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US 12,529,188 B2Granted
Sheet manufacturing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHirofumi Nakata, Keigo Yamasaki, Yuka Kato, Hirokazu Yamaga, Shigeo Fujita
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Abstract
A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a pipe that supplies a material containing fibers, a collision section with which the material moving from the pipe collides, and an accumulation section that is disposed downstream of the collision section and accumulates the material to form a web.
Claims7
A sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- a supply section that supplies a material containing fibers and includes a pipe in which the material flows, the pipe having one end that is a downstream end in a flow direction of the material;
- a collision section which is disposed downstream relative to the pipe in the flow direction and with which the material moving from the pipe collides;
- a reducer section disposed between the pipe and the collision section in the flow direction, the one end of the pipe being coupled to the reducer section in a coupling direction;
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- an accumulation section that is disposed downstream relative to the collision section in the flow direction and accumulates the material to form a web,
- the reducer section having a cross-sectional area as viewed in the coupling direction, the cross-sectional area increasing as the reducer section approaches from a side of the pipe to the collision section in the coupling direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.