engagement with the rest of the card top bar and which at the same time holds the sliding region in order to improve the card top bar the card top heads are in engagement with the carrier for the clothing application_number US 45219603 A description with reference to fig1 a carding machine for example a tr u00fctzschler dk 903 trade mark high performance carding machine having a feed roller 1 feed table 2 lickers in 3 a 3 b 3 c cylinder 4 doffer 5 stripper roller 6 nip rollers 7 8 web collecting element 9 web funnel 10 draw off rollers 11 12 revolving card top 13 having clothed card top bars 14 can 15 and can coiler 16 curved arrows indicate the directions of rotation of the rollers reference letter a denotes the work direction stationary carding elements 33 and 34 are arranged opposite the cylinder clothing 4 a in accordance with fig2 on each side of the carding machine a flexible bend 17 having several adjustment screws is fixed laterally to the machine frame the flexible bend 17 has a convex outer surface 17 a and an underside 17 b on top of the flexible bend 17 there is a slideway 20 for example made of low friction plastics material which has a convex outer surface 20 a and a concave inner surface 20 b the concave inner surface 20 b rests on top of the convex outer surface 17.