Paper products having increased bending stiffness and cross-direction strength and methods for making the same

A multilayer paper product, wherein the multilayer paper product is made by a process comprising:

• providing a forming fabric carried by a breast roll and at least one additional roll;
• causing the forming fabric to rotate such that an upper surface of the forming fabric moves in a machine direction;
• providing a multilayer headbox comprising first and second inlet headers and a multilayer headbox slice outlet, the first inlet header being located below the second inlet header;
• providing a first aqueous slurry of first fibers to the first inlet header and a second aqueous slurry of second fibers to the second inlet header, the first fibers having an average length greater than an average length of the second fibers;
• combining streams of the first and second aqueous slurries in a region of the multilayer headbox slice outlet to define a jet exiting the multilayer headbox slice outlet;
• emitting the jet of combined, yet still stratified, slurries onto the upper surface of the forming fabric, wherein the jet of combined slurries forms a web on the forming fabric, wherein a greater percentage of the first fibers are nearer the forming fabric than the second fibers;
• causing the forming fabric to oscillate in a direction transverse to the machine direction, whereby a majority of the first fibers are caused to be biased in a cross-machine direction without causing a majority of the second fibers to become aligned away from a machine direction;
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• forming the multilayer paper product from the web.

A multilayer paper product comprising first fibers and second fibers, wherein:

• the first fibers comprise an average length greater than an average length of the second fibers;
• a majority of fibers located nearer one outer surface comprise the first fibers and a majority of the fibers located toward an opposing outer surface comprise the second fibers;
• a majority of the first fibers are biased a direction extending from between >0 and ˜90 degrees relative to the machine direction;
• and
• a majority of the second fibers are aligned in a machine direction.