PURPOSE: To superpose laver sheets while arranging the side face by retaining a laver sheet and successively raising another laver sheet from the under side to the laver sheet kept in retained state.

CONSTITUTION: A sheet-like laver is carried by a carrying equipment 2 and stopped by a stopper 7 and the laver is raised by raising device 5 and retained by a retaining device 6. The above-mentioned motion is repeated whenever laver is fed above the raising device 5 and sheet-like laver is retained in the retaining device 6 in a state where new laver raised from the above is superposed to the laver raised between supporting members 61 and 61. The front end and both side ends are controlled by a control sheet 71 and wall sheets 62 and 62 of the supporting member 61 and the laver is superposed while arranging end face.