Soft pack for paper tissues

In a soft pack containing stacks of folded paper tissues, said pack being formed from a blank of thin flexible packaging material, which enclosed the pack contents on all sides, said pack having a tear-open flap (21) which is formed in a pack front wall (11), which is defined by a perforation line (22) in said front wall (11) and which is partially covered by a large-surfaced adhesive label (24) having an adhesive-free grip tab (25) for opening and reclosing the soft pack, the improvement wherein:

• a) the adhesive label (24) is severed without creating waste by punching from a continuous web (26) of material having a width and having an adhesive coating on only one side;
• b) the adhesive label (24) has a width that is identical to the width of the web (26) of material;
• c) the adhesive label (24) has rectilinear side edges (27,28) which extend parallel to one another and which correspond to side edges of the web (26) of material (26);
• d) the adhesive label has a lower portion, which engages said front wall (11) of the pack, and an upper portion secured to said tear-open flap (21);
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• e) the adhesive label (24) has a pair of transverse edges (29, 30) which extend between said side edges (27, 28) and parallel to one another in non-linear, curved fashion so that said lower portion of the adhesive label (24) has a downwardly directed convex shape, and so that said upper portion of the adhesive label (24) has a corresponding downwardly directed concave shape.