Patent ID: 7526838

Claim:
A camel-back fleece laying machine with a laying arm, a top end of which is attached to a joint, two endless card web transport belts being guided along the arm, a bottom end of the arm, which is connected by a joint to an upper carriage, being provided with an output gap; and the arm being guided by the carriage along a path which is transverse to the transport direction of an output conveyor belt in a plane above this belt, where the upper carriage is connected to a first drive unit, which causes the laying arm to oscillate; and with a laying carriage, which is guided at a certain height between the output conveyor belt and the upper carriage on a path extending parallel to the upper carriage, and in which two deflecting rolls are supported close together, over each of which a cover belt passes, where the two cover belts form a laying gap at the deflecting rolls, through which the card web being supplied by the card web transport belts is guided, and have upper and lower runs, which extend in upper and lower planes parallel to the output conveyor belt, the lower plane being very close to the output conveyor belt, and where the laying carriage is connected to a second drive unit, which causes the carriage to move back and forth across the output conveyor belt, this drive unit being independent of the first drive unit, i.e., of the drive unit of the upper carriage, and where at least at one end, the path of the upper carriage extends beyond the path of the laying carriage to form a web buffer.