Abstract: It has been recognized long ago that stickless frozen block bodies of a size corresponding to the ice block bodies of ordinary ice lollies may be produced with the aid of standard freezing machines for producing the ice lollies, when these machines are modified such that the individual sticks are replaced by pin members on an uptake device as operable to lift a whole row of ice bodies up from their freezing pocket members, whereafter the ice bodies are caused to be retracted from the pins. However, the correct and automatic mounting of the uptake device relative the freezing pockets is very problematic, and the invention provides for the improvement that use is made of individual sticks for the single freezing pockets, whereby these sticks, prior to their final retraction from the ice bodies, may be handled automatically with the use of both mounting and retraction means, which are already highly developed for the production of ice lollies.