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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2012
Steven L. Edwards, Freemont, WI (US);
Guy H. Super, Menasha, WI (US);
Stephen J. Mccullough, Mount Calvary, WI (US);
Ronald R. Reeb, DePere, 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, Freemont, WI (US);
Guy H. Super, Menasha, WI (US);
Stephen J. McCullough, Mount Calvary, WI (US);
Ronald R. Reeb, DePere, 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 includes a patterned papermaking-fiber reticulum provided with (a) a plurality of generally machine direction (MD) oriented elongated densified regions of compressed paper-making fibers having a relatively low local basis weight as well as leading and trailing edges, the densified regions being arranged in a repeating pattern of a plurality of generally parallel linear arrays that are longitudinally staggered with respect to each other such that a plurality of intervening linear arrays are disposed between a pair of cross machine (CD) direction aligned densified regions, and (b) a plurality of fiber-enriched, pileated regions having a relatively high local basis weight interspersed between and connected with the densified regions, the pileated regions having crests extending generally in the cross-machine direction of the sheet.