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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|9 Apr 1968
|Filing date
|11 Mar 1966
|Priority date
|11 Mar 1966
|Publication number
|Gresham James T, Thomas Gordon D
|Original Assignee
|Kimberly Clark Co
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (67), Classifications (14)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
April 9, 1968 J. T. GRESHAM ET AL 3,377,224
METHOD OF EMBOSSING DIFFERENTIALLY CREPED TISSUE PAPER 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Original Filed June 8, 1961 April 1968 J. T. GRESHAM ET AL METHOD OF EMBOSSING DIFFERENTIALLY CREPED TISSUE PAPER 2 SheetsSheet 2 Original Filed June 8, 1961 3,377,224 lviETi-IOD F EMBOSSING DIFFERENTIALLY CREPED TISSUE PAPER James T. Gresham, Appleton, and Gordon D. Thomas,
Neenah, Wis., assignors to Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Neenah, Wis a corporation of Delaware (Iontinuation of application Ser. No. 115,6$2, .lune 8, 1961. This appiication Mar. 11, 1966, Ser. No. $13,441 2 Claims. (Cl. 156-209) This application is a continuation of our copending application, Ser. No. 115,682, filed June 8, 1961, for Method and Apparatus for Embossing, now abandoned.
The invention relates to papermaking machinery and, more particularly, to embossing mechanism suitable for fixing together plies of thin creped paper or Waddmg, which, due to its high bulk, is particularly useful for packing purposes. Still more particularly, the invention relates to embossing mechanism which is particularly suitable for embossing together lightweight paper plies at least portions of which are creped to only a slight extent, as distinguished from tissue which is finely creped. I
It has previously been proposed to provide a plurality of spaced rotatably mounted embossing discs or wheels operable to emboss finely creped paper piles for bonding them together by running the material between a driven roll and the discs. Some of these discs have been composed of disc portions which are continuous on their periphery and notched disc portions along side of and in contact with the continuous disc portions for bonding the plies of material without unduly stretching or elongating the material along the lines of embossing.
Embossing wheels of this prior type, however, were not found to be entirely satisfactory to bond together the plies of coarsely creped paper tissue or the coarsely'creped portions of differently creped tissue paper (such as is, for example, described in Canadian Patent 605,951, issued on Sept. 27, 1960, to Edward H. Voigtman, Charles A. Lamb and Harold F. Donnelly).
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide an improved embossing wheel and, more particularly, an improved peripheral pattern on such a wheel which provides good ply attachment of uncreped paper tissue or coarsely creped paper tissue. More particularly, it is an object to provide such an improved pattern which includes spaced rows of spaced bosses on the periphery of an embrossing wheel that are operative to provide very high unit pressures to give good ply attachment of such paper tissues without substantial cutting of the material on the lines of embossing.
The invention consists of the novel constructions, arrangements and devices to be hereinafter described and claimed for carrying out the above stated objects, and such other objects, as will be apparent from the following description of preferred forms of the invention, illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a plurality of embossing wheels, aligned opposite an anvil roll and incorporating the principles of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale taken on line 22 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is an elevational view on a still further enlarged scale of the edge of one of the embossing wheels;
FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken on line 5-5 of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken on line 6.6 of FIG. 4;
FIG. 7 is a plan view of another arrangement of embossing wheels incorporating the principles of the invention;
FIG. 8 is a plan view of some of the material operated on by the mechanism of FIG. 7;
States Patent 0 FIG. 9 is a perspective view of differentially creped tissue product for use with the embossing mechanisms shown in the prior figures; and
FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a drier drum of a paper machine equipped to make the differentially creped product illustrated in FIG. 9.
Like charcaters of reference designate like parts in the several views.
Referring now to FIGS. l6 of the drawings, in which like characters of reference designate like parts in the several views, the illustrated embossing apparatus may be seen to comprise a plurality of coaxially disposed embossing Wheels 10, each of which is rotatably mounted with respect to fixed supporting structure, such as a pair of stationary arms 11. A shaft 12 extends through each of the wheels 10 and into bearings 13 which are countersunk into the arms 11.
An anvil roll 14 is rotatably mounted in a frame 15 so that the roll axis lies parallel to the axes of the embossing rolls 10. The roll 14 is driven by any suitable mechanism, such as a motor 16 that is connected with the roll 14 by means of pulleys 17 and 18 and a belt 19.
Each of the embossing wheels It is made up of a sheet metal disc 20 that is grooved on its periphery. Each disc 20 is provided on its peripheral edge with a central groove 21 which preferably has straight sides 22 and a central rounded bottom or fillet 23, as seen in FIG. 6. Each disc 20 on its peripheral edge is also provided with a plurality of spaced grooves 24 extending parallel to the axis of the wheel 10 from one side of the wheel to the other. Each groove 24 preferably has a cross section similar to that of the groove 21 with relatively straight sides 25 and a rounded bottom or fillet 26 (see FIG. 5). The peripherally extending groove 2.1 and the transversely extending grooves 24 in each disc 20 define substantially fiat protrusions or bosses 27 and 28 adjacent opopsite sides of the disc. The bosses 27 are in a row on one side, and the bosses 28 are in a row on the other side, being spaced by the central peripheral groove 21.
