Apparatus for removing and conveying a fiber web at high speed from the outlet from a carder

A device for removing and transporting at high speed a fiber web at an outlet of a carder having working cylinders, the device comprising:

• a takeoff cylinder rotatable about an axis, the takeoff cylinder being adjacent to the last working cylinder of the carder;
• suction means;
• and a conveyer belt, the conveyer belt being interposed between the suction means and the takeoff cylinder and the conveyer belt being permeable to air, wherein the conveyer belt includes a rectilinear portion for receiving the fiber web, the rectilinear portion passing close to the takeoff cylinder with a linear speed substantially equal to the speed of the periphery of the takeoff cylinder and in a direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the takeoff cylinder, and wherein the suction means create a suction zone between the takeoff cylinder and the rectilinear portion of the conveyer belt at an almost-tangential line defined by a location wherein the takeoff cylinder and the rectilinear portion of the conveyor belt are spaced at virtual tangential contact, such that the fiber web is removed from the takeoff cylinder at the almost-tangential line and is placed on the rectilinear portion of the conveyor belt while holding the structural integrity of the web significantly unaltered.