Provided is an adhesive application device which has a discharge part for discharging a thermoplastic adhesive and in which a thermoplastic adhesive is discharged from the discharge part and applied to one surface of a continuous sheet for an absorbent article running on a specific track. The device has a contact and separation mechanism that moves the continuous sheet and the discharge part relatively to the other in the contact or separation direction, a discharge mechanism that discharges the thermoplastic adhesive from the discharge part, and a controller that controls the contact and separation mechanism and the discharge mechanism. When the running speed of the continuous sheet is higher than a specific threshold value, the controller controls the contact and separation mechanism and the discharge mechanism so as to discharge the thermoplastic adhesive from the discharge part while bringing the discharge part into contact with the one surface of the continuous sheet. When the running speed becomes the specific threshold value or lower, the controller controls the contact and separation mechanism and the discharge mechanism so as to stop discharge of the thermoplastic adhesive from the discharge portion and put the continuous sheet and the discharge portion into a state of separation after discharge has been stopped.La présente invention concerne un dispositif dapplication de colle qui comprend une partie évacuation pour évacuer la colle thermoplastique. Ledit dispositif évacue de la colle thermoplastique par lintermédiaire de sa partie évacuation et lapplique sur une surface de feuille continue pour article absorbant qui se déplace sur une piste spécifique. Le dispositif possède : un mécanisme de mise en contact et de séparation qui déplace la feuille continue et la partie évacuation lune par rapport à lautre de sorte quelles viennent au contact ou quelles se séparent lune de lautre un mécanisme dévacuation qui évacue la colle thermoplastique de la partie éva
