Guido Bonelli, San Giovanni Teatino, Italy; and Gabriele Sablone, San Giovanni Teatino, Italy.
Assigned to Fameccanica.Data S.p.A., Italy.

Filed: 2/18/22
Issued: 2/27/24

A transversely extensible continuous elastic laminate comprising: first and second continuous webs extending along a longitudinal direction, having respective pleated central portions having pleats parallel to said longitudinal direction and respective first and second non-pleated edge portions on opposite sides of said pleated central portions, a continuous elastic tape extending in said longitudinal direction, and sandwiched between said pleated central portions of said first and second webs, wherein said elastic tape is elastically stretchable in a direction transversal to said longitudinal direction, and wherein said elastic tape is joined to the first and second webs by a pattern of spot welds, a support web including a continuous edge portion extending in said longitudinal direction, the continuous edge portion being sandwiched between said first non-pleated edge portions of said first and second webs and being fixed thereto by said pattern of spot welds, the support web including a plurality of tabs extending from the continuous edge portion outside said first and second webs, said plurality of tabs being connected to each other by said continuous edge portion and being spaced apart from each other in said longitudinal direction, each tab of the plurality of tabs having a respective micro-hook pad fixed to a planar surface of the respective tab, wherein said planar surface of each of said tabs has a portion which completely surrounds the respective micro-hook pad.