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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
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
A method of making a fabric-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet includes forming a nascent web from a papermaking furnish, the nascent web having a generally random distribution of papermaking fiber, transferring the nascent web having the generally random distribution of papermaking fiber to a translating transfer surface that is moving at a transfer surface speed, drying the web, to a consistency of from about 30 to about 60 percent, including compactively dewatering the web prior to or concurrently with transfer of the web to the transfer surface, fabric-creping the web from the transfer surface at a consistency of from about 30 to about 60 percent utilizing a creping fabric with a patterned creping surface, the fabric-creping step occurring under pressure in a fabric creping nip defined between the transfer surface and the creping fabric, the web being creped from the transfer surface and redistributed on the creping fabric.