The embossing wheels lit may be of many different sizes, however, a size that has been found to be very satisfactory is one of about 4 inches in diameter and a thickness of inch. Each of the bosses 27 and 28 is preferably square and is & inch x inch in size. The groove 21 likewise has a width of inch, and the grooves 24 also have a width of inch. The grooves 21 and 24 may have a depth, for example of & inch. The anvil roll 14 may have any suitable diameter, for example, 10 inches.
The anvil roll 14, as well as the discs Zti, are preferably formed of iron or steel, but may, of course, be made of our materials if desired. The wheels 10 may be spaced apart any desired distance, such as from 4 inches to 40 inches, depending on the degree of embossing it is desired to give the material that is worked on. In the event that it is desired to slit the material worked on at the same time that the material is embossed, a slitter wheel 29 rotatably mounted on a stationary arm 30 may be provided.
It may be desirable to utilize two such wheels 10 in connection with a slitter 29 for simultaneously slitting and embossing. Such an arrangement is illustrated in FIG. 7. Two of the embossing wheels 10a are illustrated as being mounted on an arbor 31, and a slitter wheel 29 is mounted so as to slit along a line midway between the embossing wheels 10a. Although the spacing between the wheels 10a may be varied, a suitable spacing has been found to be about inch, with an overall dimension axially of the wheels and including the wheels being inch, since the wheels themselves are 3 inch in thickness.
The material 32 to be embossed comprises a plurality of plies 33. The material 32 may, for example, be creped wedding or tissue paper, which may be relatively clean or which may contain a certain amount of binding material, such as asphalt. The number of plies is quite variable, and the illustrated embossing apparatus has been found to work very satisfactorily with to 35 plies, for example. A sheet of relatively thick uncreped backing paper 34 (see FIG. 8) may be provided as the external ply or not, as desired.
Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3, the material 32 passes between the anvil roll 14 and the embossing wheels 10 and is compressed there-between to a substantial extent as the anvil roll 14 is driven. The embossing wheels each leave a relatively deep rut or groove in the surface of the material 32, and a characteristic impression is left in the wadding which corresponds to the pattern of bosses on the edges of the wheels 10 and comprises a plurality of square depressions of the same sizes as the bosses 27 and 28 disposed in a pair of spaced rows. The plies of the material, as the result of being so pressed together and being so embossed, subsequently adhere to each other and are bonded together so that a unitary product is produced. Since the embossing wheels 10 are substantially spaced from each other, the creped wadding has substantial thickness between the embossed grooves, so that the wadding as a product has substantial bulk and is very suitable for packaging, for example.
The illustrated embossing wheels 10, having the two rows of bosses 27 and 28 on their peripheries, have been found particularly suitable for attaching together the plies of a wadding material 35, the plies of which are unevenly or differentially creped. Such a material is illustrated in FIG. 9, and this material is preferably run between the wheels 10 and anvil roll 14 in the direction indicated by the arrow A in FIG. 9. The details of such an unevenly creped wadding material, including methods for making this material, are disclosed in the above mentioned Canadian Patent 605,951; and, therefore, specific details will not be set forth here. Suffice it to say, referring to FIG. 9, the material 35 comprises a plurality of superposed cellulosic tissue webs or sheets 36. The individual sheets are formed tissue Webs having a basis weight, for example, on a bone dry basis, before differ ential creping, of about 3.5 pounds to pounds per r am of 3000 square feet. For cushioning and insulating purposes, however, the preferred basis weight range is about 4.5 pounds to about 7.5 pounds per ream of 3000 square feet on a bone dry basis before dilferential creping.
Each of the cellulosic tissue webs or sheets 36 has a series of alternating coarsely creped strips 37 and more finely creped strips 38 extending in the direction indicated by the arrow A in FIG. 9 and constituting alternately putfed and ilat areas which give the product unique prop erties. The finely creped areas function as stabilizers holding the arches of the coarsely creped areas 37 in place and enabling the latter to act as structural members to provide the product with high, stable bulk characteristics. As an example, the coarsely creped areas 37 of the plies of the tissue product should have between about 5 and about 30 crepes per inch and preferably between 10 and crepes per inch. The more finely creped areas 38 of the respective plies should have between about 20 and 200 crepes per inch and preferably between about and about crepes per inch. These numbers refer to the product as it is wound onto the reel at the end of the papermachine and generally some stretching takes place as the sheets are plied up into the product to the extent of about 10 percent of their length.
