Abstract:
An embosser can emboss two webs of sheet material with either nested or foot-to-foot embossments. The embosser includes two steel embossing rolls which are engraved with the same embossing pattern. When foot-to-foot embossments are desired, the embossing rolls are positioned so that the corresponding embossments on the two rolls are aligned. When nested embossed are desired, one of the embossing rolls is moved either axially or circumferentially, or both, relative to the other embossing roll so that embossments on the two rolls nest.
Abstract:
An embossed multiple ply paper product and process for producing such product displaying aesthetically pleasing decorative attributes and exhibiting functional characteristics of softness, absorbency, and drape. The decorative attributes comprise embossed patterns of indicia displaying a high quality cloth-like appearance for a softer, more quilted look. The plies are joined in a face-to-face arrangement by selective bonds which are limited to the indicia, in order to produce more permanent decorative figures that inhibit dissipation caused by compressive forces, humidity, absorption, etc.
Abstract:
Disposable paper products, such as paper toweling, are provided with an indicator means which is disposed on said disposable paper product in a discontinuous or combination discontinuous/continuous pattern. The indicator means gives a visually recognizable signal to a user that desirable properties of the disposable paper product are maintained, even after the disposable paper product has become wetted with a substantially transparent aqueous liquid. The wet gray scale difference for the disposable paper product of the present invention is at least about 64 gray scale units when the disposable paper product is wetted with a substantially transparent aqueous liquid.
Abstract:
An absorbent multi-layer sheet, with at least two layers each constituted of at least one embossed ply of creped absorbent paper having a specific surface weight between 10 and 40 g/m.sup.2 per ply, with an external surface forming the outer side of the multi-layer sheet and an inner surface, the inner surface of the first layer including first and second protrusions and the inner surface of the second layer including third protrusions nested between the-protrusions of the first layer, the two layers being bonded together by at least part of the protrusion tips of one layer adhesively joined to the other layer between two protrusions, is characterized in that the bonding is implemented by the first protrusions of the first layer, the second protrusions having a lesser height than the first ones and their tips being adhesive-free.
Abstract:
A patterned marrying roll especially adapted to combined multiple plies of a tissue sheet at a nip between the marrying roll and an embossing roll. The marrying roll is provided with a pattern of raised laminating elements covering a predetermined percentage of the marrying roll surface which are caused to bear against the raised embossing elements of an embossing roll with the plies of a pillowed tissue sheet therebetween. The pattern of raised elements on the marrying roll surface may be in the form of dots, a recticular grid pattern, or any other pattern of choice. The pattern is preferably aligned at an angle to the machine direction to eliminate bunching or puckering of the tissue sheet between pattern elements. The pattern on the marrying roll may comprise from approximately 10% to approximately 40% of the marrying roll surface. The invention is intended primarily for use in laminating plies of a "pillowed" cellulose sheet together, but may also be advantageously used in the lamination of "nested" sheet plies.
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:
A base product for a textile replacement such as paper garments, paper sheets, etc. in which a scrim-like material is confined between adjacent webs which are equipped with nested embossemnts.
Abstract:
Two-ply paper toweling having one relatively rough and one relatively smooth outer side, the plies being retained together by a combination of randomly distributed adhesive and a mechanical embossing action, and the plies being of relatively low stretch creped cellulosic wadding tissue. A method of plying the paper tissues into absorbent, soft, comfortable, relatively strong and abrasion resistant toweling in which one ply is pre-embossed and carried by the embossing element without removal into adhesive contact with a relatively smooth unembossed ply for embossing as a unit. The smooth ply carries the adhesive, preferably in discrete zones, and the adhesive bonding between plies is then very limited because it occurs primarily where peaks of the pre-embossed sheet contact the discrete adhesive zones of the unembossed sheet.