fixed rollers 17 and 18 reciprocating belt carriage means 15 includes roller 19 which carries the fleece in a reciprocating manner at the upper end of the crosslapper and roller 20 which serves as a loop control for the upper end of fleece transporting belt 13 reciprocating belt carriage means 16 includes roller 21 which carries the fleece in a reciprocating manner at the lower end of the crosslapper and delivers the fleece through fleece delivery means made up of rollers 22 and 23 to fleece receiving means 29 roller 24 can serve as an idler roll for the purpose of maintaining a proper tension on the belt system the fleece is moved from fleece transporting belt 13 to fleece transporting belt 26 which is continuously run on fixed rollers 27 and 28 fleece transporting belts 13 and 26 sandwich the fleece to hold it in place until such time that it is moved into the reciprocating carriage means 16 and through the fleece delivery means 22 and 23 the fleece passes through fleece delivery means 22 and 23 and is laid on fleece receiving means 29 continuously in a rectilinear path substantially perpendicular to the path of the reciprocating carriage means fleece receiving means 29 is generally a continuously moving belt which leads to additional processing of the crosslapped fleece laid thereon the fleece receiving means 29 can be mounted in a support 30 and driven by a rotating means 31 the crosslapper represented in fig2 is the same as that shown in fig1 except that in the case where foraminous transporting belts are used one of the rollers can be omitted for even more efficient operation in the.