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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2002
Shannon Melius, Appleton, WI (US);
Shannon Melius, Appleton, WI (US);
Kimberley-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A method for making absorbent pads for various absorbent articles is provided. A strip of the absorbent web material is conveyed along a machine direction, the absorbent web material having a generally first constant cross-direction width and generally first uniform basis weight. Longitudinally defined portions of the web material are stretched in the cross direction so as to define longitudinal sections having a wider cross-direction width and decreased basis weight alternately spaced between longitudinally extending sections of the web material having a lesser cross-direction width and greater basis weight. The web is released eventually cut in a cross direction into individual absorbent pads such that each pad has a crotch section corresponding to the longitudinal section having the lesser cross-direction width and greater basis weight and at least one of a front section and back section corresponding to the wider cross-direction width and decreased basis weight.