Patent ID: 7694433

Claim:
A method for making an embossed web material, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a dry web material having a machine direction and a cross-machine direction coplanar and perpendicular thereto; (b) providing an air foil having a leading edge and a trailing edge and having at least one aperture disposed thereon; (c) passing steam through said at least one aperture disposed within the first surface of the airfoil; (d) directing said dry web material in said machine direction proximate to said first surface of the airfoil so that the steam impinges upon said dry web material increasing the moisture content and temperature of said dry web material so that said web material is capable of plastic deformation; (e) maintaining said steam proximate to said web material for the distance that the web material traverses from the leading edge to the trailing edge of said air foil; and (f) embossing said web material after step (e).