Abstract: Apparatus for levitated guidance of a material web moving in a travel direction, includes a blow box which defines an air chamber in communication with a source for supply of blowing air. The blow box has a planar surface portion positioned in facing relationship to the material web and formed vith at least one row of nozzles. Side walls converge from the curved edge zones of the surface portion and diverge toward the material web, to thereby demarcate a pressure conversion compartment of trapezoidal cross section. Arranged adjacent the side walls are diffusion channels which are directly connected with the air chamber of the blow box.

Abstract: An arrangement for the levitated guidance of a material web includes a plurality of nozzle boxes to which blowing air can be supplied. The nozzle boxes are arranged above and below the material web and are arranged one behind the other in travel direction of the material web. Each nozzle box has a nozzle plate in the form of a V-shaped trough. Two rows of openings with round blow nozzles are arranged adjacent the longitudinal edges of the nozzle plate. The axes of the round blow nozzles extend perpendicularly to the plane surface portions of the nozzle plate. The round blow nozzles are arranged in the rows of openings in such a way that the round blow nozzles of one row of openings immediately adjacent one of the longitudinal edges are arranged in a vertical transverse plane which extends between two vertical transverse planes extending through the round blow nozzles of the two rows of nozzles arranged adjacent the opposite longitudinal edge of the nozzle box.