The webs or sheets 36 having the coarsely creped areas 37 alternating with the finely creped areas 38 may be manufactured by forming sheets or webs of tissue in a conventional manner and then differentially creping each of the tissue webs or sheets. A plurality of these individual sheet or Webs are then assembled as plies into the unitary cut or severed. Also,
structure 35. A tissue sheet may be formed by a conventional water laying technique on the usual Fourdrinier type web forming equipment which includes a steam heated Yankee drier drum 39 (see FIG. 10) as the final element of the machine operating on the tissue. The tissue 36- is dried on the drum 39 and is creped from the surface of the drum by means of a conventional creping doctor blade 40. The differential creping is accomplished by applying a drier release agent onto the surface of the drum 39, as from a plurality of spaced microjets 41 carried by and connected with a conduit 42. carrying the drier release agent. This agent is preferably applied to the drum 39 just subsequent to the blade 40 as shown in FIG. 10. The release agent applied from the jets 41 forms a film on the surface of the dried drum 39 which is substantially absorbed by the tissue on the drum and which functions to release the tissue from the drum along the strips on the surface of the drum on which the release agent is applied forming the coarsely crepe-d strips 37, and the doctor blade 40 is effective in its usual manner to crepe the tissue from the surface of the drum along only those strips on which the release agent has not been applied (forming the finely creped strips 38). The natural adherence of the tissue web to the surface of the drum 39 is materially reduced in those places where the release agent is present to cause the formation of the coarsely creped strips 37. The web travels with the drum 39 in the direction indicatcd by the arrow A in FIG. 9, and in being creped from the drum, the web assumes the differentially creped pattern as illustrated in FIG. 9 caused by the differential degree of adherence to the drier surface.
Many different release agents may be used for causing this differential creping action, such as emulsified mineral oil, sulfonated castor oil and the others mentioned in Canadian Patent 605,951, previously referred to.
Conventional embossing wheels used prior to the present invention have provided passable results in bonding the plies of uniformly finely creped tissue together; however, it was found that such prior embossing wheels were not at all satisfactory in causing ply adherence with the differentially creped tissue plies above described. This was apparently due to the fact that the areas 37 in the multi-ply product illustrated in FIG. 9 have substantially no creping or the fact that the drier release agent remained in these areas; so that, in these areas, the embossing wheels did not provide ply adherence sufficient for holding the plies together under normal usage. Insufiiciency of ply adherence from prior conventional embossing wheels, particularly on the differentially creped product 35, may have been due also to the inability to apply a very high embossing pressure on the plies using the prior embossing Wheels. The two rows of bosses 27 and 28 on the peripheries of the wheels 10 provide about thousand pounds per square inch unit pressure with a relatively small force of 300 pounds applied to each of the wheels 10 (assuming a 4 inch diameter and inch thickness of the wheels 10 with inch x inch bosses 27 and 28, used in connection with a 10 inch diameter anvil roll 14). This high unit pressure apparently provides a fiber to fiber bonding and a knitting or interlacing of the fibers of the individual plies in the product 35 so that effective bonding results. The double rows of bosses 27 and 28 on the wheels 10 assure that even with such high unit pressures, the plies of the material 35 are not substantially with prior conventional embossing wheels, backing paper, such as uncreped paper 34, has not been very satisfactorily afiixed to the other plies of the product. With the embossing wheel of the invention, effective fixing of the backing paper to the product has resulted.
The embossing mechanism illustrated in FIG. 7 functions in the same manner as that illustrated in the preceding figures; however, in this case, the illustrated slitter 29 is ettective to slit the material into two main parts, and
the embossing wheel 100 on each side assures that the plies of the material of each part at the edges are bonded together. FIG. 8 shows the embossed slitted end prodnot provided by the mechanism of FIG. 7 which has the characteristic depressions 27a and 28a in the surface on which the wheels 10a are operative and which correspond and are provided by the bosses 27 and 28 in the periphery of the wheels. In the product of FIG. 8, the uncreped ply 34 is provided and the wheels 10a bond not only the plies 36 together but also bond the backing paper 34 to the other plies; however, it will be understood that the same depressions 27a and 28a in the surface operated on by the wheels 10 and 10a are provided by the wheels if the uncreped ply 34 is not used. 'Preferably, as illustrated in FIG. 8, for securing best results, the bosses 27 and 28 on one of the wheels 10a are staggered with respect to the bosses 27 and 28 on the other wheel 10a.
We wish it to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the specific constructions and arrangements shown and described, except only insofar as the claims may be so limited, as it will be understood to those skilled in the art that changes may be made without departing from the principles of the invention.
What is claimed is:
1. In a method for fixing together without the use of adhesive a plurality of plies of differentially creped tissue paper which has a basis weight before creping of 4.5 to 7.5 pounds per ream of 3,000 square feet, each of said plies having a series of alternating coarsely creped strips and more finely creped strips constituting alternating puffed and flat areas, the steps which comprise, embossing and pressing the plies of tissue paper between a plurality of bosses and a smooth rigid surface, each of said bosses having a substantially fiat surface and being substantially square and being about inch on each side and said bosses being disposed in two parallel rows which are spaced about inch apart and the bosses in each row being spaced from each other about inch, said pressing being done with a pressure of at least 150,000 pounds per square inch so as to bond the tissue paper plies to each other without the use of adhesive.
