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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1997
Shan Liang Chen, Appleton, WI (US);
Michael Alan Hermans, Neenah, WI (US);
Sheng-Hsin Hu, Appleton, WI (US);
Richard Joseph Kamps, Wrightstown, WI (US);
Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Appleton, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
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.