Abstract: A suction nozzle (23) for a hollow jet suction box (14) is used for sucking liquid jets (4). The jet suction box has on a box casing (18) at least one slot casing opening (20) to a box interior space (17). The suction nozzle (23, 23?) has a nozzle body (24), arrangeable above the casing opening (20), with a slot suction opening (25), which passes through the nozzle body in a flow direction (23?). The suction opening extends from an inlet side (26) at a free end to an outlet side (27), arrangeable at the casing opening. The nozzle body has a mobile sealing element (29, 29?) adjacent the suction opening and laterally defining the slot-like suction opening and a resilient expansion device (33), which acts on the sealing element (29, 29?) and pushes the sealing element outward, away from the outlet side, against the suction flow direction.

Abstract: A jet manifold (10) and a method for a hydroentanglement device (1) are provided. The jet manifold (10) has a hollow housing (11) that includes a housing shell (12). An opening (13) is provided in the housing shell. A nozzle strip (16) is located in the housing (11) and has a tub-shaped cross-section with a nozzle body (19). The nozzle body (19) is recessed in the opening (13) in the housing shell.

Abstract: A semi-finished product includes a partly reinforced assembly (11) of a nap layer (12, 13, 14, 15) made of a non-woven fiber nap (16) and an additional fiber layer (21, 22), stacked face-to-face. The nap layer includes carbon fibers, aramid fibers, or mineral fibers, such as glass or basalt fibers, having a preferred orientation (VR). The assembly is produced by a layering process. The nap layer and the fiber layer are free of additional macro proppants. The additional fiber layer includes a web thread group (23, 24) of individual adjacent threads. The fiber layer includes carbon fibers, aramid fibers, or mineral fibers, such as glass or basalt fibers and has an exclusive fiber orientation (FA). The nap product is partly reinforced by local connection points between the fibers of the different layers. The semi-finished product has a high directional strength and a high maximum drapability at the same time.

Abstract: A jet manifold (10) and a method for a hydroentanglement device (1) are provided. The jet manifold (10) has a hollow housing (11) that includes a housing shell (12). An opening (13) is provided in the housing shell. A nozzle strip (16) is located in the housing (11) and has a tub-shaped cross-section with a nozzle body (19). The nozzle body (19) is recessed in the opening (13) in the housing shell.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for strengthening a running non-woven web. For this purpose, the non-woven web is penetrated by a plurality of fluid streams. In order to create a surface structure, the fluid streams are generated by a movable nozzle beam, which is guided back and forth at a defined amplitude substantially transversely to the running direction of the non-woven web. In order to obtain enough flexibility and a sufficient volume in the non-woven web in spite of the strengthening effect, the amplitude for moving the fluid streams back and forth is selected in such a way according to the invention that the points of impact created in the non-woven web by adjacent fluid streams do not intersect an imaginary separating line in the running direction. To this avail, the amplitude of the back and forth movement of the nozzle beam is adjusted so as to be smaller than half the distance between two nozzle outlets disposed next to each other in the row.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for depositing synthetic fibers to form a nonwoven, in which the synthetic fibers are blown through a take-up nozzle as a fiber stream in a free space in the direction of a deposit belt. According to the invention, the fiber stream, before impinging onto the deposit belt, is guided by a guide segment formed between two guide members, one of the guide members being arranged on a belt exit side and an opposite guide members being arranged on a belt inlet side and forming, at a distance from the take-up nozzle, an open fiber entry gap for entry into the guide segment, and the guide segment extending as far as the deposit belt.

Abstract: A device and method for producing a spun-bonded non-woven. A molten polymer supplied to a spinning beam from a melt source is extruded through a multiplicity of linearly arranged spinneret bores into filaments arranged in the form of a curtain. A tensile force is exerted on the filaments by means of a draw-off nozzle. The filaments are thereupon deposited on to a conveyer belt where they form a spun-bonded non-woven. At the draw-off nozzle, a monitoring means is provided which detects a characteristic quantity characteristic of the process. One or more structure-borne sound sensors are preferably used as monitoring means. The measurement result of the monitoring means, after a desired value comparison, is supplied to a signal means or is used for regulating the process.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for melt-spinning and cooling a plurality of filaments which are processed to form a non-woven fabric or web. The filaments are guided after extrusion in the form of a filament curtain through a cooling zone and are cooled by a cooling air stream blown transversely to the filament curtain. In order to prevent the flow effects created by air swirls in the side edge zones of the filament curtain, an additional quenching air stream acts inside the cooling zone on each side edge of the filament curtain. For this purpose, the inventive apparatus comprises a quenching member positioned below each longitudinal end of the spinneret.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for producing a non-woven fabric or mat, wherein a downwardly advancing sheet of polymeric filaments is produced by a melt spinning device, and a draw-off device serves to withdraw the sheet from the spinning device and advance the sheet into a collecting gap which is formed by two feed rollers which are positioned a short distance above a perforated support. In order to obtain a desired configuration on both surfaces of the web, the collecting gap is extended by two opposing feed belts which cooperate with the feed rollers to shape the sheet upstream of the perforated support.