PURPOSE: To mass-produce a molded product of good quality by preventing the detachment or positional shift of a resin plate by relaxing the shock at a time of the stoppage of a lift frame having a hanger suspending the resin plate.

CONSTITUTION: In a resin plate molding apparatus wherein a resing plate 1 heated and softened by a heating means is fed to a molding means to be subjected to press molding so as to be formed into a predetermined shape, the shock absorber 5 coming into contact with a lift frame 3 having a hanger suspending the resin plate 1 is provided at the predetermined stop position of the frame 3 or in the vicinity of the frame 3 and retreats from a moving passage in an unnecessary case.