PURPOSE: To provide an automatic apparatus for stuffing an ingredient (bean jam) capable of automatically carrying out the operation to stuff an ingredient (bean jam) into a bean-jam bun, a rice ball, a bun stuffed with a sweet bean paste, etc.

CONSTITUTION: This automatic apparatus for stuffing an ingredient (bean jam) is capable of placing a covering material in a hopper of a hopper device (A), sufficiently loosening the covering material with a loosening machine (described below) installed under the hopper, then successively feeding the loosened material to a covering material feeder (B) with a belt conveyor described below), pressing the covering material fed to the covering material feeder (B) together little by little as the material is fed downward, cutting the covering material (E) attaining a Prescribed hardness into a lump in a specific amount with a cutter installed at the lower end of the covering material feeder (B), feeding the covering material cut to the lump to an ingredient (bean jam) stuffing machine (C), placing an ingredient in the central part of the fed covering material in the ingredient (bean jam) stuffing machine (C), then wrapping the ingredient with the covering material using a sheet (film) material 11, rolling the covering material with rolling molds 15 and completing the ingredient (bean-jam) stuffing operation.