A cloth spreading apparatus which comprises: a pair of feeder chucks adapted to grasp adjacent corners of a washed piece of cloth; a raising-lowering device adapted to raise and lower the pair of feeder chucks; a pair of spreading chucks adapted to receive the cloth from the pair of feeder chucks at a raised position of the feeder chucks and adapted to grasp the adjacent corners of the cloth; a traversing device adapted to cause the pair of spreading chucks to traverse; an intermediate movable body on an upper surface of which an upper end portion of the cloth can be retained; an advancing-retracting device that advances and retracts the intermediate movable body; and a belt conveyor adapted to carry out the spread cloth, in which the pair of feeder chucks are adapted to engage with adjacent corners of a washed piece of cloth at a lowered position, and adapted to raise the cloth to a traversing position of the spreading chucks; the pair of spreading chucks are adapted to traverse to positions closer to each other to receive the adjacent corners of the cloth from the feeder chucks, and are adapted to then traverse to positions farther away from each other to pull the adjacent corners so as to spread the cloth; the intermediate movable body is adapted to receive, at an advanced position, an upper end portion of the spread cloth from the spreading chucks onto the upper surface and is adapted to retain the upper end portion, and then releases the upper end portion of the cloth while moving to a retracted position so as to transfer the cloth onto a front part of the belt conveyor; and the belt conveyor is adapted to carry out the received cloth in a spread state, a clamp; and a clamp driving device; characterized in that the intermediate movable body has: a rear-facing surface that is a part of the upper surface between a front part and a sunken part located at a lower level than the front part, and that extends downward from the front part toward the sunken part; the clamp that is placed opposite to the rear-facing surface; and the clamp driving device that is adapted to advance and retract the clamp to and from the rear-facing surface so as to hold an upper portion of the cloth between the clamp and the rear-facing surface and release the upper portion from therebetween. in which the pair of feeder chucks are adapted to engage with adjacent corners of a washed piece of cloth at a lowered position, and adapted to raise the cloth to a traversing position of the spreading chucks; the pair of spreading chucks are adapted to traverse to positions closer to each other to receive the adjacent corners of the cloth from the feeder chucks, and are adapted to then traverse to positions farther away from each other to pull the adjacent corners so as to spread the cloth; the intermediate movable body is adapted to receive, at an advanced position, an upper end portion of the spread cloth from the spreading chucks onto the upper surface and is adapted to retain the upper end portion, and then releases the upper end portion of the cloth while moving to a retracted position so as to transfer the cloth onto a front part of the belt conveyor; and the belt conveyor is adapted to carry out the received cloth in a spread state, a clamp; and a clamp driving device; characterized in that the intermediate movable body has: a rear-facing surface that is a part of the upper surface between a front part and a sunken part located at a lower level than the front part, and that extends downward from the front part toward the sunken part; the clamp that is placed opposite to the rear-facing surface; and the clamp driving device that is adapted to advance and retract the clamp to and from the rear-facing surface so as to hold an upper portion of the cloth between the clamp and the rear-facing surface and release the upper portion from therebetween. a rear-facing surface that is a part of the upper surface between a front part and a sunken part located at a lower level than the front part, and that extends downward from the front part toward the sunken part; the clamp that is placed opposite to the rear-facing surface; and the clamp driving device that is adapted to advance and retract the clamp to and from the rear-facing surface so as to hold an upper portion of the cloth between the clamp and the rear-facing surface and release the upper portion from therebetween.