A nozzlebox for blowing hot gas in the convective drying zone of equipment for the continuous drying of air-borne paper sheets comprises at least one direct impingement nozzle for ejecting a jet of hot gas perpendicular to the average plane of the paper sheet to be dried. The nozzle box comprises a plurality of inclined jet nozzles for ejecting jets of hot gas under an inclined angle with respect to the average plane of the paper sheet to be dried. At least two inclined jet nozzles are provided for which the plane comprising the vector representations of the jet directions of the at least two inclined jet nozzles does not comprise the vector representing the jet direction of a direct impingement nozzle.

Fibrous structures, and more particularly sanitary tissue products containing fibrous structures having a surface exhibiting a three-dimensional (3D) pattern such that the fibrous structure and/or sanitary tissue product exhibits novel properties compared to known fibrous structures and/or sanitary tissue products, and methods for making same are provided.

Fibrous structures having pillows and knuckles, wherein the fibrous structures contain two or more pillows that exhibit differential pillow height and methods for making same are provided.

A fibrous structure. The structure includes a plurality of semi-continuous knuckles extending from portions of the surface of the fibrous structure in a parallel path, wherein the plurality of semi-continuous knuckles are separated by adjacent semi-continuous pillow regions. Each semi-continuous knuckle comprises a plurality of discrete pillows, the plurality of discrete pillows are arranged in a spaced configuration along the path of each of the semi-continuous knuckle.

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.

Herein described is a plant (10) for manufacturing web-like paper material which comprises a system for controlling process fluids. The plant (10) comprises a first wet half-hood (14), a second dry half-hood (16) and four unidirectional flow regulating devices (28, 30; 34, 40) which, suitably positioned on the return circuits (22; 24) of the mist from both half-hoods (14; 16), allow the parallel operation of such half-hoods (14; 16). A fifth bidirectional flow regulating device (40) allows to selectively operate the half-hoods (14; 16) both in reverse cascade mode, that is releasing the mist coming from the first wet half-hood (14) on the return circuit (24) of the second dry half-hood (16), and then release all the mist coming from both the half-hoods (14; 16), and in direct cascade mode, that is releasing the mist coming from the second dry half-hood (16) into the return circuit (22) of the first wet half-hood (14), to release all the mist coming from both half-hoods (14; 16) into the atmosphere once again.