A rolled tissue product with depletion indicator

Abstract

A rolled tissue product is provided. The rolled tissue product includes a tissue product including a fibrous sheet material spirally wound into a roll such that the roll includes a plurality of layers of the tissue product. The rolled tissue product also includes an adhesive applied to an innermost layer of the plurality of layers of the roll. The rolled tissue product also includes a dye mixed with the adhesive such that the dye permeates through at least one layer adjacent to the innermost layer of the roll where the adhesive and the dye together define an adhesive composition.

Description

A ROLLED TISSUE PRODUCT WITH DEPLETION INDICATORCROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application claims priority to the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No.63 / 744,548, filed January 13, 2025, which is expressly incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.FIELD

[0002] The present disclosure relates generally to a rolled tissue product and methods of producing a rolled tissue product with a depletion indicator indicating that the rolled tissue product has a reduced amount of layers remaining on the roll such that the rolled tissue product is close to being depleted.BACKGROUND

[0003] Single use, disposable tissue products are packaged so that the user can easily use the tissue product in a multitude of locations. For example, tissue products may be spirally wound into a roll that can be arranged with a corresponding roll holder or taken on-the-go. However, the amount of tissue product that can be packaged into a roll is limited as a consequence of providing the convenience of the packaging of the tissue product.

[0004] Thus, a user of the tissue product may be inconvenienced in the scenario that the tissue product is fully depleted from the roll before the user has fully cleaned themselves with the tissue product. Such an inconvenience may lead to a poor user experience, and in the scenario that a user is using a public restroom, a poor perception of the quality of service that is provided by the operator of the public washroom facility. Further, such a scenario may lead to discomfort, dissatisfaction, and, in some cases, embarrassment for both the user and the operator of the public washroom facility. In addition, in situations where the replenishment of the tissue product is not immediate, both the user and the operator of the public washroom facility may incur a loss of time.

[0005] Accordingly, a need exists to address the aforementioned concerns. In particular, a need exists to provide a means of indicating that the roll of tissue product is close to being depleted prior to full depletion of the roll.SUMMARY

[0006] The present disclosure is generally directed to a rolled tissue product including a tissue product spirally wound onto a roll formed from one or more sheets of tissue product.

[0007] In accordance with one aspect, a rolled tissue product is provided. The rolled tissue product includes a tissue product including a fibrous sheet material spirally wound into a roll such that the roll includes a plurality of layers of the tissue product. The rolled tissue product also includes an adhesive applied to an innermost layer of the plurality of layers of the roll. The rolled tissue product also includes a dye mixed with the adhesive such that the dye permeates through at least one layer adjacent to the innermost layer of the roll where the adhesive and the dye together define an adhesive composition.

[0008] In an embodiment, the tissue product includes at least one of a bath tissue, a facial tissue, a paper towel, an industrial wiper, a food service wiper, a napkin, or a medical wipe.

[0009] In another embodiment, the fibrous sheet material includes a pulp, cellulose material.

[0010] In another embodiment, the rolled tissue product further includes a core to which the tissue product is bound via the adhesive.

[0011] In another embodiment, the adhesive includes at least one of a pressure sensitive adhesive, a hot-melt adhesive, a water-soluble adhesive, an acrylic-based adhesive, a starch-based adhesive, or a protein-based adhesive.

[0012] In another embodiment, the adhesive composition includes a viscosity ranging from about 1,000 to about 20,000 centipoise (cP).

[0013] In another embodiment, the dye includes at least one of a naturally derived dye or a synthetic dye.

[0014] In another embodiment, the dye permeates through at least 10% of the layers of the roll.

[0015] In another embodiment, the adhesive composition includes a reactive dye.

[0016] In a further embodiment, the reactive dye includes a naturally based reactive dye that binds pulp, cellulose material in the tissue product.

[0017] In another embodiment, the adhesive composition is applied in a pattern or a shape.

[0018] In a further embodiment, the pattern or the shape is a discontinuous pattern or a shape.

[0019] In a further embodiment, the pattern or the shape includes an indicator of a number of layers remaining on the roll.

[0020] In accordance with another aspect, a method of producing a rolled tissue product is provided. The method includes applying an adhesive composition to a portion of a tissue product including a fibrous sheet material where the adhesive composition includes a dye mixed with an adhesive. In addition, the method includes spirally winding the tissue product into a roll starting from the portion of the tissue product to which the adhesive was applied such that the portion includes an innermost layer of a plurality of layers of the roll, wherein the dye permeates through at least one layer adjacent to the innermost layer of the roll.

