Patent ID: 7380317

Claim:
Device for carrying out a method for the continuous stabilization of web-shaped goods with a visible side whose structure and quality must not be changed and with a back side which is initially still unstable, comprising a device for providing a web-shaped product comprising pile-forming fibers held loosely in a primary carrier, an assembly for providing a nonwoven on the back side of the primary carrier of the web-shaped product, a water needling machine provided downstream of the device for providing the web-shaped product and the assembly for providing the nonwoven, the water needling machine fastening the nonwoven by hydrodynamic water needling to the back side of the primary carrier holding the pile fibers, by penetrating fibers of the nonwoven into the pile fibers on the back side of the primary carrier, to stabilize the pile fibers without changing the structure and quality of the visible side, and a dryer.