NON-WOVEN THROUGH AIR DRYER AND TRANSFER FABRICS FOR TISSUE MAKING

摘要

One embodiment of the present invention is an endless non-woven tissue makin g fabric having a three-dimensional texture suitable for use as a fabric for producing three-dimensional fibrous webs. The endless non-woven tissue makin g fabric comprises a plurality of substantially parallel adjoining sections of non-woven material. Each section of non-woven material has a width substantially less than the width of the non-woven tissue making fabric. Eac h section of non-woven material may be joined to at least one other adjoining section of non-woven material. The non-woven tissue making fabric has a machine direction, a cross-machine direction, a tissue contacting surface an d a tissue machine contacting surface. The tissue contacting surface comprises solid matter at a plurality of heights such that the tissue contacting surfa ce of the non-woven tissue making fabric has an Overall Surface Depth of at lea st 0.2 mm in regions of solid matter on the tissue contacting surface.