Abstract: A card apparatus for producing an aerodynamically formed fibrous web (4), includes a fiber feed means (6), a main cylinder (8) rotating at high speed and a shaft (10) arranged at main cylinder (8), the shaft transporting thrown-off fibers in an airflow (12) to an air-permeable web transport means (14) and disposing said fibers on said web transport means (14) in the form of a fibrous web (4). In this apparatus the main cylinder (8) throws off said fibers at a first location (22) of shaft (10) onto a second cylinder (20) rotating at high speed in opposite sense to main cylinder (8) and generating a random orientation of said fibers on cylinder (20), and the second cylinder (20) throws off said fibers into airflow (12) at a second location (24) of shaft (10).

Abstract: In a card especially suited for the manufacture of nonwovens for producing aerodynamically formed, air laid, fibrous webs, comprising a feed roller (F), a driven main cylinder (T) rotating at a high speed, an air shaft or passage (2) which, adjacent the fiber doffing zone (3) is substantially tangential to the main cylinder (T), and which extends to an air-permeable nonwovens web conveying belt (5), and a suction fan (11), arranged beneath the nonwovens conveying belt (5), the centrifugal force at the main cylinder (T) throwing the fibers in the fiber doffing zone (3) into the air current generated in the air shaft (2) and conveying the fibers to the nonwovens conveying belt (5) where they are depsosited as a continuous fibrous web, it is provided that the upper portion of the air shaft (2) is designed as an air suction gap having a substantially nozzle-shaped cross section.