Patent ID: 7553532

Claim:
A soft, tufted fibrous web ( 1 ) comprising substantially randomly-oriented fibers, said fibrous web having a machine direction and a cross machine direction defining an MD-CD plane, the web ( 1 ) comprising a first region ( 2 ) and a plurality of discrete second regions ( 4 ), each of the second regions ( 4 ) having at least one portion being a discontinuity ( 16 ) exhibiting a linear orientation and defining a longitudinal axis (L) in the MD-CD plane and at least another portion being a deformation ( 6 ), wherein the deformation ( 6 ) comprises fibers ( 8 , 18 ) integral with but extending from first region ( 2 ) and fibers ( 11 ) broken from and not extending from first region ( 2 ), wherein said deformations comprise looped aligned fibers forming tunnel shaped deformations.