Abstract: In a winding machine having independent spindles with a grooved yarn-guide driving bobbins preventing winding irregularities, winding bobbins at high speeds from conventional or sectional hanks, cops, cakes or the like, namely winding machines having a conical bobbin which rests on a cylindrical yarn-guide having helical grooves generally with two opposing pitches which distributes the yarn uniformly on the bobbin, the latter resting under its own weight above the yarn-guide which drives the bobbin by frictional resistance, the axis of the bobbin moving progressively away from that of the yarn-guide as the yarn is being wound while forming normally in a plane common to the two axes a small or zero angle with the axis of the cylindrical yarn-guide, including a device for preventing the yarn from collecting at certain preferential points of the bobbin at certain winding speeds, and including a yarn break detector, the improvement comprising a device for oscillating at least one of the ends of the shaft of the y