595096 Disclosed is a web conveyor used in manufacturing an absorber for an absorbent article. The conveyor conveys an absorber web (4) comprising intermittently spaced absorber cores (4A) sandwiched between two webs (4B, 4C) which form a covering member. The absorber core is 50 times thicker than the thickness of the covering member. The conveyor comprises a direction changing mechanism which changes a conveyance direction of an absorber web by 90° or more around a smooth curve, such that the absorber web is rotated about a rotational axis by a rotation distance which is more than twice a length of the absorber core when the absorber web is seen along the rotational axis. This provides the advantage of reducing the unnecessary force imposed on the outermost web radially around the direction changing mechanism. The direction changing mechanism can comprise a single roller or a plurality of rollers arranged in a semicircle.
