JPH09205826A - Cassette packing device of rush seedling cassette packing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [PROBLEMS] To enable effective packing of hay and grass seedlings in a cassette on a cassette trolley so as to be evenly distributed. SOLUTION: A cassette 4 is removably placed on a cassette carriage 3 which can be moved along a rail 2 and both carry-out belts 5a, 5b for carrying out a foliage part 1b of a rush seedling 1 by sandwiching it.
A center guide plate 6 that can guide the root portion 1a of the rush seedling 1 to the left and right is installed below the holding space between the two holding belts 5a and 5b from the holding end portion to above the cassette 4. In the grass seedling cassette packing machine that is desired to be constructed by extending the center guide plate 6, a rack 7 extending in the longitudinal direction is installed on the rail 2 and a pinion 8 meshing with the rack 7 is provided on the cassette carriage 3. The pinion shaft 8a is configured to be mounted on a shaft and to be braked by elastic force.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cassette packing device for a rush seedling cassette packing machine capable of automatically packing rush seedlings into a cassette placed on a cassette carriage.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, cassettes are detachably placed on a cassette carriage that can be moved along a rail, and foliage of rush seedlings is sandwiched between two carry-out belts to be carried out. In a grass seedling cassette packing machine, which is constructed by arranging a center guide plate that can guide the root portion by allocating it to the left and right, and extending the center guide plate from above the holding end portions of both carrying belts to above the cassette. , Japanese Patent Application No. 7-18637 already filed by the applicant
As seen in No. 4, it is known to engage a chain attached to a cassette carriage to brake a sprocket provided on the rail side.

[0003]

However, with such a structure, the chain is slackened or derailed, so that the cassette cannot be braked properly, and the seedlings are improperly packed in the cassette, and the cassette is disturbed. , Also, the rush seedlings discharged from the holding end of both carry-out belts to the upper side of the cassette are stuck in the cassette and become saplings on the upper side of the rush seedlings, resulting in poor packing. It has a problem such as.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A first object of the present invention is to:
By solving such problems, the cassette can be braked well and the seedlings can be packed effectively so that the seedlings can be packed uniformly. Therefore, the cassette can be attached to and detached from the cassette carriage that can move along the rails. Place the foliage of the rush and carry out the foliage of the grass seedlings.The center guide plate, which can guide the roots of the rush of the grass, can be installed below the holding between the carrying belts. In a grass seedling cassette packing machine that is desired to be constructed by extending the center guide plate from the holding end portion of the belt to above the cassette, a rack extending in the longitudinal direction is installed on the rail and meshes with the rack. The pinion is mounted on the cassette carriage, and the pinion shaft is braked by elastic force.

A second object of the present invention is to make it possible to effectively pack the cassette while stabilizing the brake applied to the cassette. Therefore, the rack is installed above the pinion.

A third object of the present invention is to enable seedlings to be packed effectively so that seedlings can be packed evenly. At the terminal end of the center guide plate, a seedling regulating plate that is orthogonal to the center guide plate and extends to both sides and stands upright is mounted.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a hay seedling cassette packing machine, in which a supply base 11 is provided on the left side of the supply section at the upper part of the machine body, and a discharge stand 12 is provided on the right side of the machine body. At the supply section, the root section 1a side of the rush seedling 1 and the foliage section 1 are provided.
b Root-side conveyor belt 15 having a recess 13 and both protrusions 14, 14 on which the tip ends can be placed and conveyed.
And the conveyor belt 16 on the tip end side of the foliage part are arranged in parallel,
The holding conveyor belts 17 and 18 are respectively extended from above the middle of the root side conveyor belt 15 and the foliage tip side conveyor belt 16 toward the right side of the machine body.
A pair of upper and lower disc blades 19a are provided on the front side of the middle part of 16.
Both transfer belts 20 that can be carried by pinching 19b and holding the foliage part 1b of the rush plant 1 from the terminal end side of the transfer belt 15 to the lower rear part of the machine body.
a and 20b are installed obliquely, and at the lower side of the rear part of the machine body, the foliage portion 1 of the weeding seedling 1 inherited from the conveyor belts 20a and 20b
Both carry-out belts 5a capable of gripping and carrying b
It is equipped with 5b.

