Cleaning apparatus and fiber structure manufacturing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHayato Yanagawa, Makoto Sato, Makoto Kawamoto
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Abstract
A cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning roller configured to rotate about a first rotation axis to clean a component to which paper dust is attached, the cleaning roller having a first area and a second area that is adjacent to the first area in a direction along the first rotation axis and to which more paper dust is attached than to the first area, and a remover configured to rotate about a second rotation axis extending in a direction different from the first rotation axis and configured to come in contact with at least a portion of the second area to remove the paper dust from the second area.
Claims11
A fiber structure manufacturing apparatus, comprising:
- an accumulation unit including a belt on which a fiber-containing material is accumulated to form an accumulation;
- a forming unit disposed downstream relative to the accumulation unit in a transport direction of the accumulation, the forming unit including a pressure portion, the pressure portion applying a pressure to the accumulation to form a sheet-like object containing fiber;
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- a cleaning apparatus disposed below the pressure portion, the cleaning apparatus including
- a cleaning roller configured to rotate about a first rotation axis to clean the pressure portion to which paper dust is attached, the first rotation axis extending the first direction, the cleaning roller having a first area and a second area that is adjacent to the first area in the first direction and to which more paper dust is attached than to the first area, and
- a remover configured to rotate about a second rotation axis, the second rotation axis extending in a second direction different from the first direction, the remover being configured to come in contact with at least a portion of the second area to remove the paper dust from the second area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.