Patent ID: 8337664

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a web having an applied pattern of add-on material, the method comprising the steps of: moving a base web along a first path; preparing a slurry of add-on material; repetitively discharging the slurry of add-on material upon the moving base web by establishing a reservoir of the add-on material across the first path and moving a belt having an orifice group along an endless path, wherein the orifice group includes at least two orifices spaced relative to one another by a distance less than the diameter of one of the two orifices such that the slurry of add-on material being discharged from the orifice group defines a banded region having a least a relative minimum thickness between the leading and trailing edges of the banded region, and said belt moving step including the step of moving said belt along a first portion of said endless path where said at least one orifice group is communicated with said reservoir so as to discharge said slurry of add-on material from said reservoir through said at least one orifice group onto said base web as said at least one orifice group traverses said first path portion.