Patent ID: 8782861

Claim:
An apparatus for compacting a material web made of fibers and/or filaments, the apparatus comprising: a first revolving endless belt which is a transport belt and which carries the material web and is tensioned around guide rollers, and a compacting belt which is tensioned around guide rollers and revolves in the direction opposite to the first belt at the same speed, wherein the transport and compacting belts, forming a conical compacting region in a first region in the conveying direction of the material web, run at an angle toward each other, whereby the material web located between the belts is increasingly pressed, wherein, subsequent to the first region, a first nozzle beam is disposed for a first fluid application with water jets onto the material web still located between the transport and compacting belts, wherein the transport and compacting belts in this region of the first fluid application are in each case guided to run in a tensioned manner in a straight direction, wherein the transport and compacting belts are guided in the region of the first fluid application such that they do not run parallel to each other, and wherein the transport and compacting belts are tensioned in the region of the first fluid application while extending away from each other at an acute angle.