Abstract:
A double-sided three dimensional embosssed web is provided by passing an uncured paper or plastic web (15), through a nip between an embossing roller (18) and a pressure roller (19), the pressure roller having a smooth and hard surface to create the effect of a double-sided three dimensional embossing on the web. Such double-sided embossing gives the web a good hand and feel and a good drapability, thereby making the method suitable for manufacturing cloth, curtains, diapers and other products which should feel soft and pleasant and which should have a good drapability comparable with that of knitwear and textiles. The embossed web has embossing or impressions (24) provided on two surfaces as a mirror image around a plane of symmetry (23) passing through the middle of the web (15). In the same way raised areas (26) are opposed by raised areas (26).
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:
Uniformly embossed facial tissue having a continuous or closely-spaced discontinuous embossing pattern and having from about 1 to about 40 distinct individual unembossed areas per square inch of tissue is considered to be a consumer-preferred facial tissue. In addition, the embossing intensity (as determined by the Shadow Index defined herein) is preferably within the range of from about 3 to about 25.
Abstract:
An apparatus for emboss bonding two or more lightweight cellulosic webs to form a multi-ply article, the apparatus including a first cylindrical roll having a metal surface and being disposed for rotation about a cross machine rotation axis, an etched area of the surface of the first roll defining a pattern having pedetermined dimensions for forming proximate the perimeter of the article an emboss bond, the etched area comprising a plurality of truncated right rectangular pyramidal cavities in the roll surface disposed in adjacent relationship in the machine direction and the cross machine direction, and a second cylindrical roll disposed to cooperatively rotate with the first roll and to define therewith a nip for engaging the webs, the second roll having an impressionable surface capable of conforming under pressure to the etched area or having an etched area defining a complementary pattern for meshing engagement with the etched area on the first roll.
Abstract:
A preassembled set of embossing rolls is shown. The embossing roll assembly is completed and tested at a work station away from a press line and thereafter the assembled set of rolls is transported to the press line for installation whereby down time on the press is avoided while the precision assembly of the matched pair of rollers is accomplished elsewhere.
Abstract:
In the production of plastics-coated sanitary webs of paper having an embossed rectangular or rhombic pattern, a plastics layer is extruded onto one side of the paper and pressed thereto by a cooled embossing tool while the paper is elastically supported.
Abstract:
An embossing roller has protruding lands extending radially outward from the surface of the roller to provide corresponding indentations in a thermoplastic surface to which the roller may be applied. A layer of resilient material underlies the lands so that when the roller is rolled over an irregular surface, individual lands, or groups of lands, may be depressed different amounts so that embossing indentations are formed in all portions of the surface. By applying adequate pressure to the roller, all of the lands are depressed at their points of contact when in contact with the surface if the surface is flat and regular. The lands are forced by action of the resilient material into contact with the bottom of any slight concavity in the surface and adapt to any slight convexity. In some embodiments, lands protrude outwardly from metal rings which encircle the roller. In other embodiments, lands are supported directly by the resilient material. In a method of using the roller, a surface is substantially simultaneously coated and embossed by first pressing against the surface a portion of a film web which carries a thermally transferable coating, then heating the web, the coating and the surface, and then rolling the embossing roller across the web and the surface. The heating and pressing steps may be carried out with heated resiliently surfaced rollers which travel ahead of the embossing roller.
Abstract:
A method is provided for thermoforming thermoplastic foam articles whereby the tendency for such articles to deform and/or warp immediately upon release from the thermoforming device is eliminated. The method includes the formation of parallel or concentric grooves on one surface of the article during the course of the thermoforming operation. Such grooves eliminate the pronounced tendency of thermoformed articles to curl up following their removal from the thermoforming mold and maintains the formed piece in the desired flat configuration.
Abstract:
An adhesively laminated creped tissue product, having particular usefulness as a dinner napkin, is formed from two creped tissue webs superposed with the lines of creping of each web substantially parallel to the lines of creping of the other, and patterned adhesive disposed between the webs. Each web is in a different condition of stress in the plane of the laminated product. The bonded webs may be formed into individual napkins embossed about their periphery, leaving a substantial unembossed area in the center.
Abstract:
A LAMINATED TISSUE PRODUCT AS FOR PAPER TOWELING IS FORMED FROM AT LEAST TWO CREPED TISSUE WEBS BONDED IN SUPERPOSED REALTION BY ADHESIVE DISPOSED IN PATTERNED LINES DELINEATING SUBSTANIAL UNBONDED REGIONS. EACH OF THE WEBS IS EMBOSSED TO PRODUCE RAISED PORTIONS EXTENDING FROM ONE SURFACE THEREOF, AND THE RAISED PORTIONS OF ONE WEB OPPOSE RESPECTIVE RAISED PORTIONS OF THE OTHER WEB. THE RAISED PORTIONS ARE EMBOSSED IN PATTERNS ASSURING OPPOSED RELATION TO THE RESPECTIVE RISED PORTIONS AND PRECLUDING ANY SUBSTANTIAL NESTING OF THE WEBS IRRESPECTIVE OF THE RELATIVE LATERAL DISPOSITION OF THE WEBS. THE WEBS ARE JOINED UNDER DIFFERENT RESPECTIVE TENSIONS SO THAT, UPON RELAXING, THE WEBS ARE IN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS OF STRESS, AND ONE WEB IS OF GREATER AREA THAN THE OTHER.