Folded stack of tissues
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorJessica Annette Ives Dieringer
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Abstract
The present invention provides a pack of tissues including multiple tissues arranged in a stack and a dispenser enclosing the stack. The dispenser includes a dispensing orifice. At least a portion of the tissues are folded so as to include a leading edge contacting the upper surface of a center panel and a trailing edge contacting the bottom surface of the center panel. The tissues are interfolded such as to have a portion of the leading edge of a first, or preceding, tissue to overlap the leading edge of a second, or succeeding tissue. In this manner, the leading edge of the first tissue terminates at a first vertical axis and the leading edge of the second tissue terminates at a second vertical axis where there is a distance between the first and the second vertical axis that is greater than 0.
Claims10
A stack of interleaved tissue sheets comprising:
- a. a first C-folded tissue sheet having a first folded top panel having a folded edge and a first leading edge terminating at a first vertical axis and a second folded top panel having a folded edge and a first trailing edge, wherein the first and second folded top panels do not overlap one another,
- b. a second C-folded tissue sheet having a third folded top panel having a folded edge and a second leading edge terminating at a second vertical axis and a fourth folded panel having a folded edge and a second trailing edge, wherein the third and fourth top panels do not overlap one another,
- c. a third tissue sheet having a third leading edge terminating at the first vertical axis, and
- d. a fourth sheet having a fourth leading edge terminating at the second vertical axis,
- wherein the first and the second C-folded tissues are interleaved with one another such that the first and the second leading edges overlap such that the distance between the first and the second vertical axis is greater than 0 and wherein the third leading edge and the fourth leading edge overlap one another.
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