A film-packaged product with excellent withdrawability of sheets of sanitary tissue paper has a bundle of sanitary tissue paper packaged with a flexible resin film, and includes a dispenser-port-forming region formed by disposing an easy-tear line in a loop in the top face, the region has a narrowed section extending widthwise in the middle of the depth direction, flaring sections each gradually flaring with increasing distance from the narrowed section outward widthwise, and curved convex sections each bulging convexly outward widthwise, and the width of the region is 70% or more the width of the top face, a maximum depth of the region is 10 to 40% the depth of the top face, the width of the narrowed section is 50 to 70% the length of the top face, and the depth of the narrowed section is 0.5 to 10% the depth of the top face.

A stack of web material for hygiene products, for use in a dispenser, including at least one continuous web material being Z-folded about transverse folding lines, the panels being piled on top of each other to form a height of the stack extending between a first end surface and a second end surface of said stack, and the first end surface being provided with a first connector, and the second end surface being provided with a second connector. At least one of the first and second connectors comprises a first mechanical connector structure and a second mechanical connector structure, the first and second mechanical connector structures being two corresponding structures, each structure being capable of forming a mechanical interconnection with the other structure, and being incapable of forming a mechanical interconnection with an identical structure.

A dispenser for dispensing sheets of web material is provided. The dispenser includes a dispenser housing and storage compartment for receiving a stack of sheets of web material. The housing has a front side, a rear side, upper and lower end portions, and two vertical sides connecting the front and rear sides, the lower end portion forming a dispensing end portion of the dispenser. The storage compartment includes a support arrangement for supporting the stack of sheets of web material at the dispensing end portion of the dispenser. The support arrangement a dispensing opening is arranged in a portion between the front, rear and side portions and an abutment surface to which the stack of sheets of web material can abut.

A dispenser provided by a dispenser body with an article storage chamber bounded by at least one panel with an article extraction site leading to an article storage chamber containing at least one stack of articles folded over at least once in a non-binding arrangement with each article in the stack oriented in the same direction and with the outermost article disposed proximate the extraction site and constructed to slide off the folded article stack and out through the extraction site while leaving the next article in the folded article stack exposed for subsequent withdrawal wherein the articles may be selectively withdrawn one at a time through the extraction site until the innermost article is removed from the article storage chamber along with methods of loading and dispensing such dispensers are described herein.

An improved tear resistant wiper is provided having a repeating pattern of thin, closely spaced curvilinear embossed elements adjacent the leading edge of the wipe and which pattern extends inwardly less than a third of the length of the wipe. The linear emboss elements have a high aspect ratio and narrow width in order to obtain a high density of embossments such that discrete unembossed regions within the leading edge region are small and yet the overall unembossed area still occupies at least 70% of the surface area.

A plurality of stacked, interconnected wipes that collectively define a stack. Each wipe is connected to at least one other wipe on only one of the right side and the left side of the stack via a connection. In particular embodiments, immediately successive connections in a stacked direction are on alternating right and left sides of the stack. In other embodiments, immediately successive connections in a stacked direction are on the same side of the stack.

The invention provides sheet material, such as tissue products, folded such that the first and second ends of the sheet are folded towards one another, but do not abut or overlap. As such the first and second ends are spaced apart from one another such that there is some non-zero distance between them. The space between the two ends defines a waist portion having a height dimension that is less than either of the ends of the folded product. When sheets of material are folded in this manner and stacked one on top of another, the resulting stack also has a middle portion that is slimmer than the end portions. For example, the ends may have a first and second height (H1 and H2) that is substantially similar, while the middle portion may have a third height (H3) that is less than the first and second heights.

A machine configured to produce stacks of folded pop-up wipes includes a holder, a first tension unit, a folding unit, and a control unit. The folding unit includes two or more folding rollers each including a hub including grippers to grip and release the material and infeed plates to feed the tissue to respective grippers of the other roller. Positions of the infeed plates are adjustable in relation to positions of the grippers Distances between the grippers and the infeed plates adapt a width of the produced stacks of wipes. The control unit is communicatively coupled to the first tension unit and the folding unit and includes a processor, and a memory. The memory contains instructions executable by the processor. The material is threaded along a path through the machine via the first tension unit and the folding unit. Executing the instructions causes the control unit to control the machine.

A method of dispensing wipes includes providing a stack of wipes. Each wipe is generally rectangular in shape and defines four corners. A dispenser has a dispensing orifice. The method includes grasping a presented corner of a leading wipe, and pulling the presented corner of the leading wipe to withdraw the leading wipe out of the dispenser, whereby the leading wipe releases from a succeeding wipe such that a presented corner of the succeeding wipe, and no other corner of the succeeding wipe, protrudes from the dispensing orifice. In particular embodiments, the presented corner of the leading wipe and the presented corner of the succeeding wipe originate from opposite sides of the stack. In other embodiments, the presented corner of the leading wipe and the presented corner of the succeeding wipe each originate from the same side of the stack.

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.