Patent ID: 8303773

Claim:
A method of producing a tissue paper web in a papermaking machine, comprising the steps of: forming the tissue paper web in a forming section of the machine from a pulp suspension on a skin; selecting a quality of tissue paper to produce in the machine thereby defining a quality selection, said quality being absorbency or tear resistance; bypassing a dewatering apparatus with the tissue paper web and selecting a type of said skin dependent upon said quality selection, the machine being configured to bypass said dewatering apparatus dependent upon said quality selection, when said quality selection is said tear resistance then said skin is one of a non-structured skin and a felt and said dewatering apparatus is bypassed, when said quality selection is said absorbency then said skin is one of a three-dimensionally structured skin and a structured mesh and said dewatering apparatus is not bypassed; passing said skin and the tissue paper web through a nip defined between a cylindrical surface of a drying cylinder and a mating surface of a press roller, said mating surface of said press roller has a cylindrical surface, said cylindrical surface of said press roller having a plurality of bores therein; and conveying the tissue paper web to said drying cylinder from said skin.