APPARATUS FOR REARING SILKWORMS

摘要

An apparatus for rearing silkworms comprising, a first elevator conveyor having a multiplicity of supports for carrying rearing units in such manner that the rearing units can be pushed out from one side of the conveyor toward the other side, each of the rearing units being composed of a feeding tray and a net superposed on the feeding tray, a rearing frame having a multiplicity of shelves each having one end to be connected to the discharge end of each of the shelves on the conveyor, a second elevator conveyor having a multiplicity of shelves each having one end to be connected to the other end of each of the shelves on the rearing frame, a rearing unit loader provided for the first elevator conveyor, a rearing unit pusher provided for the first elevator conveyor, a rearing unit unloader provided for the second elevator conveyor, a conveyor connected to the rearing unit loader for supplying fresh feeding trays, a conveyor connected to the rearing unit unloader for discharging old feeding trays, and a carriage connecting the first elevator conveyor to the second elevator conveyor for receiving the net separated from the feeding tray, permitting the feeding tray to be delivered onto the discharge conveyor, and returning the net alone to the first elevator conveyor.