PURPOSE: To surely generate intervals between the pressed powder bodies, when the pressed powder body is supplied to the mesh belt of a mesh belt furnace.

CONSTITUTION: A piece of compressed powder body W slips on the first chute 13, and collides with the first shutter 15 and stops. In the state where the pressed powder body W is not at the second chute 23 and the second chute 23 is continuous to the first chute 15, the first shutter 15 is opened. Then, the pressed powder body W slips down on the second chute 23, and collides with the second shutter 25, and stops. After the second chute 23 shifts by a prescribed distance in the lateral direction, the second shutter 25 is opened. Accompanied with the opening, the pressed powder body W slips on the third chute 32 and is placed on a mesh belt 11. Since the position of the second chute 23 changes each time when the second shutter 25 opens for each pressed powder body W, an interval is generated between the pressed powder bodies W on the mesh belt 11.