Sheet manufacturing apparatus

Abstract

A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a buffer tank 13 that stores a material containing fibers; a defibrator 30 that defibrates the material supplied from the buffer tank 13 and discharges the fibers; a mixing unit 91 that mixes the fibers and a binding material binding the fibers to each other and discharges a mixture; a first transport belt 61a that transports the mixture; an accumulation unit 50 that accumulates the mixture on the first transport belt 61a to form a web W; a second transport belt 62a that comes into contact with one surface of the web W to transport the web W; processing rollers 71 and 72 that pressurize the web W; a cleaning unit 201 that removes and recovers residual fibers adhering to the first transport belt 61a; and a fiber transport pipe 22 that transports the residual fibers recovered by the cleaning unit 201 to the defibrator 30.

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