Sheet manufacturing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsNaotaka Higuchi, Masahide Nakamura, Kazuma Miyazawa
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Abstract
A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes: a defibrating unit which defibrates a defibration object including fibers; a cylinder unit which allows a defibrated material which is defibration-processed in the defibrating unit to pass through a plurality of holes that is on a cylindrical surface by rotating; a housing unit which covers the cylinder unit so that the plurality of holes is included therein; a supplying unit which supplies additive agents that bonds the plurality of fibers, on an outer side of the cylinder unit to an inner side of the housing unit; and a bonding unit which forms a sheet by bonding the fibers and the additive agents.
Claims6
A sheet manufacturing apparatus, comprising:
- a defibrating unit which defibrates a defibration object including fibers;
- a cylinder unit which includes a plurality of holes that are disposed through a cylindrical surface of the cylinder unit, the cylinder unit causing the defibrated material which has been defibrated at the defibrating unit to pass through the holes by rotating;
- a housing unit which covers the cylindrical surface of the cylinder unit such that the holes are included therein;
- a supplying unit which supplies additive agents to a space between the cylindrical surface of the cylinder unit and an inner side of the housing unit such that the additive agents are mixed with the fibers included in the defibrated material;
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- a bonding unit which forms a sheet by bonding a mixture of the fibers and the additive agents, which has come out from the housing unit, to bond the fibers via the additive agents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.