Patent ID: 7152278

Claim:
A nonwoven card for the production of nonwoven fabric of fiber material comprising a drawing-in means ( 2 , 4 ) in the form of rotating drawing-in ( 2 ) and taker-in ( 4 ) rollers, a licker-in roller ( 6 ) rotating oppositely to the rotation of said taker-in roller ( 4 ), a main cylinder ( 16 ), at least one fiber doffer means ( 18 ) engaged with the main cylinder ( 16 ) for doffing a fibrous web, the drawing-in means ( 2 , 4 ) transferring the fiber material to the licker-in roller ( 6 ) and transfer means ( 8 ) for transferring the fiber material from the licker-in roller ( 6 ) to the main cylinder ( 16 ) along two different transfer paths of travel via a plurality of transferring rollers ( 10 , 10 a , 10 b , 10 c , 12 , 12 a , 12 b , 14 ), characterized in that at least one of the transferring rollers ( 10 , 10 a , 10 b , 10 c , 12 , 12 a , 12 b , 14 ) of the transfer means ( 8 ) is a random roller ( 10 , 10 a , 10 b , 10 c ) rotating in the same direction as the main cylinder ( 16 ) and the licker-in roller ( 6 ).