Abstract: Apparatus for producing a web whose width exceeds the working width of a machine having a number of take-off units and a table for conveying the web, for the production of webs from fibrous material, more particularly cards, carding machines, or pneumatic non-woven formers, the device having deflectors (12) which are associated one each with the take-off units (10) and which, as considered in the operative direction of the machine, are spaced apart from one another by a distance corresponding to the width of the taken-off web, the deflectors (12) extending at an angle to the operative direction of the machine, such angle corresponding to half the angle between the operative direction of the take-off table (10) and that of the table (14) for conveying the textile, and a corresponding method.

Abstract: Carder for manufacturing non-woven formed fabric from fibrous substances comprising a plurality of principal rollers and workers and clearers working with said principal rollers, comprising a draw-in roller (1) and a licker-in (2) running in the same direction and with high drawing, comprising a first principal roller (3) running in a direction opposite the licker-in (2) and with low drawing, comprising at least one pair of rollers consisting of a worker (4) and a clearer (5) cooperating with said first principal roller (3), and comprising a first matting roller (8) running in the same direction as said first principal roller (3) and with low crushing or with low drawing, whereby the draw-in roller (1), the licker-in (2), the principal rollers (3, 9), the matting rollers (8, 12), the doffing cylinders (13, 18) and the second crushing cylinders (15, 20) are driven by respectively separate, independently controllable motors such that a change of the speed of the principal roller (3) effects a change of the spee