placed on the discharge side end of the chain 46 is disposed at a predetermined angle. It is newly fed into the supply side of the guide rail 13A, slides along the inclined surface of the guide rail 13A by its own weight of the inoculum container loading member 12, and is fixedly supported on the guide guide 13 by the position regulating portion 29. The seed cell container loading member 12 that has been set and the seed cell container loading member 12 that is waiting next are sequentially arranged in a connected state.

Therefore, the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12 loaded with the four seed containers 10 emptied during the switching operation of the seed container 10 is placed on the guide rail 13A of the guide unit 13 for each unit. , And it is not necessary to replace the inoculum container 10 one by one as in the conventional apparatus, so that the working efficiency can be improved.

When the seed container 10 is refilled, the seed container 10 is loaded and set in advance into the four mounting holes 12A provided in the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12, and the seed container in this set state is loaded. By providing a predetermined number of the members 12 on the endless chain 46 of the seed container supply unit 44 so as to be able to be mounted thereon and stock them, the seed cells loaded with the four seed cells 10 when replenishing the seed cells 10 The container loading member 12 can be transported as a single unit onto the rail-shaped guide guide portion 13 and can be easily supplied. This has an effect that the supply operation of the inoculum container 10 can be easily performed.

In this embodiment, in addition to the seed container loading member 12 set in a state in which the seed bacteria S are scraped out, the seed microorganism container loading member 12 in the standby state is continuously connected to the guide rail 13A of the guide unit 13. However, the length of the guide member 13 composed of the guide rail 13A may be extended so that more seed cell container loading members 12 may be provided so as to be settable. Depending on the size of the cultivation container 6, the number of row units may be different, such as three or five, but the loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 is adjusted according to the number of row units in the container 7. What is necessary is just to set the number of mounting holes 12A provided.

As described above, when the seed cell container loading member 12 loaded with the empty seed cell container 10 is sent out along the inclined surface of the guide portion 13, in the embodiment, the seed cell container loading member 12 is sent out. As an amount, the guide unit 13
The distance between the stopper 14 provided on the lower end side of the inoculum and the position of the end surface on the sending side of the inoculum container loading member 12 supported at the inoculum inoculation position is substantially matched with the depth dimension which is the sending direction of the inoculum container loading member 12. By setting, the inoculated seed container 10 can be slid along one of the inoculated seed container loading members 12 along the guide 13 so that the inoculated seed container 10 is loaded with the empty seed container 10 as described above. Although the loading member 12 may be directly taken out, as described in the embodiment, the guide member 13 including the guide rail 13A is used.
The stopper 14 is connected to the cylinder 52 serving as a stopper releasing means so that the stopper 14 can be retracted and retracted with respect to the conveying surface of the guide rail 13A on the unloading side of the guide rail 13A. By installing the seed container carrying-out receiving portion 51 to which the seed container loading member 12 is delivered, the seed container loading member 12 loaded with the empty seed container 10 is lowered by operating the cylinder 52 to lower the stopper 14. The loading plate 12B loaded with the vacant inoculum container 10 on the guide rail 13A is slid along the inclined surface and transferred to the unloading rail 51A, which is the inoculum container unloading receiving portion 51. After a predetermined amount of the inoculum container loading member 12 is stocked, the inoculated inoculum container 10 becomes empty.
Can be removed collectively for each unit, so that an exchange operation such as supply and removal of the seed container 10 can be easily performed.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the present invention. For example, the inoculum container loading member 12 is formed by a substantially flat loading plate 12B. Has formed,
The inoculation container loading member may be formed of a loading plate having a frame shape in accordance with the shape and size of the inoculum container 10, and a rail-shaped guide guide 13 has been described as an example. The rollers may be arranged in parallel to form a guide portion, and in the embodiment, the guide portion and the inoculum container carrying-out / receiving portion are separately formed and installed. It may be configured to be extended so as to serve also as the function of the inoculum container carrying-out / receiving section.

As a mechanism of the position restricting portion 29 for fixing and supporting the inoculum container loading member 12 at the position where the inoculum S is scraped out,
In the embodiment, the position is determined by inserting the positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 28.
8, the positioning shaft 27 may be attached to a support plate 17 for pressing and supporting the inoculum container 10 and protruded downward from the support plate 17. The seed bacterium container loading member may be positioned and fixed by positioning pins individually provided on the side.

[0055]

According to the present invention, the containers in which the cultivation container groups are arranged in a plurality of rows are intermittently transferred in row units, and the lids of the cultivation container groups are opened and closed in row units. In the inoculum inoculation device in which a predetermined amount of the inoculum in the inoculum container is scraped out in units and filled into the cultivation container and inoculated, the neck portion of the inoculum container is mounted upside down in accordance with the number of row units of the cultivation container. A seed container loading member including a loading plate provided with a mounting hole, a seed container supply unit capable of mounting a predetermined number of the seed container loading members, and capable of sequentially and intermittently supplying the seed container loading member; A guide guide portion provided on the unloading side of the container supply portion and inclined at a predetermined angle for slidably guiding the inoculum container loading member by its own weight, and the seed in a position where the inoculum is scraped out from the inoculum container. A position regulating portion for fixing and supporting the container loading member on the guide guide portion, so that the inoculated seed container filled with the inoculum in each of the mounting holes of the inoculum container loading member is set upside down. Then, by merely placing a predetermined number of the seed cell container loading members in the set state as one unit on the seed cell container supply unit, the seed cell container loading members in the set state are easily supplied to the guide member sequentially and intermittently. It is possible to arrange the seed container loading member fixedly supported by the position regulating member and the seed microorganism container loading member in which the next standby seed container is set on the guide member, so that it is possible to arrange them sequentially in a connected state. When the inoculum in the inoculum container is empty, the inoculation container loading member, which has loaded the empty inoculum container by opening the position regulating member, The seed transfer container slides on the slide member, and at the same time, the next standby seed container loading member slides and shifts along the guide member to the position where the seed bacteria are scraped out. It is possible to easily perform the switching operation of switching between the number of seed cells and the empty number of seed cells, and the seed container loaded with each of the seed cells emptied during the switching operation of the seed cells. The loading member can be sent out from the guide member of each unit to the seed container carrying-out receiving portion, or can be easily removed, and it is not necessary to replace each seed cell container one by one as in the conventional apparatus, so that the work efficiency is improved. Thus, it is possible to provide an inoculum container supply mechanism in the inoculum inoculation apparatus that can be used.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing the entire configuration of a seed inoculation device applied to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a main side view of the inoculum inoculating apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a main part of a seed cell container switching mechanism provided in the seed cell inoculation apparatus of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a main part showing a set state of a seed cell container and a seed cell container loading member according to an embodiment of the present invention in a partial cross section.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a main part of the seed cell container and the seed cell container loading member shown in FIG. 4 in a partially sectioned open state.

