Patent ID: 7166189

Claim:
A method of making a throughdried tissue sheet comprising (a) depositing an aqueous suspension of papermaking fibers onto a forming fabric to form a wet web; (b) dewatering the wet web to a consistency from about 20 to about 30 percent; (c) transferring the dewatered web from the forming fabric to a transfer fabric traveling at a speed from about 10 to about 80 percent slower than the forming fabric; (d) transferring the web to a throughdrying fabric having from about 5 to about 300 machine direction impression knuckles per square inch which are raised at least about 0.005 inch above the plane of the fabric, wherein the web is macroscopically rearranged to conform to the surface of the throughdrying fabric which provides parallel discontinuous rows of elevated pillow-like regions running in the machine direction; and (e) throughdrying the web, wherein the sheet side of the transfer fabric contains cross-machine direction dominant troughs which impart cross-machine direction bar-like protrusions to the air side of the dried tissue sheet.