Tuft-picking device, brush-making machine, method for producing a tuft picker and method for producing a counter piece of a tuft-picking device

A tuft-picking device for a brush-making machine, the tuft-picking device comprising:

• a tuft picker that is movable relative to a material box,
• a counter piece that is stationary relative to the movable tuft picker,
• at least one tuft-picking notch on the tuft picker located on a front side thereof that in a use position faces a bristle supply kept ready in the material box, and for picking a bristle tuft from the bristle supply and for dispensing a received bristle tuft to the brush-making machine using the at least one tuft-picking notch, the tuft picker is movable past the bristle supply and past the counter piece at least up to a dispensing position,
• the tuft-picking notch has two mutually opposite blade edges that delimit a notch opening of the tuft-picking notch and are oriented transversely to a direction of movement of the tuft picker, and the counter piece has a separation edge that faces the tuft picker, and at least one of the two blade edges or the separation edge is rounded transverse to a longitudinal extent thereof.