PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automate operation of supplying seedlings to each seedling housing body of a seedling feeding device in a seedling transplanter.SOLUTION: The seedling transplanter includes: the seedling feeding device 42 which is installed on a machine body frame 2b provided with a traveling device 1 for revolving each seedling housing body 45 around in the form of a loop and seedling planting bodies 4 that are installed under the seedling feeding device 42 for transplanting the seedlings received from the seedling feeding device 42 into a field. In the seedling transplanter, the seedling supplying device 76 is installed for holding each stem of the seedlings in a seedling tray 72 provided near the seedling feeding device 42, and moving and supplying the seedlings onto each seedling housing body 45.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】本発明の課題は、苗移植機において、苗供給装置の苗収容体へ苗を補給する作業を自動化しようとすることである。【解決手段】走行装置1を備えた機体フレーム2b上に、苗収容体45をループ状に周回する苗供給装置42を設け、該苗供給装置42の下部に苗供給装置42から受け取った苗を圃場に移植する苗植付け体4を設けた苗移植機において、苗供給装置42の近くに設ける苗トレイ72中の苗の茎を把持して苗収容体45上に移動し補給する苗補給装置76を設けたことを特徴とする苗移植機とする。【選択図】図1
