A fiber assembly-forming method includes forming a web containing a plurality of fibers charged to a first polarity on a transport belt charged to a second polarity opposite to the first polarity and applying a liquid to the web formed on the transport belt from a nozzle of a liquid coater. The liquid contains a binder binding the fibers.

A paper producing apparatus includes: a sieve portion having a plurality of openings; a web forming portion having a deposition surface on which a material passing through the openings and containing fibers is deposited, the web forming portion forming a web on the deposition surface; a sheet forming portion that processes the web into a sheet; and a material supply pipe through which transport airflow containing the material is supplied to an inside of the sieve portion.

A method for controlling a fiber fractionation system for fractionating an input material into a long fraction (LF) stream comprising LF fibers and a short fraction (SF) stream comprising SF fibers includes measuring an average LF fiber length at one or more locations post-fractionation, and maintaining the average LF fiber length within a target variability range by automatically altering a rotational speed of a rotor of the fiber fractionation system.

A fibrous body accumulating device includes an accumulating section including a drum that introduces and releases a material including fibers, a detection section detecting a presence of the material in the drum, and an estimation section estimating an amount of the material in the drum based on a detection frequency at which the detection section detects the material. The fibrous body accumulating device further includes a storage section in which a calibration curve showing a relationship between the detection frequency and the amount of the material in the drum is stored, and the estimation section calculates information on the detection frequency and estimates the amount of the material in the drum with reference to the calibration curve.

The present invention aims to provide a method for analyzing a fiber structure comprising a fiber and inorganic particles. An analysis method according to the present invention is a method for evaluating a structure comprising a fiber and inorganic particles, said method comprising the steps of: (A) capturing a two-dimensional image of the surface of the fiber structure using a scanning electron microscope; (B) denoising the captured image by adjusting each contrast value; and (C) calculating the standard deviation of the contrast value after denoising.

An air nozzle apparatus that includes an air orifice and a nozzle housing, said nozzle housing configured as u-shaped having a first elongated sidewall, a second elongated sidewall, and a third curved sidewall formed continuous with said first elongated sidewall and said second elongated sidewall to form a channel having an open end opposite said third curved sidewall, said air orifice positioned centered in said channel and proximate a base of said third sidewall facing said open end, wherein said first elongated sidewall, said second elongated sidewall, and said third curved sidewall are configured having an arched top surface, and, thus, functions to optimize the Coanda effect to position and convey the paper web through an air threading chute to thread a paper web from the end of the drying step through the dry-end to the paper winding step.

A defibrating unit that defibrates a raw material including fibers in an atmosphere, an accumulating unit that discharges defibrated matter by rotating a drum unit in which a plurality of openings are formed, a second web forming unit that forms a second web by operating a mesh belt on which the defibrated matter is accumulated, a sheet forming unit that forms a sheet from the second web, a cutting unit that cuts the sheet into a preset size, and a control unit that executes a stop control with a cut operation of the cutting unit as a trigger in a case where an instruction to stop an apparatus is provided are included. In the stop control, the control unit stops operation of the defibrating unit after stopping rotation of the drum unit and movement of the mesh belt.

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: controlling suction with predetermined force in a known measurement area to a moving cardboard or paper web in a manufacturing process, detecting on-line measurement information on deviation of the moving cardboard or paper web in the manufacturing process caused by the suction with predetermined force in the known measurement area, and determining elastic modulus of the moving cardboard or paper web in the manufacturing process on the basis of the measured deviation.

A sheet manufacturing apparatus is an apparatus that heats a material containing fibers to form a sheet, and includes a heating portion that heats the material, and a control portion that controls a temperature at which the heating portion heats the material. The control portion sets a temperature of the heating portion to a first temperature in a first state where the sheet manufacturing apparatus manufactures the sheet, and sets the temperature of the heating portion to a second temperature lower than the first temperature at a predetermined timing in a second state where the sheet is not manufactured, or at a predetermined timing when a state of the sheet manufacturing apparatus is shifted to the state where the sheet is not manufactured.

A monitoring apparatus for a doctoring comprises a vibration sensor which is individual and is attached at a discrete location of a doctor blade arrangement, the at least one vibration sensor converting a mechanical vibration of the doctor blade arrangement to an electrical signal, the mechanical vibration being caused by the doctor blade in response to a scraping operation of a rotating roll which is in contact with a moving web. A data processing unit receives the electrical signal carrying information on the vibration, compares said vibration with a reference of at least one previous measurement of a same grade of the web, and start one or more preventive actions in order to avoid a drop-through in the case said vibration exceeds at least one boundary of the reference.