Abstract:
A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a first sieve that has a first opening for screening a defibrated material that is defibrating-processed, a second sieve that has a second opening having a size equal to or greater than a size of the first opening and refines the defibrated material passing through the first sieve by causing the defibrated material to pass through the second opening, and a belt on which the defibrated material passing through the second sieve is deposited.
Abstract:
A flexible mat forming system may include an elongate, rotatable drum having a plurality of transverse rows of mold cavities about an outer periphery thereof, an elongate hopper positioned adjacent the drum, the hopper shaped to receive a hardenable paste and deposit the hardenable paste along a facing row of the plurality of transverse rows of mold cavities, a spool assembly for feeding a sheet of mesh material between the hopper and the facing row, and a retaining plate extending partially about the outer periphery of the drum and positioned on a downstream side of the elongate hopper, the retaining plate spaced sufficiently close to the outer periphery to retain the mesh material against the outer periphery of the drum and the hardenable paste within the mold cavities adjacent the retaining plate.
Abstract:
A surface fastener molding apparatus includes a supporting structure and a second supporting structure for axially supporting a mold roll in a rotatable manner at a first end side and a second end side of the mold roll which is opposite to the first end side. The mold roll includes a circumferential surface in which a plurality of mold cavities for molding engaging elements of the surface fastener is provided. A first linear driving means and second linear driving means are provided which are for, respectively, advancing or retracting the first supporting structure and the second supporting structure. The degree of closeness between the extruding nozzle and the mold roll is regulatable across the first end side and the second end side of the mold roll, based on at least one activation of the first driving means and the second driving means.
Abstract:
A method of making an auxetic mesh, which method includes: (a) extruding a polymeric material 60 onto an open casting surface 58 that has an intended pattern 62 disposed therein, the pattern 62 being configured to create an auxetic mesh 20; (b) wiping off excess extruded polymeric material 60 from the open casting surface 64; (c) removing the cast mesh 20 from the open casting surface 64 after the excess polymeric material 60 has been wiped off; and (d) removing any residual polymeric material that is not of the intended mesh pattern 20. The method allows for the continuous production of auxetic meshes.
Abstract:
Fatty acid is dissolved in a second solvent to prepare a fatty acid solution. The fatty acid solution is added to a dope prepared by dissolving cellulose acylate and a plasticizer in a first solvent. Thereby, a casting dope containing the fatty acid is prepared. The mass of the fatty acid to be added to the dope is in the range of 1×10−4 to 3×10−3 relative to the sum of the mass of the cellulose acylate and the mass of the plasticizer. The casting dope is discharged from a casting die to the circumferential surface of a drum to form a casting film. The casting film is peeled from the drum and dried to be a film.
Abstract:
A method for producing an optical film comprising the steps of: (i) melt casting a cellulose ester resin or a cycloolefin resin by extruding melt of the cellulose ester resin or the cycloolefin resin from a die onto a roll-shaped cooling drum; (ii) cooling and solidifying the extruded melt to form a film; (iii) stretching the film in a lateral direction of the film; and (iv) winding the film in a roll, wherein the cooling drum has plural regions divided predeterminedly in an axis direction of the cooling drum, a temperature of each region being independently controlled.
Abstract:
A cellulose acylate film characterized in that it has a shear rate dependency of melt viscosity of 0.1 to 2 and/or a temperature dependency of melt viscosity of 0.1 to 3. The cellulose acylate film is capable of suppressing generation of cutting wastage at the time of cutting.
Abstract:
A camera for capturing a casting bead is provided at each side end of a discharge port in a width direction thereof. Plural speakers are provided at the vicinity of an opening of a decompression chamber. The camera continuously captures the casting bead, and outputs image data thereof to a control unit. The control unit includes a vibration detector and a suppressing vibration generator. The vibration detector detects vibration of the casting bead based on the plural image data. The suppressing vibration generator generates suppressing vibration signal representing the phase and amplitude of the suppressing vibration for suppressing the vibration generated in the thickness direction of the casting bead. The control unit controls the speakers based on the suppressing vibration signal to output sound wave. Thereby, the suppressing vibration is applied to the casting bead.
Abstract:
A drum cleaning device (65) has a nozzle (66). The drum cleaning device (65) is disposed in the upstream from a peel roller (34). A dope (21) is cast onto a surface of the casting drum(32) by using a casting die (30). The casting drum(32) is rotated to form a casting film(33) on the surface. The casting film(33) is cooled by the casting drum(32). Deposits containing fatty acid ester as a main component are precipitated from the casting film(33) onto the surface. The peel roller (34) peels off the casting film(33) as a wet film(38). The drum cleaning device (65) blasts gas mixture containing air and dry ice particles from the nozzle (66) onto the surface.
Abstract:
A dope is cast from a discharge opening of a casting die onto a casting drum. A casting bead is the dope between the discharge opening and the casting drum. A nozzle and a guide path are provided downstream from the discharge opening with respect to a moving direction (direction X) of the casting drum. The guide path is formed on a tapered surface of the casting die. The nozzle supplies an anticoagulant to the guide path. The anticoagulant is guided to a bottom end of the guide path. Upon reaching the bottom end, the anticoagulant forms a pool in the close vicinity of an end E of the discharge opening. The anticoagulant is securely supplied to a side edge portion of the casting bead through the pool.