Sheet manufacturing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11298725-B2
Application number	US-201716328368-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2017
Priority date	Aug 31, 2016
Publication date	Apr 12, 2022
Grant date	Apr 12, 2022

Abstract

A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes: a second web former that forms a web of defibrated substances obtained by defibrating a raw material containing fibers; and a sheet former that forms a sheet of the web formed by the second web former. The sheet former has a former roller unit and a cleaning unit that has an oil impregnated web for cleaning a roller surface of the former roller unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:
a web former that forms a web of defibrated substances obtained by defibrating a raw material containing fibers; and
a sheet former that forms a sheet of the web formed by the web former, the sheet former including a former roller unit, the former roller unit having
a pressurizing roller pair that pressurizes and heats the web formed by the web former so as to form a sheet,
cleaning units each of which has an oil impregnated web and that clean roller surfaces of rollers of the pressurizing roller pair, respectively, and
downstream scraping blades that remove attached matter on the roller surfaces of the rollers of the pressurizing roller pair, respectively, each of the downstream scraping blades being disposed, in a roller rotating direction of each of the rollers, between a nip portion of the pressurizing roller pair and each of the cleaning units and disposed downstream relative to each of the cleaning units in the roller rotating direction,

each of the cleaning units cleaning each of the roller surfaces of the rollers, which has passed through the nip portion, on an upstream side of each of the downstream scraping blades in the roller rotating direction.

2. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein each of the cleaning units has a web delivery roller that delivers the oil impregnated web, a web winding roller around which the oil impregnated web is wound, and a web press-contact roller that is disposed between the web delivery roller and the web winding roller and comes into press contact with each of the roller surfaces of the pressurizing roller pair via the oil impregnated web.

3. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the former roller unit further has upstream scraping blades that remove the attached matter on the roller surfaces of the rollers of the pressurizing roller pair, respectively, and each of the upstream scraping blades is disposed, in the roller rotating direction, between the nip portion and each of the cleaning units and disposed upstream relative to each of the cleaning units in the roller rotating direction,
wherein each of the cleaning units cleans each of the roller surfaces of the rollers, which has passed through the nip portion, on a downstream side of each of the upstream scraping blades in the roller rotating direction.

4. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the former roller unit further has a heating roller pair, and
wherein the sheet former further has cleaning units which clean rollers of the heating roller pair.

5. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 4 , further comprising:
an external heating roller that heats at least one heating roller of the heating roller pair from outside, and
wherein one of the cleaning units, which cleans the at least one heating roller, performs cleaning on an upstream side of the external heating roller.

6. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the oil impregnated web of each of the cleaning units is conveyed in a reverse direction of the roller rotating direction.

7. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the oil impregnated web of each of the cleaning units is conveyed intermittently.

8. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cleaning units are replaceable on a unit basis.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Nagai Yoshiyuki

Classifications

• D21F9/00 Primary

  Complete machines for making continuous webs of paper · CPC title

• B08B1/165

  Scrapers · CPC title

• B08B1/10

  characterised by the type of cleaning tool · CPC title

• B08B1/20

  Cleaning of moving articles, e.g. of moving webs or of objects on a conveyor · CPC title

• D21F5/022

  Heating the cylinders · CPC title