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AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsThomas Gerard Shannon, Richard Louis Underhill, Kevin Leon LaBerge, John Matthew Reiser, Gilbert Darrell Gafford
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The present invention provides soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly hesperaloe fiber. The inventors have discovered that high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber, when incorporated in amounts of at least about 5 percent by weight of the tissue product, produces products having a GMT less than about 1000 g/3″ and a GM Slope less than about 7.0 kg. At the foregoing tensile strengths and modulus the tissue products of the present invention are also generally soft, such as having a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0, and more preferably less than about 9.0, such as from about 7.0 to about 9.0.
A tissue product comprising wood pulp fibers and high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers, the tissue product having a geometric mean tensile strength (GMT) from about 400 to about 1,000 g/3″, a Tear Index greater than about 12.0 and a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0.
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A single-ply through-air dried tissue product comprising wood pulp fibers and high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers, the tissue product having a basis weight from about 30 to about 60 gsm, a GMT from about 400 to about 1,000 g/3 and a Durability Index from about 30 to about 35.
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