摘要:
A method for manufacturing an absorbent member (3) including an accumulating step including accumulating material for the absorbent member (3) carried by air flow in recesses (23) formed on an outer peripheral surface of a rotary drum (2) and a conveying step including transferring accumulations (32) in the recesses (23) onto conveying means (5) and conveying the accumulations (32) while the accumulations (32) being retained on conveying means (5). In the accumulating step, the material for the absorbent member (3) is accumulated in a plurality of the recesses (23) formed on the rotary drum (2) so as to be arranged in a width direction of the rotary drum (2). In the conveying step, the accumulations (32) are released from the recesses (23) onto the conveying means (5) under a suction force provided from the conveying means (5) and the released accumulations (32) are conveyed while being sucked.
摘要:
According to a method of producing an absorbent member (3) of the present invention including a depositing step of depositing raw material of absorbent member fed along with an air stream to a recess portion (22) which is arranged at an outer circumferential face of a rotatable drum (2) by suctioning and a pressing step of pressing and compressing a deposited aggregate (32) released from the inside of the recess portion (22), the recess portion (22) includes a suction portion (23) which is formed of a porous plate (26) to perform suctioning from a bottom face and a non-suction portion (24) having an air-impermeable bottom face not to perform suctioning from the bottom face while depth of the non-suction portion (24) from the outer circumferential face of the rotatable drum is shallower than depth of the suction portion (23) from the outer circumferential face of the rotatable drum, the raw material is deposited into the recess portion (22) in the depositing step, and the absorbent member (3) having a high density portion and a low density portion with mutually different density is obtained by pressing the deposited aggregate (32) released from the recess portion (22) in the pressing step.