Patent ID: 7678442

Claim:
A three-dimensionally embossed non-woven fabric having a first side and a second side and a manufacturing machine direction comprising: fibers or filaments; the first and second sides being provided with zones having regularly or irregularly alternating elevations and indentations, the elevations and indentations being transverse to the machine direction and the zones being separated from one another by unembossed, continuous areas extending in the machine direction, the unembossed, continuous areas constituting a proportion ranging from 5% to 50% with respect to the surface area of the non-woven fabric, the elevations when viewed in cross-section, being formed by a prolongation on both sides of the unembossed, continuous areas such that the fibers or filaments that form the elevations are stretched away from the unembossed continuous areas such that the fabric is thinner at the elevation than at the unembossed continuous areas.