Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive fastener having a textured fastening surface so as to have a relatively high shear resistance and a desired peel resistance. The pressure-sensitive adhesive fastener comprises a backing web having bulbous surface aberrations projecting from a first surface of the backing web and a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive coated over and bonded to at least a portion of the surface of the bulbous surface aberrations of the backing web. The present invention also relates to a fastening system using the pressure-sensitive adhesive fastener of the present invention.

Abstract: Disposable absorbent articles such as a diaper or a sanitary napkin having a fastening system comprising a pressure-sensitive adhesive fastener having a textured fastening surface. The pressure-sensitive adhesive fastener comprises a backing web having bulbous surface aberrations projecting from a surface of the web and a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive coated over and bonded to at least a portion of the surface of the bulbous surface aberrations of the backing web. When the fastening system of the present invention is affixed to a diaper, the overlapping portions of the diaper are maintained in contact with each other while the fastening system prevents separation of the overlapping waist portions because it is able to resist the wearer-generated peel forces encountered during wear and the shear stress encountered when the diaper is worn.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive fastener having a textured fastening surface so as to have a relatively high shear resistance and a desired peel resistance. The pressure-sensitive adhesive fastener comprises a backing web having bulbous surface aberrations projecting from a first surface of the backing web and a layer of pressure-sensitive adhesive coated over and bonded to at least a portion of the surface of the bulbous surface aberrations of the backing web. The present invention also relates to a fastening system using the pressure-sensitive adhesive fastener of the present invention.

Abstract: A microbubbled, substantially fluid-impervious polymeric web exhibiting substantially the same consumer preferred soft and cloth-like tactile impression and low noise generation levels heretofore only achievable in microapertured, and hence substantially fluid pervious, polymeric webs. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the present invention pertains to a microbubbled polymeric web exhibiting a fine-scale pattern of discrete mushroom-shaped surface aberrations, each of said surface aberrations having its amplitude oriented substantially perpendicular to the surface in which the surface aberration originates. However, unlike microapertured webs which are fluid pervious, at least one tiny, continuous membrane bubble, i.e., a microbubble, is provided substantially coincidental with the maximum amplitude of each surface aberration. Thus, the microbubbled web is substantially fluid-impervious.

Abstract: Fabric softening compositions are described containing a combination of an anionic surfactant and a complex of certain smectite clays with certain organic amines and their salts and certain quaternary compounds.The compostions provide fabric softening to laundered fabrics during the rinsing operation or can be incorporated into detergent compositions to provide fabric softening through the wash.