Sheet manufacturing apparatus

A sheet manufacturing apparatus that manufactures a sheet from a material containing a fiber, the sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:

• a defibrator that includes a defibrating blade and a discharge duct, defibrates the material with the defibrating blade, and discharges a defibrated material containing the fiber from the discharge duct;
• a separator that is a disk type, includes an introduction duct and a separation filter, receives the defibrated material from the introduction duct, and separates and extracts the fiber from the defibrated material with the separation filter;
• an accumulation unit that causes the fiber supplied from the separator to accumulate by an airflow to form a web;
• and
• a sheet forming unit that compresses the web to form the sheet, wherein
• the separator is disposed directly below the defibrator, and
• a leading end of the introduction duct of the separator is disposed to face a leading end of the discharge duct of the defibrator.