Owner Uni-Charm Corporation

Inventors Ishikawa, Shinichi; Akaki, Kenichi; Matsumoto, Yoshihiko

Agent Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick

Pub. Number AU-A-2007337507

PCT Pub. Number WO2008/078533

Priority 2006-347471 25.12.06 JP

Filing date 7 December 2007

Wipo publication date 3 July 2008

D06C 3/00 (2006.01) Stretching, tentering, or spreading textile fabrics

B29C 53/24 (2006.01) Shaping by bending, folding, twisting, straightening or flattening

B29C 53/28 (2006.01) Shaping by bending, folding, twisting, straightening or flattening

B29C 55/18 (2006.01) Shaping by stretching, e.g. drawing through a die - by squeezing between surfaces, e.g. rollers

D04H 3/00 (2006.01) Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length

D04H 3/14 (2006.01) Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length - with bonds between thermoplastic yarns or filaments produced by welding

D04H 3/16 (2006.01) Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length - with bonds between thermoplastic filaments produced in association with filament formation, e.g. immediately following extrusion