Kao Corporation

Keiji Eto

Yoshiaki Kumamoto

Tokuo Tsuura

Akira Nonomura

Kenichi Otani

Masataka Ishikawa

Minoru Goto

A method of producing a pulp molded article comprising the steps of assembling splits () each having a suction passageway and a papermaking screen () into a papermaking mold (), filling the cavity of the papermaking mold () with a pulp slurry, discharging the liquid component of the pulp slurry through the suction passageway to deposit pulp fiber on the inner side of the papermaking screen () into an undried wet molded article, and dewatering the undried molded article deposited on the inner side of the papermaking screen (), wherein the splits () each have a large number of flow passageways () for feeding a purging fluid for cleaning the papermaking screen (), and the purging fluid is ejected from the outer side of the papermaking screen () toward the cavity through the flow passageways () during the filling with the pulp slurry.

Method of producing pulp moldings

A papermaking mold which includes a papermaking part of a prescribed shape, a peripheral part extending outward from the peripheral edge of the papermaking part, and a net covering the papermaking part and at least part of the peripheral part. A fixing member is disposed on the periphery of the net, and the fixing member is fixed to the peripheral part to fix the net by the fixing member.

Mold for papermaking

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Tochigi, Japan

Keiji Eto