Sheet manufacturing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9476161-B2
Application number	US-201514664248-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2015
Priority date	Mar 26, 2014
Publication date	Oct 25, 2016
Grant date	Oct 25, 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 and introduced via an introduction port to pass through a plurality of holes that is on a cylindrical surface by rotating; a supplying unit which is provided with a supply port which supplies additive agents that bond the plurality of fibers in the cylinder portion; 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 including an introduction port from which a defibrated material which has been defibrated at the defibrating unit is introduced into the cylinder unit, and a plurality of holes that are disposed through a cylindrical surface, the cylinder unit causing the defibrated material that has been introduced via the introduction port to pass through the holes by rotating;
a supplying unit which supplies additive agents to an inside of the cylinder unit such that the additive agents are mixed with the fibers included in the defibrated material, the supplying unit including a supply port through which the additive agents are supplied to the inside of the cylinder unit; 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 cylinder unit, to bond the fibers via the additive agents.

2. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the supply port is spaced apart from and disposed above a rotation axis of the cylinder unit.

3. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the cylinder unit includes an opening region in which the holes are disposed through the cylindrical surface, and a tubular region in which holes are not disposed, the opening region and the tubular region are arranged in an extending direction extending along the rotation axis of the cylinder unit, and
the supply port is positioned within a range of the tubular region in the extending direction.

4. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the supply port is spaced apart from and disposed above the introduction port.

5. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein a distance between the supply port and the introduction port in an extending direction extending along the rotation axis of the cylinder unit is equal to or less than ¼ of a length in the extending direction of the cylinder unit.

6. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cylinder unit includes two side surface units which intersect the cylindrical surface, are apart from each other in the extending direction, and do not rotate, and
the supplying unit is disposed through one of the side surface units.

7. The sheet manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a classifying unit which classifies the defibrated material after the defibrated material has been defibrated at the defibrating unit and before the defibrated material is introduced into the cylinder unit via the introduction port.

8. A sheet manufacturing apparatus, comprising:
a defibrating unit which defibrates a defibration object including fibers;
a pipeline which guides the defibrated material which has been defibrated at the defibrating unit;
a cylinder unit including 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 guided by the pipeline to pass through the holes by rotating;
a supplying unit which supplies additive agents to the pipeline 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 cylinder unit, to bond the fibers via the additive agents.

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

• D21H3/00

  Paper or cardboard prepared by adding substances to the pulp or to the formed web on the paper-making machine and by applying substances to finished paper or cardboard (on the paper-making machine), also when the intention is to impregnate at least a part of the paper body · CPC title

• D21F9/04 Primary

  of the cylinder type · CPC title

• D21B1/08 Primary

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