Patent ID: 7168473
Filing Date: 2007-01-30
Classification: B65H,D01D,D04H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for forming a nonwoven web, the apparatus comprising: an endless foraminous belt passing over at least two rollers and having an upper pass between said rollers; means including a spinneret for depositing strands on the upper pass of said belt upstream of one of said rollers to form a web on said belt by intermingling of said strands, said one of said rollers being hollow and formed on a periphery thereof with fluid-discharge openings distributed over said periphery; a web-conveying and processing device immediately downstream of the one roller; and means including a source of a fluid medium connected to said interior of said one of said rollers for feeding said fluid medium to said one of said rollers such that the fluid medium passes through said openings and through said belt and lifts said web from said belt at the one roller and upstream of the web-conveying and processing device.