way of explanation of the invention and is not meant as a limitation of the invention in fact features illustrated or described as part of one embodiment can be used on another embodiment to yield a still further embodiment thus it is intended that the present invention cover such modifications and variations as come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents the overlay in fig1 explains the difference between the state of the art which is shown schematically in fig2 the fiber sliver fv which is not yet drafted as it is introduced into the drafting equipment is introduced via drafting rollers 68a 68b 69a 69b and delivery rollers 70a 70b into a fleece funnel in the state of the art and from there into a long fiber sliver channel 8 which lets out in a sliver funnel 9 the sliver funnel deflects the fiber sliver fb by approximately 90 u00b0 into the nip of the calendar with its calendar disks 100a 100b hereinafter calendar disks or a pair of calendar disks are mentioned this term also includes a pair of calendar rollers this is possible because a pair of calendar rollers represents no restriction of the invention as compared with a pair of calendar disks the calendar fiber sliver kf emerges vertically down from the calendar disks and reaches a depositing device where it is deposited in a can by means of a rotary plate which is not shown this fiber sliver guidance system is given the same reference numbers also in fig2 in one embodiment.