Dryer group web transfer region for paper making machine with open draw

A dry end of a machine for manufacturing a paper web, comprising:

• a first dryer group comprised of a first plurality of heatable dryer cylinders, a respective first web reversal roll next to each of the first dryer cylinders, a first support belt passing alternately over a first dryer cylinder and then over the neighboring first reversal roll, the first dryer cylinders and the first reversal rolls being so placed that the first support belt partially wraps around each first dryer cylinder;
• the first support belt has a first side for supporting the paper web, the first support belt passes through the first dryer group together with the paper web so that the first side of the web comes into direct contact with the first dryer cylinders while the opposite second side of the web is in continuous contact with the first side of the first support belt;
• a second dryer group following the first dryer group in the path of the paper web through the dry end, the second dryer group being comprised of a second plurality of heatable dryer cylinders, a respective second web reversal roll next to each of the second dryer cylinders, a second support belt passing alternately over a second dryer cylinder and then over the neighboring second reversal roll, the second dryer cylinders and the second reversal rolls being so placed that the second support belt partially wraps around each second dryer cylinder;
• the second support belt has a second side for supporting the paper web, the second support belt passes through the second dryer group together with the paper web so that the second side of the web comes into direct contact with the second dryer cylinders while the opposite first side of the web is in continuous contact with the second support belt;
• there is a last one of the first reversal rolls after the last one of the first dryer cylinders in the path of the first support belt through the first dryer group;
• there is a first one of the second reversal rolls in front of the first one of the second dryer cylinders in the path of the second support belt through the second dryer group;
• the first one of the second reversal rolls being so placed that the web on the first support belt transfers from the first support belt to the second support belt in the region of the first one of the second reversal rolls;
• first guide means for the first support belt, second guide means for the second support belt, the first and second guide means being so placed and the last one of the first reversal rolls and the first one of the second reversal rolls being so placed that there is always a spaced distance between the first and the second support belts and that distance between the support belts exists as those belts pass the last one of the first reversal rolls and the first one of the second reversal rolls;
• a web separation means at the first support belt generally opposite the first one of the second reversal rolls and positioned at the first support belt to force air through the first support belt in the direction toward the second support belt for aiding the transfer of the web off the first support belt toward the second support belt.