FIG. 6 is an overall schematic main side view of the inoculum inoculation apparatus showing a supply state of the inoculum container.

[Explanation of symbols]

 S Seed Bacteria 1 Body Frame 5 Lid 6 Cultivation Container 7 Container 8 Container Positioning Device 9 Lid Opening / Closing Device 10 Seed Container 10A Neck 10B Bottom 11 Seed Filling Device 12 Seed Container Loading Member 12A Mounting Hole 12B Loading Plate 13 Guide Guide 13A Guide Rail 14 Stopper 15 Prop 16 Air cylinder 17 Support plate 19 Rotating shaft 20 Press support 21 Press plate 26 Seed container rotation drive member 27 Positioning shaft 28 Fitting hole 29 Position control unit 32 Scrape stick (scrape member) 32A Scrape blade 44 Seed Container supply unit 47 Motor (load-in supply drive unit) 51 Seed container transport-out receiving unit 51A Rail for unloading 52 Cylinder (stopper releasing unit)

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[Submission date] January 29, 1998

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[Title of the Invention] Inoculum container supply mechanism in inoculum inoculation device

[Claims]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an inoculum inoculating apparatus for inoculating a culture medium filled in a mushroom cultivation container with a mushroom inoculum.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional device of this kind is disclosed in
No. 42802 is known. This conventional structure,
Equipped with a turntable, a lid opening device, a lid closing device, an inoculum filling device, a supply conveyor, and an unloading conveyor, a plurality of cultivations in which a fungus bed is stored and sealed with a lid when rooting mushroom seed bacteria. The operator takes out the containers one by one from the container and supplies them to the supply conveyor. This allows
In the process in which the cultivation container supplied on the turntable moves along the circumference, first, the lid is opened by the lid opening device, and then the inoculum is filled into the cultivation container by the inoculum filling device, and then the lid is closed by the lid closing device. Sealing is performed by
It is unloaded on the unloading conveyor.

[0003] The cultivation containers carried out in this way are stored in containers one by one by an operator, and a predetermined number of containers are stored in a cultivation shelf. However, in this apparatus, the operator has to supply the cultivation containers one by one from the container to the supply conveyor, and store the rooted cultivation containers one by one from the carry-out conveyor, which is a problem that the working efficiency is poor. was there.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-174311 discloses a container in which a cultivation container is accommodated in a state where the container containing the cultivation container is supplied to a position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation by a supply conveyor so that the container is accommodated in the container. It is proposed in the gazette. In this method, containers in which cultivation container groups are arranged in a plurality of rows are supplied to a position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation by a supply conveyor, and the containers are collectively collected by the suction cups of the vacuum device which is a lid opening / closing device provided above the position corresponding to the inoculum inoculation. The lid of the cultivation container group inside is opened.

[0005] Further, as a seed filling device, the seeds in the seed container are scraped off by a scraper, and the scraped seeds are dropped and stored in a channel bracket serving as a seed guiding member. Two flat shutters are arranged below, and the shutters arranged above the shutters are provided with round holes corresponding to the mouths of the cultivation containers in the container, and the channel bracket is slid relative to the shutters. By supplying and filling a set amount of inoculum in each round hole by passing through and retreating, then inoculating the inoculum collectively into the cultivation container group in the container by opening the lower shutter for each row, After the lid is closed by the lid opening / closing device,
The container is moved to and carried out from a carry-out conveyor provided horizontally on the conveyor, so that the operation of taking in and out the cultivation containers in the container one by one can be omitted.

[0006] Further, a seed filling device used for the above-mentioned various types of mushroom seed inoculating devices is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-258.
No. 519 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-258520, the seed bacterium container containing the seed bacterium is mounted upside down and mounted on a receiving member provided on the main body frame. By rotating the seed container by rotating the scraping rod provided with a scraping blade from the mouth of the seed container, the seed is scraped in a predetermined amount by rotating the scraping rod into the container, filling the cultivation container and inoculating it. Make up.

In this case, when the inoculum in the inoculum container disappears due to the inoculation of the inoculum by the scraping blade, the empty inoculum container is manually removed from the receiving member one by one, and the inoculum containing the inoculum is newly added. The container must be mounted on the receiving member provided on the main body frame, and at the time of replacing the various bacterial containers, the inoculum inoculation device is not operated and is stopped, and as a result, the operating rate of the inoculation operation is reduced. There is a problem that it is easy to cause a decrease.

