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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2002
Byron M. Jackson, Forest Lake, MN (US);
Leigh E. Wood, Woodbury, MN (US);
Roderick L. Storey, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
James V. Metz, Maplewood, MN (US);
Byron M. Jackson, Forest Lake, MN (US);
Leigh E. Wood, Woodbury, MN (US);
Roderick L. Storey, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
James V. Metz, Maplewood, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
There is provided a nonwoven elastic laminate closure tab of the invention comprising adjacent first and second nonwoven closure elements each having a first face and a second face and a coextruded film elastic attached to each closure element first face. The first face of each closure element has a first area coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive and a second area adjacent the first area free of pressure-sensitive adhesive at terminal ends of the nonwoven closure elements. The coextruded film elastic has two first regions each having at least one inelastic zone and a second region between the two first regions having at least one elastic zone. The two opposing first regions are attached to the two pressure-sensitive adhesive areas of the two closure elements respectively such that the second adhesive free areas of the two adjacent closure elements are in face to face contact with at least a portion of the coextruded elastic film elastic second region. The layers are all of a thickness such that the thickness variation across the closure tab is less than 50%.