An apparatus for manufacturing a transversely aligned web has a spinning device
provided with a plurality of nozzles for extruding molten polymer as filaments,
and a conveyor on which the filaments spun by the spinning device are piled and
traveling in a direction cross to the direction of array of the nozzles. The spinning
device is provided with a high-speed fluid blowing unit for blowing a high-speed
fluid in a direction parallel with a direction in which the filaments are extruded
from the nozzles so as to attenuate the filaments. Further, the apparatus for manufacturing
the transversely aligned web has at least one air stream vibrating mechanism for
cyclically changing the flowing direction of the high-speed fluid blown from the
high-speed fluid blowing unit in a direction cross to the machine direction of
the conveyor. The filaments are vibrated in a direction cross to the machine direction
of the conveyor, owing to the high-speed fluid by the air stream vibrating unit.