SHUTTER DEVICE OF VEGETABLE TRANSPLANTER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable sure delivery of a seedling to a hole opener by surely opening a shutter for opening and closing the bottom face of a seedling transporting member. SOLUTION: The transplanter to perform the transplantation of seedlings in a manner interlocked with the motion of the machine body is provided with a transplantation hole opener reciprocating in vertical direction to transplant the seedling and a seedling supplying device to supply the seedling to the transplantation hole opener. The seedling supplying device has seedling transporting pots connected in an oblong circular form and rotating along an oblong circular orbit and drops the seedling at a proper position of the transportation orbit. The seedling is received by the transplantation hole opener and transplanted to a field. The seedling transporting pot has a shutter to open and close the bottom of the pot and an opening force is applied to the shutter by a forcing means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI