PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seedling transplanter enabling plural-row planting, that is, at least two-row planting, and controlling spaces between right and left seedlings planted depending on the kind of the seedling and culture method so that adequate spaces between seedlings planted can be kept, since a conventional seedling transplanter has such a structure that only a so-called one-row planting is possible, in other words, the seedlings are planted along the center of a ridge with a predetermined space.SOLUTION: The seedling transplanter includes a seedling transplanting device allowing a plural row planting, in which the seedling transplanting device has a bill shaped hole-forming body (26) having an opening/closing lower part and a hole-forming body operating mechanism for vertically moving the hole-forming body (26), wherein the transplanter is configured to adjust the inter row spaces between right and left seedling transplanting rows of the seedling transplanting device by mutually replacing the right and left hole-forming bodies (26) having a form of shifting the top end to the base end part.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】 従来の苗移植機では、苗を畝の中央に沿って所定間隔置きに植え付けていく所謂1条植しかできない構成であったが、本発明は、複数条植、つまり、少なくとも2条植を可能とし、そして、苗の種類や栽培方法に応じて左右の苗植付間隔が調整できるようにし、適正な苗植付間隔を保持せんとするものである。【解決手段】 複数条植が可能な苗植付装置を設けた苗移植機において、苗植付装置には、下部が開閉する嘴状の作穴体(26)と該作穴体(26)を昇降させる作穴体作動機構を備え、基端部に対して先端部が変位する形態の左右の作穴体(26)を互いに交換することにより、苗植付装置の左右の苗植付条間隔を調節可能に構成した。【選択図】 図4
