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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2004
Glory Framary Alcantara, Neenah, WI (US);
David Joseph Nickel, Menasha, WI (US);
Arthur Wesley Leiphart, Neenah, WI (US);
Glory Framary Alcantara, Neenah, WI (US);
David Joseph Nickel, Menasha, WI (US);
Arthur Wesley Leiphart, Neenah, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
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.