Abstract: A sheet-like workpiece delivering apparatus including a workpiece transfer device disposed in front of a work table of a machine tool and a workpiece storing device provided adjacent to and on the side of the workpiece transfer device. The workpiece storing device supports a sheet-like workpiece in a standing condition and supplies the workpiece to the workpiece transfer device or receives the workpiece for the workpiece transfer device. The workpiece transfer device further supports the sheet-like workpiece in a standing condition and receives the workpiece from the workpiece storing device or supplies the workpiece to the workpiece storing device and the workpiece in the workpiece transfer device is swingably moved from a standing condition to a horizontally extending condition or reversely about a longitudinal axis of the transfer device.