IP Library Granted Patent US 7,314,664
Granted Patent B2
US 7,314,664 · App. 10/950,706 · Granted Jan 1, 2008

Embossed multi-ply fibrous structure product and process for making same

Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
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Patent No.
US 7,314,664
App. No.
10/950,706
Granted
Jan 1, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

Multi-ply fibrous structure products, more specifically embossed multi-ply fibrous structure products and methods for making same are provided.

Claims (9)

1. An embossed multi-ply fibrous structure product comprising and x-plane and a y-direction, two or more plies of fibrous structure bonded together along adjacent surfaces of the two or more plies by an adhesive to form a bond area, wherein the bond area is less than about 30% of the bonded adjacent surfaces, wherein the product comprises two faces, wherein one face comprises non-adhesively bonded embossed sites and the other face comprises adhesively bonded non-embossed sites, wherein the embossment sites are non-densified and wherein the non-embossed sites are densified wherein the density of the densified non-embossed sites is greater than the density of the non-densified embossed sites, and the embossed sites extend in the y-direction from the x-plane of the embossed multi-ply fibrous structure product wherein the fibrous structure product exhibits an embossment height of at least about 1000 μm, and wherein the embossed multi-ply fibrous structure product, when in roll form, exhibits an average effective caliper that is greater than the average sheet caliper of an identical multi-ply fibrous structure in its non-embossed form.

2. The fibrous structure product according to claim 1 wherein the two or more plies of fibrous structure are bonded together at a plybond strength of at least about 4 g/in.

3. The fibrous structure product according to claim 1 wherein the fibrous structure product exhibits a wet burst of at least about 305 g.

4. The fibrous structure product according to claim 1 wherein the fibrous structure product exhibits a sheet caliper of at least about 40 mils.

5. The fibrous structure product according to claim 1 wherein the fibrous structure product exhibits a sheet caliper to effective caliper ratio of greater than 1.1.

6. The fibrous structure product according to claim 1 wherein the fibrous structure product exhibits a cross machine direction stretch at peak load of greater than 8%.

7. The fibrous structure product according to claim 1 wherein the fibrous structure product is in roll form.

8. The fibrous structure product according to claim 1 wherein the adhesive is present on the adjacent surfaces in the form of separate, discrete dots and/or separate, discrete stripes.

9. The fibrous structure product according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the two or more plies of fibrous structure comprises a fibrous structure selected from the group consisting of: through-air-dried fibrous structure plies, differential density fibrous structure plies, wet laid fibrous structure plies, air laid fibrous structure plies, conventional fibrous structure plies and mixtures thereof.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 18, 2004
From: STELLJES, MICHAEL GOMER JR; KRAUS, CHRISTOPHER SCOTT; WEGELE, GEORGE VINCENT; MCNEIL, KEVIN BENSON
To: PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, THE
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Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 1067365900 · Sep 29, 2003
Related Publication 20050069679A1 · Mar 31, 2005