2. In a method of embossing and fixing together without the use of adhesive 10 to 35 plies of differentially creped tissue paper which has a basis Weight before creping of 4.5 pounds to 7.5 pounds per ream of 3,000 square feet, each of said plies having a series of alternating coarsely creped strips and more finely creped strips constituting alternating puffed and fiat areas, the steps which comprise, passing the plies between a smooth surfaced anvil roll and an embossing wheel which has an approximate diameter of 4 inches while rotating the wheel and roll, the peripheral edge of said embossing wheel having embossing protrusions disposed in two rows with the rows being spaced by a central peripheral groove and the protrusions in each row being spaced by grooves extending parallel with the axis of the wheel, said protrusions each having a substantially flat surface and being substantially square and being about inch on each side, said grooves being about inch wide and having a depth of about & inch, and applying a force on said embossing wheel so that the pressure applied by said protrusions on the creped tissue paper as supported by said anvil roll is at least 150,000 pounds per square inch.
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At the end of the Journey by IsvocWatch
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I felt kind of empty after finishing this game. I'd just gone on an epic Journey, feeling all manner of incredible emotions. All the loneliness, the excitement when surfing through the sands, utter heartbreak at the loss of the best partner imaginable, the utter terror of being preyed upon by those... things..., the gruelling climb up the frozen mountain, desperately fighting of freezing cold. I finally reached the top and then... what?
I'd gone through all that... for nothing?
I'd gone through all that... for nothing?
Captures the snowy, cold feeling just perfectly. Near the end and fighting to press on to reach your destination.
Another beautiful piece by you for that beautiful game.
I loved this moment of the game. You keep trying to push yourself to go further. Just a little bit more, you tell yourself.
And they you collapse. Utterly devastating.
And they you collapse. Utterly devastating.
Really love this picture, nice job!
This picture and the other one feel real and artistic at the same time. Very well done.
What game? It looks really cool.
Game title is just 'Journey' Thanks!
Journey by ThatGameCompany (for PS3)
a really amazing game!
And by the way, great picture!
a really amazing game!
And by the way, great picture!
I think this one is the saddest and loneliest of them all. The big contrast between the whites and blues in the snow and the red of the traveler... He stands out in bold contrast to everything else, small and alone, and probably cold... Very lovely, I really love these pieces.
oww, playing this part all by yourself it's so saaad ç_ç
The first time I ended Journey with a mate was amazing!
And this work is beautiful, you're great! (sorry for my bad english xD)
The first time I ended Journey with a mate was amazing!
And this work is beautiful, you're great! (sorry for my bad english xD)
An intense, blisteringly-harsh scene to set.
Your environmental art skills are incredible, have you done anything of Flower...?
Your environmental art skills are incredible, have you done anything of Flower...?
Very realistic, beautiful!
Relative to, this mountainous landscape it is like in itself a series of the four seasons even if all I have seen are like summer and winter thus far. I think that the fact that this is during a blinding wind/show storm this is more sad an image than the desert; even if both should be sad because your alone in both cases, and you could die in the desert for lack of water, and in the mountains because of hypothermia. It I also depicts the same style as previous as it is meant to be but also the saying, all good things must come to an end, same does a great end in the way you created this image.
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jest cos, co ci nie idzie? xP
This is amazing, I feel that you capture the artistic style of the game perfectly ^^
This was an amazing game, and sooo happy I found a nice image of it to put on my background, thsnk for this painting! For me the ending was an emotional ride full of beauty, excitement, sadness and confusion.
Oh yeah > > this game can make you emotional very easy. There was many times in this stage with my more experienced companion that I went "NOOOOOOOOO T______T" Only to feel content in the very very end...which wouldn't an end but another beginning 83
Indeed :3 I love playing it with strangers. Sometimes tho, people tend to mindlessly push game forward, without exploring :C I left many red robes along the way because of that [I mostly couldn't keep up] >_>
Hubby played it the first time through that way, just to see the story than later look around. Though the second time I was the one playing and was lucky enough to sync up with my friend XD I told him via cell that if he wanted to see the game and story to go ahead. Cause I was going to look at every inch of every level if possible lol, though when I hit the temple a White Robe was kind enough to explore with me.
Every step brings closer to what one could be looking for.
