KR102246540B1 - Seed Sowing Machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention for a lawn seed planter is disclosed.
The disclosed grass seed sowing machine has a seeding groove (furrow) installation part (Slicer) forming a grass seed seeding groove, a seeding groove extension part, a seeding part, and a rolling and stopper part integrally, so that the seeding groove installation work and seeding Groove expansion work, seeding work, and rolling and stopper work can be carried out continuously and at the same time. Also, the depth of the seeding groove by the stopper part is kept constant, and the ground is uneven by the balance maintenance part. Even when the seeds are over-sowed (Overseeding), the existing grass is not pressed down.

Description

Grass Seed Sowing Machine{Seed Sowing Machine}

The present invention relates to a grass seed seeding machine used for sowing (or over-sowing) grass seeds to improve the quality of existing grass as well as to create grass in various sports stadiums (soccer field, baseball field, rugby field, etc.) including golf courses. .

In particular, while enabling the simultaneous execution of grass seed seeding grooves (furrows) installation work (Slicing), seeding groove expansion work, grass seed seeding work (seeding), and rolling work to cover the seeding grooves on the turf ground (soil). The present invention relates to a turf seed sowing machine that allows the depth of the turf seed sowing groove to be installed at all times, and to prevent damage to the existing turf during over-sowing (Overseeding).

In general, it is a well-known fact that golf courses and various turf fields use a turf seeding machine for the purpose of improving turf use period and turf quality. In the case of Korea, too, the term of use of the turf surface is extended by at least 10 months or more by over-sowing cold-terrain turf on the warm-ground turf by a seeding machine. These seeding machines are disclosed in the following patent documents.

Patent Literature 1 relates to a'groove opening mechanism and a seeding machine', and when a groove (furrow) is formed in the ground such as no-till soil, residues, weeds, soil, etc. of the previous crop adhere to damage the gas, or A groove opening mechanism capable of forming a groove at high speed without inhibiting smooth rotation, and a seeding machine provided with the groove opening mechanism are provided. As a groove opening mechanism that forms a groove in the soil while moving in the direction of travel, it rotates when moving, and one disc coulter that forms a cut-in in a vertical direction with respect to the ground surface with a blade tip installed on the outer periphery. , It is installed at the rear of the disk coulter with respect to the direction of travel, and has an enlarged portion for widening a groove cut into the disk coulter, and the widening portion is a direction extending from the disk coulter side to the rear in the front side of the disk coulter It discloses that it has a tapered widening member.

Patent Literature 2 also relates to a'seeder', where the front and rear wheels are arranged on the front and rear of the aircraft frame equipped with a seeding device, and an electric motor for driving the front wheels and a battery for supplying electric power to the electric motor are mounted on the front wheel side. In addition, in the front center of gravity and front-wheel drive type, and the door-shaped handle arm extended from the front view from the frame near the rear wheel, a large manpower is required to grasp the handle arm and cross the step. do. According to the present invention, the handle arm includes left and right vertical arm portions extending substantially upward from the aircraft frame, and a gripping arm portion for gripping and pushing and pulling back and forth while connecting between the upper ends thereof, and the approximately horizontal auxiliary handle is vertically lowered. In addition to the provision of the arm part, the holding part of the auxiliary handle was placed at a lower position than the gripping arm part, thereby facilitating the lifting of the suppression roller with the driving roller holding the gripping part as a support point and the turning of the aircraft.' And

The'sowder' of Patent Document 3 is'conventionally, in order to detach the seeding device, it is necessary to open the outer frame provided in the discharge base to the left and right sides of the gas, and thus, improvement in mounting workability is required. The discharging unit of the sowing apparatus according to the present invention is provided so as to be attached and detachable to the discharging base provided in the gas frame, and engages a driven gear on the discharging part side to a drive gear in the discharging base to drive the discharging part, Inside, by inserting the discharging part into the upper clamping plate, lower clamping plate, rear clamping body, and discharge base from above, elastically biasing the rear clamping part toward the clamping upper plate and lower clamping plate and sliding to the rear clamping member. It discloses that a guide mechanism has been prepared.

