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Packaging a strip of material by folding and cutting the folded package

  • US 5,956,926 A
  • Filed: 09/29/1997
  • Issued: 09/28/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of forming a package of a strip of sheet material comprising:

  • providing a strip of the sheet material from a supply thereof, the strip having a first surface, a second surface, a first side edge and a second side edge;

    forming the strip into a stack having two opposed first sides, two opposed second sides and two opposed ends by repeatedly folding the strip back and forth to form a plurality of folded strip portions of the strip, with each folded strip portion being folded relative to one next folded strip portion about a first fold line transverse to the strip and relative to a second next adjacent folded strip portion about a second fold line transverse to the strip and spaced from the first line such that,the folded strip portions thus form a plurality of first fold lines arranged at one of the first sides of the stack and a plurality of second fold lines arranged at the other of the first sides;

    the folded strip portions of the stack each have the first side edges thereof aligned and the second side edges thereof aligned;

    the strip is traversed across the stack from one of the first sides of the stack to the other of the first sides of the stack; and

    the strip has the first and second surfaces thereof generally parallel to the ends of the stack;

    and, after the stack is completed, in a single cutting stroke cutting completely through all the folded strip portions in the stack along a cutting plane which extends from one first side to the opposed first side and from one end to the opposed end, so as to divide the stack into separate portions, the cutting plane extending in a direction generally parallel to the second sides.

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