To provide abnormally extended cloths removing apparatus in a cloth extending and carrying machine capable of automatically removing the abnormally extended cloths without interrupting an operation even when the abnormally extended cloths are detected.

The cloth spreading and carrying machine for spreading and then carrying large cloths to the press machine is provided with abnormally extended state detectors 81 and 82, a vertically swingable swing conveyor 6 provided on a part near a terminating end of a carrying device 5, a swing driving device 7 for vertically swinging the swing conveyor 6 and a controller 10. When the detector detects the abnormally extended cloths, by displacing the swing conveyor to a removing position and restoring the swing conveyor at an original carrying position after the succeeding end of the abnormally extended cloths is removed from a transport line, the abnormally extended cloths are automatically removed to the outside of the carrying line.