Stirring apparatus and stirring method
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsKoji MOTOHASHI, Makoto SATO, Takashi ABE
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Abstract
A stirring apparatus includes a shredder that shreds a sheet; a case that accommodates a sheet piece shredded by the shredder and has a bottom surface and an inner surface; and a rotator that is disposed at the bottom surface of the case and includes a blade which stirs the sheet piece by rotation, in which L1<L3<L2, when between an outer end of the blade and the inner surface in a radial direction of the rotator, a shortest distance in the radial direction is defined as L1, a longest distance in the radial direction is defined as L2, and an average major axis length of the sheet piece is defined as L3.
Claims10
A stirring apparatus comprising:
- a shredder that shreds a sheet;
- a case that accommodates a sheet piece shredded by the shredder and has a bottom surface and an inner surface;
- and
- a rotator that is disposed at the bottom surface of the case and includes a blade which stirs the sheet piece by rotation, wherein
- L1<L3<L2, when between an outer end of the blade and the inner surface in a radial direction of the rotator, a shortest distance in the radial direction is defined as L1, a longest distance in the radial direction is defined as L2, and an average major axis length of the sheet piece is defined as L3.
A stirring method of stirring a sheet piece by using an apparatus including a case that accommodates the sheet piece and has a bottom surface and an inner surface;
- and a rotator that is disposed at the bottom surface of the case and includes a blade, wherein
- L1<L3<L2, when between an outer end of the blade and the inner surface in a radial direction of the rotator, a shortest distance in the radial direction is defined as L1, a longest distance in the radial direction is defined as L2, and an average major axis length of the sheet piece is defined as L3.
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