Sheet manufacturing apparatus and sheet manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10647022-B2
Application number	US-201615772331-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2016
Priority date	Nov 9, 2015
Publication date	May 12, 2020
Grant date	May 12, 2020

Abstract

The sheet manufacturing apparatus includes an accumulation unit that accumulates a material containing a fiber and a resin; a heating unit that includes a first rotating body and a second rotating body and heats a sediment accumulated by the accumulation unit; a displacement mechanism that displaces the heating unit to a first position where the first rotating body and second rotating body nip and heat the sediment and a second position where the first rotating body and the second rotating body are separated from each other; and a controller that displaces the first rotating body and the second rotating body to the first position after heating the first rotating body and the second rotating body in the second position.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A sheet manufacturing apparatus which manufactures a sheet by using a raw material containing a fiber, the apparatus comprising:
an accumulation unit that accumulates a material containing a fiber and a resin;
a heating unit that includes a first rotating body and a second rotating body, and heats a sediment of the material accumulated by the accumulation unit to form the sheet;
a displacement mechanism that displaces the heating unit to a first position where the first rotating body and second rotating body nip and heat the sediment of the material and a second position where the first rotating body and the second rotating body are spaced apart from each other; and
a controller that is electrically connected to the displacement mechanism and controls the displacement mechanism to displace the first rotating body and the second rotating body to the first position after controlling the heating unit to heat the first rotating body and the second rotating body in the second position.

2. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller controls the displacement mechanism to displace the heating unit to the first position from the second position after a temperature of the heating unit reaches a predetermined temperature at the time of starting transport of the sediment.

3. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller controls the displacement mechanism to displace the heating unit from the first position to the second position at the time of stopping transport of the sediment.

4. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein when the heating unit is in the second position, the controller controls the heating unit such that a peripheral speed of the first rotating body is different from a peripheral speed of the second rotating body.

5. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a driving unit that rotatably drives the first rotating body; and
a transmission mechanism that transmits a driving force of the driving unit to the second rotating body in the second position without transmitting the driving force of the driving unit to the second rotating body in the first position.

6. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first rotating body and the second rotating body are not in contact with the sediment in the second position.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Nagai Yoshiyuki
• MIKOSHIBA Takao

Classifications

• B27N3/18

  Auxiliary operations, e.g. preheating, humidifying, cutting-off · CPC title

• B27N3/12 Primary

  from fibres · CPC title

• B27N1/029

  Feeding; Proportioning; Controlling · CPC title

• D04H1/60

  the bonding agent being applied in dry state, e.g. thermo-activatable agents in solid or molten state, and heat being applied subsequently · CPC title

• D21F9/00

  Complete machines for making continuous webs of paper · CPC title