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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2009
Steven L. Edwards, Fremont, WI (US);
Guy H. Super, Menasha, WI (US);
Stephen J. Mccullough, Mount Calvary, WI (US);
Ronald R. Reeb, De Pere, WI (US);
Hung Liang Chou, Neenah, WI (US);
Kang Chang Yeh, Neenah, WI (US);
John H. Dwiggins, Neenah, WI (US);
Frank D. Harper, Neenah, WI (US);
Steven L. Edwards, Fremont, WI (US);
Guy H. Super, Menasha, WI (US);
Stephen J. McCullough, Mount Calvary, WI (US);
Ronald R. Reeb, De Pere, WI (US);
Hung Liang Chou, Neenah, WI (US);
Kang Chang Yeh, Neenah, WI (US);
John H. Dwiggins, Neenah, WI (US);
Frank D. Harper, Neenah, WI (US);
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
An absorbent cellulosic sheet having a variable local basis weight. The sheet includes a papermaking-fiber reticulum having (a) a plurality of fiber-enriched pileated regions of a relatively high local basis weight each extending a distance in the cross-machine direction (CD) of the sheet, and (b) a plurality of elongated densified regions of compressed papermaking fibers that interconnect the plurality of fiber-enriched pileated regions. The elongated densified regions (i) have a relatively low local basis weight and each extend a distance in the machine direction (MD) of the sheet, (ii) are arranged in a repeating pattern having leading and trailing edges, such that the elongated densified regions are longitudinally staggered with respect to each other, and (iii) have MD/CD aspect ratios of at least 1.5.