In consideration of this point, for example, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-328843,
The seed culture container is set upside down by supporting the seed culture container upside down in accordance with the container position of the cultivation container in the container.The seed culture is inoculated from the seed culture container, and the seed culture is retracted to the side from this inoculation position. Set to the position where you want to replace the container,
Moving means for moving the seed container between the seed inoculation position and the position retracted to the side is provided to constitute a seed container exchange mechanism.

[0009]

However, even with this mechanism for exchanging the inoculum container, each empty inoculum container on the main frame of the inoculum inoculation device is removed, and the inoculum containing the inoculum is newly removed. Containers must be individually set on the main body frame of the inoculation device, and consequently, when carrying out other work such as carrying-in or carrying-out work of the container, it is necessary to replace the inoculum container. If they do, there is a problem that other work cannot be performed at all, resulting in a work loss.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a method of loading a seed container by setting the neck of the seed container in advance in an inverted state on a seed container loading member and sequentially supplying the set seed containers to a seed filling device. It is an object of the present invention to provide an inoculum inoculation device capable of efficiently performing supply and exchange operations.

According to the present invention, a cultivation container group is provided.
Intermittent transfer of containers stored in multiple rows in row units
Transfer conveyor for feeding and lid of cultivation container at the inoculum inoculation position
A lid opening / closing device that opens and closes the inoculum and a predetermined amount of inoculum in the inoculum container
Cultivation vessel with the lid opened by the lid opening and closing device
An inoculum filling device for inoculating the inoculum with the inoculum, and the inoculum volume
A seed cell container loading member for mounting the neck side of the vessel upside down,
A predetermined number of inoculum container loading members can be placed, and
Seed container for sequentially supplying the seed container loading member to a filling device
Device supply unit.

The inoculum container supply section includes the inoculum
Carry-in and supply drive that enables intermittent supply of container loading members
A step is provided.

[0012] Further , the inoculum container supply section is provided with an inoculum inoculation device.
Provided on the upper flat surface of the main body frame.
You.

[0013] Further , the inoculum container loading member comprises
A device that can hold the same number of inoculum containers as the number of
It has a hole.

[0014] The transfer conveyor may be filled with the inoculum.
It is provided below the device and the inoculum container supply section.
You.

[0015] The inoculum filling device may include the inoculum container.
Inoculating the loading member with the inoculum via the inoculum container supply section
Guided to a position, a predetermined angle with the flat surface of the body frame
It is provided with an inclined guide portion.

[0016] The guide portion may be filled with the inoculum.
The member is slidably guided by its own weight.

[0017] In addition, a scrape for scraping the inoculum in the inoculum container is provided.
At the take-out position, the inoculum container loading member is
It is provided with a position restricting portion fixedly supported thereon.

Further, it is located on the carry-out side of the guide unit.
When the position restricting portion is opened,
The inoculum container equipped with the inoculum container in which the inoculum is empty
Provided with a seed bacillus container carry-out receiving part where the filling member is delivered
It is.

[0019] Further , it is located downstream of the position regulating section.
When the position restricting portion is opened,
Loading the inoculum container with the inoculated inoculum container
A stopper is provided to determine the moving area of the member.
is there.

Further , the stopper is provided with a stopper.
The position regulation state of the inoculum container loading member can be opened.
A stopper releasing means is provided.

[0021]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A cultivation container group is arranged in a plurality of rows and collected.
Intermittent transfer of loaded containers in row units by transfer conveyor
Cultivation container lid by the lid opening and closing device at the inoculum inoculation position
Is opened, and the inoculum in the inoculum container is
Cultivation container with the lid opened by a scraper and lid opening / closing device
The inoculum is inoculated inside. At the top of the body frame,
Loading plate with mounting holes for mounting the neck side upside down
Inoculated with a specified number of inoculum container loading members
Equipped with an incubator supply unit.
The loading members are sequentially and intermittently supplied to the inoculum filling device.

[0022]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The schematic configuration and operation of the inoculum inoculation device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the overall schematic diagram of the inoculum inoculation device shown in FIGS. A transfer conveyor 2 is provided over substantially the entire length of the main body frame 1 of the inoculum inoculation apparatus. The transfer conveyor 2 is provided so as to be able to start and stop by operating a switch on an operation panel 3.
An endless chain 4 is stretched in parallel between a plurality of sprockets provided at both ends of the chain.

Then, a cultivation container 6 filled with a culture medium mainly composed of sawdust and rice bran and sealed with a lid 5 is provided.
For example, a plastic container 7 containing four columns and four rows is placed on the chain 4 of the transfer conveyor 2 at the transfer start end, and when the transfer conveyor 2 is started, the chain 4 travels to move the container 7 toward the transfer end. Can be transported.

At a substantially central position of the main body frame 1, as shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-103543 proposed by the applicant of the present invention, the cultivation container 6 has reached an appropriate seed inoculation position. And a container positioning device 8 for positioning the cultivation containers 6 in a horizontal row in the container 7 while detecting the center of the cultivation containers 6 is provided. A lid opening / closing device 9 for opening and closing the lid 5 of the grown cultivation container 6 is provided.

The lid 5 of the cultivation container 6 by the lid opening / closing device 9
When the cultivation container 6 is opened, a seed bacillus filling device 11 is configured to scrape a predetermined amount of the germ S in the germ container 10 and inoculate the cultivation container 6 thus opened.

The inoculum inoculating apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 6 in addition to FIGS. 1 and 2 described above. There is provided a seed container loading member 12 comprising a substantially flat loading plate 12B having a mounting hole 12A for inserting the neck 10A side of the four seed containers 10 to be turned upside down. The main body frame 1 is placed and supported on a guide portion 13 composed of guide rails 13A attached to both side portions of the main body frame 1.

