first roller 26 can be adjusted in a direction that is at least approximately vertical the first roller 26 serving as a deflecting roller is preferably embodied as a roller having an elastic outer surface rubber roller the second roller 28 can then be embodied as an embossing roller having a smooth or structured steel surface the roller arrangement 26 28 30 and 32 provides two alternatives as regards further transport of the nonwoven fabric or fiber air mixture exiting from the first nip a first transport path is represented in fig1 by a broken line and leads starting from the first nip through the gap between the second roller 28 and the third roller 30 to a conveyor belt 34 the second roller 28 and third roller 30 together form a pair of adjacently arranged rollers that includes a nip with vertical feeding direction therebetween the advantage of this first transport path is that a relatively large area of the fiber air mixture exiting from the first nip is supported over an approximately 90 u00b0 section of the outer surface of the second roller 28 this is particularly advantageous in the case of fiber air mixtures with low tensile strength in addition the second roller 28 can be heatable this results in the case of the first transport path with the relatively.