[0021] In an embodiment, the method further includes applying pressure between the innermost layer and the at least one adjacent layer such that the dye permeates through the at least one adjacent layer.

[0022] In a further embodiment of the method, the pressure is applied via an external contact element.

[0023] In another embodiment of the method, the adhesive composition is applied in a pattern or a shape via an applicator connected to a storage of the adhesive and dye mixed together.

[0024] Other features and aspects of the present disclosure are discussed in greater detail below.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0025] A full and enabling disclosure of the present disclosure is set forth more particularly in the remainder of the specification, including reference to the accompanying figures, in which:

[0026] FIG. 1 illustrates an example embodiment of a system for forming a roll of tissue product according to the present disclosure;

[0027] FIG. 2 illustrates a flow diagram of a method of producing a rolled tissue product according to the present disclosure.

[0028] FIG. 3 provides a perspective view of an example embodiment of an adhesive composition applied to a core of a rolled tissue product for indicating depletion of the roll of tissue product according to the present disclosure;

[0029] FIG. 4 provides a front view of an example embodiment of a roll of tissue product including indicating marks according to the present disclosure; and

[0030] FIG. 5 provides a side view of an example embodiment of a roll of tissue product demonstrating how an adhesive composition interacts with the tissue product to provide indicating marks according to the present disclosure.

[0031] Repeat use of reference characters in the present specification and drawings is intended to represent the same or analogous features or elements of the present disclosure.DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0032] It is to be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art that the present discussion is a description of exemplary embodiments only and is not intended as limiting the broader aspects of the present disclosure.

[0033] Generally speaking, the present disclosure is directed to a rolled tissue product. In particular, the rolled tissue product may include a tissue product including a fibrous sheet material spirally wound into a roll such that the roll includes a plurality of layers of the tissue product. In addition, the rolled tissue product may include an adhesive applied to an innermost layer of the plurality of layers of the roll. Further, a dye may be mixed with the adhesive (thereby forming an adhesive composition) such that the dye permeates through a layer adjacent to the innermost layer of the roll.

[0034] The present disclosure may also be directed to a method of producing the rolled tissue product. Specifically, the method may include applying an adhesive composition to a portion of a tissue product including a fibrous sheet material where the adhesive includes a dye mixed with the adhesive. The method may also include spirally winding the tissue product into a roll starting from the portion of the tissue product to which the adhesive was applied. Once rolled, it can be understood that the portion that the adhesive composition was applied to is the innermost layer of a plurality of layers of the roll. In doing this, the dye can permeate through one or more layers adjacent to the innermost layer of the roll.

[0035] Accordingly, multiple benefits may be provided by the presently disclosed rolled tissue product. For example, the rolled tissue product includes an indicator that informs a user of the rolled tissue product that the rolled tissue product is close to being depleted. If the user is a patron of a public washroom facility, then the user may be apprised of a need to seek additional tissue product for their needs. If the user is an operator of a public washroom facility, then the operator may be apprised of the need to supply additional rolled tissue product to that particular stall or multiple stalls of the public washroom facility. As such, embarrassing or otherwise disruptive uses of washroom facilities may be reduced or eliminated.

[0036] The present disclosure may be understood with greater detail with reference to the figures. In particular, FIGS. 1-2 provide an example embodiment of how such a rolled tissue product may be produced, while FIGS. 3-5 provide example embodiments of the rolled tissue product and the features and advantages provided by the rolled tissue product.

[0037] Referring now to the figures, FIG. 1 illustrates an example embodiment of a system for forming a roll of tissue product according to the present disclosure. In particular, tissue product 50 may be supplied using any conventional processing method such as creping, wet creping, double creping, embossing, wet pressing, dry pressing, air pressing, hot pressing, through-air drying, creped through-air drying, uncreped through air-drying, molding, hydroentangling, calendering, or the like.