In this embodiment, the guide rail 13A of the guide portion 13 is capable of mounting both ends of the seed container loading member 12 and is slidable by its own weight of the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12. The guide unit 13 is disposed at a predetermined angle and is fixed to the main body frame 1.
Guide plate 13 for preventing the flat loading plate 12B from floating at a position corresponding to the scraping position of
B is provided, and the guide rail 13A is disposed in an inclined state.
A stopper 14 is provided at the lower end of the guide unit 13 for defining a sliding movement area of the seed container loading member 12.

Further, plate-like supports 15 are provided on both sides of the main body frame 1 corresponding to the position where the seeds S are scraped out of the seeds container 10, and an air cylinder 16 is attached to each of the supports 15, Air cylinder 16
The support plate 17 is fixed between the upper ends of the pistons 16A,
The support plate 17 has a sprocket 18 serving as a rotation transmitting member at a position corresponding to the bottom 10B of the inoculum container 10.
Are rotatably supported via a rotary shaft 19, and a pressing support member 20 is provided at a lower end of the rotary shaft 19.
The pressing support member 20 is provided with a disk-shaped pressing plate 21 having the same size as the bottom portion 10B of the seed container 10 in a detented state with respect to the rotation shaft 19 and resiliently. 10B is configured to be pressed and biased.

A motor 22 having a gear head is mounted and fixed on the support plate 17 facing the sprocket 18 side, and a driving sprocket 23 is provided on a rotating shaft of the motor 22. An endless roller chain 25 is bridged between the motor 22 and the sprockets 18 for rotating the respective pressing plates 21 and the driven sprockets 24 provided on the support plate 17.
3, 24 and a roller chain 25 constitute a seed container rotation driving member 26. A plurality of sprockets 18 are rotationally transmitted through an endless roller chain 25 by the rotation drive of the motor 22.
The rotation of the pressing plate 21 through the rotation shaft 19 causes the rotation of the pressing plate 21 to be transmitted.

At the position where the seeds S are scraped out of the seed container 10, positioning shafts 27 are provided on both ends of the support plate 17 so as to project rightward and leftward toward the seed container loading member 12. Fitting holes 28 are formed at both ends of the loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 facing the tip of the positioning shaft 27, respectively.
The positioning shaft 28 and the fitting hole 28 constitute a position regulating portion 29 for fixing and supporting the loading plate 12B constituting the inoculum container loading member 12 on the guide portion 13.

In this embodiment, the position regulating section 2
9 is formed so as to reciprocate in the axial direction thereof along with the operation of the piston 16A of the cylinder 16, and the shaft 15 is provided by a bearing 15A provided on the column 15 to stabilize the reciprocating operation. The insertion of the positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 28 can be performed smoothly by forming the tip of the positioning shaft 27 or the insertion side of the fitting hole 28 into a tapered shape. It is formed as follows.

In the above-described embodiment, when the inoculum container 10 is loaded and held in the inoculum container loading member 12, the inoculum container 10 filled with the inoculum S is turned upside down and the loading plate is formed in a flat plate shape. The neck 10A of the inoculum container 10 is mounted and set in the four mounting holes 12A of the airbag 12B, while the air cylinder 16 is operated to maintain the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16 at the raised position.
With the rise of A, the support plate 17 and the pressing plate 21 side attached to the support plate 17 and the positioning shaft 27 of the position regulating portion 29 attached to the support plate 17 are kept in the raised state, and in this raised state, the seed container 10 is moved. The guide plate 1 which is located on the lower side of the pressing plate 21 side, which is the position where the seeds S are scraped out, with the loading plate 12B of the seed bacteria container loading member 12 set in advance in an inverted state.
The support plate 17 fixed on the piston 16A is also lowered by lowering the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16 by lowering the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16, and attached to the support plate 17 with this lowering operation. The pressing plate 21 and the positioning shaft 27 of the position regulating portion 29 are lowered, the pressing plate 21 presses and supports the bottom portion 10B of each of the inoculum containers 10, and the distal end of the positioning shaft 27 has a flat plate-like shape. The guide member 13 is inserted into a fitting hole 28 which forms a part of a position regulating portion 29 provided on the plate 12B.
The inoculum container loading member 12 slidably mounted on the inoculum container 10 is fixedly supported at a predetermined position by the insertion of the positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 28 which are the position regulating portions 29, and the inoculum container 10
The preliminary preparation in the step of scraping out the inoculum S is completed.

In this embodiment, the number of the cultivation containers 6 accommodated in the container 7 is equal to the number (4 pieces) of the cultivation containers 6 in a row. Four mounting holes 12A for receiving the neck 10A are formed, and support shafts 30 are respectively erected between the mounting holes 12A. The inoculum container 10 is provided at the upper end of each support shaft 30.
A substantially cylindrical piece 30A that supports the body 10C is mounted and fixed. Although not shown, the mounting holes 12
A shoulder 10D between the trunk 10C and the neck 10A of the inoculum container 10 inserted concentrically with A and upside down
May be mounted and fixed on the loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 to rotatably support.

The positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 2
8, a position where the loading plate 12B constituting the inoculum container loading member 12 is fixedly supported on the guide portion 13 via the position regulating portion 29, ie, the inoculum container 1
At the scraping position where the 0 inoculum S was scraped out, the inoculum was scraped off at one location on the body frame corresponding to the position below the neck 10A of each of the inoculum containers 10 that were placed upside down in the mounting holes 12A of the loading plate 12B. A tubular inoculum guide cover 31 capable of guiding the inoculum S is provided.

