Patent ID: 6821387
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: D21F,D21H

Abstract:
A method of making a tissue product, said method comprising:fractionating a first furnish of softwood fibers into a long fiber fraction and a short fiber fraction; diverting the short fiber fraction to a second furnish of hardwood fibers to form a third furnish; forming a first layer using the long fiber fraction of the first furnish and a second layer using the third furnish; and incorporating the first layer and the second layer into a first ply, wherein the tissue product exhibits a level of slough that is less than the level of slough exhibited by an otherwise identical tissue product having a first layer formed from the first furnish of softwood fibers and a second layer formed from the second furnish of hardwood fibers, the first and second layers of the otherwise identical tissue product being formed without fractionating the first furnish of softwood fibers.