The Procter Gamble Company

Valerie J Henderson

Rong Deng

Aleksey Mikhailovich Pinyayev

Gregory J Wilson

Craig Allen Powell

Steve J Waas

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for relofting nonwoven substrates. During the relofting process, a substrate is directed to advance in a first direction such that a length of the substrate is in a facing relationship with a radiation source. The advancing substrate is relofted by irradiating the length of the substrate with infrared radiation from the infrared radiation source. The substrate comprises a first caliper upstream of the radiation source and the substrate comprises a second caliper downstream of the radiation source greater than the first caliper. The substrate may also be redirected around an axis to advance the substrate in a second direction, wherein the second direction is different than the first direction. The axis may be selectively movable between a first position and a second position to selectively subject the substrate to infrared radiation and remove the substrate from the infrared radiation.

Method and apparatus for relofting a nonwoven substrate

A method for embossing an absorbent article using a segmented anvil and attaching a release paper to a backsheet having depressed regions.

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Liberty Township, OH, United States of America

Valerie J Henderson