Michael Irwin Lawson, Fairfield, OH; Todd Leon Mansfield, Cincinnati, OH; Karen Elizabeth Staubach, Blue Ash, OH; and Marcus Schönbeck, Versmold, Germany.
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.

Filed: 2/9/15
Issued: 1/30/18

A fastening member having a proximal region, a distal region ending at a distal end, and an intermediate region between the proximal region and the distal region, the fastening member being formed from a material web having a machine direction and a cross direction, comprising: a first layer formed of a first nonwoven web comprising first fibers, the first layer having first and second opposing sides, the first side having a surface area; wherein the proximal region includes a first portion of the first layer having a proximal region surface area that comprises a first portion of the surface area; and wherein the distal region includes a second portion of the first layer and has a distal region surface area that comprises a second portion of the surface area, the distal region also comprising a second layer formed of second nonwoven web comprising second fibers a third layer comprising an elastomeric film; a fourth layer comprising a third nonwoven web comprising third fibers; wherein the third layer is disposed between the first layer and the fourth layer and each of the first, third and fourth layers but not the second layer are present in the proximal region; wherein the second layer is disposed between the first layer and the fourth layer and each of the first, second and fourth layers but not the third layer are present in the distal region; wherein each of the first, second, third and fourth layers are present in the intermediate region; wherein the first, second and fourth layers are bonded together in the distal region at a plurality of bond sites arranged in a pattern, the bond sites comprising areas in which structures of the first, second and fourth layers are compressed together; and wherein the proximal region has a first tensile strength in the cross direction and the distal region has a second tensile strength in the cross direction, and the second tensile strength is greater than the first tensile strength; wherein the proximal region has a first stiffness and the distal region has a second stiffness, and the second stiffness is greater than the first stiffness; and wherein the first fibers, the second fibers and the third fibers are formed at least in part of polymers of like chemistry.