A method of one or both sides curtain or veil application to the surface of a running material web, especially of paper or cardboard

there is provided a method of single or two-sided application of a liquid or pasty application medium by means of a least one applicator unit having machine onto the surface of a moving material web, in particular of paper or board. It is proposed is that drawn before starting the applying the material web into the machine and brought at least to an initial running speed or the already necked material web is made to run at least the initial running speed, that before the application start an influx of coating medium is turned on, wherein the application unit or a discharge portion thereof on the one hand and an associated Mediumauffanger the other hand, are located in a relative collection position or being introduced into these, in which discharged the Mediumauffanger application medium collects, and that the application is started in that the applicator unit or the dispensing part on the one hand and the Mediumauffanger be brought on the other hand from the relative collecting position into a relative order position, impinges on the moving substrate in the coating medium in the form of the curtain or veil.