Abstract: An apparatus for inserting sticks into ice cream bodies contains a magazine 2, from where the sticks 1 are discharged to a carrier 4, which is provided with pockets 6 for receiving the sticks 1. The sticks 1 are fed from the pockets 6 to mold cavities filled with ice cream, by clamping devices 8 mounted in a pick-up assembly 7, which can be moved between a position in which the sticks 1 are lifted out of the pockets 6 to a position above mold cavities containing ice cream. A piston 3 is placed in the magazine 2. The piston is designed to squeeze the sticks 1 in the magazine against the carrier with an abutment force substantially greater than the weight of the sticks stacked in the magazine.

Abstract: Apparatus for insertion of sticks in ice cream bodies, the apparatus consisting of a feeding device for sticks and a conveyor adapted to take the sticks from the feeding device and move them to gripping means which insert the sticks in the ice cream bodies, the conveyor having longitudinally arranged protrusions which support each stick in two relatively short zones situated at a relatively long distance from each other, carrier means on the conveyor engaging the lowermost stick in a pile of sticks in the feeding device, and holding means being provided to hold the next stick in the pile against movement.