Abstract: An accumulator for a flexible metal strip has a rotatable annular plate for supporting spiral wound turns of the strip and an outer and inner crown of rollers disposed at the outer and inner peripheries thereof. A deflecting device is disposed inside the inner crown of rollers to guide the inner turn of the strip out of the accumulator and over the spiral wound turns of the strip. The deflecting device has a series of rollers with fixed axes which are tilted with respect to the plate axis at varying angles which preferably increase directly with decreasing distance from the accumulator outlet. The intersections of the axes of the deflecting rollers with the plane are preferably on a circle having an axis displaced with respect to the plane axis and the projections of the deflecting roller axes on the plate plane preferably form a constant angle with the tangents of the circle at each of these intersections.