A method of making a mechanical fastener. The method includes providing a slit web having mechanical fastening elements, applying tension to the slit web in the machine direction, and spreading the slit web in the cross-machine direction by directing its side edges over two rotating diverging disks to provide a spread mechanical fastening web. The slit web includes a plurality of interrupted slits that are interrupted by intact bridging regions of the web. The two rotating diverging disks are laterally spaced and have a support surface between them that contacts the slit web during the spreading. The spread mechanical fastening web includes multiple strands of the slit web attached to each other at least at some of the intact bridging regions and separated from each other between at least some of the intact bridging regions.一種製造一機械式緊固件之方法。該方法包括提供具有機械式緊固元件之一隙縫網，在加工方向上施加張力至該隙縫網，及藉由將該隙縫網之側向邊緣引到兩個旋轉分岔碟盤上來在橫向加工方向上伸展該隙縫網以提供一經伸展之機械式緊固網。該隙縫網包括由該網之完整橋接區域中斷之複數個經中斷隙縫。該兩個旋轉分岔碟盤經側向間隔且在其間具有在該伸展期間與該隙縫網接觸的一支撐表面。該經伸展之機械式緊固網包括至少在該等完整橋接區域中之一些處附接至彼此且在該等完整橋接區域中之至少一些之間彼此分離的該隙縫網的多個股束。
