To provide the subject apparatus capable of simply placing an ingredient due to a greatly opened notch such as a hot dog and carrying out the mass production by forming a vertically regulable bladelike protrusion of a sheave conveyor on a conveyor.

This apparatus is obtained by forming a vertically regulable bladelike protrusion of a sheave conveyor 2 on a conveyor 1 and is capable of placing the back side of a notch of a hot dog, etc., lifting the notch of the hot dog, etc., pushing down both sides of the notch with round bar guides 3, guide arms 4 and guide bases 5 and opening the notch in the form of V. The bladelike protrusion of the sheave conveyor 2 can further be regulated by nipping the bladelike protrusion of the sheave conveyor 2 with brackets 7 attached to the side frame 8 and regulating the back side space of the V-shape and fixing the protrusion with bolts 9.