PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an excellent grafted seedling by preventing impairment of accuracy in joining of the seedling caused by the inappropriate posture or position of the seedling or a clip.SOLUTION: The grafted seedling producing apparatus has a clip feeding device for transferring and feeding clips for joining the grafted seedling one by one in the longitudinal direction to joint positions in such a state that a grip part is open, holding and fixing both rootstock seedlings and scion seedlings by closing the grip parts, and further transferring the clips which fix the rootstock seedlings and scion seedlings in the longitudinal direction and releasing the rootstock seedlings and scion seedlings together. The grafted seedling producing apparatus also has support members (121 and 122) for supporting the clips to be fed to joining positions from below. A scion seedling pretreatment part (122) of the support members (121 and 122) on the other side in the lateral direction from the joint position projects in a clip releasing direction further than a rootstock seedling pretreatment part (121) on one side in the lateral direction from the joint position.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】 本発明は、苗又はクリップの姿勢や位置が不適正になることによる苗の接合精度の悪化を防止し、良好な接木苗を得ることを課題とする。【解決手段】 接木苗の接合用のクリップを把持部が開いた状態で前後方向へ移送して接合位置へ一つずつ供給し、把持部を閉じることにより台木苗及び穂木苗を共に挟持して固定し、台木苗及び穂木苗を固定したクリップを更に前後方向に移送して台木苗及び穂木苗ごと放出するクリップ供給装置を設けた接木苗製造装置において、接合位置へ供給されるクリップを下側から支持する支持部材(121,122)を設け、該支持部材(121,122)は、接合位置から左右一方側となる台木前処理部側の部分(121)よりも、接合位置から左右他方側となる穂木前処理部の部分(122)がクリップの放出方向に突出する構成とした。【選択図】図36
