Tissue sheets having improved properties
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsMark Alan Burazin, Edward Joseph VanRengen, Kenneth Curtis Larson, Jerome Steven Veith, Ralph Lee Anderson, Michael William Veith
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Abstract
The roll properties of tissue sheets are improved either by imparting cross-machine direction dominant bar-like protrusions to the air side of the tissue by using specially woven transfer fabrics and/or by offsetting recurring surface features of the sheet relative to the surface features of adjacent sheets within the roll, such as by providing a throughdryer fabric with an offset seam. Both techniques provide the resulting tissue sheets with improved capabilities for providing an improved combination of roll bulk and roll firmness.
Claims8
A throughdried tissue sheet having an air side and a dryer side, the dryer side of the sheet having parallel discontinuous rows of machine direction dominant elevated ridges, wherein the discontinuities in the rows of elevated ridges are cross-machine dominant linear protrusions on the air side of the sheet.
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