SOWING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sowing machine which can stably deliver a prescribed amount of seeds without damaging the delivered seeds and can reduce labors for maintenance. SOLUTION: This sowing machine equipped with a delivery roll 12 which is rotatably attached to a place near to the lower opening of a receiving portion 11 for receiving many seeds G and is used for outward deliver the seeds G in the receiving portion 11 through delivery holes 12a formed on the outer circumferential face, and with a guide portion 13 for guiding the delivered seeds G with the delivery roll 12 to a dropping position A below the delivery roll 12 so that the seeds G does not drop from the delivery holes 12a is characterized in that the guide portion 13 has a guide member 22 comprising an elastic material and that the guide member 22 is rotatably supported on a shaft 21 parallel to the rotation shaft 15 of the delivery roll 12, is pressed to a part of the outer periphery of the delivery roll 12 to close the openings of the delivery holes 12a, and is synchronously rotated with the rotation of the delivery roll 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI