roller 8 a and of the first intermediate belt 10 to the laying movement of the fleece laying machine takes the length of the travelling path of the nonwoven web between the drawing equipment 3 and the outlet portion of the fleece laying apparatus into consideration and is arranged in a manner that thin portions in the nonwoven web generated by the drawing equipment are deposited in the edge portion of the cross lapped fleece web formed from the nonwoven web the speed at which the nonwoven web is received by the fleece laying machine 5 is constant but due to the drawing of the nonwoven web it is higher than the constant speed at which the nonwoven web enters the drawing equipment 3 if a drawing of the nonwoven on the whole is desired the circumferential basic speed of the outlet sided drawing roller from which the acceleration of the drawing roller takes place can be set higher than the circumferential speed of the inlet sided drawing roller at this point it must be emphasized that a compressing means may be arranged upstream of the drawing equipment 3 said means mechanically compressing the nonwoven web to press out the air contained therein this is especially advantageous when the nonwoven web is voluminous and the ventilation effect in the drawing equipment is therefore possibly insufficient according to the drawings the nonwoven web that is supplied to the drawing equipment consists of two layers that were doubled as an alternative it is possible to pass one of the layers only through the cyclically operating drawing equipment while.