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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1994
Steven W Fitting, Acworth, GA (US);
John J Sayovitz, Marietta, GA (US);
Joel E Edwards, La Grange, GA (US);
Gregory T Sudduth, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
There is provided a method of softening a nonwoven web by wetting a nonwoven web having a starting, unstretched width and a starting cup crush value, with an aqueous solution of softening chemicals, necking the saturated nonwoven web, drying the nonwoven web at a temperature and time sufficient to remove at least 95 percent of the moisture from the nonwoven web, wherein the web has a final cup crush value which is less than 50 percent of the starting cup crush value. The method may optionally include the step of un-necking the nonwoven web to about between 80 and 125 percent of its starting, unstretched width.