Patent ID: 7419569

Claim:
A method of making a paper sheet comprising: (a) depositing an aqueous suspension of papermaking fibers onto a forming fabric to form a wet web; (b) dewatering the web to a consistency of about 20 percent or greater; (c) transferring the dewatered web to a three-dimensional transfer fabric having substantially continuous machine-direction ridges having a height of from about 0.4 to about 5 millimeters, a ridge width of about 0.5 millimeters or greater and a cross-machine direction ridge frequency from about 1.5 to about 8 per centimeter, whereby the wet web is molded to the surface contour of the transfer fabric and strained in the cross-machine direction; (d) transferring the web to a throughdrying fabric, whereby the resulting molding-strained web is conformed to the surface contour of the throughdrying fabric; (e) throughdrying the web to about 7 weight percent moisture or less while supported by the throughdrying fabric to form a paper sheet; (f) transferring the sheet to a creping cylinder while maintaining registration with the throughdrying fabric; and (g) creping the sheet.