Device for destacking and conveying sticks in an apparatus for inserting sticks in ice-cream bodies

A device for separating and conveying ice-lolly sticks having a flat rectangular cross-section comprising:

• a guide means for supplying the ice-lolly sticks as an elongated stack of ice-lolly sticks, the guide means having an exit aperture,
• at least one destacking rotor at the exit aperture of the guide means, for destacking the ice-lolly sticks at the exit aperture, said destacking rotor including at least one recess shaped and dimensioned to destack one ice-lolly stick from said stack of ice-lolly sticks, said recess having (a) an edge plane that constitutes a first support plane which at least approximately constitutes a meridian plane in the destacking rotor and that has a radial extent adapted to the thickness of the ice-lolly sticks to be destacked while acted upon by said edge plane, and (b) a plane surface that constitutes a second support plane extending mainly as a truncated chordal plane surface from the periphery of the destacking rotor to the edge plane constituting the first support plane, the transition from the periphery of the destacking rotor to the chordal plane surface being smooth, and
• a carrier including a belt having a means for receiving the sticks, said destacking rotor being adapted to deliver the sticks to the belt, after which the carrier conveys the sticks to a delivery position for insertion in ice-lolly bodies.