side of the clothing support the second side being opposite the first side and at least one fastening element that secures the first side of the clothing support in the recess application_number US 29243102 A description fig1 shows a carding machine for example a high performance card dk 903 by the company tr u00fctzschler in m u00f6nchengladbach germany the aforementioned carding machine comprises a feed roller 1 a feed table 2 licker ins 3 a 3 b 3 c a main carding cylinder 4 a doffer 5 a stripping roller 6 crushing rollers 7 8 a sliver guide element 9 a web trumpet 10 withdrawing rollers 11 12 a set of traveling flats 13 with clothed flat bars 14 a can 15 and a can holder 16 curved arrows indicate the rotational direction of the rollers while the letter a refers to the operating direction stationary carding elements 33 and 34 are arranged opposite clothing of the main carding cylinder 4 fig2 shows a flexible bend 17 provided with several adjustment screws which is arranged on each side of the carding machine frame the flexible bend 17 has a convex outside surface 17 a and an underside 17 b a sliding guide 20 for example made of a plastic with sliding ability with a convex outside surface 20 a and a concave inside surface 20 b is provided above the flexible bend 17 the concave inside surface 20 b rests on the convex outside surface 17 a and can slide along this surface in the direction of arrows b c each flat bar for example designed according to european patent 0 567 747 a1 has a back part 14 a and a support body 14 b as shown in fig3 a the support body.