Patent ID: 8603296

Claim:
A method of making a fabric-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet with improved dispensing characteristics, the method comprising: (a) compactively dewatering a papermaking furnish to form a nascent web, the nascent web having a consistency of from about 30 percent to about 60 percent; (b) applying the nascent web to a translating transfer surface that is moving at a transfer surface speed; (c) fabric-creping the nascent web under pressure in a fabric creping nip defined between the transfer surface and a patterned creping fabric by transferring the nascent web from the transfer surface to the creping fabric to form a creped web, the patterned creping fabric traveling at a fabric speed that is lower than the transfer surface speed, the nascent web being creped from the transfer surface and redistributed on the patterned creping fabric to form the creped web, such that the creped web has a plurality of elongated densified regions of compressed papermaking fibers, the elongated densified regions being generally oriented along a machine direction (MD) of the creped web; (d) adhering the creped web to a drying cylinder with a resinous adhesive coating composition; (e) drying the creped web on the drying cylinder to form a dried web; (f) peeling the dried web from the drying cylinder to produce a fabric-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet; and (g) selecting the papermaking furnish, the creping fabric, the resinous adhesive coating, the fabric speed, the transfer surface speed, nip parameters of the fabric creping nip, and the nascent web consistency to provide the cellulosic sheet with a desired machine direction (MD) bending length.