An apparatus for making nonwoven has a spinning device for spinning continuous filaments and moving the spun filaments in a vertical travel direction along a vertical travel path and a mesh belt below the spinning device, traveling in a horizontal direction, and having a multiplicity of vertically throughgoing openings distributed generally uniformly over its surface and of which a portion are plugged. A cooler and a stretcher are provided along the path downstream of the spinning device and above the belt for cooling and stretching the filaments and depositing the cooled and stretched filaments at a predetermined deposition location on the belt. A blower underneath the belt at the deposition location aspirates air through the openings and thereby holds the deposited filaments down on the belt.

An apparatus for making nonwoven has a spinning device for spinning continuous filaments and moving the spun filaments in a vertical travel direction along a vertical travel path and a mesh belt below the spinning device, traveling in a horizontal direction, and having a multiplicity of vertically throughgoing openings distributed generally uniformly over its surface and of which a portion are plugged. A cooler and a stretcher are provided along the path downstream of the spinning device and above the belt for cooling and stretching the filaments and depositing the cooled and stretched filaments at a predetermined deposition location on the belt. A blower underneath the belt at the deposition location aspirates air through the openings and thereby holds the deposited filaments down on the belt.

A non-woven fabric is provided having a high strength and a low basis weight. The fabric comprises a plurality of multi-component fibers that are bonded together into a web having a basis weight of 20 gsm or less, an air porosity of at least 1600 L/M2/s and a bonding area percentage in the range of 15-50%, wherein the multi-component fibers include a sheath and at least one core that are each formed of the same substantially pure polymer material. The invention further provides a method of making the non-woven fabric as well as a filtered container or beverage capsule formed with the non-woven fabric.

A non-woven fabric is provided having a high strength and a low basis weight. The fabric comprises a plurality of multi-component fibers that are bonded together into a web having a basis weight of 20 gsm or less, an air porosity of at least 1600 L/M2/s and a bonding area percentage in the range of 15-50%, wherein the multi-component fibers include a sheath and at least one core that are each formed of the same substantially pure polymer material. The invention further provides a method of making the non-woven fabric as well as a filtered container or beverage capsule formed with the non-woven fabric.

An apparatus for making spunbond from continuous thermoplastic filaments has a spinneret for spinning the continuous filaments and advancing them in a filament-travel direction, a cooler for cooling the filaments, a stretcher for stretching the filaments, a depositing device including a foraminous belt extending in a machine direction transverse to the filament-travel direction for deposition of the filaments as a nonwoven web and conveyance away from the stretcher, a diffusor between the stretcher and the foraminous belt so that filaments and primary air from the stretcher enter into the diffusor, and a suction device for extracting air through the foraminous belt at an unobstructed extraction region underneath the diffusor outlet and having a width b in a machine direction that is greater than a width B of the diffusor outlet. The diffusor forms upstream and downstream secondary air-inlet gaps at opposite ends through which secondary air is aspirated into the diffusor.

The invention relates to a cellulose-containing fibrous material for a nonwoven product, in particular in the form of a wiping cloth, cleaning cloth, sanitary product, medicinal product, or domestic cloth, wherein the fibrous material is designed as a tubular composite structure at least in part or in some regions, said structure having tubular cellulose acetate filaments. The invention additionally relates to a nonwoven product which has the fibrous material according to the invention and to a method for producing such a cellulose acetate-containing fibrous material.

The invention relates to a cellulose-containing fibrous material for a nonwoven product, in particular in the form of a wiping cloth, cleaning cloth, sanitary product, medicinal product, or domestic cloth, wherein the fibrous material is designed as a tubular composite structure at least in part or in some regions, said structure having tubular cellulose acetate filaments. The invention additionally relates to a nonwoven product which has the fibrous material according to the invention and to a method for producing such a cellulose acetate-containing fibrous material.

A smokeless tobacco product includes smokeless tobacco and structural fibers. The structural fibers forming a network in which the smokeless tobacco is entangled. The structural fibers have a composition different from the smokeless tobacco. The tobacco-entangled fabric can have an overall oven volatiles content of at least 10 weight percent. In some embodiments, the structural fibers form a nonwoven network. In some embodiments, fibrous structures of the smokeless tobacco are entangled with the structural fibers.

A smokeless tobacco product includes smokeless tobacco and structural fibers. The structural fibers forming a network in which the smokeless tobacco is entangled. The structural fibers have a composition different from the smokeless tobacco. The tobacco-entangled fabric can have an overall oven volatiles content of at least 10 weight percent. In some embodiments, the structural fibers form a nonwoven network. In some embodiments, fibrous structures of the smokeless tobacco are entangled with the structural fibers.

A vibration device for an arrangement for producing a nonwoven fabric web, wherein the vibration device is configured to be arranged in a transverse direction of the arrangement under a conveyor belt for fibers from which the nonwoven fabric web is produced, wherein the vibration device is configured to cause the conveyor belt and the fibers transported thereon to vibrate, and wherein the vibration device includes a beam whose top side is configured to contact a bottom side of the conveyor belt at least temporarily, wherein the beam is supported or only excited or excitable by the vibration device so that the beam essentially performs or permits no vibrations in a conveying direction of the arrangement.