Patent ID: 8864944

Claim:
A method of making multi-ply a wiper/towel product, the method comprising: (a) compactively dewatering a nascent web comprising at least about 10% fibrillated regenerated cellulosic microfibers and having an apparently random distribution of fibers; (b) applying the dewatered web having the apparently random distribution of fibers to a transfer surface; (c) belt-creping the web from the transfer surface utilizing a creping belt, the belt-creping step occurring under pressure in a belt creping nip defined between the transfer surface and the creping belt; (d) drying the web to form a dried web having: (i) a plurality of fiber-enriched hollow domed regions protruding from an upper side of the dried web, the hollow domed regions having a sidewalls of a relatively high local basis weight formed along at least a leading edge thereof; (ii) connecting regions of a relatively lower local basis weight forming a network interconnecting the hollow domed regions of the dried web; and (iii) transition areas with consolidated fibrous regions that transition from the connecting regions into the hollow domed regions, by extending upwardly and inwardly from the connecting regions into the respective sidewalls of the hollow domed regions; and (e) converting said dried web into a multi-ply wiper/towel.