Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Heath David Van Wychen

Kou-Chang Liu

Geoffrey Fenn Carlow

Roger Edward Wendler, Jr

Amber Marie Fortune

Timothy Dale Ferguson

Daniel John VanderHeiden

Mike Thomas Goulet

Michael Barth Venturino

David Arthur Fell

William Grover Reeves

Palani Raj Ramaswami Wallajapet

Shannon Kathleen Melius

Donald Joseph Sanders

A tissue product having improved hand feel and good wettability is produced by printing onto one or both sides of the tissue an aqueous emulsion containing a hydrophilically-modified amino-functional polydimethylsiloxane. The hydrophilically-modified amino-functional polydimethylsiloxane structure has one or more pendant groups containing an ethylene oxide moiety and/or propylene oxide moiety.

Soft absorbent tissue treated with a chemical composition

A tissue product having improved hand feel and good wettability is produced by printing onto one or both sides of the tissue an aqueous emulsion containing a derivitized amino-functional polysiloxane. The derivitized amino-functional polysiloxane structure has one or more pendant groups containing an amine derivative.

Soft absorbent tissue containing derivitized amino-functional polysiloxanes

The ratio of the wet tensile strength to the dry tensile strength of uncreped throughdried tissues and towels can be increased by treating the papermaking pulp with a debonder, a wet strength agent and a dry strength agent. The properties of the resulting product can be manipulated to either provide a product with normal degree of softness (as measured by the machine direction sheet stiffness) and a high wet strength, or a normal degree of wet strength and a higher degree of softness.

Uncreped tissue sheets having a high wet:dry tensile strength ratio

A tissue product having improved hand feel and good wettability is produced by printing onto one or both sides of the tissue an aqueous emusilion containing a hydrophilically-modified amino-functional polydimethylsiloxane. The hydrophilically-modified amino-functional polydimethylsiloxane structure has one or more pendant groups containing a terminal amine functionality and at least one pendant group containing an ethylene oxide moiety.

Soft absorbent tissue

A process and apparatus for compacting a web (,) which contains a superabsorbent material (,) can include a plasticizing of the superabsorbent material contained in the web (,), and a compressing of the web (,) at a relatively low pressure. The selected, low pressure can be arranged to substantially avoid an excessive fracturing of the superabsorbent material.

Process for compressing a web which contains superabsorbent material

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Kimberly, WI, United States of America

Heath David Van Wychen