the state of the art via drafting rollers 68a 68b 69a 69b and delivery rollers 70a 70b by means of a fleece funnel 1 into a long guiding channel 8 which lets out in a sliver funnel 9 the sliver funnel deflects the fiber sliver fb by approximately 90 u00b0 and into the nip of the calendar with its calendar disks 100a 100b the calendared fiber sliver kf emerges from the calendar in a vertically downward direction and is stored in a depositing device this fiber sliver guidance is also shown with the same reference numbers in fig1 an embodiment of the invention shortens the fiber sliver path and makes it possible to omit the fiber sliver channel 8 an additional deflection roller 71 is used which deflects the direction of travel of the fleece fv by approximately 60 u00b0 and introduces the fiber sliver into a device consisting of several functional elements forming the fiber sliver channel the first element is the fleece funnel 50 with a ramp surface 50b and an immediately following funnel section 50a in which the wide arriving fiber sliver also called a fiber fleece folded doubled and is introduced into a first channel section the channel section is constituted by an insert 40 which is plugged in on the rear side of the funnel segment 60 and is attached with a screw an articulation surface is provided at the forward end of insert 40 and in the corner position shown in fig1 it makes possible sealing off the guiding channel against the downstream sliver funnel 30 the articulation surface of the forward cylindrical segment of.