Patent ID: 7614127

Claim:
An apparatus for needling a non-woven web, said apparatus comprising at least one needle beam, the lower side of which comprises a needle board having a plurality of needles, a moveably held beam support for holding the needle beam, a vertical drive connected to the beam support for the oscillating movement of the beam support in an upward and downward movement and a horizontal drive connected to the beam support for the oscillating movement of the beam support in a reciprocating movement, the vertical drive comprising at least two driven eccentric shafts and a plurality of connecting rods, which are assigned to the eccentric shafts and the free ends of which are coupled to the beam support, and the horizontal drive comprising at least one horizontal link, one end of which is connected to the beam support and the opposite end of which is coupled to a gear kinematics, and an eccentric drive coupled to the gear kinematics, wherein the gear kinematics is formed by a rocker, one end of which is held on a machine frame by means of a frame swivel joint and the opposite end of which comprises a double swivel joint and that the rocker is coupled in the double swivel joint to the horizontal link and the eccentric drive.