Abstract: Elastic laminates having improved loft, improved softness and hand, and provide greater wound roll capacity comprise an elastic film ultrasonically bonded to a nonwoven web on either side of the film, wherein the bond points have a flat land bond area that comprises no more than about 30% of the total bond area of said bond points.

Abstract: An elastic pad which is elastic in at least one direction, includes an elastic sheet having at least one nonelastic nonwoven web joined thereto at least at two areas. The nonelastic web is gathered between the two areas. The sheet may be formed from a polyetherester and the nonelastic nonwoven web may be a web of spunlaced hydraulically entangled polyester fibers. The nonelastic nonwoven web may also include rayon or wood pulp fibers.

Abstract: A hand implement for slicing cheese, root vegetables and the like has a cutting blade (1) having an opening (4) for a cutting element (5). In order to prevent the cutting blade from sticking to the foodstuff and to prevent the sliced foodstuff (18) from sticking to the blade (1), the blade is manufactured from a bending resistant plastics material and the end parts of the cutting element (5) are cast or moulded in the blade so as to form a free slot (17) rearwardly of the cutting element (5). The slot (17) is effective to form a layer of air between the sliced foodstuff (18) and the upper surface (8) of the blade and prevents adhesion between the blade (1) and the sliced foodstuff (18).