Process for making tissue-absorbent particle laminates

A process of making a liquid absorbing laminated structure comprising long lengths of absorptive tissues and an intermediate layer of absorptive particles while said tissues are traveling in the direction of their lengths which comprises the steps of:

• a. applying a moistening liquid substantially uniformly to a first of said tissues by transferring a film of moistening liquid to a surface of said tissue;
• b. showering said surface of said first tissue while substantially horizontally supported with dry absorbent particles to form a layer of said particles thereon, said absorptive particles being of a nature and quantity to be rendered adhesive by absorption of the moistening liquid applied in step a;
• c. superposing a second of said tissues on said first tissue and particle layer thereon;
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• d. bonding together the tissue particle assembly by passing it through the nip between a heated roller having a surface temperature of at least 110.degree. C. and a pressure roller, said rollers pressed together at the nip by a pressure of at least 350 pounds per square inch and each having a surface hardness in excess of 90 Shore A Durometer.