[0038] In addition, the tissue product 50 may include pulp, cellulose material such as cellulosic fibers. In general, any suitable cellulosic fiber capable of forming a nonwoven web can be used in accordance with the present disclosure. Fibers suitable for making nonwoven webs (such as the tissue product 50) include any natural or synthetic cellulosic fibers including, but not limited to nonwoody fibers, such as cotton, abaca, kenaf, sabai grass, flax, esparto grass, straw, jute hemp, bagasse, milkweed floss fibers, and pineapple leaf fibers; and woody or pulp fibers such as those obtained from deciduous and coniferous trees, including softwood fibers, such as northern and southern softwood kraft fibers; hardwood fibers, such as eucalyptus, maple, birch, and aspen. Pulp fibers can be prepared in high-yield or low-yield forms and can be pulped in any known method, including kraft, sulfite, high-yield pulping methods and other known pulping methods. Fibers prepared from organosols pulping methods can also be used, including the fibers and methods disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,793,898, issued Dec. 27, 1988, to Laamanen et al.; U.S. Pat. No. 4,594,130, issued Jun. 10, 1986, to Chang et al.; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,585,104. Useful fibers can also be produced by anthraquinone pulping, exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 5,595,628 issued Jan. 21, 1997, to Gordon et al.

[0039] In an embodiment, all or a portion of the fiber furnish may comprise synthetic fibers, such as regenerated cellulose fibers. For instance, regenerated cellulose fibers, such as rayon fibers, lyocell fibers, or viscose fibers can be present in the fiber furnish in an amount from about 3% by weight to about 30% by weight.

[0040] Chemically treated natural cellulosic fibers can be used such as mercerized pulps, chemically stiffened or crosslinked fibers, or sulfonated fibers. For good mechanical properties in using papermaking fibers, it can be desirable that the fibers be relatively undamaged and largely unrefined or only lightly refined. While recycled fibers can be used,virgin fibers are generally useful for their mechanical properties and lack of contaminants. Mercerized fibers, regenerated cellulosic fibers, cellulose produced by microbes, rayon, and other cellulosic material or cellulosic derivatives can be used. Suitable papermaking fibers can also include recycled fibers, virgin fibers, or mixes thereof. In certain embodiments capable of high bulk and good compressive properties, the fibers can have a Canadian Standard Freeness of at least 200, more specifically at least 300, more specifically still at least 400, and most specifically at least 500.

[0041] Other papermaking fibers that can be used in the present disclosure include paper broke or recycled fibers and high yield fibers. High yield pulp fibers are those papermaking fibers produced by pulping processes providing a yield of about 65% or greater, more specifically about 75% or greater, and still more specifically about 75% to about 95%. Yield is the resulting amount of processed fibers expressed as a percentage of the initial wood mass. Such pulping processes include bleached chemithermomechanical pulp (BCTMP), chemithermomechanical pulp (CTMP), pressure / pressure thermomechanical pulp (PTMP), thermomechanical pulp (TMP), thermomechanical chemical pulp (TMCP), high yield sulfite pulps, and high yield Kraft pulps, all of which leave the resulting fibers with high levels of lignin. High yield fibers are well known for their stiffness in both dry and wet states relative to typical chemically pulped fibers.

[0042] The pulp fibers can also comprise non-wood pulp fibers. Non-wood pulp fibers include bast fibers. Examples of bast fibers include flax fibers, hemp fibers, jute fibers, kenaf fibers, ramie fibers, abaca fibers, sunn fibers, and mixtures thereof. In one aspect, the non-wood fibers can be derived from one or more plants of the genus Hesperaloe. The Hesperaloe fibers, for instance, can be obtained from Hesperaloe funifera, Hesperaloe parviflora, Hesperaloe noctuma, Hesperaloe chiangic, Hesperaloe tenuifolia, Hesperaloe engelmannii, Hesperaloe malacophylla, or mixtures thereof. In one particular aspect, the Hesperaloe fibers comprise Hesperaloe funifera fibers. The non-wood fibers can be used alone or in combination with wood pulp fibers.

[0043] Further, the tissue product 50 can generally have a basis weight of from about 10 gsm to about 200 gsm. For instance, the basis weight can be greater than about 12 gsm, such as greater than about 15 gsm, such as greater than about 20 gsm, such as greater than about 25 gsm, such as greater than about 30 gsm, and less than about 130 gsm, such as less than about 120 gsm, such as less than about 100 gsm, such as less than about 80 gsm, such as less than about 60 gsm, such as less than about 50 gsm, such as less than about 40 gsm.

