Abstract: 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 transversely 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.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically packaging folded towelettes wherein a flat web of sheet material is continuously fed from a roll or like supply vertically upwardly through a longitudinal folding device by feed rollers that grip the longitudinally folded web and move the leading end through a rotary knife station where the moving web is periodically severed to provide vertically disposed strips of predetermined length in succession in a first transverse fold station where a horizontally reciprocable blade engages and transversely folds each severed strip while thrusting it into a horizontal roller transport arrangement that feeds each transversely folded strip in turn to a second transverse fold station where a vertically reciprocable blade imparts the second transverse fold to the strip while thrusting it into an envelope.