PURPOSE: To provide the subject device enabling dividedly cut preformed material pieces to be housed efficiently and safely.

CONSTITUTION: This preformed material-receiving device is so designed that plural receiving cylinders 51 are mounted on at least one rotary plate 5 revolving at a specified revolution each, and after a dividedly cut preformed material piece 71 is housed into one of the receiving cylinders 51, the rotary plate 5 is moved by the specified revolution simultaneously with or prior to the cutting operation for the next preformed material 7 to wait the next dividedly cut preformed material piece 71 by a second receiving cylinder directly under this piece.