Process for temporarily stabilizing an extensible web
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsJack Draper Taylor, Stephen Clark Smith
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Abstract
A process for temporarily stabilizing an extensible material while incorporating the material into a garment, or while performing any other converting process on the material. The stabilizing process includes the step of selectively bonding regions of the extensible material to provide a bonded material having restricted extensibility. The bonded material can be put through a converting process, such as winding the bonded material onto a roll, spooling the bonded material, slitting the bonded material, laminating the bonded material, or incorporating the bonded material into a garment. After the bonding material has gone through the converting process, the bonded regions can be removed from the bonded material.
Claims49
A process for stabilizing an extensible material during a converting process, comprising the steps of:
- providing an extensible material having a level of extensibility;
- selectively bonding edge regions of the extensible material to provide a bonded material having restricted extensibility;
- performing an operation on the bonded material, selected from the group consisting of winding the bonded material onto a roll, spooling the bonded material, slitting the bonded material, laminating the bonded material, and incorporating the bonded material into a garment;
- and
- removing the bonded edge regions from the bonded material.
A process for making a garment having an extensible layer, comprising the steps of:
- providing an extensible material having a level of extensibility;
- selectively bonding edge regions of the extensible material to provide a bonded material having restricted extensibility;
- converting the bonded material into a garment;
- and
- removing the bonded edge regions from the bonded material.
A process for making a garment having an extensible layer, comprising the steps of:
- providing an extensible material having a level of extensibility;
- selectively bonding a region of the extensible material to provide a bonded material having restricted extensibility;
- slitting the bonded region to form at least two pieces of extensible material, each of the pieces of extensible material having a bonded edge;
- converting the at least two pieces of extensible material into a garment;
- and
- removing the bonded edge regions from the at least two pieces of extensible material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.