Started to play this game. |D I always thought the sand dunes looked like snow sometimes. So I wonder if I'll get there in the game eventually? Lovely job. :]
Sand dunes are my fav level to be honest! I love surfing around, discovering stuff there ^^
My favourite scene so far has been the sand dunes where you slide down from a side view, but you are sliding through a building with pillars and the sands are literally RED with the sun shining so brilliantly behind you while the sand is all sparkly.... not sure if you know the part I'm talking about. x.x The 11th panel from this [link] xD And the cute little serpent bird things are fun to play with. ^^


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A Dugong Bone Mound: The Neolithic Ritual Site on Akab in Umm Al-Quwain, United Arab Emirates
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The Neolithic period in the Oman Peninsula and the Gulf is relatively unexplored. Excavations remain rare, with 20 sites, at most, explored between Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman. In eastern Arabia in general, the emergence, identity and chronology of the first Neolithic societies are still to be determined. We know that between 6500 and 4500 cal BC, despite the absence of agriculture, a fully Neolithic culture developed in the United Arab Emirates, in the Sultanate of Oman and in Yemen, for which pressure-retouched trihedral points are a distinctive feature, together with the domestication of ovicaprids. In the Gulf, pottery provides evidence for long-distance trade with the Ubaid populations of southern Mesopotamia. In the United Arab Emirates, many coastal occupations of the sixth--fifth millennia have been reported, but only those of Marawah, Dalma and Akab have been excavated (Figure 1).
At present, the fourth millennium appears to be under-represented in the United Arab Emirates, to the point that some have referred to a 'dark millennium' (Uerpmann 2003). Only the site of Akab has so far produced evidence of this period, which characterises the end of the Neolithic, although the period is better known on the Indian Ocean side, on the coast of the Sultanate of Oman. The beginnings of the Bronze Age, characterised by the appearance of oases based on the exploitation of the date palm and the local development of pottery, dates to 3100 cal BC.
To date, the archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula has produced very little data on the beliefs and ritual practices which preceded Islam. Two Bronze Age temples were discovered on the island of Bahrain (Barbar and Saar), vestiges of the Dilmun civilisation of the third and second millennia BC. On the Oman Peninsula, no known sanctuary of the Bronze (3100-1500 BC) exists and it is not until the Iron Age, in the first millennium BC, that religious practices related to snakes appear.
The discovery of a Neolithic dugong bone mound at Umm al-Quwain on the island of Akab (Figure 1) now provides new evidence concerning the rituals practised by coastal societies of the Gulf in the fourth millennium. Thus far, these rituals have only been perceptible through funerary practices, in particular those in evidence in the necropolis of Ra's al-Hamra (Sultanate of Oman) (Salvatori 2007).
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Deserted today, the island of Akab is located 190km from Abu Dhabi in the large lagoon of Umm al-Quwain (United Arab Emirates). The archaeological site, investigated by a palaeontologist at the beginning of the 1990s, was interpreted as a butchering area for dugongs, and therefore suggested to be the oldest known site of dugong hunting (Prieur & Guerin 1991; Jousse 1999; Jousse et al. 2002). The dugong (Dugong dugon), an herbivorous marine mammal which lives along the coast of the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific (Figure 2), is found today in the Arabian Gulf (Preen 2004); it is now protected and the United Arab Emirates plays a major role in its conservation (Das 2007). In adulthood the dugong measures up to 3-4m long and can weigh as much as 400kg. The ethnographic records of the Indo-Pacific zone indicate that for a given coastal society the number of dugongs captured is important (Haddon 1904-1912; Petit 1927; Marsh et al. 2002; McNiven & Bedingfield 2008). There are no published records of mass strandings of dugong, although individual strandings or dugongs being carried ashore during cyclones have been reported (Bryden et al. 1998).
The flesh, oil, hide and tusks of the dugong were long exploited in the region and the consumption of dugongs has been confirmed on many archaeological sites. Evidence for dugong hunting has been found from the sixth-fifth millennia, in the coastal occupations of Marawah MR11, Dalma DA11, Akab and Jezirat al-Hamra JH. …


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The New Braunfels ISD Board of Trustees recently honored this year's Silver Unicorn recipients; T.J. Hapshie, Amy Hirsch, and Ralph Koch.
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The Tor Browser keeps your online activities private. It disguises your identity and protects your Web traffic from many forms of Internet surveillance. Tor can also be used to bypass Internet filters.
- Microsoft Windows
The ability to hide your location on the Internet from the websites you visit
The ability to conceal which websites you visit from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and surveillance programmes
The ability to bypass Internet censorship and filtering rules
Protection from insecure and potentially malicious websites through the HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript browser add-ons
Note: If you are in a location where access to the Tor Project website is blocked, you can use email to request a download link that is more likely to work. Just send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the version you need (windows, OsX or Linux) in the body of the message. You will receive a response that includes a link to the Tor Browser archive via Dropbox, Google Docs or Github. Further details about this feature are available on the Tor Project website.
