PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tool for transferring a plurality of gardening pots from a cardboard box to a tray at one time using a manual inexpensive mechanism with excellent portability. SOLUTION: This tool has a holding frame 4 fixed with pipes 6 at equal intervals and holding members 2 made of a soft foaming resin and fixed to the ends of the pipes 6. Rods 8 are fixed to a support frame 5 above the holding frame 4 and loosely inserted into the pipes 6. The holding members 2 are made to loosely pass through the lower side and extruding members are set on the bottoms of the rods 8. The holding frame 4 and the support frame 5 are assembled with each other in a relatively movable manner to the vertical direction. The holding members 2 are press-fitted in the inside of pots P to be contacted with the surfaces and 24 pots P are held at one time and taken out from the cardboard box. The support frame 5 is superposed on the holding frame 4 and the pots P are extruded from the holding members 2 with the extruding member to be loaded on the tray. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
