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US 12,104,298 B2Granted
Curled fiber mats and methods of making and using same
AssigneeResolute FP Canada, Inc.
InventorShaune John Hanley
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are The invention relates to curled fiber mats. The invention further includes methods of making curled fiber mats, comprising forming a fibrous media from a fibrous material, treating the fibrous media with a crosslinking agent to form a treated fibrous media, and drying and/or curing the treated fibrous media to produce a curled fiber mat that has a permanent curl.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- forming not previously curled fiber mat comprising bicomponent fibers and not previously curled cellulosic pulp fibers,
- treating the not previously curled fiber mat with a crosslinking agent to form a treated not previously curled fiber mat, and
- drying and/or curing the treated not previously curled fiber mat to produce a curled fiber mat,
- wherein the step of drying and/or curing the treated fiber mat produces curled cellulosic fibers,
- wherein the curled cellulosic fibers are crosslinked internally by the crosslinking agent to form permanently curled cellulosic fibers, and
- wherein the curled fiber mat comprises bicomponent fibers that are bonded with the permanently curled cellulosic pulp fibers.
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