Abstract: Creped absorbent composites made from lightly crosslinked or water-swellable hydrophilic polymers with layers of wicking substrates are disclosed. The creped composites are made by drying the composites to less than 8% moisture and creping them in a creping zone. The creped composites have a tissue-like feel at low relative humidities with rapid absorption and are useful to make low bulk, high fluid capacity personal care products. Absorbent pads made from the above composites are also disclosed wherein the pads comprise one or more layers of wicking substrates, a water impermeable bottom sheet, and a water permeable face sheet.

Abstract: A multi-layered absorbent tissue having a plastic inner layer is prepared by substantially overall bonding the plastic layer to no more than one of two adjacent layers.

Abstract: A method of laminating a two-ply product wherein the plies are laminated to one another and adhered to a creping surface in the same pattern. A first ply is directed about a patterned pressure and imprinting roll and laminating adhesive is applied to the first ply in a pattern corresponding to the pattern of the pressure roll. A second ply is brought into contact with the first ply, and the composite web is adhered to a creping surface with a creping adhesive at a nip formed between the creping surface and the patterned pressure roll. The composite web is creped from the creping surface in a pattern corresponding to the pattern of lamination. When creped, the densified laminated/creped portions add strength to the resulting product, while between the densified areas the webs are not adhered to one another and the void areas therebetween provide sites for water absorption.

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.

Abstract: Strong, soft, absorbent tissue paper products comprising a substrate carrying an emollient. The substrate is planar and is a laminate formed of two or more tissue paper sheets. At least one of its two major surfaces must be soft, relatively untextured, and smooth. The emollient is distributed over at least a major portion of the smooth surface. In preferred embodiments, each tissue paper ply consists of two layers: the first is relatively weak compared to the second and has an outwardly facing surface which is soft, relatively untextured and smooth; the second layer is strong enough to impart to the ply sufficient strength to enable it to accomplish its intended purpose. The plies of tissue paper are joined together by a laminating means consisting of embossments in a region of embossing; the region of embossing is substantially free of emollient.

Abstract: An extensible multi-ply tissue paper product having high tensile energy absorption (TEA); high liquid absorbency; and, preferably, high tensile strength efficiency. The product comprises plies which are preferably embossed and discontinuously adhered together. The product has high tensile energy absorption by virtue of having substantial extensibility in the machine direction which, preferably, results from its constituent plies having substantial MD extensibility induced by having undergone wet and/or dry foreshortening during their manufacture. The product has synergistically high liquid absorbency by virtue of at least two plies of the product having sufficiently different stress/strain properties that one ply will sufficiently constrain unadhered portions of the other ply from being elongated in the plane of the paper when wetted that such unadhered portions of the constrained ply will pucker in the Z-direction as its foreshortening-induced internal stresses are relieved.

Abstract: A slip sheet for receiving, handling, storing and shipping a unitized load of product is disclosed. The slip sheet includes lips preferably on two adjacent sides allowing it to be gripped and pulled onto a fork truck with the aid of a conventional push-pull attachment. The slip sheet includes a first or bottom sheet of paperboard having lip extensions, a pair of intermediate sheets of paperboard laminated to opposite ends of the bottom sheet and overlying the ends of the lip extension along a first side and the length of the lip extension on a second side, and a pair of top sheets of paperboard laminated to the bottom sheet and to the ends of the intermediate sheets and overlying the ends of the lip extension on the second side and the length of the lip extension on the first side.

Abstract: High bulk, absorbent paper having a relatively high MD elongation at rupture, and a substantially greater stress/strain modulus in the lowest one-third of its range of MD extensibility--preferably when wet--than equally machine-direction-stretchable, purely dry-foreshortened (e.g., dry-creped) paper having substantially identical MD elongation at rupture. The process includes a differential velocity transfer of a wet-laid embryonic web having relatively low fiber consistency from a carrier to a substantially slower moving, open-mesh transfer fabric having a substantial void volume; and thereafter drying the web while precluding substantial macroscopic rearrangement of the fibers in the plane of the web. The differential velocity transfer is effected without substantial compaction of the web by avoiding substantial mechanical pressing, centrifugal slinging, air blasting, and the like.

Abstract: A fiber mat for producing a three-dimensional molded molding by the dry process. The fiber mat includes a prestrengthened layer containing cellulose fibers and deformable supporting layers with which the fibrous layer is joined. The fibrous layer is arranged as the central layer between two supporting layers. The supporting layers are formed of creped, low-extension foil material and are joined to the central layer surfaces while maintaining the pulling out properties of the creping.

Abstract: A water-absorbing sheet assembly comprises two sheets, at least one of which is a water-permeable sheet, and a polymeric absorbent inserted between said two sheets, wherein at least a part of said two sheets are pressed and bonded to each other.

Abstract: In the manufacture of a multi-ply fibrous sheet structure, each of a pair of plies of fibrous web material is provided with a pattern of relatively deep, primary, spot embossments each adherent to the opposite ply and surrounded by a pattern of relatively shallow, secondary, non-adherent spot embossments.

