Method of production of web member including tow

A method of production of a web member which has a tow, said method comprising:

• a transfer step of conveying a product form web member which has been formed by cutting a continuous web member and which has a plurality of fibrous members formed from tows to a packaging step of packaging said product form web member,
• said transfer step having
• a stacking step of stacking a plurality of said product form web members to form a stacked member;
• and
• a variation correction step which suppresses variation of bulk of said stacked member by pressing said stacked member from above said stacked member,
• wherein said variation correction step has a pressing step of pressing said stacked member from above said stacked member by running said stacked member through a predetermined pressing path,
• wherein said predetermined pressing path includes
• a bulk reducing path which has an entrance at a first height and an exit at a second height which is lower than said first height and which has a top wall which inclines from said entrance toward said exit;
• and
• a bulk stabilizing path which continues after said bulk reducing path and having a predetermined length at the second height of the exit of said bulk reducing path,
• said first height being set to become higher than the bulk of said stacked member at said stacking step, while said second height being set to become lower than the bulk of said stacked member at said stacking step,
• wherein said pressing step includes
• a bulk reducing step of running said stacked member through said bulk reducing path to thereby reduce the bulk of said stacked member to said second height;
• and
• a bulk stabilizing step of running said stacked member which has run through said bulk reducing path through said bulk stabilizing path following said bulk reducing path to thereby stabilize the bulk of said stacked member at the reduced height.