Patent ID: 8562786
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: B31F,D21F,D21H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of making a fabric-creped absorbentcellulosic sheet, the method comprising: (a) compactively dewatering a papermaking furnish to form a nascent web having a random distribution of papermaking fiber; (b) applying the nascent web having the random fiber distribution to a translating transfer surface that is moving at a transfer surface speed; (c) fabric-creping the nascent web from the transfer surface at a consistency of from about 30 percent to about 60 utilizing a creping fabric; that is traveling at a fabric speed, the fabric speed being lower than the transfer surface speed, the fabric-creping step occurring under pressure in a fabric creping nip defined between the transfer surface and the creping fabric, such that the nascent web is creped from the transfer surface and redistributed on the creping fabric to form a creped web with a drawable reticulum having a plurality of interconnected regions of different local basis weights including at least: (d) drying the crepe web to form a dried web; and (e) drawing the dried web, wherein the drawing step comprises drawing the dried web between a first draw roll and a second draw roll.