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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) greater 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 wood pulp fibers and from about 5 to about 50 percent, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe fibers, the tissue product having a cross-machine direction tensile from about 500 to about 800 g/3″ and a cross-machine direction stretch (CD Stretch) from about 10.0 to about 14.0 percent.
A tissue product comprising wood pulp fibers and from about 5 to about 50 percent, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe fiber, wherein the product has a basis weight of at least about 30 grams per square meter (gsm), a GMT from about 1,000 to about 1,500 g/3″, and a slough less than about 8.0 mg.
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