To provide a tire bead delivery apparatus capable of certainly holding a tire bead to prevent the deformating thereof.

The tire bead W is received by a plurality of bead chuck pawls 5, which are opened to the outside in a radial direction to be held so as to come into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the tire bead W, and opened by closing the bead chuck pawls 5 to the inside in the radial direction to be delivered to a next process. In this tire bead delivery apparatus 2, freely rotatable roller parts 8 are provided to the leading end parts of the bead chuck pawls 5.