Double nip embossing
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsPaul Douglas Beuther, Tammy Lynn Baum, Anthony Mark Gambaro, David Robert Gruber, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay
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Abstract
The crispness or clarity of embossed tissue is improved by embossing the tissue twice in two successive embossing nips formed between a rigid engraved embossing roll and a resilient backing roll. The hardness of the resilient backing roll in the first embossing nip is less than the hardness of the resilient backing roll in the second embossing nip. This form of double nip embossing is particularly effective for embossing tissue webs having high bulk and resiliency, such as soft uncreped throughdried tissues, which cannot be satisfactorily embossed by conventional methods.
Claims21
A method of embossing a cellulosic web comprising:
- (a) embossing the web in a first embossing nip formed between a rotating rigid embossing roll having a pattern of protruding embossing elements and a first rotating resilient backing roll to produce an embossed web having a pattern of embossments corresponding to the embossing elements pattern;
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- (b) thereafter embossing the web in a second embossing nip formed between a second rotating resilient backing roll and a second rigid embossing roll that is either the rotating rigid embossing roll or another rotating rigid embossing roll having a pattern of protruding embossing elements which is in registration with the pattern of embossments in the embossed web such that the embossing elements of the second rigid embossing roll fall within the embossments of the embossed web, wherein the Shore A hardness of the second resilient backing roll is greater than the Shore A hardness of the first resilient backing roll, thereby setting the pattern of embossments in the web and forming a twice-embossed web having improved pattern definition.
A method of embossing a soft, uncreped throughdried tissue web comprising:
- (a) embossing the web in a first embossing nip formed between a first rotating resilient backing roll and a rotating rigid embossing roll having a pattern of protruding embossing elements to produce an embossed web having a pattern of embossments corresponding to the embossing elements pattern;
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- (b) embossing the embossed web, while supported on the surface of the rigid embossing roll, in a second embossing nip formed between the rigid embossing roll and a second rotating resilient backing roll, wherein the Shore A hardness of the second resilient backing roll is greater than the Shore A hardness of the first resilient backing roll, thereby setting the pattern of embossments in the web and forming a twice-embossed web having improved pattern definition.
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