A MULTI-PHASE HEATSEALABLE FIBROUS WEB MATERIAL AND A PAPERMAKING PROCESS FOR PREPARING IT

• Main Authors: ELSTON COLIN, HOFFMAN HERBERT ABRAHAM HAROLD, MURPHY JOSEPH
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.09.1984
• Edition: 3
• Subjects: BRAIDING; COTTON-WOOL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS,NON-WOVEN FABRICS; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; KNITTING; LACE-MAKING; MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARYMATERIAL; METHODS OF PRODUCING PAPER THEREON; NON-WOVEN FABRICS; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PAPER-MAKING; PAPER-MAKING MACHINES; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE; PULP COMPOSITIONS; TEXTILES; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; TRIMMINGS; WADDING

Improved infusion web material for tea bags and the like is provided by using synthetic pulp in the heat seal phase and forming therein an array of a large number of small discrete craters. These craters, which exhibit an average planar area of at least about 1x10-3 square centimeters, are formed prior to drying the initially formed multi-phase material by directing a low impact mist-like liquid spray onto the heat seal phase. The droplets from the spray displace the fibers to form the shallow craters and, at times, expose portions of the underlying non-heat seal fiber phase. The small craters are present throughout the heat seal phase at a concentration of at least about 40 per square centimeter and occupy about 10-75 percent of the total exposed surface area of the heat seal fiber phase of the material. The web also is treated with a surfactant.