Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Arthur Wesley Leiphart

David Joseph Nickel

Glory Alcantara

A process () for forming an article () includes delivering an article web () which provides an interconnected plurality of article-segments (). At least one selected article-segment () can include at least one wing-panel component or member (), which has been operatively joined to its corresponding, selected article-segment () and configured to extend beyond at least one laterally-opposed side edge of said article web () in an intermediate portion () of the corresponding article-segment (). The process () can also include a substantially continuous severing of the article web () and the at least one wing-panel member () to provide a contoured composite web. The contoured composite web can include at least one contoured wing-panel (). In addition, a contoured side-edge () of the contoured wing-panel () can be configured to extend substantially continuously from a cooperatively contoured side-edge () of the article web.

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Neenah, WI, United States of America

Arthur Wesley Leiphart