Deflection members for tissue production

A deflection member for imparting texture to a fibrous web comprising a woven base fabric and interconnected raised elements joined to base fabric, the raised elements defining deflection conduits and having a top portion and a base portion, the top portion being wider than the base portion.

A deflection member for imparting texture to a fibrous web comprising interconnected raised elements and deflection conduits, the raised elements having an asymmetrical cross-sectional profile and each of the raised elements comprising a composite having two or more dissimilar materials in discrete zones.

A deflection member for imparting texture to a fibrous web comprising interconnected raised elements and deflection conduits, the raised elements having a cross-sectional profile with a top portion and a base portion, the top portion being wider than the base portion.

A deflection member for imparting a texture to a paper web comprising raised elements and deflection conduits, having at least one subset of the raised elements arranged in a repeating pattern, the raised elements of the subset comprising a heterogeneous composite of two or more materials differing in at least one material property selected from elastic modulus, storage modulus, and Poisson ratio, wherein each of the two or more elements is in a discrete zone of each of the raised elements.

A foraminous deflection member comprising a foraminous element and a framework, said framework comprising a microscopically monoplanar, patterned, continuous network surface defining within said member a plurality of discrete, isolated, deflection conduits, the framework comprising raised elements including a composite of two or more materials having material properties differing in at least one of elastic modulus, storage modulus, and Poisson ratio, wherein each of the two or more materials is in a discrete zone of each of the raised elements.

A foraminous deflection member comprising a foraminous element and a framework, said framework comprising a microscopically monoplanar, patterned, continuous network surface defining within said member a plurality of discrete, isolated, deflection conduits, wherein a cross-section of the framework in at least one of the machine direction and the cross direction of the deflection member exhibits raised elements having asymmetrical shapes with at least one nonlinear side relative to the vertical axis.

A deflection member comprising a base fabric, raised elements connected to the base fabric, and deflection conduits between the raised elements, the raised elements including two or more subsets of raised elements arranged in respective repeating patterns, the two or more subsets of raised elements differing in at least one of height and material composition, and the deflection conduits having a cross-sectional shape with an upper portion having a first mean width between one subset of raised elements and a lower portion having a second mean width between another subset of raised elements, with a step change in width occurring between the two portions.