Web forming method

In a method for traversing a strand between two spaced rows of strand-restraining elements moving together in the same direction in the same plane to form a web, each traverse including the steps of feeding the strand from a supply to a location out of the plane of the rows of strand-restraining elements and between them, and thence toward one of the rows, engaging the strand between said location and said strand-restraining elements and moving the strand toward the other row of strand-restraining elements in a transverse plane angled to the plane of the strand-restraining elements while simultaneously moving the strand away from said transverse plane to form a loop in the strand defined by sides and an end, and bringing said loop into a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the strand-restraining elements, the improvement comprising:

• bringing the end of the loop substantially parallel to said other row and depositing said loop on said other row of strand-restraining elements as soon as the end of the loop moves beyond said other row.