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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
May. 15, 2001
Debra Hartley Durrance, Appleton, WI (US);
Scott Gerald Chapple, Neenah, WI (US);
David Michael Clemens, Menasha, WI (US);
Jason Gene Csida, Reno, TX (US);
Kurt Garrett Krupka, Neenah, WI (US);
Heather Schenck Mortell, Neenah, WI (US);
Robert Lee Popp, Hortonville, WI (US);
Marcille Faye Ruman, Oshkosh, WI (US);
Scott John Andrew Swanson, Neenah, WI (US);
Charles Robert Tomsovic, Omro, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A process for making prefastened and refastenable garments includes providing a plurality of discrete articles with mating fastening components disposed in the waist regions. First fastening components are separated from one another by an initial transverse distance. The waist region containing the first fastening components is modified to transversely displace these fastening components to a post displacement distance that is not equal to the initial distance. The process allows for convenient alignment of the fastening components to form refastenable seams.