of a modified embodiment the braiding machine in which the present invention is incorporated has not been shown in detail because such braiding machines are well known to those having skill in the art for this reason only those components have been illustrated and will be described which are essential for an understanding of the invention the braiding machine has a plurality of bobbin supports 10 each of which supports one or more spools or bobbins of filaments and the associated control devices for setting and regulating the filament tension neither the bobbins nor the regulating and control devices are illustrated because they also are conventional in fig1 and 6 only a single bobbin 10 has been shown because the invention can be explained with reference to a single bobbin since evidently this explanation will be applicable to all of the bobbins 10 the bobbin 10 which is shown by way of example has a bottom 11 provided with a guide portion 12 which engages into a rail or track 13 that is composed of a plurality of arcuate portions which are shown particularly clearly in fig1 wherein the rotary drivers have been omitted for the sake of clarity since the guide portion 12 is guided by and moves along the rail 13 it is the rail which determines the movement to be performed by the respective bobbin support 10 the track formed by the rail 10 has two portions the bobbin support 10 will first move in one of the portions in one direction and then in the other portion in the opposite direction where the two portions of the track cross one another connecting portions 14 are inserted which serve.