Patent ID: 8685312

Claim:
A melt spinning method for manufacturing a nonwoven fabric with fibers made of resin, the method comprising: extruding melted resin from a nozzle having an open end; and blowing hot air toward a periphery of the nozzle in a direction in which the melted resin is extruded during the extruding, thereby forming fibers made of the melted resin, wherein the hot air is blown toward the periphery of said nozzle diagonally forward with respect to the direction in which the melted resin is extruded from the nozzle, an imaginary merging section being defined at a position where the hot air merges imaginarily with the melted resin being extruded from the nozzle, the open end of the nozzle is positioned on a downstream side of the imaginary merging section, and the hot air is supplied toward the imaginary merging section and flows toward the open end of the nozzle in a direction parallel to a flow of the melted resin.