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A CONTOUR PACKAGE CONTAINING A SUPPLY OF CONTOURED SANITARY NAPKINS, EACH OF SAID NAPKINS BEING OF ARCUATE SHAPE IN A LENGTHWISE DIRECTION AND PRESENTING A CONCAVELY CURVED INNER FACE AND A CORRESPONDING CONVEXLY CURVED OUTER FACE, AND SAID NAPKINS BEING ARRANGED IN TRANSVERSE PARALLEL STACKS WITH THEIR CONCAVELY CURVED INNER OUTER FACES IN CONTACT WITH THEIR CONCAVELY CURVED INNER FACES, AND SAID PACKAGE BEING MADE FROM A FLAT ONE PIECE BLANK OF PAPER BOARD OR THE LIKE, TRIMMED AND SCORED AND FOLDED INTO A SIX-SIDED TUBULAR BODY HAVING TOP AND BOTTOM PANELS OF THE SAME LENGTH AND RECTANGULAR SIDE PANELS WHICH SPACE APART THE TOP AND BOTTOM PANELS, ONE OF SAID TOP AND BOTTOM PANELS BEING ARCHED INWARDLY AND FORMING A CONCAVE SPAN FROM ONE SIDE PANEL TO THE OTHER AND CONFORMING TO THE CONCAVELY CURVED INNER FACES OF THE NAPKINS, SAID INWARDLY ARCHED PANEL BEING FORMED AT ITS OPPOSITE ENDS WITH INWARDLY TURNED CLOSURE FLAPS WHICH ARE TAPERED AND SPLIT INTO SECTIONS PERMITTING THE INWARD ARCHING OF SAID PANEL AND WHICH PRESENT AN OUTER PROFILED EDGE CONFORMING SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE OPPOSING TOP OR BOTTOM PANEL AND SERVING TO MAINTAIN SAID PANELS IN SPACED RELATION, AND THE RECTANGULAR SIDE PANELS BEING FORMED AT THEIR OPPOSITE ENDS WITH INWARDLY TURNED CLOSURE FLAPS WHICH PRESENT PROFILED SIDE EDGES CONFORMING SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE TOP AND BOTTOM PANELS AND LIKEWISE SERVING TO MAINTAIN SAID PANELS IN SPACED RELATION, AND THE TOP OR BOTTOM PANEL OPPOSITE THE INWARDLY ARCHED PANEL BEING FORMED AT ITS OPPOSITE ENDS WITH INWARDLY TURNED CLOSURE FLAPS ARRANGED IN PLIED RELATION TO THE INWARDLY TURNED CLOSURE FLAPS OF THE INWARDLY ARCHED PANEL AND HAVING AN ARCUATE SHAPED OUTER EDGE CONFORMING SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE CONCAVE CURVATURE OF THE INWARDLY ARCHED PANEL AND SIDE EDGES CONFORMING SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE STRAIGHT PARALLEL SIDE PANELS, AND A FLAP FOR ATTACHING ONE OF THE SIDE PANELS TO ONE OF THE TOP AND BOTTOM PANELS ALONG THEIR ADJACENT EDGES TO HOLD ALL FOUR PANELS IN TUBULAR FORM, SAID ATTACHING FLAP BEING FORMED ON ONE OF SAID PANELS AND TURNED INWARDLY AND GLUED OR OTHERWISE SECURED TO THE OTHER PANEL.