Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

Randall James LeValley

James Leo Baggot

Robert Lewis Clarke

Ronald Frederick Gropp

Steven James Wojcik

Kenneth Allen Pigsley

Philip Sim Lin

Robert James Seymour

Charles Herbert Goerg

John Hanson

Tommy Rolf Karlsson

Bernt Erik Klerelid

Brian Douglas Klaubert

E Kent Isom

A method for directly forming and finishing a web product is provided. The method includes forming a web on a forming apparatus, continuously transferring the formed web to a conveyor, performing a converting step on the web as the web is continuously supported and advanced on the conveyor, and finishing the web into a product substantially ready for packaging. A system for performing the method is also provided.

Methods and system for manufacturing and finishing web products at high speed without reeling and unwinding

A uniformly wound parent roll of soft, high bulk tissue has greater uniformity in sheet basis weight, machine direction stretch and bulk when compared to parent rolls wound by conventional winding methods. The method involves carrying the tissue sheet on a relatively air impermeable transfer belt which traverses an unsupported span between two winding drums. The sheet is transferred from the transfer belt to the parent roll as the parent roll is urged against the sheet/transfer belt at a point within the unsupported span. The resulting deflection of the transfer belt is detected and, in response, the reel spool position is controllably changed to maintain the deflection within predetermined limits. The tension of the sheet is controlled by the predetermined differential speed between the outer most surface of the parent roll and the transfer belt.

Parent roll for tissue paper

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Neenah, WI, United States of America

Randall James LeValley