Sheet manufacturing apparatus and defibrating unit
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsNaotaka Higuchi, Toshiaki Yamagami, Nobumasa Abe
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Abstract
The sheet manufacturing apparatus includes the defibrating unit configured to carry out a dry-type defibrating process on defibration object by rotating a rotating unit, and manufactures sheets by accumulating and heating at least a portion of defibrated material on which the dry-type defibrating process is carried out. The rotating unit includes a rotor that has a plurality of protruding sections on an outer circumference of the rotor, and a feeding blade configured to generate a flow of air and arranged on a side section of the rotor on a side of the input section for the defibration object.
Claims10
A sheet manufacturing apparatus comprising:
- a defibrating unit including a rotating unit and a housing that relatively rotatably supports the rotating unit, the housing including a cover portion and a fixing unit that is attached to the cover portion and is spaced apart from the rotating unit in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotating unit so as to form a gap between the rotating unit and the fixing unit, the defibrating unit being configured to carry out a dry-type defibrating process on defibration object by rotating the rotating unit;
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- a sheet forming unit configured to form a sheet by accumulating and heating at least a portion of defibrated material on which the dry-type defibrating process is carried out,
- the rotating unit including a rotor that has a plurality of protruding sections on an outer circumference of the rotor, and a feeding blade that is arranged on a side section of the rotor on a side of an input section for the defibration object and configured to generate a flow of air.
A defibrating unit configured to carry out a dry-type defibrating process on defibration object by rotating a rotating unit, the defibrating unit comprising:
- the rotating unit including a rotor that has a plurality of protruding sections on an outer circumference of the rotor, and a feeding blade that is arranged on a side section of the rotor on a side of an input section for the defibration object and configured to generate a flow of air;
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- a housing relatively rotatably supporting the rotating unit, the housing including a cover portion and a fixing unit that is attached to the cover portion and is spaced apart from the rotating unit in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotating unit so as to form a gap between the rotating unit and the fixing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.