To provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient high cycle molded article discharge apparatus, and a molded article discharge method using the same.

The molded article discharge apparatus having the taking-out, lining up and stocking functions of a molded article is constituted of the taking-out hand fitted to a molded article taking-out device having a suction nozzle and provided with a discharge function, the molded article lining-up and stocking device arranged outside a molding machine, and the molded article distributor arranged between the taking-out hand and the molded article lining-up and stocking device. In the molded article discharge method having a series of the taking-out, lining up and stocking functions of the molded article, the taking-out hand is moved to the taking-out position in a mold simultaneously with the mold opening of the molding machine, the suction nozzle mounted on the taking-out hand is evacuated at the time of ejection of the molded article to suck the molded article to move the same to the position of the molded article distributor provided outside the mold, and the molded article distributor presses and discharges the molded article to the wating distribution pole of the distributor not only to automatically distribute the molded article in one row but also to successively stock the same by a lining-up stock.