Patent ID: 7690086

Claim:
A fleece-laying apparatus comprising: an upper carriage and a laying carriage which are guided in a machine stand so as to move above, and transversely to, the direction of movement of an output conveyor belt traveling around in the stand, to lay a card web supplied to the fleece layer in partially overlapping layers on the output conveyor belt; a web entrance conveyor belt which supplies the card web and which is deflected in the upper carriage and guided through the laying carriage; and first and second laying rollers which are arranged parallel to each other in the laying carriage, around each of which a card web-carrying belt partially wraps and which, by means of the belt's partially wrapping around them, form a laying gap through which the card web is guided onto the output conveyor belt, wherein the belt wrapping around the first laying roller is an endless laying carriage conveyor belt which travels around exclusively in the laying carriage and which has upper and lower strands that extend between the first laying roller and a deflecting roller around which they partially wrap, the deflecting roller being arranged in the laying carriage a certain distance away from the first laying roller, wherein the lower strand of the laying carriage conveyor belt extends above the output conveyor belt and transversely to it, and wherein a certain length of the card web to be laid is supported from underneath by the upper strand of the laying carriage conveyor belt in the section adjacent to the laying gap, this length of the card web being covered by a portion of the web entrance conveyor belt extending between the upper carriage and the laying carriage.