Patent ID: 6944915

Claim:
A textile machine segment including a first or main roller adapted to support and convey a traveling fibre web, associated second and third rollers having respective nips, with each other and with the first roller as the three rollers rotate, and drive means for rotating the rollers, being arranged to rotate the second roller in a rotational direction that is the same as that of the first roller and opposite that of the third roller, wherein the second roller is downstream of the third roller and is cooperable with the first roller to open and detach a mat of fibre and convey the mat to the nip with the third roller, the mat of fibre being there transferred to the third roller and conveyed by the third roller to the nip with the main roller where it is transferred back to the first roller, and wherein the ratio of the diameter of said second and third rollers is less than 1.5.