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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2002
Ludwig Legl, Buchkirchen, AT;
Hellmuth Stachel, Vienna, AT;
Textilmaschinenfabrik Dr. Ernst Fehrer Aktienegesellschaft, Leonging, AT;
Abstract
An apparatus is described for needling a non-woven material with a support ( ) which receives at least one needleboard ( ) and is drivable in a reciprocating fashion both in the needle-penetration direction ( ) as well as the direction of passage ( ) of the non-woven material and on which are coupled the connecting rods ( ) of two oppositely drivable eccentric drives ( ) for the drive in the needle-penetration direction ( ) and on which there acts at least one additional eccentric drive ( ). In order to provide advantageous constructional conditions it is proposed that the connecting rods ( ) of the two oppositely drivable eccentric drives ( ) extend inclined in opposite directions with respect to the needle-penetration direction ( ), that the additional eccentric drive ( ) revolves synchronously with one of the two other eccentric drives ( ), that the connecting rod ( ) of the additional eccentric drive ( ) which is also linked to the support ( ) forms with the connecting rod ( ) of the synchronously revolving eccentric drive ( ) a parallelogram of links for guiding the support ( ) and that the eccentric drives ( ) which are drivable in opposite directions are provided with a phase shift (&phgr;) or are adjustable with respect to the mutual angular position.