Patent ID: 8318281

Claim:
An absorbent laminated paper article, comprising: a rectangular sheet having first parallel edges in a first or a longitudinal direction, second parallel edges in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and an article area delimited by said edges; and at least two plies forming the rectangular sheet, said at least two plies being bonded together by an adhesive applied in a bonding pattern between the plies, wherein said bonding pattern comprises bonding elements arranged along a first set of undulating bonding lines extending from one of said first parallel edges to the other of said first parallel edges in a first general direction at a first angle of from 20° to 70° from said first direction and along a second set of undulating bonding lines extending from said one of said first parallel edges to said other of said first parallel edges in a second general direction at a second angle of from 110° to 160° from said first direction, said first set of undulating bonding lines intersecting with said second set of undulating bonding lines and forming an intermeshing network of undulating bonding lines and said absorbent paper article having a bonded surface area of from 0.6 to 6% of said article area, and said network of bonding lines delimit unbonded areas, each unbonded area being delimited by two lines from said first set of bonding lines and two lines from said second set of bonding lines and having a size of from 5% to 50% of said article area.