Patent ID: 6964238

Claim:
A process for making a garment having a waist opening and a pair of hanging legs, said process defining a machine direction, a cross-machine direction and an orthogonal direction that is perpendicular to a plane created by said machine direction and said cross-machine direction, said process comprising: providing a first web defining a first web waist edge, a first web leg edge, a first leading chassis edge, a first web interior surface and a first web exterior surface; providing a second web defining a second web waist edge, a second web leg edge, a second leading chassis edge, a second web interior surface and a second web exterior surface, said second web interior surface being disposed in a facing relationship with said first web interior surface; joining said first web to said second web to provide a crotch seam; selectively removing a portion of said first web at said first web waist edge and a portion of said second web at said second web waist edge to form a crotch gap; drawing said first web from said second web in said cross-machine direction; slitting at least a portion of said first web between said first web leg edge and said first web waist edge; slitting at least a portion of said second web between said second web leg edge and said second web waist edge, wherein said slitting of said first web and said second web provides a first trailing chassis edge, a second trailing chassis edge and defines a garment chassis comprising said first web and said second web between said first and said second leading and trailing chassis edges and joined at said crotch seam; and fastening said first leading chassis edge to said first trailing chassis edge and said second leading chassis edge to said second trailing chassis edge to provide said garment having said waist opening and said pair of hanging legs.