To provide an apparatus enabling operation hardly producing noise without giving damage to a candy by receiving one candy after completely dividing a material strand.

A rotating shaft 24 of a receiving wheel 25 is parallel arranged in a carrying direction of a material strand and at least either one among the opened holding faces 29 and 30 forms a supporting face for candy 1 completely divided in a receiving place 35 from a dividing apparatus to the receiving wheel 25. One of pairs of grippers 26 receives one candy 1 for the first time after complete dividing of the material strand.