However, when applied to grass seed sowing, the above sowing machines have a problem that it is difficult to accurately input seeds even if most of the seeds are sown or grooves are made on the surface, and in particular, they are cut into the turf ground to form a sowing groove (furrow). The depth of the blades entering the ground is not constant, which is a major factor in lowering the germination rate.

For example, seeding grooves with a low depth may freeze seeds in winter and reduce the germination rate. Conversely, even if the seeding grooves are too deep, seed germination is delayed, which makes it difficult to maintain a good quality lawn.

In addition, the prior art has a problem in that the compaction roller of the seeding machine presses the existing turf in the case of over-sowing in an uneven turf ground, causing damage.

Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a turf seed seeding machine that always forms a constant depth of the seeding groove for seed sowing, and also prevents damage to the existing grown turf when sowing turf seeds.

KR Publication No. 10-2014-0128994 KR Publication No. 10-2012-0113657 KR Publication No. 10-2014-0023195

The present invention was developed to supplement the problems of the prior art and provide various additional advantages, and the present invention provides a lawn seed seeding groove installation (Slicing) operation, a seeding groove expansion operation, and a seeding operation on the turf ground. , Convenience to perform ground rolling up covering the seeding groove at the same time, uniformity of installing the seeding groove depth at all times, and over-sowing of seeds in non-uniform turf ground (soil) In addition, the purpose is to provide a grass seed sowing machine with safety to minimize the damage rate of existing grass.

The above object is achieved by the lawn seed planter provided according to the present invention.

A grass seed seeder provided according to an aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of rotating circles that are supported by a gas frame and move in a moving direction, and install seeding grooves of a predetermined depth for sowing grass seeds supplied from the seeding unit on the turf ground. In a turf seed seeding machine having a seeding groove installation part consisting of plate-shaped blades, it is installed facing the disc-shaped blades at the rear side of the seeding groove installation part, driving like the seeding groove installation part, and installed by the seeding groove installation part. In response to each of the rotary disk-shaped blades, which expands the width of the seeding groove to a predetermined width so that the grass seeds sown from the seeding portion can be safely seeded into the seeding groove, it is more than the blades of the rotating disk-shaped blades. A seeding groove expansion unit consisting of a disc body having a thick width and a large diameter to expand the width of the seeding grooves; And rolling the ground so as to cover the seeding grooves that have been seeded, and the seeding grooves are composed of pressure rollers each of a weight installed to be rotated to the base frame at the front part of the seeding groove installation part and the rear part of the seeding part. It characterized in that it comprises a rolling and stopper function as a stopper for limiting the depth to be cut into the ground of the turf ground of the rotary disk-shaped blades of the installation part to be constant.
In the gas frame, at least four shock absorbers installed vertically on the gas frame, the shock absorbers, and the gas frame are horizontally connected, while both ends are pivotally supported and interlocked with the shock absorbers and the gas frame. It includes a balance maintenance means consisting of one hydraulic cylinder, the balance maintenance means when sowing in an uneven ground, the seeding groove installation part, the seeding groove expansion part, the seeding part, and the rolling and stopper part to be constantly without sagging toward the ground. It is characterized by supporting it to maintain a horizontal state.
The seeding part is installed facing the seeding groove expansion part at a position adjacent to the rear of the seeding groove expansion part to sow the grass seeds into the expanded seeding groove, and has a lid installed vertically from one side of the base frame. For seed distribution, which is installed at intervals around the seed input hopper and the rotation shaft installed to rotate while crossing the entire seed input hopper inside the seed input hopper and the rotation shaft is installed at intervals to form a receiving space for distributing seeds. The rotation blade and the seed input hopper at the bottom of the seed input hopper are in a state in contact with the seed input hopper and extend to a position adjacent to the ground and open toward the seeding groove. It is characterized in that it includes a plurality of seed supply pipes that are supplied and sown inside.

