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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2007
Bradley G. Schmidt, Green Bay, WI (US);
Jennifer N. Wergin, Green Bay, WI (US);
Barbara V. Buman, Oneida, WI (US);
Michael P. Bouchette, Sherwood, WI (US);
Bradley G. Schmidt, Green Bay, WI (US);
Jennifer N. Wergin, Green Bay, WI (US);
Barbara V. Buman, Oneida, WI (US);
Michael P. Bouchette, Sherwood, WI (US);
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method of making an embossed air-laid absorbent sheet material includes depositing a dry web of fibers on a foraminous support; compacting the fiber web; embossing the compacted fiber web with an embossing roll provided with a plurality of sinuate bosses radially projecting circumferentially around the embossing roll to provide the fiber web with a functional emboss pattern including a plurality of continuous sinuate compressed regions extending in a machine direction of the fiber web, and bonding the fiber web to produce the embossed air-laid absorbent sheet material. The emboss pattern is operative to preferentially convey sorbed liquid along the plurality of continuous sinuate compressed regions of the fiber web.