Apparatus for removing bobbin tubes perpendicularly from carriers on a bobbin conveyor

In an apparatus for conveying bobbin tubes along a conveying path while supported in upstanding disposition on individual tube carriers, an apparatus for removing bobbin tubes axially from the carriers, the bobbin removing apparatus comprising a pair of bobbin withdrawal means located at opposite lateral sides of the conveying path for frictionally engaging the bobbin tubes between the bobbin withdrawal means and for drawing the bobbin tubes off the respective carriers by the frictional engagement while the individual carriers are continuously conveyed along the conveying path, at least one of the withdrawal means comprising a freely rotatable disk having an annular periphery of a high coefficient of friction arranged for peripheral engagement with the bobbin tubes conveyed along the conveying path to be rotated by engagement with each bobbin conveyed past the disk, the disk being arranged to engage the bobbin tubes at an acute angle with respect to the conveying path of the individual carriers on which the tubes are supported.