Soft tissue comprising non-wood fibers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10914039
APP PUB NO 20200115853A1
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16699918

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The present invention provides soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly hesperaloe fiber. The inventors have discovered that high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber, when incorporated in amounts of at least about 5 percent by weight of the tissue product, produces products having a GMT less than about 1000 g/3″ and a GM Slope less than about 7.0 kg. At the foregoing tensile strengths and modulus the tissue products of the present invention are also generally soft, such as having a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0, and more preferably less than about 9.0, such as from about 7.0 to about 9.0.

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KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE INCWISCONSIN WISCONSIN

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Gafford, Gilbert Darrell Cumming, US 5 115
LaBerge, Kevin Leon Sherwood, US 8 211
Reiser, John Matthew Snellville, US 8 135
Shannon, Thomas Gerard Neenah, US 102 2975
Underhill, Richard Louis Neenah, US 34 1300

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