GNU Linux, Mac OS and other Microsoft Windows Compatible Programs:
The Tor Browser is available for the GNU Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows and Android operating systems. Tor is the most rigorously tested tool for keeping your online activities anonymous. Below are a few other tools that are suitable for circumventing online censorship and protecting the confidentiality of your local traffic. Unlike Tor, these tools require that you trust the service provider:
- Riseup VPN is a free Virtual Private Network (VPN) proxy server for Linux, MAC, Android and Microsoft Windows.
- Psiphon is a free commercial Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution for Microsoft Windows and Android.
- Your Freedom is a commercial proxy tool that also offers a free service. It is available for Linux, Mac OS and Microsoft Windows.
The Tor Browser is a software tool designed to increase the privacy and security of your Internet activities and habits. It masks your identity and your on-line browsing from many forms of Internet surveillance. Tor can also be useful as a secure means of circumventing electronic restrictions so that you may access or publish blogs and news reports.
Tor protects your anonymity by routing communications through a distributed network of servers run by volunteers from all over the world. Using Tor hides the sites you visit from potential onlookers, and hides your location/identity from those sites. The software is designed also to make sure servers in the Tor network don't know both your location and the sites you are visiting.
Tor also takes steps to encrypt the communication to and through its network, but this measure can not extend all the way to a website which is sending or receiving content over non-encrypted channels (i.e. not providing https access). Nevertheless, the advantage of using Tor when accessing such sites is that Tor can secure your communication up to the step between the last of the Tor servers and the non-secure site. This confines the chance to intercept the content to that last step.
The Tor Browser Bundle consists of the Tor software and a modified version of the Firefox web browser, which is designed to provide extra protection while using it. The browser bundle also includes NoScript and HTTPS-Everywhere add-ons.
Note: There is a trade-off between anonymity and speed. Because Tor facilitates anonymous browsing by bouncing your traffic through volunteers' computers and servers in various parts of the world, it will definitely be slower than using other web browsers on your computer.
Bridge Relay: A Bridge Relay is a Tor server that is not publicly announced. If you choose to use a bridge, the server can provide you with access to the Tor network even if Tor is blocked in your country.
Port: In this chapter, a port is an access point through which software communicates with services running on other networked computers. If a URL, such as www.google.com, gives you the 'street address' of a service, then the port tells you which 'door' to use once you reach the correct destination. When browsing the Web, you typically use port 80 for unsecured sites (http://mail.google.com) and port 443 for secured ones (https://mail.google.com).
Proxy: A proxy is a software intermediary that runs on your computer, on your local network, or somewhere else on the Internet, that helps to relay your communication toward its final destination.
Route: A route is the communication path on the Internet between your computer and the destination server.
The Tor Browser is a modified version of Firefox that will provide you with all you need to browse the Internet anonymously. This package requires no installation; it simply has to be extracted and run.
To extract the Tor Browser, perform the following steps:
Step 1. Double click ; the Open File - Security Warning dialog box may appear. If it does, click to activate the program. The language selection screen will appear next:
Figure 1: The language selection screen
Choose the language from the pull-down menu and click OK button to activate window below.
Step 2: Choose the location to extract the Tor Browser.
Note: The Tor Browser does not automatically install itself in C:\Program Files directory path (unlike the majority of the installation procedures for our recommended tools) but instead creates a folder on your Desktop.
Important: You may also extract and use the Tor Browser to a different folder on your computer or to a USB memory stick. This may help you to conceal the fact that you are using Tor on your computer.
Either click to accept the default Desktop folder and activate window below. Or click to activate the Browse for Folder window and navigate to the desired folder path for extracting the Tor Browser.
Figure 2: An example of the default extraction path for the Tor Browser
Step 3. Click to begin extracting the Tor Browser. Once completed you will be presented with a screen confirming the Tor Browser is installed and optionally to start it.
Figure 4: The extracting process has completed successfully
Note that the option Run Tor Browser is selected on the screen above. Once you click on Finish button Tor Browser will start automatically.
In this example, after the extraction process has been completed, the Tor Browser will appear on your Desktop in a folder called Tor Browser. To use the Tor Browser at any time just double click on in this folder.
Figure 5: The Tor Browser extracted to a directory on the Desktop
You have now successfully extracted the Tor Browser.
The first time that you start the Tor Browser you will be prompted to choose how it will access the Internet:
Direct Access: This option should be selected if your access to the Internet is not restricted and if the use of Tor is not blocked, banned or monitored where you are.
Restricted Access: This option should be selected if your access to the internet is restricted or if the use of Tor is blocked, banned or monitored where you are.
These settings can be changed at any stage from within the Tor Browser without having to re-install the software. This may need to be done if situations in your location change or if you are visiting a different country.
Any subsequent time that you start the Tor Browser it will connect you to the Tor network with no additional configuration required.
To configure the Tor Browser to access the Tor network directly, perform the following steps:
Step 1: Navigate to the Tor Browser folder, and then double click to activate the following screen:
Figure 1: The Tor Network Settings panel
Step 2: Click the button, which will open the Tor Status window that shows you the progress as the software connects to the Tor Network.
