Examples include a machine for producing a multi-layer product having a dry film applied to a carrier substrate. A carrier substrate web is provided to an application stage where a first dry film of powdered material is applied to a side of the carrier substrate. The carrier substrate web having the dry film on at least one side is then fed to a product winder to produce a product roll. A dancer roller and/or a positively driven draw roller are arranged between a location where the carrier substrate web unwound from a reel and an entry into an application gap of the application stage, and/or a dancer roller and/or a positively driven draw roller are arranged between where the substrate emerges from a last application gap of the application stage and a location at which the winding of the carrier substrate web onto the product roll takes place.

A method for producing an elastic composite web for an absorbent sanitary article comprising a first corrugated web and a second web connected together, and at least one elastic element entrapped between said first web and said second web. The invention also relates to an elastic composite web for an absorbent sanitary article.

Manufacturing decorative panels by using a web-fed inkjet printer. During the feeding of the to-be-printed substrate, the tension of the substrate is controlled by a dancer unit (720) which includes a dancer roll (200), having a connector (120) on both side ends of said roll, and wherein both connectors (120) are connected to a pair of parallel guiders (110) for floating said roll along a floating path (210); and wherein the step of controlling comprises the step of moving one guider (110) of said pair of guiders (110) parallel to said floating path (210) whereby the dancer roll (200) is tilted.

Disclosed is a non-flammable thermal insulating composite substrate for motor vehicles including: a textile component constituted by a layer of needle-sewn non-woven fabric composed of a percentage of pre-oxidized polyacrylonitrile fiber included between 40% and 70%, preferably 58% and of the remaining percentage of polyethylene glycol-terephthalate fiber, the textile component having weight preferably 400 gr/m.sup.2; and a barrier fixed to the textile component using a spreading process, constituted by a thermoplastic resin based on low density polyethylene added with non-halogen flame retardants, the barrier having weight preferably 100 gr/m.sup.2. The composite substrate has the following features: a thickness included between 2 mm and 5 mm, preferably 3.8 mm; a weight included between 300 gr/m.sup.2 and 700 gr/m.sup.2, preferably 500 gr/m.sup.2; odorless; no emission of fumes; dimensionally stable, even at heatstroke, with a maximum variation of 1%; and non-flammability.

A flooring material having a textile pad substructure with a density of greater than 10 pounds per cubic foot is provided. The textile pad has reinforcement and binding fibers. The binding fibers are thermoplastic and are used to bind the reinforcement fibers together. The pad is created by heating and compressing a fibrous textile batt so that it has a density of greater than 13 pounds per cubic foot.

Substrates are aligned and then bonded to each other. A substrate bonding apparatus includes a deformer that deforms at least a first one of two substrates that are to be bonded to each other in order to correct misalignment between the two substrates, a holder that holds the deformed first substrate in the deformed state achieved by the deformer, a transporter that transports the holder from a position at which the deformed first substrate is held by the holder while the first substrate remains deformed, and a bonder that bonds the first substrate that has been transported by the transporter to the second substrate. In the above-described substrate bonding apparatus, while the first substrate is not held by the holder, the deformer may deform the holder from a first state to a second state that is more deformed than the first state, and while the first substrate is held by the holder, the deformer may reduce the amount of the deformation of the holder to less than the amount of the deformation of the second state to deform the first substrate.

A stretch laminate having enhanced texture, and method for its manufacture is disclosed. The stretch laminate may include two nonwoven layers sandwiching an elastic member, the elastic member having been incorporated into the laminate in a pre-strained condition such that z-direction ruffles in the nonwoven materials are imparted to the laminate when it is in a relaxed condition. At least one of the nonwoven layers may be incrementally stretched or SELFed, adding a pattern of ridges and valleys to the material that combines with the ruffles, further enhancing loft and texture of the laminate.

A method for producing an elastic composite web for an absorbent sanitary article comprising a first corrugated web and a second web connected together, and at least one elastic element entrapped between said first web and said second web. The invention also relates to an elastic composite web for an absorbent sanitary article.

A shaping method includes suturing, with a linear suture material, first end regions in a first predetermined direction of a plurality of sheet materials. The method includes fixing a second end region in the first predetermined direction of a laminated body to a first shaping method having a curved portion including at least one of a concave shape and a convex shape along a second predetermined direction in a state where the first predetermined direction coincides with the second predetermined direction. The method includes pressing a second shaping mold against the laminated body, which has been fixed to the first shaping mold in the fixing step, to shape the laminated body along the surface shape of the first shaping mold. The laminated body is shaped by applying a tension in the direction of pulling the first end region away from the second end region.

A versatile method to create hydrophobic 3-D surfaces with complex hierarchical microstructures that mimic the patterns found on springtail skin is disclosed. The method innovatively merges two fixed-spacing patterns at different scales to create patterns with varying spacing but does not require precise alignment. By utilizing localized stretching strain when gradually laminating a thin microstructured elastomer layer onto a wavy substrate, a pattern is created. To demonstrate this new fabrication process, we laminated a thin polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film having a plurality of microstructures thereon, on a wavy PDMS substrate with millimeter-scale inverted pyramidal holes. This resulted in hierarchical surface microstructures that display varying spacings along the peaks and the valleys of the wavy substrate.