Abstract: An apparatus includes a rotary drum for disposing a workpiece on a web and a web position guiding mechanism for guiding a position of the web. The rotary drum includes a suction unit for sucking the workpiece. The suction unit is configured to change a disposition direction of the workpiece from a first disposition direction at the reception point to a second disposition direction at a delivery point. An external shape of the workpiece sucked by the suction unit is an external shape in which an outer edge portion of the workpiece is close to a rotary shaft side of the rotary drum. At an abutment point, a central portion of the workpiece and the web come into contact with each other. At the delivery point, the web is disposed so that an outer edge portion of the workpiece and the web come into contact with each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing absorbent articles includes: a swinging mechanism that feeds an elastic member while swinging the elastic member along a cross direction crossing a conveyance direction of a sheet-shaped continuum constituting an absorbent article, and that disposes a part of the elastic member on the continuum; a guiding member that conveys the elastic member; a cutting mechanism that cuts the elastic member; a joining mechanism that conveys the elastic member and the continuum that are supplied from the guiding mechanism to be taken along an outer periphery of the joining mechanism; and a sheet supply mechanism that supplies a sheet member onto an end portion in the cross direction of the continuum. A tangential direction of a deviation point at which the continuum is spaced from the guiding mechanism and a tangential direction of an arrival point at which the continuum reaches the joining mechanism are coincident with each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing absorbent articles includes: a swinging mechanism that feeds an elastic member while swinging the elastic member along a cross direction crossing a conveyance direction of a sheet-shaped continuum constituting an absorbent article, and that disposes a part of the elastic member on the continuum; a guiding member that conveys the elastic member; a cutting mechanism that cuts the elastic member; a joining mechanism that conveys the elastic member and the continuum that are supplied from the guiding mechanism to be taken along an outer periphery of the joining mechanism; and a sheet supply mechanism that supplies a sheet member onto an end portion in the cross direction of the continuum. A tangential direction of a deviation point at which the continuum is spaced from the guiding mechanism and a tangential direction of an arrival point at which the continuum reaches the joining mechanism are coincident with each other.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a rotary drum for disposing a workpiece on a web and a web position guiding mechanism for guiding a position of the web. The rotary drum includes a suction unit for sucking the workpiece. The suction unit is configured to change a disposition direction of the workpiece from a first disposition direction at the reception point to a second disposition direction at a delivery point. An external shape of the workpiece sucked by the suction unit is an external shape in which an outer edge portion of the workpiece is close to a rotary shaft side of the rotary drum. At an abutment point, a central portion of the workpiece and the web come into contact with each other. At the delivery point, the web is disposed so that an outer edge portion of the workpiece and the web come into contact with each other.