Cutter apparatus

A cutter apparatus that cuts a workpiece of an absorbent article to be transported in a transport direction comprising;

• a cutter roller that is provided with a cutter blade that cuts the workpiece, the cutter blade projecting from an outer circumferential face of the cutter roller;
• an anvil roller that receives the cutter blade with an outer circumferential face thereof disposed so as to oppose the outer circumferential face of the cutter roller;
• an annular protruding section that is provided to an outer circumferential face of one roller out of the cutter roller and the anvil roller, and that comes into contact with an other of the rollers;
• a first motor that drives the cutter roller;
• a second motor that drives the anvil roller;
• a first motor control unit that controls the first motor by position control or speed control;
• and
• a second motor control unit that controls the second motor;
• wherein the anvil roller rotates to follow the cutter roller by a torque transmitted from the cutter roller via the annular protruding section, and
• a supplementary torque is imparted from the second motor to the anvil roller, based on a control by the second motor control unit, so as to assist a rotation of the anvil roller following the cutter roller.