Abstract: An absorbent, puffy sheet structure comprising a pair of plies of web material adhered in continuous linear regions interspersed with pocket portions. Portions of the plies forming the pocket portions include inwardly presented perforate bosses that enhance softness and water absorbency. The structure is achieved utilizing apparatus comprising a pair of matched-pattern, synchronously rotatable steel rolls each provided with small, sharp, ply-perforating members in the recesses between land areas, in combination with synchronous rotatable rubber embossing rolls urged against the rotatable steel rolls and intervening plies to form the perforate bosses.

Abstract: A layered paper and method of making it, which paper is characterized by having a soft, relatively untextured smooth velutinous surface defined by a multiplicity of relatively flaccid papermaking fibers having unbonded free end portions of substantial length, and which surface is subjectively discernible by humans as being extremely soft and smooth. Exemplary embodiments include tissue paper, and tissue paper products comprising one or more plies of such paper. The method includes wet laying a layered web which has a relatively low bond surface layer comprising at least about 60% relatively short papermaking fibers, drying the web without imparting substantial texture thereto, breaking sufficient papermaking bonds in the surface layer to generate a velutinous surface having an FFE-Index of at least about 60 and preferably at least about 90, and calendering the dried web as required to provide said surface layer with an HTR-Texture of about 1.0 or less, and more preferably about 0.

Abstract: A machine degradable reinforced paper barrier material embodies at least two laminar sheets of paper in face-to-face relationship with a plurality of reinforcing strands of repulpable paper therebetween. The sheets are secured to each other and to the reinforcing strands by an adherer.

Abstract: A laminated foam-creped paper product and method of production thereof are disclosed. The laminated paper product exhibits increased wet strength and bulk and is highly absorbent, while also possessing cloth-like tactile properties. The foam layer is derived from an aqueous solution or dispersion of a film-forming material, and is caused to set soon after formation on the creped paper layer to prevent release of the crepe while minimizing penetration of the foam into the creped paper.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming a strong, soft, fibrous sheet material having substantial stretch in all directions in its own plane, by applying a pattern of bonding material to a fibrous web, adhering only portions of the web containing bonding material to a creping surface, removing the web from the creping surface by a creping blade to differentially crepe it, whereby a combination of high strength, softness, and bulk are imparted to the web. Sheet materials formed by the above method are also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for directly forming multiple layer web, and creping such webs to provide absorbent, soft and bulky, creped tissue. The process produces a laminar fibrous formation with outer layers of strongly bonded fibers separated by an intermediate central section of weakly bonded fibers, which outer layers are creped such that the crepe in one outer layer is independent of the crepe in the other outer layer.

Abstract: An article of manufacture is disclosed for cleansing the skin with improved effectiveness. A soft, flexible web having a low density wiping zone works in concert with a lipophilic cleansing emollient to remove soil from the skin with improved effectiveness. The lipophilic cleansing emollient reduces dehydration of the soil and weakens the soil-skin adhesive forces while the low density wiping zone of the web entraps and thus removes the soil from the skin.

Abstract: Sanitary tissue products which are laminates formed from two dissimilar paper webs. When a web of low density, high bulk process paper is united with a web of conventional paper, a product possessing absorbency softness, flexibility, and bulk properties similar to those of a product comprising two webs of the low density, high bulk process paper is produced. Variations taught by the invention include the use of two paper webs having different creping characteristics to form the laminated sanitary tissue. The teachings of the invention can be extended to other products such as paper towels.

Abstract: Method of manufacture of a hand-towel strip to be used in roll form in an automatic distributor with re-winding of the used portion, wherein a composite web comprising a flexible grid covered on each face with a layer of cellulose wadding, is dry creped and said creping is completely removed by stretching the composite web to a length superior to its initial length.

Abstract: The production of substitute textile materials is achieved by impregnating one or more creped tissue paper sheets with an extensibility of between 3% and 100% and a weight of 15-30 grams per square meter, which may be laminated with impregnated or unimpregnated similar sheets of creped tissue paper, with a vinyl chloride polymer.

Abstract: A wet-laid composite, soft, bulky and absorbent paper structure is prepared from two or more layers of furnish which are preferably comprised of different fiber types. The layers are preferably formed from the deposition of separate streams of dilute fiber slurries, the fibers typically being relatively long softwood and relatively short hardwood fibers as used in tissue papermaking, upon one or more endless foraminous screens. The layers are subsequently combined to form a unitary web, and the layered, unitary web is dewatered by the application of fluid forces. The moist, layered web is thereafter transferred to an open mesh drying/imprinting fabric. The application of a fluid force to the web creates patterned discrete areas of fibers numbering from about 100 to about 3600 per square inch of projected surface area on the side of the web which contacts the drying/imprinting fabric.

Abstract: A multi-ply absorbent wiping product having a relatively inextensible center ply bonded to highly extensible outer plies to provide superior wet bulk caliper and impression, wet strength and absorption characteristics. The central ply is comprised of wet strength, cellulosic tissue paper having less than about 10 percent stretch. Both sides of the central ply are imprinted with a suitable polymer resin in a regulated pattern covering between about 15 and about 55 percent of the total surface on each side of the central ply. An outer ply of wet strength, highly extensible, creped cellulosic tissue paper is adhered to each of the opposite surfaces of the central ply by feeding the layers between the nip of a pair of synchronously driven, hard-surfaced embossing rolls having a mating pattern of embossments thereon.