| 摘要 |
A setting machine of the invention for transplanting plugged seedlings of a vegetable in a field along predetermined transplantation ridges is used in combination with seedling culturing trays of a synthetic resin having cells as through bores. This machine includes an extraction unit supporting the seedling culturing trays and adapted to take out the seedlings selectively and sequentially from the opened bottom portions of predetermined cells, the extraction unit being provided with selecting members each of which has a selection bore capable of being positioned two-dimensionally in a plane parallel to the bottom surface of a seedling culturing tray and of being aligned with the cell in the seedling culturing tray. The machine further includes a transportation unit adapted to forcibly transport a withdrawn seedling by sucking the same in a vacuum to a predetermined position, and a transplanting unit adapted to transplant the resultant seedling in the earth along a predetermined transplantation ridge. This machine is adapted to mechanically and completely carry out all the operations from a seedling withdrawing to a seedling transplantation and capable of improving the operation efficiency, especially, in an operation of transplanting seedlings in a plurality of ridges, and of saving power to a remarkable extent. |
