Patent ID: 7480965

Claim:
A cross lapper for laying a fleece from a card web, said cross lapper comprising a laying carriage movable transversely with respect to an endless output conveyor belt above same, and an upper carriage movable above same transversely with respect to the output conveyor belt, with endless belts for guiding the card web to a laying nip located at the laying carriage, wherein a belt inlet is formed at the upper carriage over which a card web transport belt of said endless belts is guided, said card web transport belt extending from a lower end of the belt inlet in the direction towards the laying carriage and being accompanied in parallel in this section by a section of another belt of said endless belts at a tight distance, the card web being returned together with said second belt up to the laying carriage and through the laying carriage to the belt inlet at the upper carriage, wherein a first deflecting roller and seventh and eighth deflecting rollers are freely rotatably supported in the laying carriage, over which rollers a first and a second cover belt of said endless belts are guided, respectively, each of said cover belts being guided over a movably supported fourth and eleventh tension roller, respectively, and which include lower sections arranged above the output conveyor belt, wherein an upper section of the first cover belt forms the belt section accompanying the card web transport belt between the upper carriage and the laying carriage, and that the seventh and eighth deflection rollers are arranged above one another and form a baffle surface along with the section of the second cover belt extending therebetween, wherein the upper section of the first cover belt and the adjoining section of the card web transport belt are directed towards this baffle surface, wherein a fourteenth deflecting roller adjacent to the baffle surface is rotatably supported in the laying carriage, through which the card web transport belt is guided to a fifteenth deflecting roller supported above the eighth deflecting roller in the upper carriage, from which the card web transport belt leaving the laying carriage is returned above the level of an upper section of the second cover belt to the upper carriage.