PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transplanter configured to appropriately and smoothly feed seedlings and capable of performing appropriate planting work without requiring an opening/closing bottom lid of a supply cup.SOLUTION: The transplanter includes: a plurality of supply cups 72 movable in a loop shape and having openings at the upper and lower ends into which seedlings C are replenished a receiving member 200 formed with a supply port 201 for feeding the seedlings C in the supply cups 72 downward, and disposed under the supply cups 72 moving in the loop shape and a planting implement 26 for receiving the seedlings C fed from the supply port 201 at an upper moving position and planting the received seedlings in a field at a lower moving position. In the transplanter, a recess 200a is formed along a trajectory of the supply cups 72 moving in the loop shape at a position corresponding to lower end openings of the supply cups 72 on the upper surface of the receiving member 200.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】本発明は、苗を適正且つ円滑に供給できる構成とし、供給カップの開閉底蓋を不要としながら、適正な移植作業が行なえる移植機を提供することを目的とする。【解決手段】苗Cが補給される上端と下端に開口を有する複数個の供給カップ72をループ状に移動自在に構成し、供給カップ72内の苗Cを下方に供給する供給口201が形成された受け部材200をループ状に移動する供給カップ72の下側に設け、該供給口201から供給される苗Cを上動位置で受けて下動位置で圃場に植付ける植付具26を設けた移植機において、受け部材200上面の供給カップ72下端開口に対応する位置に供給カップ72がループ状に移動する軌跡に沿って凹部200aを形成した移植機。【選択図】図7