Further, a cassette carriage 3 is movably provided above the rail 2 extending from the lower side of the support plate 21 below the both carry-out belts 5a and 5b to the left side of the machine body, and the cassette carriage 3 is The cassette 4 is removably placed on the upper side, and when the rush seedlings 1 sent out by the two carry-out belts 5a and 5b fall into the cassette 4, they can be packed by the pressing body 22 and rotated about the fulcrum shaft 23. By vertically moving the seedling aligning plate 24, the seedlings can be pressed and packed so as not to float up, and the rush seedlings 1 can be packed in a cassette while being conveyed as shown by an arrow A in FIG. .

[0009] From the lower position between the holding positions of the two transfer belts 20a, 20b to the rearward direction of the holding ends of the two transfer belts 5a, 5b through the lower position between the holding positions of the two transfer belts 5a, 5b. A center guide plate 6 capable of guiding the roots 1a of the roots 1a of the plant is extended, and a flip 25 for alternately distributing the roots 1a of the rush seedlings 1 to the left and right is provided on the front end side of the center guide plate 6. Clogging sensors 26a, 26 capable of detecting clogging of the root portion 1a of the rush seedling 1 on both lateral sides below the carrying belts 5a, 5b while being held.
b, and above the terminal end of the center guide plate 6, the seedling aligning plate 24 composed of two plates arranged side by side with the center guide plate 6 interposed is provided. The center guide plate 6 which is a rearward direction apart from the holding end portions of 5a and 5b and is a frontal direction of the seedling aligning plate 24.
At the end portion side of the seedling regulating plate 10 which is orthogonal to the center guide plate 6 and extends to both sides to stand upright.
It is constructed by mounting.

An opening / closing lid 4 is provided above the cassette carriage 3.
The cassette carriage 3 can be locked when a is closed.
The cassette 4 having a cassette operating rod 28 that can be engaged with the upper rod holder 27 is placed, and the cassette 4 is detachably set by being pressed by the pressing metal fitting 38. A rack 7 extending in the longitudinal direction and having a toothed portion at the lower edge is erected, connected to each bracket 29 vertically extending from both lateral sides of the cassette trolley 3, and erected inside the rail 2. Reference numeral 30 denotes a horizontal axis roller 31a that abuts the lower surface of the rail 2.
31b and rollers 32a and 32b of the vertical axis that come into contact with the lateral side surfaces of the rail 2 are respectively mounted on a shaft, and both bearings 34 are attached to a support base 33 fixed to the support frame 30.
A pinion 8 meshing with the lower side of the rack 7 is mounted between a and 34b, and a friction plate 35 fixed to one end side of the pinion shaft 8a of the pinion 8 has a spring which is a compression type elastic body. The friction plate 36 elastically pressed by 9 is brought into contact with the pinion shaft 8a so that the pinion shaft 8a is braked by the elastic force of the spring 9.

Therefore, the root portion 1a is guided by the two carry-out belts 5a and 5b so that the root portion 1a is guided to both side surfaces of the center guide plate 6, and the rush seedling 1 is carried out by the two carry-out belts 5a and 5b.
When it is released from the holding end part of No. 3, it will hit the seedling regulating plate 10 and be dropped upright to the rear side of the grass seedling 1 that is jammed in the cassette 4, and then,
The pressing body 22 moves to pack seedlings, and at the same time, the seedling aligning plate 24 moves downward to align seedlings.

In this case, when the cassette carriage 3 is moved together with the cassette 4 in which the rush seedlings 1 are packed by the pressing body 22, a spring is applied to the pinion 8 on the cassette carriage 3 side that meshes with the rack 7 on the rail 2 side. Since the brake force can be applied by the elastic force of 9, the movement of the cassette 4 that moves when the rush seedlings 1 are packed is always constant by the brakes, and the seedlings can be satisfactorily packed with a uniform distribution. Moreover, since the pinion 8 meshes with the fixed rack 7, the cassette carriage 3 can move on the rail 2 without any trouble such as derailment.

