drive motor 2 drives the twisting head 4 with the actual gripper 11 15 16 17 19 19 u2032 20 20 u2032 22 22 u2032 comprising a plurality of assemblies see on this matter in particular fig2 it should be readily understandable that within the framework of the present disclosure other drives or other transmission elements may also be provided between drive motor 2 and twisting head 4 alternatively a second twisting head may additionally be provided and may preferably be actuated by the same drive motor 2 a first toothed disk 9 fastened to the drive shaft not visible of the drive motor 2 transmits via the toothed drive belt 3 the rotational movement via a second toothed disk 10 to the rotatably mounted twisting head 4 preferably positioned parallel to the drive motor 2 which also includes the rotatably mounted twisting head housing 8 also visible in fig1 are one gripper jaw 22 of the two gripper jaws 22 22 u2032 provided and also two lines 24 24 u2032 to be twisted having free excess lengths 32 33 of various length alternatively a coaxial arrangement of the drive motor 2 and the twisting head 4 is also possible.