Automatic packaging method and apparatus

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Method and apparatus for automatically packaging towelettes in envelopes positioned in succession at an insertion station wherein the longitudinally folded leading end of a web of absorbent towelette material is severed to provide successive strips of predetermined length and each strip, is folded transversal first to a J-fold condition wherein the longer leg of the J is about twice the length of the shorter leg and the longer leg of the, J of each strip is folded substantially about its midpoint to form a folded towelette of three times the original longitudinally folded strip thickness as it is being thrust into an envelope positioned in timed relation at the insertion station. The …