a false twisting machine which includes a frame having racks of thread supply spools on opposite sides with centrally disposed bobbin supporting take - up mechanisms therebetween defining corridors on opposite sides thereof with thread heaters and false twisting members disposed horizontally across the top of the machine , together with thread transport mechanisms for stretching the threads and for advancing the threads vertically upward from the thread supply spools on opposite sides of the machine across the top of the machine in a horizontal path with virtually no deviation therefrom through the heaters and false twisters and then downwardly onto the take - up bobbins for ultimate removal of the wound thread packages from the machine thereby providing a machine of greatly reduced height and capable of easy maintenance .