Sheet manufacturing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9428862-B2
Application number	US-201514664208-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2015
Priority date	Mar 26, 2014
Publication date	Aug 30, 2016
Grant date	Aug 30, 2016

Abstract

A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes: a defibrating unit which defibrates a defibration object including fibers; a cylinder unit which allows a defibrated material which is defibration-processed in the defibrating unit to pass through a plurality of holes that is on a cylindrical surface by rotating; a housing unit which covers the cylinder unit so that the plurality of holes is included therein; a supplying unit which supplies additive agents that bonds the plurality of fibers, on an outer side of the cylinder unit to an inner side of the housing unit; and a bonding unit which forms a sheet by bonding the fibers and the additive agents.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sheet manufacturing apparatus, comprising:
a defibrating unit which defibrates a defibration object including fibers;
a cylinder unit which includes a plurality of holes that are disposed through a cylindrical surface of the cylinder unit, the cylinder unit causing the defibrated material which has been defibrated at the defibrating unit to pass through the holes by rotating;
a housing unit which covers the cylindrical surface of the cylinder unit such that the holes are included therein;
a supplying unit which supplies additive agents to a space between the cylindrical surface of the cylinder unit and an inner side of the housing unit such that the additive agents are mixed with the fibers included in the defibrated material; and
a bonding unit which forms a sheet by bonding a mixture of the fibers and the additive agents, which has come out from the housing unit, to bond the fibers via the additive agents.

2. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the supplying unit includes a supply port through which the additive agents are supplied to the space and which is spaced apart from and disposed above the cylindrical surface of the cylinder unit.

3. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the supplying unit includes a supply port through which the additive agents are supplied to the space and which is disposed to be apart from the cylindrical surface of the cylinder unit in a horizontal direction.

4. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the supply unit includes a distribution mechanism which distributes the additive agents in an extending direction extending along a rotation axis of the cylinder unit to supply the additive agents to the space.

5. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
the cylinder unit includes an introduction port from which the defibrated material which has been defibrated at the defibrating unit is introduced into the cylinder unit,
the introduction port is arranged to one end side in the extending direction of the cylinder unit, and
the distribution mechanism distributes more additive agents to the one end side than to the other end side in the extending direction of the cylinder unit.

6. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the cylinder unit includes an introduction port through which the defibrated material which has been defibrated at the defibrating unit is introduced into the cylinder unit, the introduction port is arranged to one end side in an extending direction of the cylinder unit, the extending direction extending along a rotation axis of the cylinder unit, and
the supplying unit includes a supply port through which the additive agents are supplied to the space and which is disposed at a position close to the one end side of the cylinder unit in the extending direction.

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Higuchi Naotaka
• Nakamura Masahide
• Miyazawa Kazuma

Classifications

• D21F11/00 Primary

  Processes for making continuous lengths of paper, or of cardboard, or of wet web for fibre board production, on paper-making machines · CPC title

• D21B1/06

  by dry methods · CPC title

• B27N3/04

  from fibres · CPC title

• B07B1/22

  Revolving drums · CPC title

• D21B1/08 Primary

  the raw material being waste paper (chemical part D21C5/02); the raw material being rags · CPC title