A textile machine with multiple workstations equipped with a yarn processing device, and a drive shaft extending along multiple workstations, each yarn processing device connected to the drive shaft by a continuous traction means, and the drive shaft including multiple drive devices each guiding a continuous traction means. Each drive device has two grooves coaxially to the drive shaft, one of the grooves being part of a free wheel about the drive shaft. An output means is connected to each yarn processing device, each output means having front and rear guide grooves, the front groove at a free end of the output means and the rear groove adjacent the associated yarn processing device. Each traction means has one loop engaged in the rear groove of the associated output means and another loop engaged in the front groove through 180 degrees.