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AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsKevin Joseph Vogt, Peter John Allen, Jeffrey Dean Holz, Tara Marie Logut, Robert Eugene Krautkramer, Samuel August Nelson
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The present invention provides a variety of novel fibrous structures having a design element disposed on at least one surface. More particularly the present invention provides fibrous structures comprising a textured surface, and more preferably a textured background surface, and a design element wherein the design element is formed by removing a portion of the textured background. In this manner the fibrous structures of the present invention generally comprise a textured background surface having a top surface lying in a surface plane, a bottom surface lying in a bottom plane and a design element lying in a third plane between the surface and bottom planes. The textured surface provides the fibrous structures with an overall background pattern that is typically visually distinct from the design element imparted thereon.
A tissue web comprising:
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A single ply through-air dried tissue product having a machine direction and a cross-machine direction, a design element lying in a design element plane, a plurality of ridges defining a top surface lying in a surface plane, and a plurality of valleys defining a valley surface plane and a bottom surface lying in a bottom plane, wherein the valley surface plane lies below the surface plane and the design element plane and wherein the ridges are separated from one another by valleys and there is a z-directional height difference of at least about 300 μm between the surface and bottom planes and the design element plane lies between the surface and bottom planes.
A through-air dried tissue product comprising at least one through-air dried tissue web having a top surface and an opposed bottom surface, the top surface comprising an upper surface plane, a valley surface plane and a design element plane and the bottom surface comprising a bottom surface plane, the top surface plane and valley surface plane defining a three-dimensional background surface pattern and the design element plane defining a design pattern, wherein the z-directional elevation difference between the upper surface plane and the bottom surface plane is from about 300 to about 1,200 μm and the design element plane lies between the upper and bottom surface plane and above or below the valley surface plane.
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