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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2005
Hugh Joseph O'donnell, Wyoming, OH (US);
Robert Haines Turner, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Vincent Sean Breidenbach, Lebanon, OH (US);
Douglas Herrin Benson, West Harrison, IN (US);
Timothy Ian Mullane, Union, KY (US);
Karen Denise Mcaffry, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Lee Hammons, Fairfield Township, OH (US);
Kelyn Anne Arora, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Hugh Joseph O'Donnell, Wyoming, OH (US);
Robert Haines Turner, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Vincent Sean Breidenbach, Lebanon, OH (US);
Douglas Herrin Benson, West Harrison, IN (US);
Timothy Ian Mullane, Union, KY (US);
Karen Denise McAffry, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John Lee Hammons, Fairfield Township, OH (US);
Kelyn Anne Arora, Cincinnati, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A method for making apertures in a web comprising providing a precursor web material; providing a pair of counter-rotating, intermeshing rollers, wherein a first roller comprises circumferentially-extending ridges and grooves, and a second roller comprises teeth being tapered from a base and a tip, the teeth being joined to the second roller at the base, the base of the tooth having a cross-sectional length dimension greater than a cross-sectional width dimension; and moving the web material through a nip of the counter-rotating, intermeshing rollers; wherein apertures are formed in the precursor web material as the teeth on one of the rollers intermesh with grooves on the other of the rollers.