Patent ID: 8895126

Claim:
A segmented film defining a machine direction and a cross-machine direction and comprising a first surface and a second surface generally parallel to the first surface, the segmented film having a first film segment having a first composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer and a second film segment having a second composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer, the first and second film segments being joined at an interface, wherein at the interface a tip of the second segment overlaps and extends into the first segment in the cross-machine direction of the film, and wherein the film has a thickness “T” at the tip of the second segment, and the second segment has a thickness “t” at a distance T in the cross-machine direction from the tip of the second segment, and wherein the ratio T/t is greater than about 3, and wherein as the distance from the interface increases in the cross-machine direction the first composition forms at least one of the first surface and the second surface on one side of the interface in the cross-machine direction and the second composition forms at least one of the first surface and the second surface on an other side of the interface in the cross-machine direction.