Patent ID: 8038428

Claim:
A manufacturing apparatus of a fiber-reinforced resin strand, having a first twisting roller and a second twisting roller, the first and second twisting rollers being provided in front of a crosshead and opposed to each other for twisting a fiber-reinforced resin strand drawn out from an exit nozzle of the crosshead, the apparatus comprising: a body frame; a first support member being mounted to said body frame rotatably, for supporting both a first support shaft for supporting the first twisting roller rotatably, and a first driving shaft being orthogonal to said first support shaft and functioning to impart power to the first twisting roller; and a second support member mounted to said body frame and supporting the second twisting roller rotatably about a second support shaft, said first and second support shafts being disposed respectively on two reference planes substantially parallel to each other, said first driving shaft being disposed substantially perpendicularly to said reference planes, and said first support member being rotatable coaxially with said first driving shaft relative to said body frame.