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US 11,306,439 B2Granted
Fiber material accumulating apparatus and sheet manufacturing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorNaotaka Higuchi
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Abstract
A fiber material accumulating apparatus which includes a storage section including a porous screen, a supply section which supplies a material containing fibers to the storage section, and a rotating body which is provided inside the storage section and includes a blade which rotates to agitate the material, in which the blade includes an extending portion extending along a rotational axis of the rotating body, and an opening through which the material passes when the blade rotates.
Claims10
A fiber material accumulating apparatus comprising:
- a storage section which includes a porous screen;
- a supply section which supplies a material containing fibers to the storage section;
- a rotating body which is provided inside the storage section and includes a blade which rotates to agitate the material;
- and
- a belt on which the material dispersed via the porous screen accumulates, wherein
- the blade includes
- an extending portion that includes a longest dimension of the blade extending parallel to a rotational axis of the rotating body,
- a plurality of extending portions separated in a direction intersecting the rotational axis, the extending portions including the extending portion, and
- an opening through which the material passes when the blade rotates, a gap between the extending portions functioning as the opening.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.