Patent ID: 7850820

Claim:
A method for the production of a three-dimensionally structured tissue paper web, comprising the sequential steps of: pressing the tissue paper web by a mechanical pressing force on one face thereof, in order for it to be structured, on a three-dimensionally structured mesh only on said one face with the other face being substantially smooth; conveying said tissue paper web, held only by the structured mesh, in a first drying step over at least one heated surface; conveying the tissue paper web, unheld by a skin, in a second drying step over at least one heated surface, and wherein the tissue paper web is conveyed in a dewatering step prior to the second drying step between an upper 3-dimensionally structured, and permeable skin and a lower permeable skin, whereby pressure is exerted on the upper skin, the tissue paper web and the lower skin during the dewatering step along a dewatering section.