Patent ID: 7571832

Claim:
A pack of tissues comprising multiple tissues arranged in a stack and an external envelope comprising: a dispensing orifice and enclosing said stack; said tissues being folded such as to comprise a leading panel, a trailing panel, a central panel, a leading fold and a trailing fold, wherein said leading fold separates said leading panel from said central panel and said trailing fold separates said trailing panel from said central panel, said stack having a n th tissue and a n+1 tissue, said n+1 tissue being positioned next to said n th tissue in said stack and further away in the stack from said dispensing orifice, wherein n is an integer having any value between 1 and 1 less than the number of tissues in said stack, and said tissues are interfolded such as to have a portion of said trailing or central panel of said n th tissue being (i) located under a portion of said n+1 tissue in said stack such that the n th and n+1 tissue each have an overlapping portion; and (ii) in contact with said portion of said n+1 tissue over an overlapping portion of said n th tissue such that the surface area of said overlapping portion of at least one n+1 tissue is greater than the surface area of said overlapping portion of said nth tissue; and wherein the pack further comprises a plurality of corner gaps, such that the leading and trailing folds of two consecutive tissues do not touch each other, and that the length of the corner gap of at least one n th tissue is greater than the length of the corner gap of the n+1 tissue.