Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an absorbent article, the absorbent article including an absorbent core and a sheet whereon the absorbent core is placed, including: (A) a transportation section transporting in a transport direction the sheet whereon the absorbent core is placed; and (B) a bending section bending the sheet, in an intersecting direction that intersects the transport direction, while the transportation section is transporting the sheet, (C) a first part of the sheet, positioned in a bending point where the bending section bends in the intersecting direction the sheet, is distant in the intersecting direction from the absorbent core, (D) a second part of the sheet positioned on an opposite side of the first part from the absorbent core, in the intersecting direction, collapses onto a third part positioned on the absorbent core side from the first part, in the intersecting direction, by the bending section bending the sheet at the bending point, (E) the bending section further including a regulatio

Abstract: A processing apparatus for processing a sheet member used in manufacturing of an absorbent article includes: a rotating roller that rotates with both ends thereof in an axial direction being supported; a sheet-placing portion having a sheet-placing surface on which the sheet member is placed; and a processing portion and a protuberance that are included on a peripheral surface of the rotating roller. The sheet member is processed by being pinched between the sheet-placing surface and the processing portion. The processing portion is located at a side where one end of the rotating roller is positioned with respect to a center of the rotating roller in the axial direction of the rotating roller. The protuberance is located at an other side where an other end of the rotating roller is positioned with respect to the center in the axial direction.