Patent ID: 7628891

Claim:
An apparatus for treating a fibrous web, said apparatus, having a press section and a drying section, the press section, comprising: a substantially impermeable belt; and a central roll around which said substantially impermeable belt wraps, the fibrous web being removed from said impermeable belt and being fed to the drying section, wherein, as viewed in a web running direction, a first drying group of the drying section includes: a permeable circulating belt; at most three drying cylinders including a first drying cylinder having an exit region in which the fibrous web runs off of said first drying cylinder together with said permeable circulating belt; a removal zone to which a vacuum is applied on a side of said permeable circulating belt that faces away from the fibrous web; and at least one high-performance drying unit provided between the press section and said first drying cylinder of the first drying group of the drying section.