Interfolding facial tissues

• US 3,307,844 A
• Filed: 05/21/1964
• Issued: 03/07/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Corporation
• Original Assignee: Harold L. Stults
• Inventors: Stults, Harold L.
• Application Number:
  US04/369,066
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• US Class Current: 270/40
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 2010/428 Details of the folds or interfolds of the sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/1924 Napkins or tissues, e.g. dressings, toweling, serviettes, kitchen paper and compresses
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 45/24 Interfolding sheets, e.g. cigarette or toilet papers

Claims

1. THE METHOD OF FORMING STACKS OF INTERFOLDED DISPOSABLE PAPER TISSUES OF THE TYPE IDENTIFIED AS FACIAL TISSUES COMPRISING, THE STEPS OF, UNWINDING A PLURALITY OF WEBS OF THE PAPER TISSUE HAVING THE WIDTH DESIRED AS ONE DIMENSION OF THE TISSUES, SAID WEBS CORRESPONDING IN NUMBER TO THE NUMBER OF TISSUES DESIRED IN THE STACKS AND THE WEBS BEING IDENTIFIED BELOW IN A NUMERICAL SERIES STARTING WITH THE WEB FROM WHICH THE END TISSUE IN THE STACK IS FORMED, FOLDING THE FIRST WEB TOWARD ONE OF ITS FACES AWAY FROM ITS OTHER FACE TO FORM A FIRST SIDE FOLD PORTION WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY ONE-QUARTER OF THE WIDTH OF THE WEB AND WHICH IS POSITIONED AGAINST THE ADJACENT PORTION OF SAID ONE FACE, FOLDING SAID SECOND WEB TOWARD ONE OF ITS FACES AND AWAY FROM THE OTHER OF ITS FACES TO FORM A FIRST SIDE FOLD PORTION WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY ONE-QUARTER OF THE WIDTH OF THE WEB AND WHICH IS POSITIONED AGAINST SAID ONE FACE OF THE SECOND WEB, MOVING SAID WEBS LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF ALONG PATHS WHICH BRING THEM TOGETHER WITH THEIR CENTER LINES BEING SUBSTANTIALLY TOGETHER AND WITH SAID FIRST SIDE FOLD PORTIONS BEING OPPOSITE EACH OTHER WITH RESPECT TO SAID CENTER LINES, AND WITH SAID FIRST SIDE FOLD PORTION AND SAID ONE FACE OF THE SECOND WEB BEING POSITIONED AGAINST SAID OTHER FACE OF THE FIRST WEB, WHEREBY THE UNFOLDED SIDE EDGE PORTION OF EACH WEB EXTENDS AWAY FROM THE CENTER LINES OF THE WEBS BEYOND THE FOLDED EDGE OF THE OTHER WEB, FOLDING THE THIRD WEB IN THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED MANNER OF FOLDING SAID FIRST WEB TO PRODUCE A FIRST SIDE FOLD PORTION OF THE THIRD WEB CORRESPONDING TO SAID FIRST SIDE FOLD PORTION OF THE FIRST WEB AND POSITIONED SIMILARLY WITH RESPECT TO THE SAME SIDE EDGE AND FACE OF THE THIRD WEB, MOVING THE THIRD WEB LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF ALONG A PATH WHICH BRINGS IT AGAINST THE SECOND WEB WITH ITS CENTER LINE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE CENTER LINES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND WEBS AND WITH SAID FIRST SIDE FOLD PORTION OF THE THIRD WEB BEING IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID FIRST SIDE EDGE PORTION OF THE FIRST WEB AND POSITIONED AGAINST SAID OTHER SIDE OF THE SECOND WEB, FOLDING SAID UNFOLDED SIDE PORTION OF THE SECOND WEB AROUND SAID FIRST SIDE FOLD PORTION OF THE THIRD WEB AND AGAINST THE RESPECTIVE OTHER SIDE OF THE THIRD WEB, CONTINUING THE FOLDING AND ASSEMBLYING OF SUCCESSIVE WEBS IN THE NUMERICAL SERIES WITH EACH EVEN-NUMBERED WEB BEING INTERFOLDED WITH THE NEXT ADJACENT ODD-NUMBERED WEBS IN THE MANNER IDENTICAL WITH THE SECOND WEB AND WITH THE ODD-NUMBERED WEBS BEING INTERFOLDED WITH THE NEXT ADJACENT EVEN NUMBERED WEBS IN THE MANNER IDENTICAL WITH THE FIRST AND THIRD WEBS, THEREBY TO PRODUCE A CONTINUOUS ROPE OF INTERFOLDED WEBS, AND CUTTING THE ROPE INTO SUCCESSIVE LENGTHS TO PRODUCE THE DESIRED STACKS.