PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiple-row seedling transplanter having a seedling feeding apparatus furnished with a seedling holding member circulating along a loop path and supplying seedlings to the right and left seedling planting members, and enabling proper feeding of seedlings to the seedling planting member and easy change of the distance between the planting rows.SOLUTION: The multiple-row seedling transplanter is provided with a moving mechanism 26 to circularly move a plurality of seedling holding members 25 arranged in a looped form with a prescribed pitch and pass the holding members successively above the right and left seedling planting members 5, and a seedling dropping and feeding mechanism 27 to drop and feed the seedling held in the seedling holding member 25 to the seedling planting member 5 when the seedling holding member 25 is moved to the dropping and feeding positions 39, 40 above the seedling planting member 5. The multiple-row seedling transplanter is further provided with planting position changing mechanisms 69, 70 to separately move the right and left seedling planting members 5, and an engaging mechanism A to change the dropping positions 39, 40 simultaneously with the change of the planting positions of the right and left seedling planting members 5.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】ループ状経路で周回移動する苗収容体を備える苗供給装置で左右の苗植付け体へ苗を供給する構成とし、苗植付け体への苗の供給が適正に行え且つ植付条間変更が簡単にできるようにすることを課題とする。【解決手段】苗を収容する複数の苗収容体25を所定の配列ピッチでループ状に配置し順次左右苗植付け体5の上方を通過するように周回移動させる移動機構26と、苗収容体25が苗植付け体5の上方位置となる落下供給位置39・40に移動すると苗収容体25が収容する苗を苗植付け体5へ落下供給させる苗落下供給機構27とを備えた複数条植え苗植機において、左右苗植付け体5を各々各別に移動する植付位置変更機構69・70を設けると共に、該左右苗植付け体5の植付位置変更に連動して落下供給位置39・40を変更する連係機構Aを設けた複数条植え苗植機。【選択図】図6
