IP Library Granted Patent US 9,315,946
Granted Patent B2
US 9,315,946 · App. 14/574,421 · Granted Apr 19, 2016

Sanitary tissue products with superior machine direction elongation and foreshortening properties and methods for making same

Inventors: Ryan Dominic Maladen (Anderson Township, OH); John Allen Manifold (Sunman, IN); Ward William Ostendorf (West Chester, OH); Jeffrey Glen Sheehan (Symmes Township, OH); Douglas Jay Barkey (Salem Township, OH)
Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
D21H27/30D21H27/005
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Patent No.
US 9,315,946
App. No.
14/574,421
Granted
Apr 19, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Fibrous structures and/or sanitary tissue products comprising fibrous structure, and more particularly to fibrous structures comprising pulp fibers, wherein the fibrous structures exhibit unique elongation (stretch) and total foreshortening properties, and methods for making such fibrous structures.

Claims (20)

1. A fibrous structure comprising a plurality of pulp fibers, wherein the fibrous structure is void of a continuous knuckle and wherein the fibrous structure exhibits a MD elongation to total foreshortening ratio of greater than 2.25 as measured according to the Elongation Test Method.

2. The fibrous structure according to claim 1 wherein the fibrous structure exhibits differential density.

3. The fibrous structure according to claim 2 wherein the fibrous structure exhibits pillow regions and knuckle regions.

4. The fibrous structure according to claim 2 wherein the fibrous structure exhibits knuckle regions present in a continuous network pattern and pillow regions present as discrete regions.

5. The fibrous structure according to claim 2 wherein the fibrous structure exhibits knuckle regions present in a semi-continuous pattern and pillow regions present in a semi-continuous pattern.

6. The fibrous structure according to claim 5 wherein a plurality of the knuckle regions are oriented substantially in the cross-machine direction.

7. The fibrous structure according to claim 5 wherein a plurality of the knuckle regions comprise curvilinear lines.

8. The fibrous structure according to claim 5 wherein a plurality of the knuckle regions comprise sinusoidal lines.

9. A single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue product comprising the fibrous structure according to claim 1 .

10. A fibrous structure comprising a plurality of pulp fibers, wherein the fibrous structure comprises a pattern of semi-continuous knuckle regions and a pattern of semi-continuous pillow regions, wherein the fibrous structure exhibits a MD elongation to total foreshortening ratio of greater than 2.25 as measured according to the Elongation Test Method.

11. The fibrous structure according to claim 10 wherein a plurality of the knuckle regions are oriented substantially in the cross-machine direction.

12. The fibrous structure according to claim 11 wherein a plurality of the knuckle regions comprise curvilinear lines.

13. The fibrous structure according to claim 11 wherein a plurality of the knuckle regions comprise sinusoidal lines.

14. A single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue product comprising the fibrous structure according to claim 10 .

15. A fibrous structure comprising a plurality of pulp fibers and having a wet microcontraction of 0% or greater imparted to the fibrous structure, exhibits a MD elongation to total foreshortening ratio of greater than 2.5 as measured according to the Elongation Test Method.

16. The fibrous structure according to claim 15 wherein the fibrous structure exhibits differential density.

17. The fibrous structure according to claim 16 wherein the fibrous structure exhibits pillow regions and knuckle regions.

18. The fibrous structure according to claim 16 wherein the fibrous structure exhibits knuckle regions present in a continuous network pattern and pillow regions present as discrete regions.

19. The fibrous structure according to claim 16 wherein the fibrous structure exhibits knuckle regions present in a semi-continuous pattern and pillow regions present in a semi-continuous pattern.

20. A single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue product comprising the fibrous structure according to claim 15 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2015
From: MALADEN, RYAN DOMINIC; MANIFOLD, JOHN ALLEN; OSTENDORF, WARD WILLIAM; SHEEHAN, JEFFREY GLEN; BARKEY, DOUGLAS JAY
To: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
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Continuity (5)
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