Patent ID: 6117524
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: A61F,Y10T

Abstract:
An apertured web for a disposable garment, said apertured web comprising:a polymeric web having longitudinal and transverse directions, said polymeric web being about 0.001 to about 0.05 mm thick and including a plurality of substantially flat portions, each being about 0.03 to about 1 mm wide and imperforated, extending in parallel one to another in said longitudinal direction and a plurality of intermittent apertures extending in said longitudinal direction between said flat portions having upper and lower surfaces so as to form a plurality of aperture rows extending in parallel one to another in said longitudinal direction;pairs of said flat portions having said aperture rows therebetween being interconnected by a plurality of bridge portions which extend therebetween and across said aperture rows said bridge portions extending across the respective aperture rows are formed intermittently in the transverse direction, providing two types of bridge portions, those which extend upward or downward from the upper surfaces of the flat portions to the upper surfaces of the respectively adjacent flat portions so as to describe arcs and those which are flush with the flat portion; andsaid intermittent apertures being defined by edges of said flat portions which extend in said longitudinal direction and edges of said bridge portions which extend in said transverse direction,said flat portions being formed at least along said edges thereof which extend in said longitudinal direction with a plurality of substantially pointed tooth-shaped portions which extend upward from upper surfaces of said flat portions.