PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably plant seedlings in an upright state in a transplanter for planting the seedlings in a ridge by lifting and opening/closing a planting device storing the seedlings.SOLUTION: The transplanter that, with advance of a machine body, performs planting by sticking a planting device 28 storing seedlings in a ridge U, bores a planting hole in the ridge U by lowering of the planting device 28, and, at a position where the planting device 28 is lifted from a bottom dead point A to a prescribed height, a front member and a rear member of the planting device 28 are opened in the front/rear, inserts seedlings into the planting hole to plant them.COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】本発明は、苗を収納した植付具を昇降開閉して苗を畝に植え付ける移植機において、苗が直立状態で安定して植え付けられるようにすることを目的とする。【解決手段】機体の進行に伴って苗を収容した植付具28を畝Uに突き刺して植付を行う苗移植機において、植付具28の降下で畝Uに植付穴を穿設し、植付具28が下死点Aから所定高さまで上昇した位置で植付具28の前部材と後部材が前後に開口して苗を植付穴に投入して植え付けることを特徴とする移植機の植付装置とする。【選択図】図1