IP Library Granted Patent US 9,505,198
Granted Patent B2
US 9,505,198 · App. 14/689,709 · Granted Nov 29, 2016

Elastic laminate

Inventor: Henner Sollmann (Gronau, DE)
Assignee: MONDI CONSUMER PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
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Patent No.
US 9,505,198
App. No.
14/689,709
Granted
Nov 29, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An elastic laminate is made by first coextruding a film having an elastic outer film layer formed of a styrene-block copolymer and an inner film layer of lesser elasticity than the outer layer. An outer fleece web with an outer adhesive layer is then adhered to the outer film layer, and an inner fleece web with an inner adhesive layer is adhered to the inner film layer so as to form between the inner fleece web and the inner film layer a bond that is weaker than a bond formed by the outer adhesive layer between the outer fleece web and the outer film layer. Thereafter the coextruded film bonded by the inner and outer adhesive layers to the outer and inner fleece webs is prestretched such that the weak bond formed by the inner adhesive layer separates only locally from the inner film layer but the bond formed by the outer adhesive layer remains intact.

Claims (22)

1. A method of making an elastic laminate, the method comprising:

coextruding a film having an elastic outer film layer formed of a styrene-block copolymer and an inner film layer of lesser elasticity than the outer layer;

adhering an outer fleece web with an outer adhesive layer to the outer film layer;

adhering an inner fleece web with an inner adhesive layer to the inner film layer so as to form between the inner fleece web and the inner film layer a bond that is weaker than a bond formed by the outer adhesive layer between the outer fleece web and the outer film layer; and

prestretching the coextruded film bonded by the inner and outer adhesive layers to the outer and inner fleece webs such that the weak bond formed by the inner adhesive layer separates only locally from the inner film layer but the bond formed by the outer adhesive layer remains intact.

2. The method defined in claim 1 , wherein the inner and outer adhesive layers are of the same polymer.

3. The method defined in claim 2 , wherein the inner and outer adhesive layers are made of a hot-melt adhesive based on a styrene block copolymer.

4. The method defined in claim 1 , wherein the inner film layer is made of a polyamide, polymethylmethacrylate, polyoxymethylene, polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate, or polybutylene terephthalate or mixtures thereof.

5. The method defined in claim 1 , wherein the inner film layer is made of polyethylene or polypropylene.

6. The method defined in claim 1 , wherein a polarity difference between outer film layer and the outer adhesive layer is less than the polarity difference between the inner film layer and the outer film layer and the polarity difference between the inner film layer and the inner adhesive layer.

7. The method defined in claim 1 , wherein the fleece webs are of substantially identical composition and properties.

8. The method defined in claim 7 , wherein the outer film layer has a thickness between 10 μm and 100 μm.

9. The method defined in claim 8 , wherein the inner film layer is has a thickness between 2 μm and 50 μm.

10. The method defined in claim 1 , wherein the coextruded film has only two layers.

11. The method defined in claim 1 , further comprising the set of

setting working temperatures of the polymers of the outer film layer, the inner film layer, and both the adhesive layers between 180° C. and 260° C.

12. The method defined in claim 1 , wherein the inner film layer is imperforate and continuous.

13. The method defined in claim 1 , wherein the outer film layer is formed with breaks forming throughgoing perforations.

14. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the outer fleece web and the outer film layer are adhered together continuously over full surface regions between the outer fleece web and the coextruded film.

15. The method defined in claim 1 , further comprising the step of adhering together of the inner fleece layer and inner film layer is effected by

forming a multiplicity of separate local bonds between the inner fleece layer and the inner film layer such that the inner film layer and the inner fleece web are separated and not bonded together at breaks by the inner adhesive layer between the local bonds.

16. The method defined in claim 1 wherein the prestretching creates in the elastic laminate a microstructure without a fixed pattern and comprising a minor warping or bunching distributed over the entire region of the elastic laminate under the inner fleece web.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 11, 2016
From: NORDENIA TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
To: MONDI CONSUMER PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
Reel/Frame 040305/0198 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 09015760 · Dec 19, 2009 · regional
Continuity (2)
Division 12972655 · Dec 20, 2010
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