Figure 2: The Tor Status windows, showing the connection progress
A few moments later, the Tor Browser will activate a new browser window displaying the following screen:
Figure 3: Tor Browser; successfully connected to the Tor network
You can now browse the web with the protection of the Tor network.
Note: Every time you launch the Tor Browser, it will automatically open the Tor Status window (Figure 2) before starting the Tor Browser (Figure 3).
If you live in an area where accessing the Tor Network directly, as described above, is not possible or risky, you can configure Tor to try and circumvent the obstacles that are in place.
Step 1: Navigate to the Tor Browser folder, and then double click to activate the following screen:
Figure 4: The Tor Network Settings panel
Step 2: Click the button which will open a new window. You will be asked three short configuration questions to help you access the Tor Network.
Question 1: Proxy Access; If you need to access the Internet via a proxy check yes and then press . If you do not use a proxy check no and then press .
If you selected yes above, fill in your proxy settings on the following screen. If you do not know your proxy settings, check your regular browser settings. In Firefox you can find them in Options > Advanced > Network tab in Connection Settings section. In other browsers you may look for Internet Options. Use the Help feature within your browser for further assistance.
Figure 5: Proxy settings screen
Question 2: Restricted Ports; If you are accessing the Internet through a firewall that only allows access over certain ports, for example port 80 or 443 for web browsing, select yes and press to configure the ports, otherwise select no and press .
Figure 6: Port restriction configuration screen
Question 3: Censored Internet connection; If you live in a country which is actively blocking or monitoring Tor traffic you can configure the Tor Browser to use a Bridge which will disguise the fact that you are using Tor.
Once you have clicked after question 2 you will be presented with a screen allowing you to paste in Bridge addresses. See the section Getting Bridge Addresses for instructions on obtaining bridge addresses.
Figure 7: Tor Bridge configuration screen
Once you have added the bridge addresses click to finish your configuration and connect to the Tor Network.
Figure 8: The Tor Status windows, showing the connection progress
A few moments later, the Tor Browser will activate a new browser window displaying the following screen:
Figure 9: Tor Browser; successfully connected to the Tor network
You can now browse the web with the protection of the Tor network.
Note: Every time you launch the Tor Browser, it will automatically open the Tor Status window (Figure 8) before starting the Tor Browser (Figure 9).
At any stage, if you need to access the Tor Network a different way, for example if you have travelled to a country that blocks Tor, you can update your settings from within the browser. Click on the icon and select Open Network Settings.
Figure 10: Tor Browser options
You will be presented with a new window (Figure 11) that will allow you to change how the Tor Browser accesses the Internet. Tick the options you want and change their settings. Once satisfied with the changes press and restart the Tor Browser.
Figure 11: Tor Browser options
In order to configure the Tor Browser to use Bridges you will need to get bridge addresses. There are two main ways this can be done:
To get bridges by email, you will need either a Gmail or a Yahoo email account. Send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject get bridges. After a few minutes you will receive an email with 3 bridges listed and some additional details.
Figure 12: Email with bridges listed
Web Site
If your access is not completely restricted you may be able to get Bridge addresses from the Tor website by visiting https://bridges.torproject.org/
After opening the website you will need to perform three steps:
Click on
Click on
Fill out the captcha and press
Once you have entered the captcha correctly you will be presented with three Bridge addresses.
Figure 13: Bridge addresses received via the Tor Project website
Note: The Bridge Database is designed to prevent anyone from easily learning all of the bridge addresses. At first, it appears to give you the same bridges each time. After a period time, however, it will eventually provide new addresses.
After you received the bridge addresses copy them to the field in the window as in Figure 7: Tor Bridge configuration screen or Figure 11: Tor Browser options.
The Tor Browser is designed to be very easy to use, in fact if you are familiar with using a web browser you will be able to use the Tor Browser as it is a version of Firefox modified for additional privacy and security.
Note: as the Tor Browser is designed with privacy in mind, it is configured not to save any information to your hard drive or USB stick. This means that when you quit the Tor Browser all your browsing history is forgotten.
As with any circumvention software it is recommended to perform simple independent tests to ensure the Tor Browser works, by going to any website that will try to identify where are you based from the IP address we visit the site from.
There are a number of free website that do this, such as: check.torproject.org, iplocation.net, ip2location.com, whatismyipaddress.com, etc. If you access these website directly without using Tor Browser or other circumvention tool it should display your real IP address and provide a more or less accurate physical location for you. However if you access those websites using Tor Browser or other circumvention tool the location and IP address you will see should be different.
Figure 1: Firefox (top) & The Tor Browser (bottom) on the same computer showing Tor status and IP address differences
You can create a new identity for your Browser. This means that new set of random Tor proxy servers will be selected for you to use. This will make you appear to come from a new location to the web servers. To do this, click on and select New Identity from the menu. The Tor Browser will briefly close, clearing your browsing history and cookies and then restart. Once they browser has restarted you can check your new location as described above in section 4.1.
