Patent ID: 7718243

Claim:
A laminate web comprising first and second precursor webs, said laminate web having a machine direction and a cross machine direction defining a MD-CD plane, at least the first precursor web being a nonwoven web, the laminate web having a first side, the first side comprising the second precursor web and at least one discrete tuft, each of the discrete tufts having a linear orientation defining a longitudinal axis in said MD-CD plane and comprising a plurality of tufted fibers being integral extensions of the first precursor web and extending through the second precursor web; and a second side, the second side comprising the first precursor web; wherein said plurality of tufted fibers being integral extensions of the first precursor web comprises both a first plurality of looped fibers and a second plurality of non-looped fibers, and wherein said first plurality of looped fibers define a tunnel-like shaped tuft having opposing longitudinal open ends.