PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a seedling transplanter having a spare seedling mounting table which can hold seedling mats without moving the seedling mats in a fore and aft direction in the stacked stored arrangement and the seedling mats can be smoothly conveyed in the serial deploying arrangement.SOLUTION: The seedling transplanter has the traveling vehicle body (2) capable of traveling and agricultural field by the controlling part (31), the transplanting device (4) for transplanting seedlings from the seedling mat (G) to the agricultural field at the rear part of the traveling vehicle body (2) in series, and the spare seedling mounting table (38) housing and holding the seedling mat (G) for charging into the transplanting device (4) in the outer side parts of the controlling part (31), the spare seedling mounting table (38) is constituted of the seedling receiving member (81) in which the passage (P) for the guiding and supporting the seedling mat (G) movably back and forth is formed, the regulating member (83) for regulating the movement of the seedling mat (G) on the passage (P) of the seedling receiving member (81), and the movable supporting mechanism (84) for movably supporting the seedling receiving member (81) to the position avoiding the regulating member (83).COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】段積収納配置において苗マットが前後に移動することなく保持できるとともに、直列展開配置において苗マットが円滑に搬入できる予備苗載台を備えた苗移植機を提供する。【解決手段】苗移植機は、操縦部(31)によって圃場を走行可能な走行車体(2)と、この走行車体(2)の後部で圃場に苗マット(G)から順次植付けする植付装置(4)と、この植付装置(4)に投入するための苗マット(G)を操縦部(31)の外側部で収容保持する予備苗載台(38)とを備えて構成され、上記予備苗載台(38)は、苗マット(G)を前後移動可能に案内支持する通路(P)を形成した苗受部材(81)と、この苗受部材(81)の通路上で苗マット(G)の移動を規制する規制部材(83)と、この規制部材(83)を回避する位置まで苗受部材(81)を可動支持する可動支持機構(84)とから構成したものである。【選択図】図8
