15 of the storage car 8 over a roller 16 of the balance car 9 back to a roller 17 on storage car 8 and from this point to a roller 18 of the layer car 7 and back to a roller 19 of the storage car 8 and from this point again to roller 15 the conveyor belt 14 of the storage car 8 thus extends both to the balance car 9 and also to the layer car 7 the latter being movable reciprocably across the width of the withdrawal belt 5 the belt roller 4 of the feed belt 2 is driven at a predetermined speed preferably the doffer speed of a carding machine or the like from the drive wheel 4a of belt roller 4 a drive chain 20 extends over a chainwheel 22 on axle 21 of the roller 16 for the conveyor belt 14 the drive chain extending over a fixed roller 23 back to the chainwheel 4a thus the conveyor belt 14 is driven from a driven belt roller 4 of the feed belt 2 and the belt 11 on jib 10 of the storage car 8 is driven by roller 17 located on.