Each of the mounting holes 1 provided in the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12 fixed and supported by the position restricting portion 29 is provided in the seed filling device 11 described above.
A scraping rod 32 having a scraping blade 32A serving as a scraping member for scraping the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 via 2A is provided, and each of the scraping rods 32 is provided with a scraping rotation drive unit. The motor 33 is configured to transmit rotation through a chain 34, and the scraping rod 32 is mounted on the plate 35 together with the motor 33.

The scraping rod 32 provided with the scraping blade 32A serving as the scraping member is disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 5-1 proposed by the present applicant.
No. 03543, the scraping blade 32A
The plate 35 that supports each scraping rod 32 is provided so as to be able to move up and down with the rotation of.

In this embodiment, a screw rod 37 is screwed into a female screw cylinder 36 provided on a plate 35, and the screw rod 37 is connected to a motor 39 serving as a scraping-up drive section via an endless chain 38. The rotation of the motor 39 is transmitted to the screw rod 37 via the endless chain 38, and the plate 35 is raised with the rotation of the screw rod 37.
The scraping rod 32 having the scraping blade 32A mounted on the plate 35 is guided upward.

When the scraping rod 32 reaches the rising end, the motor 39 serving as the scraping and rising drive unit rotates in the reverse direction so as to return to the descending end. The plate 35 is configured to return downward.

Also, the 4 provided on the inoculum container loading member 12
A seed tube 40 for guiding and storing the seed bacteria S is provided below each of the mounting holes 12A, and a shutter 41 for opening and closing the lower end of the opening is provided at the lower end of the various tube guides 40. ing.

Further below the shutter 41, a seed supply tube 42 for guiding the seed S to the mouth of the cultivation container 6 when the shutter 41 is opened is provided. Along with the opening / closing device 9, it is movably provided via a link arm, and when the lid 5 is opened by the lid opening / closing device 9 with the operation of the cylinder 43, the inoculum supply cylinder 42 moves to the cultivation container 6 position. The inoculation tube 42 is movably disposed so as to move and retreat to a position away from the cultivation container 6 when the cover 5 is closed by the cover opening / closing device 9.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a predetermined number of loading plates 12B constituting the inoculum container loading member 12 can be placed at an upper position of the main body frame 1, that is, at a side where the guide portion 13 is carried in. , Its loading plate 1
Seed container supply unit 44 that can supply 2B intermittently sequentially
Is installed.

In the inoculum container supply section 44, an endless chain 46 is laid in parallel between respective sprockets 45 provided on both ends of the main frame 1 at a flat upper surface thereof. A motor 47 serving as a carry-in / supply driving means is connected to one portion of the shaft 45 via a gear, and the rotation drive of the motor 47 intermittently feeds the seed cell container loading member 12 placed on the endless chain 46. It is configured as follows.

Further, between the upper and lower sides of the endless chain 46 bridged between the sprockets 45, a regulating plate 48 for suppressing the slack of the chain 46 is provided. A guide side plate 49 for guiding the inoculum container loading member 12 is provided on both sides, and a guide rail 13A of the guide portion 13 is provided at a predetermined angle adjacent to the unloading side of the endless chain 46. And
A transfer guide piece 50 is attached and fixed to the guide side plate 49 located at the end of the chain 46 on the carry-out side, and a guide rail on which the seed cell container loading member 12 is arranged obliquely from the chain 46 by the transfer guide piece 50. 13A
When moving to, the rear end side of the loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 is prevented from rising up from the guide rail 13 and inverting.

In this embodiment, the guide unit 1 is used.
On the unloading side of the third guide rail 13A, an inoculum container unloading receiving portion 51 to which the inoculum container loading member 12 is delivered is installed. The inoculum container unloading receiving portion 51 is formed in a frame shape as a whole. An unloading rail 51A is disposed on both sides in accordance with the width of the guide rail 13A, and a drop-preventing stopper 51B is formed at the unloading end of the unloading rail 51A.

The stopper 14 is connected to a cylinder 52 serving as a stopper releasing means so that the stopper 14 can come and go with respect to the conveying surface of the guide rail 13A. The loading plate 12B on which the inoculum S on the guide rail 13A is loaded with the inoculated inoculum container 10 is slid along the inclined surface, and is received by the unloading rail 51A, which is the inoculum container unloading receiving portion 51. The loading plate 12B is formed so as to be positioned and stopped by the drop prevention stopper 51B.

Next, the operation of the normal inoculation step in the above configuration will be described. First, the air cylinder 16 is operated to maintain the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16 at the raised position. With the rise of the piston 16A, the piston 16A is attached to the support plate 17 and the pressing plate 21 side attached to the support plate 17 and the support plate 17. The positioning shaft 27 of the position restricting portion 29 is kept in the raised state, and in this raised state, the loading plate 12B of the seed-bacteria container loading member 12, which is previously set to the state where the seed-bacteria container 10 is turned upside down, is the position where the seed B is scraped out. The support plate 17 fixed to the piston 16A is also lowered by placing it on the guide rail 13A of the guide portion 13 located below the pressing plate 21 and then lowering the piston 16A of the air cylinder 16. , The supporting plate 17
The pressing plate 21 and the positioning shaft 27 of the position restricting portion 29 attached to the bottom move down, and the pressing plate 21 causes the bottom portion 10B of each inoculum container 10 to move.
And the leading end of the positioning shaft 27 is inserted into a fitting hole 28 which constitutes a part of a position regulating portion 29 provided in the flat loading plate 12B, whereby the positioning shaft 27 slides on the guide 13. The inoculated seed container loading member 12 is fixedly supported at a predetermined inoculum inoculation position by inserting the positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 28 serving as the position restricting portion 29, and the step of scraping out the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 is performed. Preparations for are completed.

