Patent ID: 8828293

Claim:
An apparatus for manufacturing a three-dimensional netted structure, the apparatus comprising: a chute with a liquid supply outlet, a through hole being formed at a center of said chute, drawing-down units, said drawing-down units being located below said chute and submerged or partly-submerged in a liquid, and a die with a mouthpiece having a plurality of holes, said die extruding filaments downward and said filaments dropping on said chute and in said through hole; wherein: a width of an upper part of said chute is wider than a width of an assembly of said extruded filaments, and a width of a lower part of said chute and a distance between said drawing-down units each are smaller than a width of the assembly of said extruded filaments; a liquid layer is formed on a surface of said chute by said liquid supply outlet; and said chute contacts and compresses an entire surface of the assembly of said extruded filaments that is parallel to a direction in which the assembly of the filaments is extruded.