[0044] The bulk of the tissue product 50 may also vary from about 3 cc / g to 20 cc / g, such as from about 5 cc / g to 15 cc / g. The sheet “bulk” is calculated as the quotient of the caliper of a dry tissue sheet, expressed in microns, divided by the dry basis weight, expressed in grams per square meter. The resulting sheet bulk is expressed in cubic centimeters per gram. More specifically, the caliper is measured as the total thickness of a stack of ten representative sheets and dividing the total thickness of the stack by ten, where each sheet within the stack is placed with the same side up. Caliper is measured in accordance with TAPPI test method T411 om-89 “Thickness (caliper) of Paper, Paperboard, and Combined Board” with Note 3 for stacked sheets. The micrometer used for carrying out T411 om-89 is an Emveco 200-A Tissue Caliper Tester available from Emveco, Inc., Newberg, Oreg. The micrometer has a load of 2.00 kilo-Pascals (132 grams per square inch), a pressure foot area of 2500 square millimeters, a pressure foot diameter of 56.42 millimeters, a dwell time of 3 seconds and a lowering rate of 0.8 millimeters per second. In various embodiments, the bulk can be greater than about 6 cc / g, such as greater than about 8 cc / g.

[0045] Various different tissue products can be made in accordance with the present disclosure. The tissue products can comprise single ply products or multiple ply products. For instance, the products can comprise two plies, three plies, or four plies.

[0046] Once provided, the tissue product 50 may then be spirally wound onto a core 110, such as a cardboard core. An adhesive composition 102 can be applied to the core 110 to bind the tissue product 50 to the core 110. In such a scenario, the tissue product 50 is bound to the core 110 via the adhesive composition 102. Alternatively, the rolled tissue product 108 can be coreless. In this scenario, a binder, such as the adhesive composition 102, can be applied to the tissue product 50 to provide structural integrity to the rolled tissue product 108.

[0047] The adhesive composition 102 may be applied via an application apparatus 100. The application apparatus 100 may include a storage 104 for containing the adhesive composition 102 and an applicator 106 connected to the storage 104 for applying the adhesive composition 102 to a portion of the tissue product 50. The applicator 106 can be an extruder, a roller, or a sprayer that extrudes, rolls, or sprays the adhesive composition 102 onto the tissue product 50 or the core 110. The applicator 106 can apply the adhesive composition 102 in a pattern or a shape as will be described in greater detail hereinbelow.

[0048] In general, the adhesive composition 102 includes a non-toxic binding composition that is capable of binding the fibers contained within the tissue product 50 and anon-toxic staining composition that is capable of permeating through the fibers contained within the tissue product 50 thereby providing an indication of when the rolled tissue product 108 is close to being depleted. In particular, the adhesive composition 102 includes an adhesive 116 that can be premixed with a dye 112.

[0049] The adhesive 116 can include at least one of a pressure sensitive adhesive, a hot-melt adhesive, a water-soluble adhesive, an acrylic-based adhesive, a starch-based adhesive, or a protein-based adhesive. The dye 112 can include at least one of a naturally derived dye (i.e., a dye extracted from a naturally found substance) or a synthetic dye (i.e., a dye chemically formed via non-natural chemical processes). Together, the adhesive composition 102 can define a viscosity. For example, the adhesive composition 102 can have a viscosity ranging from about 1,000 to about 20,000 centipoise (cP). By providing an adhesive composition 102 having such a viscosity, the adhesive composition 102 may be able to sufficiently adhere the tissue product 50 either to itself or to the core 110 and permeate through the tissue product 50 to provide an indicating mark of when the roll 108 is close to being depleted.

[0050] In an alternative embodiment, the adhesive composition 102 can be a reactive dye that inherently binds with the material found within the tissue product while also dying the tissue product 50. For example, the reactive dye may be a naturally based reactive dye that binds pulp, cellulose material in the tissue product. For example, such a reactive dye may include tannins and be at least one of a dye derived from oak, chestnut, sumac, grape, pine, acacia, hemp, myrobalan, pomegranate. Other reactive dyes may include at least one of turmeric, indigo, hibiscus, cochineal, alizarin, beetroot, spinach, cinnamon, or onion.

[0051] The adhesive 116 and the dye 112 may be premixed for applying to the tissue product 50 or the core 110. Alternatively, in another embodiment, the adhesive 116 and the dye 112 may each be contained within separate storages 114, 118. In this embodiment, the adhesive 116 and the dye 112 are mixed together on an as-needed basis when the adhesive composition 102 is applied to the tissue product 50.

[0052] After application of the adhesive composition 102, pressure may be applied to the rolled tissue product via an external contact element 103 that presses the tissue product 50 into the adhesive composition 102. The external contact element 103 may be any type of device that applies pressure such as a roller or a press. Then, the rolled tissue product 108 may then be cut via a cutting element 105 and packaged for use by consumers. For example, the rolled tissue product 108 may be a bath tissue, a facial tissue, a paper towel, an industrial wiper, a food service wiper, a napkin, or a medical wipe.

