Spining machine having sliver transport belts and lateral guiding elements for the transports belts

A spinning machine comprising:

• a plurality of spinning stations;
• depositing sites for cans with silver;
• transport devices which transport the silver from the cans to the spinning stations, the transport devices containing a plurality of transport belts which run from the area of the cans to the spinning stations;
• deflecting rollers which deflect the transport belts;
• guiding devices assigned to each transport belt, where each guiding device is arranged to provide guidance exclusively in an area directly in front of a deflecting roller and remote from the other deflecting rollers viewed in a running direction of the transport belt, the guiding devices each having two opposite lateral guiding elements to guide the edges of the transport belt and a supporting element to support a flat side of the transport belt arranged between the lateral guiding elements;
• wherein the lateral guiding elements are separated by a distance from one another which corresponds to the width of the transport belt plus a small safety distance;
• wherein the supporting element is arranged between two of the deflecting rollers in the running direction, and is situated approximately in the plane of a tangent connecting the two deflecting rollers.