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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
Gpcp Ip Holdings Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);
Daniel Hue Ming Sze, Appleton, WI (US);
Xiaolin Fan, Appleton, WI (US);
Hung-Liang Chou, Neenah, WI (US);
Taiye Philips Oriaran, Appleton, WI (US);
Farminder Singh Anand, Painesville, OH (US);
Dean Joseph Baumgartner, Bonduel, WI (US);
Joseph Henry Miller, Neenah, WI (US);
GPCP IP Holdings LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method of making a fabric-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet. The method includes compactively dewatering a papermaking furnish to form a web having a consistency of about 30 percent to about 60 percent, creping the web under pressure in a creping nip between a transfer surface and a structuring fabric, the structuring fabric including knuckles formed on warp yarns of the structuring fabric, with the knuckles having a length in the machine direction (MD) of the absorbent sheet and a width in the cross machine direction (CD) of the absorbent sheet, wherein a planar volumetric density index of the structuring fabric multiplied by a ratio of the length of the knuckles to the width of the knuckles is at least about 43, and drying the web to form the absorbent cellulosic sheet.