Patent ID: 7585389

Claim:
A method of making a fabric-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet with improved dispensing characteristics comprising: a) compactively dewatering a papermaking furnish to form a nascent web; b) applying the dewatered web to a translating transfer surface moving at a transfer surface speed; c) fabric-creping the web from the transfer surface at a consistency of from about 30 to about 60 percent utilizing a patterned creping fabric, the creping step occurring under pressure in a fabric creping nip defined between the transfer surface and the creping fabric wherein the fabric is traveling at a fabric speed slower than the speed of said transfer surface, the fabric pattern, nip parameters, velocity delta and web consistency being selected such that the web is creped from the transfer surface and transferred to the creping fabric; d) adhering the web to a drying cylinder with a resinous adhesive coating composition; e) drying the web on the drying cylinder; and f) peeling the web from the drying cylinder; wherein the furnish, creping fabric and creping adhesive are selected and the velocity delta, nip parameters and web consistency, caliper and basis weight are controlled such that the MD bending length of the dried web is at least about 3.5 cm.