After the preparation is completed, a container 7 containing a predetermined number of cultivation containers 6 with lids 5 is placed on the transfer conveyor 2 and the container 7 is transferred. Upon reaching the inoculation position, the transfer conveyor 2 stops, and then the cultivation container 6 is positioned and fixed to the seed inoculation position with the container positioning device 8 regulating the vertical direction and the center position of the cultivation container 6.

At the time of positioning by the container positioning device 8, in this embodiment, the motor 33, which is a scraping rotation drive member, is also driven for a preset time, and the seed S in the seed culture container 10 is rotated by the rotation of the scraping rod 32. The seed S is scraped off by the scraping blade 32A, and the seed S is scraped off.
0 is stored at the lower end.

At this time, when the scraping rod 32 rotates, the motor 22 constituting a part of the inoculum container rotation driving member 26 also operates, and the pressing plate 21 rotates via the rotation shaft 19 with the rotation of the motor 22. Then, while the pressing plate 21 presses and supports the seed container 10, the seed container 10 is rotated, and the screw rod 37 rotates with the rotation of the motor 39 serving as a scraping-up driving unit to raise the plate 35, The scraping rod 32 provided with the scraping blade 32A mounted on the plate 35 is guided upward in the depth direction of the inoculum container 10.

The rotation direction of the seed container 10 by the seed container rotation driving member 26 and the rotation direction of the scraping blade 32A by the rotation of the motor 33 serving as the scraping rotation driving unit are rotated in reverse rotation. To increase the scraping efficiency in the scraping of the inoculum S,
It is intended that the inoculum S close to the inner wall of the inoculum container 10 be scraped out well by the rotation of the inoculum container 10.

Next, after the positioning by the container positioning device 8 is performed, the lid 5 of the cultivation container 6 is rotated by the lid opening / closing device 9 with the operation of the cylinder 43 to the lid open position.
In conjunction with this lid opening operation, the inoculum supply cylinder 42 moves right above the cultivation container 6 from which the lid 5 has been removed, and the inoculum supply cylinder 42 is disposed on an axis connecting the inoculum guide cylinder 40 and the cultivation container 6. Is done.

When the lid of the lid opening / closing device 9 is completely opened, the shutter 41 is opened to allow the inoculum S in the inoculum guide tube 40 to pass through the inoculum supply tube 42 to the cultivation containers 6 in a row.
After the supply of the inoculum S is completed, the shutter 41 returns to close the lower open end of the inoculum guide tube 40, and the inoculum supply tube 42 is returned by the operation of returning the cylinder 43 to the cultivation container 6. Simultaneously with the evacuation and return from the position, the lid opening and closing device 9 is rotated and returned, and covers the lids 5 of the cultivation containers 6 in a horizontal row inoculated with the inoculum S.

Therefore, the cultivation container 6 in the container 7 is sequentially operated in a horizontal row unit by sequentially operating the series of processes.
Can be continuously inoculated with inoculum S.

In the above-described embodiment, a mechanism for exchanging a seed container which is a main object of the present invention will be described.
In the process of inoculating the cultivation container 6 in the container 7 continuously while intermittently feeding the cultivation container 6 in a horizontal row unit, the inoculum container 10
In order to scrape out the inoculum S in the inoculum by a predetermined amount, the motor 33, which is a scraping rotation drive unit, is driven for a preset time, and the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 is rotated by the rotation of the scraping rod 32 so that the scraping blade 32
At the same time, the screw rod 38 intermittently rotates due to the rotation of the motor 39 serving as the scraping-up drive unit, and the plate 35 is guided upwardly. The scraping rod 32 provided with the scraping blade 32A attached to the ascending guide is also guided upward, and when the position of the scraping blade 32A reaches the rising end at the time of this rising guide, that is, the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 becomes empty. At this point in time, the motor 39 serving as the scraping-up driving unit is rotated in reverse by the operation of a sensor (not shown), and the plate 35 is returned to the lower end via the screw rod 37 to return downward.

At this time, that is, when the inoculum S in the inoculum container 10 is empty, the support plate 17 is raised by the operation of the air cylinder 16, and the bottom portion 10B of the inoculum container 10 is pressed by the ascending operation. At the same time that the pressing support portion 20 is released, the positioning shaft 27 that constitutes a part of the position regulating portion 29 is also raised and the pressing and fixing support of the inoculum container 10 is released,
The positioning shaft 27 comes out of the fitting hole 28 provided in the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12, and as a result, the four seed containers 1 that are empty become empty.
0 is disengaged from the position regulating portion 29, whereby the inoculum container loading member 12 is slid along the slope of the guide rail 13A of the inclined guide portion 13, and the lower end of the slope of the guide rail 13A is moved. Is restricted by a stopper 14 provided on the side, and at the same time, the seed cell loading member 12 loaded with the four seed cells 10 which are waiting next.
Slides along the slope of the guide rail 13A to the position where the inoculum is scraped out, and the inoculum S in the standby state
The switching between the four inoculum containers 10 filled with and the four inoculated inoculum containers 10 is automatically performed.

After the replacement operation of the inoculum container 10,
When the piston 16A of the cylinder 16 descends, the support plate 17 fixed to the piston 16A descends. With this descending operation, the positioning shaft 27 attached to the support plate 17 and the pressing plate 21 descend. The tip of the positioning shaft 27 is inserted into the fitting hole 28 provided in the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12, and the bottom portions 10B of the four seed containers 10 newly supplied by the pressing plate 21 are removed. The seeds S are pressed and supported, thereby preparing for scraping out the inoculum S in the various inoculum containers 10. Then, as described above, the inoculation of the inoculum S is sequentially performed by the rotation drive of the incision blade 32 </ b> A and the inoculum container 10.

