Patent ID: 7531062

Claim:
An embossed absorbent web having an undulatory structure and a plurality of embossments wherein the undulatory structure of the web comprises a plurality of ridges extending in the machine direction of the web occurring at a frequency, F, across the web and at least a portion of the embossments: (i) extend substantially in the cross-machine direction; and (ii) the embossments extending in the cross-machine direction extend in the cross-machine direction a distance, L′; and (iii) the embossments extending in the cross-machine direction are laterally spaced from adjacent embossments extending in the cross-machine direction a distance, D′; with the proviso that: (a) the product F×L′ is between about 0.1 and about 5 or (b) the product F×D′ is between about 0.1 and about 5.