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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2011
Frank C. Murray, Marietta, GA (US);
Greg A. Wendt, Neenah, WI (US);
Steven L. Edwards, Fremont, WI (US);
Stephen J. Mccullough, Mount Calvary, WI (US);
Guy H. Super, Menasha, WI (US);
Frank C. Murray, Marietta, GA (US);
Greg A. Wendt, Neenah, WI (US);
Steven L. Edwards, Fremont, WI (US);
Stephen J. McCullough, Mount Calvary, WI (US);
Guy H. Super, Menasha, WI (US);
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method of making a fabric-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet. A papermaking furnish is compactively dewatered to form a nascent web having an apparently random distribution of papermaking fiber. The dewatered web is applied to a translating transfer surface. The web is fabric-creped from the transfer surface at a consistency of from about 30 to about 60 percent utilizing a creping fabric, under pressure, in a fabric creping nip defined between the transfer surface and the creping fabric. The fabric is traveling a fabric speed that is slower than the speed of the transfer surface. The web is creped from the transfer surface and redistributed on the creping fabric to form a web with a drawable reticulum having a plurality of interconnected regions of different local basis weights. The web is dried and the web is drawn. The step of drawing the web preferentially attenuates the fiber-enriched regions of the web.