Method and apparatus for transferring a material web, in particular a paper web from a press section to a dryer section

A method of transferring a material web, in particular a paper web from a press section to a dryer section, in particular in a paper machine or the like, in which the material web is separated into a strip and a remaining web, guided away the residual web according to one serving as a decrease drying cylinder drying cylinder, and initially only the thus separated out strip through the entire dryer section and then the material web is moved wide, is performed to reduce the web tension the guiding away of the material web only after the second drying cylinder, as well as corresponding apparatus.