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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2004
Michael T. Morman, Knoxville, TN (US);
Paul Theodore Van Gompel, Hortonville, WI (US);
Jennifer Marvin, Greenville, WI (US);
Thomas Harold Roessler, Appleton, WI (US);
James M. Carr, Kaukauna, WI (US);
Yung Hsiang Huang, Appleton, WI (US);
Mary JO Meyer, Neenah, WI (US);
Eric Donald Johnson, Larsen, WI (US);
Michael T. Morman, Knoxville, TN (US);
Paul Theodore Van Gompel, Hortonville, WI (US);
Jennifer Marvin, Greenville, WI (US);
Thomas Harold Roessler, Appleton, WI (US);
James M. Carr, Kaukauna, WI (US);
Yung Hsiang Huang, Appleton, WI (US);
Mary Jo Meyer, Neenah, WI (US);
Eric Donald Johnson, Larsen, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A method for producing a machine direction and cross-machine direction elastic laminate includes the steps of providing a one direction elastic laminate material including at least one elastic layer and one facing layer and having a single direction of elasticity and coursing the one direction elastic laminate material through at least one stretching apparatus, such that the stretching apparatus stretches the laminate material in a direction perpendicular to the single direction of elasticity of the elastic laminate material, thereby producing a material that extends in a direction perpendicular to the direction of elasticity and also extends the elastic performance of the laminate in the single direction of elasticity.