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According to the present invention, the grass seed seeding machine itself has the effect of installing grass seed seeding grooves (Slicing), expanding the seeding grooves, seeding, and rolling the seeding grooves at once. do.

The present invention provides the effect of increasing the germination rate of seeds by installing a constant seeding groove depth at all times.

The present invention provides the effect of allowing the sowing of turf seeds while minimizing damage to the existing turf even when over-sowing seeds such as turf seeds.

1 is a perspective view showing an example of the appearance of a grass seed planter according to the present invention,
Figure 2 is a side view of Figure 1,
3 is a perspective view showing only the portion "A" shown in FIG. 2 separately,
Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 3 as viewed from above,
5 is a perspective view showing only the seeding portion 150 in FIG. 1 by separating.

In the present invention, various modifications may be made and various embodiments may be provided, and specific embodiments will be described in detail.

However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to a specific embodiment, it should be understood to include all changes, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

In the following description, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known technology may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, a detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, the terms to be described later are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention and may vary according to the intention or custom of users or operators, so the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the present specification describing the present invention. .

Hereinafter, a more preferred embodiment of the grass seed sowing machine according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a perspective view showing an example of the appearance of a grass seed planter according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG. 1.

As shown in the drawing, if the configuration of the grass seed planter 100 according to the present invention is roughly divided, the seeding groove (furrow) installation portion 110, the seeding groove expansion portion 130, the seeding portion 150, and rolling And stopper parts 170a and 170b, and a balance maintaining part 190.

The seeding groove installation unit 110 is mounted on the base frame 200 and moves in the direction of travel (in the direction of arrows in FIGS. 1 and 2), and the seeding groove of a certain depth in the turf ground (soil) 10 ( It includes a plurality of rotating disk-shaped blades 112 to install 20).

The grass seed sowing machine 100 according to the present invention is configured to perform a sowing operation while proceeding in the direction of the arrows in FIGS. 1 and 2 by connecting to a conventional tractor (not shown) through the base frame 200, from a tractor not shown. It receives power (DC) and power (hydraulic) required for driving. The connection between the grass seed seeder 100 and the tractor is carried out by a gas frame 200, wherein the base frame 200 includes a tractor connection frame 210 used to directly connect to a tractor (not shown), and the The tractor is connected by a balance maintenance unit 190 to be described later by integrally connecting the seeding groove installation unit 110, the seeding groove expansion unit 130, the seeding unit 150, and the rolling and stopper units 170a, 170b. It consists of a flat plate-shaped fixed frame 230 for supporting to be integrally coupled to the frame 210.

The seeding groove installation part 110, the seeding groove expansion part 130, the seeding part 150, and the rolling and stopper parts 170a and 170b are fixedly supported on the side of the fixed frame 230, while maintaining the balance. The unit 190 is supported in a state in which the tractor connection frame 210 and the fixing frame 230 are connected.

The detailed configuration of the seeding groove installation unit 110 installed on the bottom side of the fixed frame 230 and positioned to face the ground 10 will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 as shown in FIGS. .

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing only the portion “A” shown in FIG. 2 separately, and FIG. 4 is a plan view showing FIG. 3 as viewed from above.

As shown in the drawing, the seeding groove installation part 110 is installed at a predetermined interval along the rotation shaft 112 with respect to the rotation shaft 112 that is rotatably supported by being positioned across the fixed frame 230 Including disk-shaped blades 114, the blade portion 116 installed at the periphery of the disk-shaped blades 114 slicing the ground 10 for sowing to the disk-shaped blades 114 It is possible to form the number of seeding grooves 20 corresponding to ).

As shown in FIG. 2, the rotation shaft 112 is connected to a hydraulic motor 300 operated by hydraulic pressure supplied from a tractor (not shown) and a transmission chain 301 and is driven to rotate, as shown in the rotation shaft 112. The rotating disk-shaped blades 114 give a force capable of slicing so that the seeding grooves 20 can be installed in the ground 10.

