Tissue products having high durability and a deep discontinuous pocket structure
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsCristina Asensio Mullally, Michael Alan Hermans
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Abstract
A tissue sheet having a deep discontinuous pocket structure provides improved durability as measured by the ratio of the cross-machine direction tensile energy absorbed to the cross-machine direction tensile strength.
Claims6
A woven papermaking fabric having a regular series of distinct depressions in the surface of the fabric that are surrounded by raised warp or shute strands, said depressions having a depth from about 1.0 to about 5.5 millimeters, an opening having a length and width from about 5 to about 20 millimeters, and a frequency of occurrence in the surface of the fabric from about 0.8 to about 3.6 depressions per square centimeter, said fabric further having a top plane containing cross-machine direction impression knuckles formed by shute strands which pass over 2 or more warp strands, said top plane containing no machine direction impression knuckles.
A woven papermaking fabric having a regular series of distinct depressions in the surface of the fabric that are surrounded by raised warp or shute strands, said depressions having a depth from about 250 to about 525 percent of the warp strand diameter, an opening having a length and width from about 5 to about 20 millimeters, and a frequency of occurrence in the surface of the fabric from about 0.8 to about 3.6 depressions per square centimeter, said fabric further having a top plane containing cross-machine direction impression knuckles formed by shute strands which pass over 2 or more warp strands, said top plane containing no machine direction impression knuckles.
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