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AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsThomas Harold Roessler, Michael Tod Morman, Paul Theodore Van Gompel
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The present invention provides a method of achieving selectively elasticized zones on nonwoven web substrates, such as may be suitable for the waistbands of disposable absorbent pant garments, cuffs on sleeves of medical garments, or the like. A web, or webs, of nonwoven material which make up the substrate for the elasticized area are provided to be inherently extendable in the transverse, or lateral, direction of the material web at the time the elastic material is affixed to the substrate. If the elastic material is affixed in an untensioned state, a flat waistband without gathering of the substrate may be had for a very efficient seal against the skin of the wearer. If the elastic material is affixed to the substrate in a tensioned state, a waist band with gathering of the substrate may be had to allow for two-stage expansion via the gathers and the expansion of the substrate.
In a method of producing selectively elastic areas in a precursor web suitable for resultant garments, the precursor web having a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction, the steps comprising:
In a method of producing elastic cuff areas in a web suitable for resultant garments, the web having a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction, the steps comprising:
In a method of producing selectively elastic cuff area in a web suitable for resultant garments, the steps comprising:
An absorbent disposable garment having an nonrugose, ungathered and unshirred cuff area of a first material, the first material having an untensioned elastomeric second material thereon.
An absorbent disposable garment having an nonrugose, ungathered and unshirred cuff area of a first material, the first material having an elastomeric second material thereon of sufficiently low tension so as to not cause gathering and shirring of the first material.
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