Further, since the rack 7 is installed above the pinion 8, the reaction force of the rotation of the pinion 8 is received on the rail 2 side, and the brake of the cassette carriage 3 becomes stable. Since the roller on the cassette carriage 3 side can always stably contact the rail 2 side, the brake can be effectively applied to the movement of the cassette 4.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the cassette carriage 3 is moved together with the cassette 4 in which the rush seedlings 1 are packed, the pinion 8 on the cassette carriage 3 side meshing with the rack 7 on the rail 2 side is moved. Brake can be effectively applied by the elastic force of the spring 9, and the movement of the cassette 4 that moves when the rush seedlings 1 are packed is always constant by the brakes, and the seedlings are packed well with a uniform distribution. In addition, since the pinion 8 meshes with the fixed rack 7, the cassette cart 3 can effectively move on the rail 2 without any trouble such as derailment. It has a feature that it can be suitably implemented with a compact structure.

Further, when the rack 7 is constructed above the pinion 8, the reaction force of the rotation of the pinion 8 is received on the rail 2 side, and the brake of the cassette carriage 3 is stabilized. Since the roller on the cassette carriage 3 side can always stably contact the rail 2 side, the brake can be effectively applied to the movement of the cassette 4.

Furthermore, the two carry-out belts 5a and 5b are also provided.
At the end portion of the center guide plate 6 which is separated from the holding end portion and is in the rearward direction, a seedling regulating plate 10 which is orthogonal to the center guide plate 6 and extends to both sides and stands upright is constructed. When released, the rush seedlings 1 released from the holding end portions of the two carry-out belts 5a and 5b hit the seedling regulating plate 10 and stand upright, and are dropped to the rear side of the rush seedlings 1 jammed in the cassette 4. I ’m going to get stuck
The seedlings can be neatly and effectively packed without falling into the upper side of the seedlings packed in the cassette to form floating seedlings as in the conventional case.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view schematically showing a rush seedling cassette packing machine.

FIG. 2 is a plan view schematically showing a part of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing a part of FIG. 2 as viewed from the front.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing a part of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a part of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a rear view showing a cassette and the like.

FIG. 7 is a rear view showing a part of FIG. 6 in a cutaway manner.

FIG. 8 is a rear view showing a part of FIG. 6 in a cutaway manner.

9 is a plan view showing a part of FIG. 7. FIG.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a part of FIG. 9 broken away.

[Explanation of symbols] 1 grass seedling 1a root portion 1b foliage portion 2 rails 3 cassette dolly 4 cassettes 5a, 5b carry-out belt 6 center guide plate 7 rack 8 pinion 8a pinion shaft 9 spring 10 seedling regulation plate

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Kyotaro Nishimoto 1-32, Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka Yanmar Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Kisho Koga 2-18-1 Inadera, Amagasaki-shi, Hyogo Inside the high-class machine shop

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A unloading belt 5a, 5b on which a cassette 4 is removably mounted on a cassette carriage 3 which can be moved along a rail 2 and which carries out a foliage portion 1b of a rush seedling 1 by holding it.
A center guide plate 6 that can guide the root portion 1a of the rush seedling 1 to the left and right is installed below the holding space between the two holding belts 5a and 5b from the holding end portion to above the cassette 4. In the grass seedling cassette packing machine that is desired to be constructed by extending the center guide plate 6, a rack 7 extending in the longitudinal direction is installed on the rail 2 and a pinion 8 meshing with the rack 7 is provided on the cassette carriage 3. A cassette packing device for a rush plant cassette packing machine, characterized in that the pinion shaft 8a is mounted on a shaft and braked by elastic force. 2. The cassette packing device of the rush plant cassette packing machine according to claim 1, wherein the rack 7 is installed above the pinion 8. 3. The center guide plate 6 has an end portion which is orthogonal to the center guide plate 6 and extends to both sides at the end portion of the center guide plate 6 which is in a rear direction apart from the holding end portions of the carrying-out belts 5a and 5b. The cassette packing device of the rush seedling cassette packing machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the seedling restriction plate 10 is mounted.