At the same time as the switching operation of the seed container 10, the endless chain is driven by the rotation of the motor 47, which is a drive unit for driving the supply of seed cells, from the supply unit 44 of seed cells provided on the loading side of the guide unit 13. The loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 placed on the 46 is intermittently fed, and by this feeding, the loading plate 12B placed on the discharge side end of the chain 46 is disposed at a predetermined angle. It is newly fed into the supply side of the guide rail 13A, slides along the inclined surface of the guide rail 13A by its own weight of the inoculum container loading member 12, and is fixedly supported on the guide guide 13 by the position regulating portion 29. The seed cell container loading member 12 that has been set and the seed cell container loading member 12 that is waiting next are sequentially arranged in a connected state.

Therefore, the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12 loaded with the four seed containers 10 emptied during the switching operation of the seed container 10 is placed on the guide rail 13A of the guide unit 13 for each unit. , And it is not necessary to replace the inoculum container 10 one by one as in the conventional apparatus, so that the working efficiency can be improved.

When the seed container 10 is refilled, the seed container 10 is previously loaded and set in the four mounting holes 12A provided on the loading plate 12B of the seed container loading member 12, and the seed container in this set state is loaded. By providing a predetermined number of the members 12 on the endless chain 46 of the seed container supply unit 44 so as to be able to be mounted thereon and stock them, the seed cells loaded with the four seed cells 10 when replenishing the seed cells 10 The container loading member 12 can be transported as a single unit onto the rail-shaped guide guide portion 13 and can be easily supplied. This has an effect that the supply operation of the inoculum container 10 can be easily performed.

In this embodiment, in addition to the seed container loading member 12 set in a state in which the seed bacteria S have been scraped out, the seed microorganism container loading member 12 in the standby state is continuously connected to the guide rail 13A of the guide unit 13. However, the length of the guide member 13 composed of the guide rail 13A may be extended so that more seed cell container loading members 12 may be provided so as to be settable. Depending on the size of the cultivation container 6, the number of row units may be different, such as three or five, but the loading plate 12B of the inoculum container loading member 12 is adjusted according to the number of row units in the container 7. What is necessary is just to set the number of mounting holes 12A provided.

As described above, when the seed cell container loading member 12 loaded with the empty seed cell container 10 is sent out along the inclined surface of the guide guide portion 13, in the embodiment, the seed cell container loading member 12 is sent out. As an amount, the guide unit 13
The distance between the stopper 14 provided on the lower end side of the inoculum and the position of the end surface on the sending side of the inoculum container loading member 12 supported at the inoculum inoculation position is substantially matched with the depth dimension which is the sending direction of the inoculum container loading member 12. By setting, the inoculated seed container 10 can be slid along one of the inoculated seed container loading members 12 along the guide 13 so that the inoculated seed container 10 is loaded with the empty seed container 10 as described above. Although the loading member 12 may be directly taken out, as described in the embodiment, the guide member 13 including the guide rail 13A is used.
The stopper 14 is connected to the cylinder 52 serving as a stopper releasing means so that the stopper 14 can be retracted and retracted with respect to the conveying surface of the guide rail 13A on the unloading side of the guide rail 13A. By installing the seed container carrying-out receiving portion 51 to which the seed container loading member 12 is delivered, the seed container loading member 12 loaded with the empty seed container 10 is lowered by operating the cylinder 52 to lower the stopper 14. The loading plate 12B loaded with the inoculated inoculum container 10 on the guide rail 13A is slid along the inclined surface and transferred to the unloading rail 51A, which is the inoculated inoculation container unloading receiving portion 51. After a predetermined amount of the inoculum container loading member 12 is stocked, the inoculated inoculum container 10 becomes empty.
Can be removed collectively for each unit, so that an exchange operation such as supply and removal of the seed container 10 can be easily performed.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the present invention. For example, the inoculum container loading member 12 is formed by a substantially flat loading plate 12B. Has formed,
The inoculation container loading member may be formed of a loading plate having a frame shape in accordance with the shape and size of the inoculum container 10, and a rail-shaped guide guide 13 has been described as an example. The rollers may be arranged in parallel to form a guide portion, and in the embodiment, the guide portion and the inoculum container carrying-out / receiving portion are separately formed and installed. It may be configured to be extended so as to serve also as the function of the inoculum container carrying-out / receiving section.

As a mechanism of the position restricting portion 29 for fixing and supporting the inoculum container loading member 12 at the position where the inoculum S is scraped out,
In the embodiment, the position is determined by inserting the positioning shaft 27 and the fitting hole 28.
8, the positioning shaft 27 may be attached to a support plate 17 for pressing and supporting the inoculum container 10 and protruded downward from the support plate 17. The seed bacterium container loading member may be positioned and fixed by positioning pins individually provided on the side.

