Abstract: The apparatus for bonding sheet-like textile articles has, in the region of a feed station, an interlining dispenser for supporting rolled-up strip-shaped interlining material (21) and for cutting it to a fixed dimension. At the output of the interlining dispenser there is a pivotable flap (32) which, when the front end of the interlining material is pulled, is thereby pivoted and actuates a switch (34). An electronic control (45) thereupon excites an electromagnet (36) which actuates a knife (cutting edge 50) for cutting off the band (21). The electronics then activate a stepping motor (26) which, via drive devices (43, 44, 27, 24, 25), draws the band (21) off from a supply roll (18) by a dimension predetermined by a digital preselector switch (37) and thereby, as seen from the knife, pushes an interlining blank (19) of predetermined length over the flap (32).