Patent ID: 8327904

Claim:
An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article, comprising: a rotation drum rotatable about a shaft center and having an adsorbing part for adsorbing a work, which is a component forming a part of the absorbent article, at a receiving point, said rotation drum configured to change an arrangement direction of the work from a first arrangement direction of the work to a second arrangement direction of the work at a passing point wherein the work to be passed onto a web while the rotation drum is rotating; and a web position guiding mechanism provided below and opposite the rotation drum at the passing point, and configured to locate the web on the adsorbing part, wherein the adsorbing part has a central portion and two outer portions extending, at the passing point, upwardly and obliquely relative to the central portion, said web position guiding mechanism has outer portions that are separate from each other and extend obliquely upwardly and correspondingly to the outer portions of the adsorbing part, respectively, so that the web has opposite outer edge portions in a width direction of the web which correspond to the outer portions of the web position guiding mechanism and which are closer to the shaft center of the rotation drum than a central portion of the web in the width direction, the web position guiding mechanism is a roller mechanism that is rotatable in a conveyance direction of the web perpendicular to the width direction of the web, the roller mechanism includes an outer side roller extending, at the passing point, upwardly, obliquely, and correspondingly to one of the outer portions of the adsorbing part, the roller mechanism further includes another outer side roller extending, at the passing point, upwardly, obliquely, and correspondingly to the other one of the outer portions of the adsorbing part, and the outer side rollers are spaced by a central space corresponding to the central portion of the adsorbing part whereby the central portion of the web is unsupported when the central portion of the adsorbing part presses the web.