Patent ID: 7913478

Claim:
A method comprising: placing a napkin on an inner surface of a receiving cradle, the receiving cradle having an exit end and an entry end, the napkin being placed diagonally onto the receiving cradle such that one corner of the napkin is adjacent the exit end, the inner surface having an upward facing concave shape; delivering one or more utensils to the inner surface of the receiving cradle via one or more utensil guides, each of the one or more utensil guides conveying one type of utensil from a utensil cartridge that holds a plurality of that one type of utensil in an ordered manner such that each released utensil is released onto the utensil guide in a uniform alignment and then delivered to the receiving cradle with the same uniform alignment; lifting the one corner of the napkin with a first movable finger attached to a rotating shaft, the rotating shaft also comprising a second fixed finger that extends under the corner of the napkin, the first movable finger and the lifted one corner of the napkin providing a stop against which the delivered one or more utensils come to rest in the uniform alignment; folding the one corner down over the heads of the one or more utensils by lowering the first movable finger, the lowering of the first movable finger causing the one or more utensils and the folded one corner of the napkin to be grasped as a utensil set between the first movable finger and the second fixed finger; lowering a wrapping guide having a concave down facing channel onto the receiving cradle such that the utensil set is encircled by the concave down facing channel of the wrapping guide and the concave up inner surface of the receiving cradle; and rotating the shaft and the grasped utensil set to cause the napkin to be wrapped about the one or more utensils to a desired tension.