Fabric creped absorbent sheet with variable local basis weight
First Claim
1. An absorbent cellulosic sheet having variable local basis weight comprising a patterned papermaking-fiber reticulum provided with:
- (a) a plurality of generally machine direction (MD) oriented elongated densified regions of compressed papermaking fibers having a relatively low local basis weight as well as leading and trailing edges, the densified regions being arranged in a repeating pattern of a plurality of generally parallel linear arrays which are longitudinally staggered with respect to each other such that a plurality of intervening linear arrays are disposed between a pair of CD-aligned densified regions; and
(b) a plurality of fiber-enriched, pileated regions having a relatively high local basis weight interspersed between and connected with the densified regions, the pileated regions having crests extending generally in the cross-machine direction of the sheet;
wherein the generally parallel, longitudinal arrays of densified regions are positioned and configured such that a fiber-enriched region between a pair of CD-aligned densified regions extends in the CD unobstructed by leading or trailing edges of densified regions of at least one intervening linear array thereof, and wherein the sheet has a void volume of equal to or greater than 7 grams/gram and up to 15 grams/gram.
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Abstract
An absorbent cellulosic sheet having variable local basis weight includes a papermaking-fiber reticulum provided with (i) a plurality of cross-machine direction (CD) extending, fiber-enriched pileated regions of relatively high local basis weight interconnected by (ii) a plurality of elongated densified regions of compressed papermaking fibers. The elongated densified regions have relatively low local basis weight and are generally oriented along the machine direction (MD) of the sheet and have an MD/CD aspect ratio of at least 1.5. The products are most preferably prepared by way of a compactive dewatering/wet crepe process.
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1. An absorbent cellulosic sheet having variable local basis weight comprising a patterned papermaking-fiber reticulum provided with:
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(a) a plurality of generally machine direction (MD) oriented elongated densified regions of compressed papermaking fibers having a relatively low local basis weight as well as leading and trailing edges, the densified regions being arranged in a repeating pattern of a plurality of generally parallel linear arrays which are longitudinally staggered with respect to each other such that a plurality of intervening linear arrays are disposed between a pair of CD-aligned densified regions; and (b) a plurality of fiber-enriched, pileated regions having a relatively high local basis weight interspersed between and connected with the densified regions, the pileated regions having crests extending generally in the cross-machine direction of the sheet; wherein the generally parallel, longitudinal arrays of densified regions are positioned and configured such that a fiber-enriched region between a pair of CD-aligned densified regions extends in the CD unobstructed by leading or trailing edges of densified regions of at least one intervening linear array thereof, and wherein the sheet has a void volume of equal to or greater than 7 grams/gram and up to 15 grams/gram. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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