[0053] Referring now to FIG. 2, a method of producing a rolled tissue product including an adhesive composition is provided according to the present disclosure. The method may include any of the components or apparatuses described previously with reference to FIG. 1. As shown, the method 200 includes step 202 of applying an adhesive composition (such as adhesive composition 102) to a portion of a tissue product (such as tissue product 50) including a fibrous sheet material where the adhesive composition includes a dye (such as dye 112) mixed with an adhesive (such as adhesive 116). In addition, as illustrated at step 204, the method 200 can include spirally winding the tissue product into a roll (such as roll 108) starting from the portion of the tissue product to which the adhesive was applied such that the portion comprises an innermost layer of a plurality of layers of the roll. In doing this, the dye can permeate through one or more layers adjacent to the innermost layer of the roll.

[0054] In a further embodiment, the adhesive composition can be pressed into the innermost layer of the tissue product and an adjacent layer such that the dye permeates through the adjacent layer. This pressure may be applied via an external contact element (such as the external contact element 103). For example, the external contact element may be a roller that passes over the rolled tissue product as the rolled tissue product advances through an assembly line. The external contact element may also be a press that presses the rolled tissue product either before or after the rolled tissue product is cut into consumer-sized rolls.

[0055] In another embodiment, the adhesive composition may also be applied to the outermost layer of the roll. For example, after the rolled tissue product is formed, a stray portion of the tissue product may be bound to the remainder of the rolled tissue product by applying the adhesive composition to the outermost layer of the rolled tissue product and applying pressure to the stray portion and the outermost layer of the rolled tissue product as the tissue product is spirally wound into the roll. Such a process may be utilized to provide a colored, decorative pattern on the exterior of the rolled tissue product that is pleasant to a user of the rolled tissue product. Patterns that can be utilized will be described in greater detail hereinbelow both with reference to the exterior and the interior of the rolled tissue product.

[0056] Referring now to FIG. 3, a perspective view of an example embodiment of an adhesive composition applied to a core of a rolled tissue product for indicating depletion of the roll of tissue product is provided according to the present disclosure. As shown, the core 110 includes the adhesive composition 102 applied in a pattern or shape. Specifically, theadhesive composition 102 is applied in a discontinuous pattern or shape of streaks across the core 110. In an embodiment, the pattern or shape may include an indicator of the number or approximation of the number of layers remaining on the roll 108. For example, the pattern or shape may be a lettering or phrase that describes the amount or an approximation of the amount of layers remaining on the roll. For example, the pattern may be a text that states “50% layers remaining.”

[0057] Once applied, the adhesive composition 102, and more particularly, the dye 112 contained within the adhesive composition 102 may permeate through the layers of the rolled tissue product 108 to form indicating marks 119 on the tissue product 50 as shown in FIG. 4. As described hereinabove, the indicating marks 119 may comprise a pattern or shape such as a text indicating the amount of tissue product 50 remaining on the roll 108. A variety of indicating marks 119 may also be found at a variety of depths as will be described in greater detail hereinbelow.

[0058] Referring now to FIG. 5, a side view of an example embodiment of a roll of tissue product demonstrating how an adhesive composition interacts with the tissue product to provide indicating marks is illustrated according to the present disclosure. As shown, roll 108 includes a tissue product 50 formed from a fibrous sheet material spirally wound into the roll 108 such that the roll 108 defines a plurality of layers 120 of the tissue product 50.Further, as shown in FIGS. 3-4, the rolled tissue product 108 includes an adhesive composition 102 composed of an adhesive 116 and a dye 112 mixed with the adhesive 116.

[0059] As shown, the adhesive can be applied to an innermost layer 122 of the plurality of layers 120 of the roll 108. As previously described, the innermost layer 122 may either be the core 110 if the roll 108 includes a core 110 or the innermost portion of the tissue product 50 within the roll 108 if the roll is coreless. Regardless of whether the roll 108 is cored or coreless, the dye 112 contained within the adhesive composition 102 can permeate through one or more layers adjacent to the innermost layer 122 of the roll 108. For example, the dye may permeate through at least 10% of the layers of the roll 108.

