FIELD: textile industry; textile machines with variable feed of thread. SUBSTANCE: thread feeder has thread feeding wheel for positive feeding of thread connected with electric motor. Trajectory of thread motion in device provided by thread guides passes at angle to axis of rotation of thread feeding wheel, this angle being larger than sum of 90 deg. angle and supplementary acute angle. This acute angle is larger than thread helix angle on thread feeding wheel on which coils of thread adjoin each other. EFFECT: provision of smooth getting off of thread from thread feeding wheel. 18 cl, 2 dwg
