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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2021
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Naoto Aruga, Nagano, JP;
Makoto Kawamoto, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a pressing unit, a separate sheet shaping unit, a transportation unit, and a cutting-off unit. The pressing unit includes a pressing roller that presses a material containing fibers and a binder, which has a function of bonding the fibers together, to form the material into a shape of a continuous sheet. The separate sheet shaping unit cuts the continuous sheet into a shape of a separate sheet. The transportation unit is provided between the pressing roller and the separate sheet shaping unit and transports the continuous sheet formed by the pressing unit to the separate sheet shaping unit. The cutting-off unit is provided between the pressing roller and the transportation unit. When transportation abnormality occurs on the continuous sheet that is being transported, the cutting-off unit cuts off, from the continuous sheet, a part of the continuous sheet where the transportation abnormality occurs.