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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2012
Methods of making a belt-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet prepared with a perforated polymeric belt
Guy H. Super, Menasha, WI (US);
Paul J. Ruthven, Neenah, WI (US);
Stephen J. Mccullough, Mount Calvary, WI (US);
Daniel H. Sze, Appleton, WI (US);
Greg A. Wendt, Neenah, WI (US);
Joseph H. Miller, Neenah, WI (US);
Guy H. Super, Menasha, WI (US);
Paul J. Ruthven, Neenah, WI (US);
Stephen J. McCullough, Mount Calvary, WI (US);
Daniel H. Sze, Appleton, WI (US);
Greg A. Wendt, Neenah, WI (US);
Joseph H. Miller, Neenah, WI (US);
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method of making a belt-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet. A paper making furnish is compactively dewatered to form a dewatered web having an apparently random distribution of papermaking fiber orientation. The dewatered web is applied to a translating transfer surface that is moving at a transfer surface speed. The web is belt-creped from the transfer surface at a consistency of from about 30% to about 60% utilizing a generally planar polymeric creping belt having a plurality of perforations, under pressure, in a belt creping nip defined between the transfer surface and the creping belt. The belt travels at a belt speed that is slower than the speed of the transfer surface. The web is creped from the transfer surface and redistributed on the creping belt to form a web having a plurality of interconnected regions of different local basis weights. The web is then dried.