Patent ID: 8356460

Claim:
A method for wrapping a paper roll having a pair of spaced-apart roll ends and an outer roll surface extending between the roll ends, the method comprising: Surrounding the outer roll surface with a first section of a wrapper; Crimping a second section of the wrapper, contiguous with the first section, over a respective one of the roll ends by creating a plurality of folds with interior fold sections, the second section having exposed adhesive on at least one side of the wrapper with portions of the wrapper with the exposed adhesive facing each other in the interior fold sections; and Sealing the interior fold sections by creating adhesive-to-adhesive bonds with the portions of the wrapper with the exposed adhesive facing each other in the interior fold sections to prevent liquid infiltration therebetween, wherein the wrapper includes an adhesive material layer, having a width W 2 , superposed to a first paper layer, having a width W 1 , and a second paper layer, having a width W 3 , superposed to the adhesive material layer, the widths W 1 and W 2 being wider than the width W 3 , thereby exposing the exposed adhesive strip in the second section of the wrapper.