Abstract:
A method of imparting bulk and/or visual aesthetics to a tissue basesheet involves pressing the basesheet with a felt having a raised pattern on it so that the pattern becomes inherent in the sheet. A pattern is stitched into a carrier layer which is joined to a substrate to form the felt. As the basesheet is pressed into the felt, the raised pattern displaces fibers in the sheet, effectively inducing the pattern in the basesheet. The novel felt with a raised patterned layer is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A laminate having two or more plies. The plies are embossed, and adhesively joined together. The adhesive forms an essentially continuous network. The essentially continuous network increases the strength of adhesive, increases the strength of the laminate, and is disposed within the X-Y plane of the laminate coincident the embossments.
Abstract:
A paper toweling which provides a combination of strength, bulk and absorbency while presenting an attractive appearance. Included are a single ply paper towel having areas of light and heavy embossing perforations which form diamond shaped islands of heavy embossing perforations surrounded by intersecting bands of light bosses.
Abstract:
An embossed tissue having improved bulk and puffiness while being non-nesting by having a lattice pattern and at least two signature bosses. More particularly, one of the signature bosses is defined by embossments having a lower portion which is continuous and an upper portion which is defined by crenels and merlons.
Abstract:
Embossing a web between unmatched male and female embossing elements, wherein the sidewall slope of the female element is different than the sidewall slope of the male element, provides an embossed web having markedly improved embossing pattern definition and, in the case of roll products, greater roll bulk at equivalent roll firmness. The unmatched male and female embossing elements are preferably made by laser engraving rubber embossing rolls.
Abstract:
An embossed thermoplastic liquid barrier film is disclosed having a visible nonwoven fibrous three-dimensionally embossed pattern in the film on both sides. The films have thicknesses of about 0.5 to about 2 mils and an embossed depth to provide the visible nonwoven fibrous three-dimensionally embossed pattern with the film having a soft hand feel.
Abstract:
An emboss roll according to the present invention is capable of assuredly performing an embossing work without any risk of shaving a surface of nonwoven fabrics and forming pin holes when used to emboss nonwoven fabrics for the purpose of prevention of filament shavings to be adhered to products. This emboss roll having an outer surface thereof provided with embossing projections wherein all of the top end corners thereof are cut so as to be a surface. As a result of cutting the top end corners of the embossing projections, nonwoven fabrics can be protected from being cut by the corner portions or forming pin holes during the embossing work.
Abstract:
Two or more webs (11 and 12) of highly bulked substrate are passed into a nip formed between a gravure roller (14) and an impression roller (15). The impression roller has raised areas defining an interconnected network of lines such that the webs are compressed only under the raised areas; as a result, the binding liquid applied by the gravure roller (14) to the laminate of the two webs is absorbed substantially through the webs in the compressed areas. The gravure roller (14) may have a uniform surface, such that a light coating of binding liquid is applied to the surface of the uncompressed areas in the laminate, or the gravure roller may have a pattern of etched grooves or cells which matches and registers with the pattern of raised areas on the impression roller. In the latter embodiment, binding liquid will be absorbed into the laminate only in the compressed areas. The coated laminate (21) is applied to the surface (24) of a creping cylinder (25), is dried thereon, and is creped off with a creping blade (27) to form a laminated product bound together by an interconnected network of lines of strength extending through the laminate. The areas between the lines of strength are not compressed and are not substantially coated with binding liquid, and thereby retain high bulk and absorbency. In a modified embodiment of the invention, a single impression/pressure roller and raised areas thereon is used to join and press the webs against a gravure roller and to apply the webs to a creping cylinder; and in a second modified embodiment, the web laminate is pressed and coated on one side, is substantially hot air dried without compression, is coated with binding liquid applied to the outer side, and is then applied to the creped from a creping cylinder.
Abstract:
A ply-bonded, embossed product and apparatus, and method wherein at least two nested-embossed webs are advanced between a pair of wheels and anvil surfaces to subject the webs to ply-bonding compressive forces.
Abstract:
The method of making a non-woven fibrous pad comprising a threedimensional network of individual fibers interconnected by bonding means where they cross and contact each other and having a surface textured with a pattern of undulating elevations separated by a respective pattern of undulating depressions wherein each of the elevations comprises a structural dome in which the ratio of cap wall unit weight to average web unit weight is less than 1.0. The method includes the step of subjecting an unbonded web of mechanically engaged fibers to successive forming operations between partly meshing, multiple cogged work members relocating fibers from the regions forming the peaks of the elevations to the regions forming the sidewalls thereof. Apparatus for producing such a fibrous pad comprises a pair of fiber orienting arrangements, one of which includes means forming a traveling cog surface and the other of which includes a plurality of synchronized cog members meshing successively with the cog surface. One of the fiber orienting arrangements includes a plurality of closely laterally spaced cog elements having channels therebetween aligned generally with the direction of travel of the cog surface, and a conveyor belt arrangement is disposed partly in the channels and diverges from a meshed region of the fiber orienting arrangements for feeding a fibrous web into the orienting arrangements or stripping a processed web therefrom.