Patent ID: 7323072

Claim:
A method of aperturing a fibrous web comprising: a. providing a fibrous web comprising at least partially unbonded fibers; b. moving the fibrous web through a bonding nip created by a rotatable bonding roll and a rotatable anvil roll, the rotatable bonding roll having a peripheral bonding surface and a plurality of protuberances extending from the peripheral bonding surface, the plurality of protuberances defining a bonding pattern; c. bonding the fibrous web with the plurality of protuberances at a plurality of highly bonded regions, the plurality of highly bonded regions being surrounded by at least one less bonded region, the at least partially unbonded fibers being plasticized at the plurality of highly bonded regions; d. maintaining the at least partially unbonded fibers of the fibrous web at the at least one less bonded region; e. moving the fibrous web with the plurality of highly bonded regions through an aperture nip created by a rotatable aperture roll and the rotatable anvil roll, the rotatable aperture roll having a peripheral aperture surface and a plurality of projections extending from the peripheral aperture surface, the plurality of projections defining an aperturing pattern, the aperturing pattern substantially aligning with the bonding pattern; and f. aperturing the fibrous web at the plurality of highly bonded regions with the plurality of projections creating apertures within at least 50 percent of the highly bonded regions.