Patent ID: 8663421

Claim:
A method of manufacturing an absorbent article, said method comprising: moving a continuous sheet; moving a work by a rotating member rotating in a state where the rotating member is opposing a first face of the continuous sheet and has a retaining surface that retains the work thereon while the rotating member is rotated for causing the work to be moved to a position where the work is nipped between the first face and the retaining surface; and bonding the continuous sheet and the work together by a pressing member coming into contact a second face of the continuous sheet when the work reaches the position and pressing the continuous sheet towards the retaining surface, wherein the pressing member includes a roller having a first central axis, the first central axis of the roller is not parallel and not co-planar with a second central axis of the rotating member when the roller comes into contact the second face, the roller of the pressing member has a concave pressing surface, the roller includes a central section and an end section adjacent to the central section along the first central axis of the roller, a diameter of the roller at the central section is smaller than a diameter of the roller at the end section, and when the rotating member retains the work between the first face of the continuous sheet and the retaining surface, the pressing member comes into contact with a portion on the second face of the continuous sheet where the work does not exist on the first face and presses the continuous sheet against the retaining surface.