Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Shan Liang Chen

Michael Alan Hermans

Sheng-Hsin Hu

Richard Joseph Kamps

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay

Frank Gerald Druecke

A method for making a textured tissue sheet on a conventional tissue making machine using a conventional cylindrical drum dryer creates a product that is remarkably bulky, soft, and wet resilient. A combination of rush transfer and sheet molding with three-dimensional fabrics is combined with the step of web inversion to ensure that the surface of the web which was molded onto a first textured transfer fabric is the surface which is placed against the surface of the cylinder dryer. Web inversion improves machine productivity and enhances physical properties of the web.

Low density resilient webs and methods of making such webs

A method of using a conventional wet-pressed creped tissue machine produces a textured tissue sheet that is dried on a conventional cylindrical drum dryer to create an uncreped product with throughdried-like properties. Machine modifications and a proper balance of adhesive compounds and release agents permit a textured sheet to be dried on a Yankee drier and then pulled off without use of a crepe blade.

Growing community of inventors

Appleton, WI, United States of America

Shan Liang Chen