Patent ID: 7810218

Claim:
A cross lapper for laying a fleece from a card web, said cross lapper including a laying carriage ( 3 ) movable on rails in a machine stand transversely to an output conveyor belt ( 1 ) above the output conveyor belt and an upper carriage ( 18 ) movable in the machine stand transversely to said output conveyor belt on rails as well, and a plurality of card web transport belts for guiding the card web through the upper carriage and the laying carriage into a discharge nip formed at the laying carriage, wherein a belt entrance with a downwardly inclined entrance zone is formed at the upper carriage, through which a first card web transport belt is passed, which extends from a lower end of the entrance zone in a section towards the laying carriage, and is accompanied in parallel in this section by a section of a second card web transport belt enclosing the card web together with the first card web transport belt until the laying carriage, the second card web transport belt being guided back through the laying carriage as a cover belt over the output conveyor belt and in parallel thereto towards the laying carriage, wherein a section of the second card web transport belt guided back to the laying carriage is passed through a tensioning carriage only which is movable transversely with respect to the output conveyor belt, said second card web transport belt bypassing said upper carriage ( 18 ).