In a flyer with a continuous bobbin rail which is displaceable out of an operating position underneath the flyer wings (28) into a bobbin-changing position underneath a transport device (42), the transport device (42) being located underneath the drawframe (11), the path of movement between the said positions is not occupied by any frame elements of the frame (23). The frame (23) is designed as a gantry structure. The precondition for doffing and for transporting away the flyer bobbins (49) is thereby afforded in the flyer. <IMAGE>
