Patent ID: 8262857

Claim:
A process for producing a tissue product comprising: forming a tissue web from an aqueous suspension of fibers; passing the tissue web while still wet over a vacuum device while being conveyed in between a permeable structured fabric and a permeable de-watering fabric, the de-watering fabric being positioned adjacent to the vacuum device; applying a force against the permeable structured fabric while the tissue web passes over the vacuum device for de-watering the tissue web; conveying the web over at least one drying device for drying the tissue web; and applying an additive composition to at least one side of the tissue web during the process, the additive composition comprising an aqueous dispersion containing a non-fibrous alpha-olefin interpolymer of ethylene or propylene and at least one comonomer, each comonomer being selected from the group consisting of octene, heptene, hexene, decene, and dodecene; the non-fibrous alpha-olefin interpolymer having an average volumetric particle size in the aqueous dispersion of less than about 5 microns, and wherein the tissue product has a bulk of greater than about 3 cc/g after the additive composition has been applied.