The device for removing yarn residue for textile tubes including jaws; a mechansim for opening the jaws including a plurality of rollers and biased wedges supporting the rollers and the jaws, stringers arranged to engage and push apart the rollers and therefore push apart the wedges and the jaws, and a pawl device for guiding the stringers into engagement with the rollers for moving apart the jaws; a mechanism for closing the jaws which biases the jaws to close towards each other; a guide member formed so as to center the textile tubes relative to the jaws and having two tapered tips formed to hold the textile tube longitudinally therebetween; and a mechanism for moving the guide member in opposite directions between the jaws reciprocally. One of the tips is arranged to receive the yarn residue retained by the jaws and the other tip is formed on the guide member. The first tip includes a displaceable spring-loaded sleeve so that the yarn residue actually collects on the sleeve and a mechanism for displacing the sleeve so as to expel the yarn residue collected thereon.