Computer operated automatic seedling plant transplanting machine

Details Computer operated automatic seedling plant transplanting machine Computer operated automatic seedling plant transplanting machine

1988-10-19

1990-08-14

Scherbel, David A.

Plant husbandry

Miscellaneous

Modified earth's surface, e.g., sod, turf, reinforced

47901, 111105, A01C 0000, A01G 0000

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049475797

ABSTRACT:
An automatic transplanter utilizes relatively simple mechanical structure to so securely engage the root-bound plug of a seedling that the plug and seedling may be rapidly (a) lifted out of its small germination compartment, (b) horizontally transported to correct vertical register with its newly assigned soil-filled and dibbled larger compartment, and (c) accurately positioned in and discharged into the dibbled cavity. An illustrative relatively short two-second cycle is described wherein plural seedlings are thus concurrently transplanted, for each such cycle, from individual small compartments on a first periodically advanced conveyor of a two-dimensional array of germinated seedlings to correct individual larger compartments on a second conveyor that is also periodically advanced, but at a recurrence rate and incremental advance which differ from that of the first conveyor. All operations, including those involved in a multiple-plant pick-up, transport, and discharge, as well as dibbling, conveyor-advance increments and timing, and even automatic tagging of individual transplanted pottings, are under suitably programmed PC-computer control, and provision is made for such flexibility in setting up the apparatus as to adapt the same to changes in the two-dimensional array configurations and compartment-size proportions which may be involved in the automated transplanting of different varieties of plant seedlings.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3012370 (1961-12-01), Lortz et al.
patent: 3460277 (1969-08-01), Grover et al.
patent: 4627190 (1986-12-01), Little

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