Highly dispersible hesperaloe tissue
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsKayla Elizabeth Rouse, Richard Louis Underhill, David John Paulson, Felicia Marie Sauer
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Abstract
The invention provides tissue products comprising hesperaloe fibers and having satisfactory strength in-use and good dispersibility. To produce the instant tissue products the inventors have successfully moderated the changes in strength and stiffness typically associated with substituting conventional wood papermaking fibers, such as NSWK, with hesperaloe fibers. Not only have the inventors succeeded in moderating changes to strength and stiffness they have improved dispersibility. As such, the tissue products of the present invention have properties comparable to, or better than, those produced using conventional papermaking fibers, such as wood pulp fibers.
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A tissue product comprising from about 5 to about 50 percent, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe fibers, the tissue product having a geometric mean tensile (GMT) less than about 1,000 g/3″, a wet CD tensile greater than about 70 g/3″ and a slosh box break up time less than about 100 seconds.
A tissue product comprising at least one multi-layered through-air dried tissue web comprising a first and a second layer, the first layer being substantially free from high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers and the second layer consisting essentially of high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers, the tissue product having a Dry Durability Index greater than about 35.0 and a slosh box break up time less than about 100 seconds, wherein the tissue product comprises from about 20 to about 50 weight percent high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers.
A single-ply through-air dried tissue product comprising from about 5 to about 50 percent, high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers, the tissue product having a GMT less than about 1,000 g/3″, a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0 and a slosh box break up time less than about 100 seconds.
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