Method of fabricating a multiple component web

A method of fabricating a web suitable for use in making a personal care absorbent article, the method comprising:

• (a) fabricating a resiliently extensible web by bringing together and securing to each other (i) web substrate elements, and (ii) resiliently stretchable elastic elements in stretched condition, the securement between the elastic elements and the web substrate elements being defined by alternating zones of securement and non-securement of the elastic elements to at least one of the web substrate elements along a length of the web substrate;
• (b) deactivating elastic elements in the non-securement zones thereby (i) to attenuate resilient retraction of the web in such non-securement zones in response to activity of the elastics and correspondingly (ii) to distinguish the securement zones as relatively more resiliently stretchable and the non-securement zones as relatively less resiliently stretchable;
• (c) applying, to the relatively non-stretchable non-securement zones, patches of mechanical fastener material extending generally between respective adjacent ones of the relatively more resiliently stretchable securement zones;
• (d) fabricating a plurality of workpieces from the web, each workpiece defining a respective free end having a respective patch of the mechanical fastener material;
• (e) separating each of the workpieces from the web, each workpiece defining an opposing end opposing the respective free end, each opposing end defining a second respective patch of the mechanical fastener material;
• (f) arranging the workpieces in end-to-end relationship with intervening elements;
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• (g) releasably attaching the respective patches of the mechanical fastener material on the workpieces to hook respective receptive areas on the intervening elements to releasably attach the workpieces to the intervening elements in fabricating a length of the extensible web.