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AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsKayla Elizabeth Rouse, Richard Louis Underhill, David John Paulson, Felicia Marie Sauer, Thomas Gerard Shannon
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Soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers are disclosed. The tissue products preferably comprise at least about 5 percent, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber and have relatively modest tensile strengths, such as a geometric mean tensile (GMT) less than about 1,000 g/3″, and improved durability and cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as a CD Stretch greater than about 10 percent. Additionally, at the foregoing tensile strengths the products are not overly stiff. For example the tissue products may have a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0.
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 CD stretch greater than about 10 percent and a Durability Index greater than about 38.0.
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 geometric mean tensile (GMT) less than about 1,000 g/3, a Durability Index greater than about 28.0 and a Stiffness Index less than about 8.0, 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, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers, the tissue product having a GMT less than about 1,000 g/3″, Compression Modulus (K) greater than about 5.5 and a Stiffness Index less than about 8.0.
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