Patent ID: 8337651

Claim:
A method of making a textile web from which elastically stretchable diaper closures can be stamped, the method comprising the steps of: passing a pair of nonwoven textile webs in a longitudinal direction through a first laminating station at a predetermined first speed; inserting a plurality of longitudinally extending and transversely spaced strips of an elastic polymer between the webs at the first laminating station such that the webs and strips are laminated together in the first station into an intermediate laminate having longitudinally extending zones where the webs are directly laminated to each other alternating with longitudinally extending stretch zones where the elastic strips are laminated between the webs; passing the intermediate laminate through a second lamination station downstream of the first lamination station at a predetermined second speed smaller than the first predetermined speed; and in the second lamination station adhering respective inelastic strips to opposite faces of the intermediate laminate in the zones between the stretch zones.