A sheet manufacturing method includes forming a web by accumulating a mixture containing a fiber and a water-soluble polysaccharide in a dry manner, a moisture imparting step of imparting the web with moisture, and a pressurizing and heating step of pressurizing and heating the web to which the moisture is imparted, in which the pressurizing and heating step performs pressurizing and heating at the same time, a pressure higher than a pressure applied to the web in the pressurizing and heating step is not applied to the web before the pressurizing and heating step, and heating to a temperature higher than a temperature for heating the web in the pressurizing and heating step is not performed before the pressurizing and heating step.

A deflection member that includes a reinforcing member and a plurality of tiles fastened to the reinforcing member.

A seamless unitary deflection member. The seamless unitary deflection member can have a backside defining an X-Y plane and a thickness in a Z-direction. The seamless unitary deflection member may also have a reinforcing member and a plurality of protuberances positioned on the reinforcing member. Each protuberance may have a three-dimensional shape such that any cross-sectional area of the protuberance parallel to the X-Y plane can have an equal or lesser area than any cross-sectional area of the protuberance being a greater distance from the X-Y plane in the Z-direction.

Creped fibrous structures having pillows and knuckles, wherein the creped fibrous structures may exhibit improved knuckle properties, such as Knuckle Roughness Ra, Knuckle Roughness Rq, and Knuckle Creping Frequency and methods for making same are provided, and/or may comprise elongate knuckles comprising discrete pillows and/or elongate pillows between first and second elongate knuckles.

A process and an apparatus for producing nonwoven materials are disclosed. The process includes the following steps: a) providing a three-phase (gas-liquid-solid) suspension containing air, water, fibrous material and a surfactant, b) depositing the suspension onto a moving carrier sieve to produce a fibrous web on the carrier sieve, c) removing aqueous residue of the suspension through the carrier sieve, d) conveying the aqueous residue through one or more phase separation tanks in an essentially horizontal direction while providing a depressurised headspace above the aqueous residue, e) recycling the aqueous residue conveyed in step d) to step a), f) preferably pre-integrating the fibrous web.

A papermaking belt including zones of material laid down successively using a 3D printing process. The zones include at least a pocket zone configured to form three dimensional structures in a paper web by applying vacuum to pull the paper web against the pocket zone. In at least one exemplary embodiment, the zone also include at least one vacuum breaking zone configured to limit an amount of paper fibers pulled through the pocket zone by the applied vacuum.

Products having reducing tissue wrinkling, puckering, and bunching and improved emboss definition, emboss visibility, and perceived softness are described. The methods comprise embossing the tissue sheet with a emboss elements having segments aligned in the machine direction and including an abatement component, such as a tapered width or a multi dual-apex, that can absorb machine direction stretch during the production of the product.

A roll for molding a fibrous sheet. The roll includes a rotatably driven cylindrical shell. The cylindrical shell includes an interior surface, an exterior surface, and a permeable patterned surface on the exterior surface of the shell. The permeable patterned surface has at least one of a plurality of recesses and projections, a plurality of holes extending from the exterior surface to the interior to allow air to be moved through the shell. Each hole has an exterior end and an interior end, and a plurality of grooves. Each groove is fluidly connected to the exterior end of each hole and extends outward from the corresponding hole. The roll also includes a vacuum box on the inside of the cylindrical shell to draw air from the exterior surface of the shell to the interior surface. The vacuum box is stationary with respect to the rotation of the shell.

Disclosed is an environmentally-friendly method for enhancing mechanical properties of a high antibacterial nano dialysis paper for medical protection, includes following steps: a, preparing pulp components, and taking 40-60 parts of hardwood pulp, 10-20 parts of polyvinyl alcohol fiber, 30-50 parts of softwood pulp, 10-20 parts of cellulose fiber by mass; b, putting the hardwood pulp, the polyvinyl alcohol fiber, the softwood pulp and the cellulose fiber into a beater for beating to make a pulp, and then adding modified chitosan accounting for 1-5% of a weight of the pulp into the pulp, and defibering for 10-20 minutes at a rotating speed of 1500-2000 revolutions per minute in a defibrator; and c, carrying out papermaking with the pulp after defibering to form a dialysis paper finished product.

Disclosed is an environmentally-friendly method for enhancing mechanical properties of a high antibacterial nano dialysis paper for medical protection, includes following steps: a, preparing pulp components, and taking 40-60 parts of hardwood pulp, 10-20 parts of polyvinyl alcohol fiber, 30-50 parts of softwood pulp, 10-20 parts of cellulose fiber by mass; b, putting the hardwood pulp, the polyvinyl alcohol fiber, the softwood pulp and the cellulose fiber into a beater for beating to make a pulp, and then adding modified chitosan accounting for 1-5% of a weight of the pulp into the pulp, and defibering for 10-20 minutes at a rotating speed of 1500-2000 revolutions per minute in a defibrator; and c, carrying out papermaking with the pulp after defibering to form a dialysis paper finished product.