As shown in the drawing, the seeding groove expansion unit 130 is installed face-to-face to each of the disc-shaped blades 114 from the rear of the seeding groove installation unit 120 of the fixed frame 230 of the base frame 200 Is rotated like the seeding groove installation unit 120, and quickly enters the inside of each of the seeding grooves 20 installed by the seeding groove installation unit 120 to reduce the width of the previously formed seeding groove to a predetermined width. It is expanded so that the grass seeds supplied from the seeding unit 150 can be stably sown.

The seeding groove expansion unit 130 is positioned in a state crossing the fixing frame 230 in the same manner as the seeding groove installation unit 110, and the rotation shaft 132 with respect to the rotation shaft 132 rotatably supported at both ends. ), and a plurality of expansion disks 134 correspondingly installed at the same intervals as the intervals of the disk-shaped blades 114, the expansion disk 134 being the rotating disk-shaped blades ( Since it has a thicker width (W) and a larger diameter than 114), it can be easily expanded to both sides while providing a strong force when entering the inside of the seeding groove (20). The rotation shaft 132 is also connected by a hydraulic motor 300 operating with hydraulic pressure supplied from a tractor (not shown) and an electric chain 302 as shown in FIG. 2 and is rotated while being rotated together with the rotation shaft 132. The disc body 134 expands the seeding grooves 20 of the ground 10 in an optimal state for sowing.

The seeding unit 150 will be described with reference to FIG. 5 as shown in the drawings. 5 is a perspective view showing only the seeding portion 150 in FIG. 1 by separating.

As shown in the drawing, the seeding portion 150 is installed to face the seeding groove expanding portion 130 at a position adjacent to the seeding groove expanding portion 130 of the fixed frame 230 of the base 200 and expanded. A seed (eg, grass seed) is supplied to the inside of the seeded seeding groove 20 to be seeded, and the seeding portion 150 is one side of the fixing frame 230 of the base frame 200 (right side as viewed in the drawing). ), the whole of the seed input hopper 152, which has a lid 151 installed vertically and crosses the whole of the fixed frame 230, and the seed input hopper 152 inside the seed input hopper 152 A rotating shaft 153 installed to drive rotation in a crossing state, and a rotating blade 154 for seed distribution that is installed at intervals around the rotating shaft 153 to form a space for distributing seeds, and the seed input hopper ( It forms a state in contact with the seed input hopper 152 at the bottom of 152, extends to a position adjacent to the ground 10, opens toward the seeding groove 20, and is distributed from the seed distribution rotary blade 154. It includes a plurality of seed supply pipes 156 for supplying and sowing seeds into the inside of the seeding groove 20.

A driving motor 155 driven by power supplied from a tractor (not shown) is installed on one side of the rotation shaft 153, that is, on the left side as seen in FIG. 1 to provide the power required to drive the rotation shaft 153. Made it possible.

As shown in the drawing, the rolling and stopper parts 170a and 170b are respectively provided with the seeding groove installation part 110 and the seeding part 130 at the front and rear of the fixing frame 230 of the base frame 200. The rotating disk shape of the seeding groove installation part 110, along with rolling the ground so that the seeding grooves 20 are not visible from the outside by covering the seeding grooves 20 that are installed face to face. The blades 114 function as a stopper to maintain a constant depth at which the blades 114 are cut into the ground of the turf ground 10.

The rolling and stopper parts 170a and 170b are in a state of crossing the whole of the fixing frame 230 from the front and rear of the fixing frame 230 of the base frame 200, and the seeding groove installation part 110 ) And the pressure rollers 172a, 172b of weight supported to rotate in a state of facing each other with the seeding part 150, and the pressure rollers 172a, 172b are fixed frames of the base frame 200 ( By being installed on both sides of the 230) and being positioned to support the ground 10, the rotating disk-shaped blades 114 of the seeding groove installation part 110 limit the depth at which they are cut into the ground. It acts as a stopper.

