Method for preventing web rewetting

In a method of making paper using a paper making machine comprising a forming medium having a perforated surface, a pressure slice adjacent said surface, and a transfer zone from which a formed web is withdrawn, and wherein the withdrawn web is exposed to water thrown out from a length of said forming medium extending between said transfer zone and said pressure slice in a direction of movement of said medium, comprising the steps of moving said medium, supplying paper stock material from said pressure slice to said medium in a forming zone during movement of said medium, producing suction at said medium at the transfer zone thereof, withdrawing the formed web from said medium at the transfer zone, water from said moving medium tending to impinge on said withdrawn web, the additional step of producing suction at said medium along substantially the entire length of said medium extending between the transfer zone and the pressure slice in the direction of movement of said medium so as to prevent rewetting of said withdrawn web.