GUIDE ROLLER AND FIBER BUNDLE ARRANGING DEVICE

摘要

A guide roller 34 includes a cylindrical portion 44 fixed to a support shaft 341, flanges 45, 46 provided at he axial ends of the cylindrical portion 44, a plurality of columnar contact bars 47 extending between the flanges 45, 46. The contact bars 47 are annularly arranged about a rotational axis 340 of the guide roller 34. A fiber bundle F is wrapped around the guide roller 34 so as to contact some of the contact bars 47. The contact bars 47 form a circumferential guide surface S, which contacts the fiber bundle F, about the rotational axis 340. A plurality of through holes 451, 461 are formed in the flanges 45, 46.