Web member cutting apparatus for cutting web member that has a plurality of fibers including tows and web member cutting method

A web-member cutting apparatus for cutting a web member at intervals in a transport direction,

• the web member having a plurality of fibers including tows along the transport direction and being continuous in the transport direction, the web-member cutting apparatus comprising:
• an intermittent transport mechanism that intermittently transports the web member in the transport direction;
• a disc-like rotatable blade member that cuts the web member by moving along an intersecting direction while rotating about a rotation shaft during a suspension period of transport of the web member,
• the intersecting direction intersecting the transport direction,
• the rotation shaft extending along the transport direction;
• and
• a downstream pressing member that regulates movement of the web member by pressing the web member against the intermittent transport mechanism at a position downstream from a target cut position in the transport direction throughout a period during which the rotatable blade member is cutting the web member.