Abstract: A thread storage and delivery device with overhead withdrawal of thread windings deposited on a storage drum having a frustoconical outer surface. The device comprises a bristle ring having bristles applied in a non-radial direction of alignment onto the frustoconical outer surface of the storage drum, the thread passing under the bristles on the drum. The ring is provided with means for changing the direction of alignment of the bristles on the outer surface of the drum.

Abstract: A delivery device for traveling thread for textile machines having a storage drum to which the thread is fed in a rearward region by a thread guide tube which revolves around the storage drum and from which the thread is withdrawn overhead through a thread withdrawal eye. An automatic threading of the thread is effected by compressed air such that the thread is blown through the thread guide tube, deflected at its exit mouth side parallel to an outer surface of the drum and conducted on an end side thereof below bristles of a displaceable brake ring which forms a slot with the outer surface of the drum, radially inwardly into a region of a tip of a head cone, the tip being directed towards an opening in the thread withdrawal eye formed as an axial suction-blast nozzle. A curved surface extends in a thread blowing direction into a horizontal surface deflecting the thread at the exit mouth side of the thread guide tube with the latter being obliquely upwardly directed during the automatic threading.