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According to the present invention, the cultivation container group is arranged in a plurality of rows.
Transfer container for intermittently transferring containers stored in rows
Open the lid to open and close the cultivation container at the bear and the inoculum inoculation position
A predetermined amount of the inoculum in the inoculation container and the inoculation container is scraped out, and the lid is removed.
The inoculum is placed in a cultivation container whose lid is opened by a switchgear.
Invert the inoculum filling device and the neck of the inoculum container
A seed container loading member to be mounted on the container;
A predetermined number of materials can be placed, and the inoculum filling device
A seed container supply unit for sequentially supplying a seed container loading member.
As a result, the inoculum container loading section
Ingredients can be sequentially supplied to the inoculum filling device, and the efficiency of inoculum filling work
Can be increased. Further, in the inoculum container supply section,
Carrying in which the inoculum container loading member can be intermittently supplied
Supply drive means, and the inoculum container supply section is provided with an inoculum
Install on the upper flat surface of the body frame of the scraping device,
In addition, the seed cell container loading member, the row unit of the cultivation container
A mounting hole for mounting the same number of inoculum containers as the number of
Further, the transfer conveyor is provided with the inoculum filling device and the inoculum.
Provided below the container supply section,
Connects the inoculum container loading member through the inoculum container supply unit.
To guide to the inoculation position,
A guide unit is provided at a predetermined angle to the flat surface.
Therefore, each of the mounting holes of the inoculum container loading member
Place the seed container filled with the seed bacteria upside down
And set the inoculum container loading member in this set
Just set it on the inoculum container supply section and the set state
Of the inoculum container loading member is intermittently supplied to the inoculum filling device
It is possible to replace seed containers one by one as in the conventional device.
Seeds that can increase work efficiency
It is possible to provide a seed container supply mechanism in the inoculation device.
Wear. In addition, the guide portion is provided with the inoculum filling member.
It is configured to be slidably guided by its own weight.
At the scraping position for scraping the inoculum in the inoculum container,
A position where the container loading member is fixedly supported on the guide portion.
A regulating part is provided, and the regulating part is located on the unloading side of the guide part.
When the position restricting portion is opened,
The inoculum container equipped with the inoculum container in which the inoculum is empty
A seed container carrying-out receiving section is provided for
In addition, the guide guide located downstream of the position regulating unit
In some places, the inoculum was emptied when opening the position control part
Movement area of the seed container loading member together with the seed container
And a stopper for determining the
Is the position regulation of the seed container loading member by the stopper.
By providing stopper release means that can release the
Seed container fixedly supported by the position regulating member
Seed container with loading member and next standby seed container
The loading member and the guide member are sequentially connected on the guide member.
This allows the inoculum in the inoculum container to be emptied.
By opening the position regulating member when
Loading the inoculated seed container, wherein the inoculated seed container has been loaded
The member slides on the guide member, at the same time
The inoculum container loading member that is operating
To the scraping position of
And empty the appropriate number of inoculum containers
Switching operation with the appropriate number of inoculum containers
Can be performed, and the empty
Seed container loaded with each inoculated seed container
Transferring and receiving the inoculum container from the guide member for each unit
Can be sent to the head or easily removed.
Yes, it is necessary to replace each seed container as in the conventional device
There is no inoculum inoculation equipment that can improve work efficiency
The present invention can provide a seed container supply mechanism in the apparatus.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing the entire configuration of a seed inoculation device applied to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a main side view of the inoculum inoculating apparatus showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a main part of a seed cell container switching mechanism provided in the seed cell inoculation apparatus of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a main part showing a set state of a seed cell container and a seed cell container loading member according to an embodiment of the present invention in a partial cross section.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a main part of the seed cell container and the seed cell container loading member shown in FIG. 4 in a partially sectioned open state.

FIG. 6 is an overall schematic main side view of the inoculum inoculation apparatus showing a supply state of the inoculum container.

[Description of Signs] S Seed Bacteria 1 Body Frame 5 Lid 6 Cultivation Vessel 7 Container 8 Container Positioning Device 9 Lid Opening / Closing Device 10 Seed Vessel Container 10A Neck 10B Bottom 11 Seed Filling Device 12 Seed Container Loading Member 12A Mounting Hole 12B Loading Plate 13 Guide Part 13A Guide rail 14 Stopper 15 Prop 16 Air cylinder 17 Support plate 19 Rotary shaft 20 Press support 21 Press plate 26 Seed container rotation drive member 27 Positioning shaft 28 Fitting hole 29 Position regulating portion 32 Scrape member (scraping member) 32A Raising blade 44 Seed container supply unit 47 Motor (carry-in / supply driving unit) 51 Seed container carrying-out / receiving unit 51A Unloading rail 52 Cylinder (stopper releasing unit)

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A container in which a group of cultivation containers is arranged in a plurality of rows and intermittently transported in row units, and a lid of the cultivation container group is opened and closed in row units. In the inoculum inoculation device in which a predetermined amount of the inoculum is scraped out and filled into the cultivation container to inoculate the cultivation container, a mounting hole for mounting the inoculum container upside down in accordance with the number of the cultivation containers in rows is provided. A seed cell container loading member composed of a loading plate, a seed cell container supply section that enables a predetermined number of the seed cell container loading members to be placed, and the seed cell container charging member that can sequentially and intermittently supply the seed cell container loading member; A guide guide portion provided on the carry-out side and inclined at a predetermined angle for slidably guiding the inoculum container loading member by its own weight, and the inoculum container loading portion at a position where the inoculum is scraped out from the inoculum container. And a position regulating portion for fixing and supporting the material on the guide member. 2. A seed container which is located on the unloading side of the guide unit and which receives the seed container container with the seed container emptied from the guide unit when the position control unit is opened. The seed container supply mechanism in the inoculum inoculation device according to claim 1, further comprising a carry-out receiving portion. 3. A loading supply driving means for intermittently supplying said seed container loading member provided with the same number of mounting holes as the number of rows of said cultivation containers in said seed container supply unit. The seed container supply mechanism in the inoculum inoculating apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein 4. A sliding movement area of the seed container loading member together with the inoculated container in which the inoculum is emptied at the time of opening of the position restricting portion, in the guide portion located downstream of the position restricting portion. 4. A seed container supply mechanism according to claim 1, wherein a stopper is provided. 5. The inoculum container supply in the inoculum inoculation device according to claim 4, wherein the stopper is provided with a stopper releasing means for opening the position-regulated state of the inoculum container loading member by the stopper. mechanism.