Patent ID: 6748633
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: D04H

Abstract:
An apparatus for needling a non-woven material with a support which receives at least one needleboard and is drivable in a reciprocating fashion both in the needle-penetration direction as well as the direction of passage of the non-woven material and on which are coupled connecting rods of two oppositely drivable eccentric drives for the drive in the needle-penetration direction and on which there acts at least one additional eccentric drive, characterized in that the connecting rods (10) of the two oppositely drivable eccentric drives (8, 9) extend inclined in opposite directions with respect to the needle-penetration direction (5), that the additional eccentric drive (12) revolves synchronously with one of the two other eccentric drives (8, 9), that a connecting rod (15) of the additional eccentric drive (12) which is also linked to the support (3) forms with the connecting rod (10) of the synchronously revolving eccentric drive (8) a parallelogram of links for guiding the support (3) and that the eccentric drives (8, 9) which are drivable in opposite directions are provided with a phase shift (&phgr;) or are adjustable with respect to the mutual angular position.