Abstract: A draw-off nozzle in an open-end spinning machine is provided with grabbing notches, each of which has an entry wall on the entry side that is less steeply inclined than an impingement wall on the other side of the root of the notch. The notch wall can be straight, concave or convex, and preferably has a tangential transition to the lead-in wall, with an angle between the impingement wall and the perpendicular of between ten and thirty degrees and an angle between the entry-side wall of the notch and the perpendicular of between fifty and sixty degrees. Preferably an odd number of grabbing notches, with a notch positioning angle of thirty degrees to the perpendicular, are provided, uniformly disposed around the circumference of the lead-in funnel. The notch root itself may also be given a convex configuration.