APPARATUS FOR HOLDING RAISING SEEDLING BOX AND RAISING SEEDLING BOX RECOVERY APPARATUS USING THE HOLDING APPARATUS

摘要

PURPOSE: To enable the automatic recovery of empty raising seedling boxes and arrange the boxes in order without requiring the labor of an operator. ;CONSTITUTION: A raising seedling box 3 capable of holding a number of seedling pots is placed in a raising seedling box holding apparatus 24 provided with a bottom plate 24a inclined at a specific angle, a front plate 24b standing from the lower front end of the inclined bottom plate 24a and side plates 24c standing from the right and left sides of the bottom plate 24a. The raising seedling boxes 3 are placed in plural stages on the bottom plate 24a in a state contacting one end of the box with the front plate 24b. The raising seedling box 3 is taken out of seedling stocking means 5, 6 by raising seedling box transfer means 7, 10 and the seedling pot is taken out of the raising seedling box 3. The emptied raising seedling box 3 is transferred by the raising seedling box transfer means 7, 10 and recovered in the raising seedling box holding apparatus 24.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1995,JPO