Abstract: A carding machine includes a vertical tuft feed chute, a supply table on which a fiber lap discharged by the feed chute is forwarded in a direction of advance, a carding unit arranged downstream of the supply table as viewed in the direction of advance and receiving the fiber lap from the supply table and discharging a fiber web divided into side-by-side arranged web parts and a plurality of sliver forming trumpets each receiving a separate one of the web parts. There is further provided a dividing device having a vertically oriented tuft divider supported in the feed chute. The tuft divider separates the feed chute into vertically extending feed chute parts situated side-by-side as viewed in the direction of lap advance, whereby the fiber lap discharged by the feed chute is divided into side-by-side positioned fiber lap parts.