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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Robert Lee Popp, Hortonville, WI (US);
Joseph Daniel Coenen, Kaukauna, WI (US);
Heather Schenck Mortell, Neenah, WI (US);
James Bassey Pinkney, Appleton, WI (US);
Lars Nilsen Nordang, Neenah, WI (US);
James Richard Schermerhorn, Neenah, WI (US);
Robert Lee Popp, Hortonville, WI (US);
Joseph Daniel Coenen, Kaukauna, WI (US);
Heather Schenck Mortell, Neenah, WI (US);
James Bassey Pinkney, Appleton, WI (US);
Lars Nilsen Nordang, Neenah, WI (US);
James Richard Schermerhorn, Neenah, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A boxer-style pant and methods of making a boxer-style pant having side seams and hanging legs. At least a portion of each of the hanging legs may be non-planar in an uncontracted state prior to formation of the side seams. The methods each involve providing at least one web. In some methods, a crotch panel is bonded to first and second regions of the web between two leg openings, and a distance between bonded regions of upper and lower edges of the crotch panel, measured parallel to a longitudinal axis of the pant, is shorter along a central region of the crotch panel and longer in distal regions of the crotch panel, such that the bonded region results in a bow-tie-shaped crotch panel. In some methods, a crotch region of the web is folded and stabilized along a longitudinal centerline of the web. In some methods, leg extensions are attached to at least a portion of each of two leg openings. Front and back regions may be joined together to form the side seams. An absorbent structure may be attached to the web.