[0060] As a consequence, a user of the rolled tissue product 108 may be apprised that the roll 108 is close to being depleted upon winding 90% of the rolled tissue product 108. As presently described, the term “close to being depleted” may refer to less than 50% layers remaining on the rolled tissue product, such as less than 40% layers remaining, such as less than 30% layers remaining, such as less than 20% layers remaining, such as less than 10% layers remaining.

[0061] The dye 112 may also permeate through a variety of depths through the rolled tissue product 108. For example, if multiple patterns or dyes are utilized, the variety of depths can indicate that the roll 108 has different amounts of tissue product 50 remaining on the roll 108 depending on which dye is displayed. For example, at depth DI, a first dye or pattern may be utilized that indicates that a set amount of tissue product remains such as less than about 50% of the layers. Then, at depth DI, a second dye or pattern may be utilized that indicates a different amount of tissue product is remaining such as less than about 10% of the layers. These dyes or patterns can be provided at different depths either through providing different adhesive compositions having different inherent penetration depths or applying the same type of adhesive composition at multiple points during the winding process of the roll 108.

[0062] Thus, it can be understood that the present disclosure provides a rolled tissue product and a method of forming the rolled tissue product that apprises a user of the tissue product that the rolled tissue product is close to being depleted.

[0063] These and other modifications and variations to the present disclosure may be practiced by those of ordinary skill in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure, which is more particularly set forth in the appended claims. In addition, it should be understood that aspects of the various embodiments may be interchanged both in whole and in part. Furthermore, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the foregoing description is by way of example only, and is not intended to limit the disclosure so further described in such appended claims.

Claims

WHAT IS CLAIMED:

1. A rolled tissue product comprising:a tissue product comprising a fibrous sheet material spirally wound into a roll, the roll comprising a plurality of layers of the tissue product;an adhesive applied to an innermost layer of the plurality of layers of the roll;a dye mixed with the adhesive such that the dye permeates through at least one layer adjacent to the innermost layer of the roll, wherein the adhesive and the dye together comprise an adhesive composition.

2. The rolled tissue product of claim 1, wherein the tissue product comprises at least one of a bath tissue, a facial tissue, a paper towel, an industrial wiper, a food service wiper, a napkin, or a medical wipe.

3. The rolled tissue product of claim 1, wherein the fibrous sheet material comprises a pulp, cellulose material.

4. The rolled tissue product of claim 1 further comprising a core to which the tissue product is bound via the adhesive.

5. The rolled tissue product of claim 1, wherein the adhesive comprises at least one of a pressure sensitive adhesive, a hot-melt adhesive, a water-soluble adhesive, an acrylic-based adhesive, a starch-based adhesive, or a protein-based adhesive.

6. The rolled tissue product of claim 1, wherein the adhesive composition comprises a viscosity ranging from about 1,000 to about 20,000 centipoise (cP).

7. The rolled tissue product of claim 1, wherein the dye comprises at least one of a naturally derived dye or a synthetic dye.

8. The rolled tissue product of claim 1, wherein the dye permeates through at least 10% of the layers of the roll.

9. The rolled tissue product of claim 1, wherein the adhesive composition comprises a reactive dye.

10. The rolled tissue product of claim 9, wherein the reactive dye comprises a naturally based reactive dye that binds pulp, cellulose material in the tissue product.

11. The rolled tissue product of claim 1, wherein the adhesive composition is applied in a pattern or a shape.

12. The rolled tissue product of claim 11, wherein the pattern or the shape is a discontinuous pattern or a shape.

13. The rolled tissue product of claim 11, wherein the pattern or the shape comprises an indicator of a number of layers remaining on the roll.

14. A method of producing a rolled tissue product, the method comprising: applying an adhesive composition to a portion of a tissue product comprising a fibrous sheet material, wherein the adhesive composition comprises a dye mixed with an adhesive;spirally winding the tissue product into a roll starting from the portion of the tissue product to which the adhesive was applied such that the portion comprises an innermost layer of a plurality of layers of the roll, wherein the dye permeates through at least one layer adjacent to the innermost layer of the roll.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:applying pressure between the innermost layer and the at least one adjacent layer such that the dye permeates through the at least one adjacent layer.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the pressure is applied via an external contact element.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the tissue product comprises at least one of a bath tissue, a facial tissue, a paper towel, an industrial wiper, a foodservice wiper, a napkin, or a medical wipe.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the fibrous sheet material comprises a pulp, cellulose material.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the tissue product is spirally wound around a core and bound to the core via the adhesive.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the adhesive composition is applied in a pattern or a shape via an applicator connected to a storage of the adhesive and dye mixed together.

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