Of the frame 200, a tractor connection frame 210, which is directly connected to and supported by a tractor (not shown), the seeding groove installation unit 110, the seeding groove expansion unit 130, and the seeding unit 150, In addition, the balance holding unit 190 is provided between the flat plate-shaped fixing frame 230 which integrally connects and fixes the rolling and stopper parts 170a and 170b.

As shown in the drawings (Fig. 1 and Fig. 2), the balance holding unit 190 includes at least four conventional shock absorbers 192 and the shock absorbers installed vertically from the fixed frame 230. (192) and the tractor connection frame 210 are connected horizontally, and both ends are pivotally supported by the shock absorbers 192 and the tractor connection frame 210, respectively, so that a plurality of diffractive motions are performed. It includes hydraulic cylinders 194.

Therefore, when a seeding operation is performed in a place where the ground is not flat and forms an uneven surface due to irregularities and bends using the seed drill 100 according to the present invention, the shock absorbers 192 themselves are balanced by a pressure change due to shock absorption. By maintaining the seeding groove installation portion 110, the seeding groove expansion portion 130, the seeding portion 150, and the rolling and stopper portion (170a, 170b) is constant without sagging in either side with respect to the ground (10). By supporting to maintain a horizontal state, weight is applied by the pressing rollers 172a and 172b of the rolling and stopper parts 170a and 170b to minimize damage to the existing well-grown turf.

In the above embodiments, reference numeral 212 denotes a wheel for smoothing the operation of the grass seed planter 100.

The operation of the grass seed seeder 100 according to the present invention having such a configuration is performed by connecting the frame 210 for connecting the tractor of the base frame 200 with a tractor (not shown), It can be operated with pressure and power (DC), but since such a connection configuration or operation is common, a detailed description will be omitted.

The grass seed seeder 100 according to the present invention can be operated in the direction of the arrow by a tractor (not shown), wherein the hydraulic pressure supplied from the tractor (not shown) is a hydraulic motor of the seeding groove installation unit 110 ( 300) by rotating the rotation shafts (112, 132) of the seeding groove installation unit 110 and the seeding groove expansion unit 130, respectively connected by electric chains (301, 302), and the disk shape of the rotation shaft (112) While cutting the ground 10 by the blades 114, the inside of the cutting groove cut by the disk-shaped blades 114 has a wider width (W) than the disk-shaped blades 114. The disc body 134 of the rotating shaft 132 having the same entry and spreading the cut seeding grooves 20 to both sides, thereby distributing through the respective seed supply pipes 156 of the seeding unit 150 It enables the seed to be stably seeded without scattering outward toward the inside of the expanded seeding groove 20.

The seeding unit 150 is also driven by a driving motor 155 driven by power supplied from a tractor (not shown), such as driving the seeding groove installation unit 110 and the seeding groove expansion unit 130, Driving by the drive motor 155 rotates the seed distribution rotor blades 154 like the rotation shaft 153. Rotation of the seed dispensing rotary blade 154 is performed by the seed dispensing rotary blade 154 that rotates seeds, such as grass seeds, previously injected into the seed input hopper 152. ) To be supplied into the seed supply pipes 156 by a predetermined amount, so that the seed supply pipes 156 can be seeded into the expanded seeding groove 20.

Seeds sown into the inside of the seeding grooves 20 are cut in the meantime by the rolling operation by the pressurizing roller 172b of the weight of the rolling and stopper parts 170a and 170b that are followed in a continuous rotational state. As for the seeding groove 20 that was formed, the ground that was cut again is covered by a rolling (compacting) operation by the pressure roller 172b, and the seeding groove 20 is covered so that the seeding groove 20 is not visible in appearance. .

In particular, the pressing rollers 172a, 172b of the rolling and stopper parts 170a, 170b install seeding grooves in the ground 10 by the rotating disk-shaped blades 114 of the seeding groove installation part 110 When the pressure rollers (172a, 172b) are positioned to support the ground (10) on both sides of the fixing frame (230) of the base (200), the rotating disk-shaped blades (114) By acting as a stopper to limit the depth of infeed into the interior, the depth of the seeding groove is always constant, and there is an advantage of minimizing the reduction of the germination rate of the seed to be seeded due to the deep cutting depth of the conventional seeding groove. .

