layer like material 19 lies approximately at the same level as the support plane 23 of the shuttle head 9 in front of which also viewed in transfer direction arrow 3 and beneath the transport plane e a freely rotatable reversing roller 24 is supported in the machine stand 1 a trolley 25 is supported displaceably at right angles to the drawing plane in fig1 upstream of the machine stand 2 of the device and also beneath the transport path e which trolley carries a storage roller 26 on which the web or layer like material is coiled above the transport plane e and thus above the thread layer 2 there is now provided a second retention device consisting of two clamping strip pairs 27 and 28 the two clamping strip pairs 27 and 28 are arranged in such a manner that an imagined displacement plane of the needle head 6 lies between them in other words the two clamping strip pairs 27 and 28 lie respectively on different sides of the needle head 6 and extend also at right angles to the drawing plane in fig1 displacement means 29 and 30 are provided also for these clamping strip pairs 27 and 28 which however are not depicted in fig1 for reasons of clarity respectively one strip of the two clamping strip pairs 27 and 28 is connected at its end with a cross tie 31 and these parts together form a frame 44 which can be elevated and lowered along.