can fig1 b shows the rollers that are arranged in each case on the underneath side 8 a to 8 f 12 a 12 b 15 iii ii and i according to fig1 b the fibre sliver 7 u2032 comprising six fibre slivers 7 is subjected to entry creel tensioning in the region between the roller pairs 8 9 and the rider roller apparatus 12 13 to rider roller tensioning in the region between the rider roller arrangement 12 13 and the transport rollers 15 16 and to transport roller tensioning in the region between the transport rollers 15 16 and the intake rollers 26 iii of the drawing mechanism 3 as fig1 b shows in a top view the fibre slivers 7 a to 7 f run towards one another between the cylinders 11 a to 11 h and the draw off rollers 14 15 in the process the fibre slivers 7 a to 7 f run towards one another in a first step between the cylinders 11 a to 11 h and the entry to the sliver guide 14 guide element and are brought further in towards one another by the conically tapering side walls of the sliver guide 14 a sliver guiding means 17 holding down means is arranged across the width upstream of the sliver guide 14 at a spacing a therefrom at which the fibre slivers 7 a to 7 f are arranged substantially in a plane see fig1 a that is to say the outer fibre slivers 7 c and 7 f have not been folded over upon themselves the spacing a can be for example about from 5 to 40 mm preferably from 10 to 15 mm the sliver guiding means 17 is in the form of a bar is rounded off.