Intermittent, machine-direction fluff contouring roll

An apparatus for contouring a fibrous web, comprising:

• supplying means for providing a fibrous web which defines an interconnected series of appointed article segments along a length dimension of said web;
• conveying means for moving said web at a selected speed along an appointed machine direction;
• scarfing means having a movement direction thereof and having an outer peripheral surface which is movable along said movement direction, said peripheral surface configured for removing and separating away predetermined quantities of fibers from selected regions of said fibrous web, said scarfing means constructed to provide each of said article segments with a selected contoured basis weight which varies at least along the length dimension of said web in a selected correspondence with a predetermined scarfing pattern, said scarfing pattern provided by said outer peripheral surface of said scarfing means, and said pattern configured to have a selected variation at least along said movement direction of said scarfing means;
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• regulating means for controlling a relative movement between said conveying means and said scarfing means to provide said selected correspondence and to thereby from said selected contoured basis weight on substantially each of said article segments.