Figure 2: Selecting New Identity from TorButton menu
Tor Browser comes with the NoScript add-on pre-installed. NoScript can additionally protect you from malicious websites and from leaking your real identity through execution of scripts in your Tor Browser, however NoScript is disabled by default in Tor Browser so this additional protection is not readily available.
If you wish to enable the extra protections afforded by NoScript, it can be turned on by opening the NoScript menu and clicking Forbid Scripts Globally and then configuring the various options it provides.
We recommend that you read more about NoScript in the FireFox chapter.
Figure 3: Enabling NoScript by selecting Forbid Scripts Globally (advised) option
In How-to Booklet chapter 1.4 we explain how important is keeping your software up to date, the Tor Browser is no exception. When updates are available, the next time you start the Tor Browser you will be presented with a notice that your browser is out of date (Figure 4) and instructed to click and choose Download Tor Browser Update. You will be brought to the Tor Project website where you can get the latest release. Once downloaded you can follow this guide to install the updated Tor Browser.
Figure 4: Tor Browser showing an update is available
Q: Why should I use the Tor Browser?
A: The Tor Browser is a useful tool if you need to circumvent Internet censorship in order to access certain websites. It's also useful if you don't want your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to know what websites you're visiting, or if you don't want those websites to know your location on the Internet.
Q: When I run the Tor Browser, do all of my other programs communicate anonymously through the Tor network?
A: No, it is important to remember that, by default, the Tor Browser only sends its own traffic through Tor network. Your other programs communicate directly with service providers on the Internet. You can verify that you are communicating over the Tor network by loading the Tor Check page at https://check.torproject.org. Tor also assumes that you will exercise of caution, common sense and good judgement when browsing new or unfamiliar websites.
Q: Is my Tor Browser traffic encrypted?
A: Tor will encrypt all of your communication within the Tor network. Keep in mind, however, that Tor cannot encrypt your traffic after it leaves the Tor network. To protect the data you send and receive between your Tor exit node and the website with which you are communicating, you are still relying on HTTPS.


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The Milwaukee Film Festival will screen two hall-of-fame candidates this fall as part of its Cinema Hooligante lineup of genre films.
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Woman Who Accused Gadhafi Supporters Of Rape Now In Tunisia
The young Libyan woman who recounted a graphic and harrowing ordeal of rape and torture has now escaped across the Libyan border to Tunisia, according to CNN. Iman al-Obeidi, the woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel in April where foreign journalists were staying to recount her story, got help from two defecting Libyan military officers to make her escape. She wore an enveloping headscarf to disguise her appearance as she passed military checkpoints, revealing just a single eye.
NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro interviewed al-Obeidi last month without government 'minders'. Although al-Obeidi's story of a sustained and violent sexual assault by many men over several days cannot be verified by NPR, Lourdes reported 'the marks on her body from her ordeal are still visible'.
Al-Obeidi told NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi-Nelson she was also beaten after her escape, once so badly she remained in bed. After her story came to light, the Gadhafi government further charged her with slandering the men she named as her rapists. As Mark wrote, Gadhafi officials distributed a video they claimed was al-Obeidi dancing suggestively, but the woman in the video has different physical characteristics.
CNN's Nic Robertson says al-Obeidi is now receiving help from foreign diplomats and was taken in by the French embassy in Tunis and French President Nicholas Sarkozy has taken an interest in her case. Al-Obeidi has not revealed what her next steps are.
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The "improbable stupidity" of an Afghan Taliban leader led to his capture last week, the Washington Post reports.
The Post says that Mohammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander in the eastern part of Afghanistan, was wanted for allegedly plotting two attacks on local Afghan forces. His face then turned up on wanted posters throughout the area.
Imagine the surprise of Afghan officials when Ashan approached them, holding the poster bearing his likeness and demanding the $100 reward advertised for his capture.
"We asked him, 'Is this you?'," Army Spc. Matthew Baker told the Post. "Mohammad Ashan answered with an incredible amount of enthusiasm, 'Yes, yes, that's me! Can I get my award now?'"
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District American Kitchen & Wine Bar
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- Cuisine Type: American
- SPG Discount: 10%
- Hours Of Operation
District American Kitchen & Wine Bar
- Cost: $$
- Cuisine Type: American
- SPG Discount: 10%
- Hours Of Operation
Hours Of Operation
Meetings & Events
The ideal meeting and event space in downtown Phoenix
Offering dedicated event staff, elegant ballrooms and meeting rooms, our Phoenix event space has everything to set a successful meeting.
- Over 112,000 sq. ft. of indoor/outdoor event space
- 20 flexible meeting rooms
- Two pristine ballrooms
- Adjacent to Phoenix Convention Center
- Outdoor terrace space with sweeping city views
- AlliedPRA Destination Management