In addition, in the turf seed seeder according to the present invention, in the re-sowing of turf seeds in the existing turf stadium, even if the turf ground to be re-sowed is not flat and forms an uneven surface due to irregularities and bends, the hydraulic cylinders The shock absorbers 192 connected by 194 maintain a balance against the pressure change caused from the ground so that the seeding groove installation part 110, the seeding groove expansion part 130, the seeding part 150, and rolling And by maintaining a horizontal state that the stopper parts 170a, 170b hold against the ground 10 without sagging to either side, the existing (including prior technology) sowing is oriented to either side when over-sowing on uneven turf ground in a seed drill. This gives the benefit of not breaking down and damaging the existing well-grown grass.

The operation of the grass seed seeder described above and the stopping of the sea of clouds are performed by turning on/off the power supplied from the tractor.

The present invention can be effectively used to increase the quality of grass in various turf stadiums including golf courses.

10: grass ground
20: seeding groove
100: grass seed planter
110: seeding groove installation part
114: rotating disc-shaped blade
130: seeding groove expansion part
134: disc body for expansion
150: seeding part
152: input hopper
153: rotating shaft
154: rotating blade for seed distribution
156: seed supply pipe.
170a, 170b: rolling and stopper part
172a, 172b: pressure roller
190: balance maintenance unit
192: shock absorber
194: hydraulic cylinder

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A grass seed seeding machine that has a seeding groove installation part consisting of a plurality of rotating disk-shaped blades that install seeding grooves of a certain depth for sowing grass seeds supplied from the seeding unit on the turf ground while moving in the direction of travel being supported by the aircraft frame. In,
The seeding groove installation part is installed to face the disk-shaped blades at the rear side of the seeding groove installation part, driving like the seeding groove installation part, and expanding the width of the seeding groove installed by the seeding groove installation part to a predetermined width to sow from the seeding part. In response to each of the rotating disk-shaped blades, which enables the grass seed to be safely sown into the seeding groove, a disk body having a larger width and a larger diameter than the blades of the rotating disk-shaped blades is made to expand the width of the seeding groove. Seeding groove expansion portion to enable; And
The seeding groove is installed in addition to rolling the ground so as to cover the seeding grooves that have been seeded, consisting of weight pressure rollers respectively installed to rotate on the base frame at the front part of the seeding groove installation part and the rear part of the seeding part. A grass seed seeding machine comprising: a rolling and stopper function that functions as a stopper for limiting the depth of the rotary disk-shaped blades of the negative to the ground of the turf ground to be kept constant. The method of claim 1,
In the gas frame, at least four shock absorbers installed vertically on the gas frame, the shock absorbers, and the gas frame are horizontally connected, while both ends are pivotally supported and interlocked with the shock absorbers and the gas frame. It includes a balance maintenance means consisting of one hydraulic cylinder, and the balance maintenance means is constant without sagging the seeding groove installation part, the seeding groove expansion part, the seeding part, and the rolling and stopper part toward the ground when sowing in uneven ground. Grass seed planter, characterized in that to support to maintain a horizontal state. delete delete The method of claim 1,
The seeding part is installed facing the seeding groove expansion part at a position adjacent to the rear of the seeding groove expansion part to sow the grass seeds into the expanded seeding groove, and has a lid installed vertically from one side of the base frame. For seed distribution, which is installed at intervals around the seed input hopper and the rotation shaft installed to rotate while crossing the entire seed input hopper inside the seed input hopper and the rotation shaft is installed at intervals to form a receiving space for distributing seeds. The rotation blade and the seed input hopper at the bottom of the seed input hopper are in contact with the seed input hopper and are extended to a position adjacent to the ground and open toward the seeding groove, so that the seed distributed from the seed distribution rotary blade is transferred to the seeding groove. Grass seed seeder, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of seed supply pipes for supplying and sowing inside.

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