The present invention provides a method of placing elasticized areas in a
nonwoven web construction such as may be suitable for the waistbands or
leg openings of disposable absorbent pant garments, cuffs on sleeves of
medical garments, or the like. A web, or webs, of extendible nonwoven
material which make up the substrate for the elasticized area are printed
with an elastic adhesive in its fluid or semi-fluid and untensioned state
to provide a tensioning force against distension of the web during wearing
of the garment for conformable, well fitting, elasticized cuff areas and
may further be used to reinforce biaxially extendible web components such
as the backsheet web.
