Rolled bath tissue product for children

Abstract

A rolled tissue product that can help a child's progress in the toilet training process is generally disclosed. The rolled tissue product can have a pattern, located on the tissue web, such that the pattern helps the child determine the appropriate amount of bath tissue that should be used. Also, some perforations in the tissue web can be weaker than other perforations to help the child cleanly tear the appropriate amount of bath tissue from the roll. Some of the perforations in the tissue web can have visual cues to indicate where the perforation is located.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] One of the many challenges that exist during the training of a child to use a toilet is teaching the child to use an appropriate amount of bath tissue. In situations where a child uses more bath tissue than actually needed, not only is there waste of the excess bath tissue, but also the excess bath tissue can create a mess within the bathroom, potentially even clogging the toilet or related plumbing. Furthermore, any mess or clogs resulting from the use of excess bath tissue could frustrate the child and discourage his or her progress in the training. [0002] The difficulties with children learning to use the appropriate length of bath tissue can be associated with the difficulty that children can have in determining both an appropriate amount and the sheet count of the bath tissue. For example, the child may not intuitively know what amount of bath tissue is appropriate to use without a visual cue or other pattern on the bath tissue. [0003] To help...

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Benefits of technology

[0025] In yet another embodiment, the present disclosure is generally directed to a method of preparing a rolled tissue product. The method can comprise the steps of forming an aqueous suspension of papermaking fibers, depositing the fibers onto a forming fabric, an impression fabric, or a through-air dryer fabric, to form a web, and dewatering and drying the web to form a paper sheet. A pattern can be formed during these steps such that the pattern has characters and can help a child determine the appropriate amount of bath tissue to use. The method can also comprise the steps of perforating the paper sheet into tissue sheets and converting the paper sheet into a rolled bath tissue product.

Problems solved by technology

One of the many challenges that exist during the training of a child to use a toilet is teaching the child to use an appropriate amount of bath tissue.

In situations where a child uses more bath tissue than actually needed, not only is there waste of the excess bath tissue, but also the excess bath tissue can create a mess within the bathroom, potentially even clogging the toilet or related plumbing.

Furthermore, any mess or clogs resulting from the use of excess bath tissue could frustrate the child and discourage his or her progress in the training.

The difficulties with children learning to use the appropriate length of bath tissue can be associated with the difficulty that children can have in determining both an appropriate amount and the sheet count of the bath tissue.

For example, the child may not intuitively know what amount of bath tissue is appropriate to use without a visual cue or other pattern on the bath tissue.

For example, if a parent instructs the child to use 3 or 4 sheets, it may be difficult for the child to determine and count 3 or 4 sheets.

This difficulty can be created by the difficulty is seeing the perforations separating the sheets of bath tissue.

Also, very young children may have difficulty in counting to 3 or 4, especially with the added pressure of the toilet training process.

In addition, a child in the toilet training process may have difficulty in separating the toilet tissue from the rolled product in a neat manner, such as on the perforations.

The child may not be able to see or feel the perforations between the sheets.

Even if the child can find the perforations, the child could also have difficulty cleanly tearing on the perforation.

However, the previous rolled tissue products may not be successful in teaching the child an appropriate amount of bath tissue to use.

For example, there is a need to have a product that can function in a manner such that older individuals are not encumbered by the need to pay attention to the specific pattern on the tissue web, yet, disregard by the older person for the usage pattern does not provide a disruption to the ability of a younger child to successfully use the product without confusion thereafter.

Manufacturing processes and systems that require significant restrictions of process speed may increase the cost of manufacturing of a product.

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