Textured cellulosic wet wipes
View Patent ↗Wet wipes are made from a highly-textured basesheet of cellulose papermaking fibers bonded together with a permanent wet strength agent. The resulting wet wipes can have high wet bulk, good wet strength and can be easily dispensed and fully-opened with one hand.
1. A wet wipe product comprising a stack of perpendicularly-folded wet wipes within a reach-in container, each of said wet wipes comprising an uncreped through-air-dried tissue sheet having a specific surface volume ratio of about 0.25 or greater and containing from about 80 to 100 dry weight percent cellulose papermaking fibers bonded together with a permanent wet strength agent and from about 50 to about 700 weight percent of a wiping solution, wherein said product has a Normalized Dispensing Efficiency of about 70 percent or greater.
2. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes are quarter-folded.
3. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes are c-folded and quarter-folded.
4. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes are z-folded and quarter-folded.
5. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have an unfolded size of about 60 square inches or greater and the stack of folded wet wipes has a footprint of about 50 square inches or less.
6. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have an unfolded size of from about 60 to about 200 square inches and the stack of folded wet wipes has a footprint of from about 15 to about 50 square inches.
7. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the stack of folded wet wipes has a square footprint.
8. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a dry geometric mean tensile strength of about 5000 grams or greater per 3 inches of width.
9. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet geometric mean tensile strength of about 1500 grams or greater per 3 inches of width.
10. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet sheet caliper of about 0.5 millimeter or greater.
11. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the sheet contains from about 90 to 100 dry weight percent cellulose fibers.
12. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the sheet contains from about 95 to 100 dry weight percent cellulose fibers.
13. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet sheet caliper of about 1.0 millimeter or greater.
14. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet sheet caliper of about 1.2 millimeters or greater.
15. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet sheet caliper of from about 1.0 to about 2.0 millimeters.
16. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a specific surface volume ratio of about 0.35 or greater.
17. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a specific surface volume ratio of from about 0.45 to about 0.7.
18. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet tensile energy absorbed of about 20 gram-centimeters per square centimeter or greater.
19. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet tensile energy absorbed of about 30 gram-centimeters per square centimeter or greater.
20. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet tensile energy absorbed of from about 20 to about 50 gram-centimeters per square centimeter or greater.
21. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet tensile energy absorbed of about 30 to about 40 gram-centimeters per square centimeter or greater.
22. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet geometric mean tear strength of about 120 grams or less.
23. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet geometric mean tear strength of about 100 grams or less.
24. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet geometric mean tear strength of from about 40 to about 120 grams.
25. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet geometric mean tear strength of from about 40 to about 100 grams.
26. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet sheet bulk of about 10 cubic centimeters or greater per gram.
27. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a wet sheet bulk of from about 10 to about 35 cubic centimeters or greater per gram.
28. The wet wipe product of claim 1 having a Normalized Dispensing Efficiency of about 80 percent or greater.
29. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the wet wipes have a vertical absorbent capacity of about 6.0 grams of water or greater per gram of fiber.
30. The wet wipe product of claim 1 wherein the sheet comprises two outer layers and one or more inner layers, wherein the outer layers are primarily softwood fibers.
31. A wet wipe product comprising a stack of perpendicularly-folded highly-textured wet wipes within a reach-in container, each of said wet wipes having a specific surface volume ratio of about 0.25 or greater and containing from about 50 to about 700 weight percent of a wiping solution, wherein said product has a Normalized Dispensing Efficiency of about 70 percent or greater.
32. The wet wipe of claim 31 having a specific surface volume ratio of about 0.25 or greater.
33. The wet wipe of claim 31 having a specific surface volume ratio of about 0.35 or greater.
34. The wet wipe of claim 31 having a specific surface volume ratio of from about 0.45 to about 0.7.