Package containing a plurality of wrapped absorbent articles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10111788-B2
Application number	US-201515128983-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2015
Priority date	Mar 26, 2014
Publication date	Oct 30, 2018
Grant date	Oct 30, 2018

Abstract

A package comprises: wrapped absorbent articles comprising: an absorbent article having an absorber; and a wrapper for individually wrapping the absorbent article, the absorbent article being placed on the wrapper and folded together with the wrapper, and the absorbent article being wrapped individually by the wrapper; and a bag containing the plurality of wrapped absorbent articles, wherein the wrapped absorbent articles are provided with a perfume, at least one surface of the bag comprises: aperture through which the perfume of the wrapped absorbent articles contained in the bag can pass; and a perfume indicator for indicating an existence of the perfume, a compressibility of the package is 10% or more when a load of 1.35 kg in weight is applied in an area of 100 mm×200 mm of the package for ten seconds, and a compression resilience of the package is 95% or more after ten seconds has passed after removal of the load.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A package comprising:
wrapped absorbent articles comprising: an absorbent article having an absorber; and a wrapper for individually wrapping the absorbent article, the absorbent article being placed on the wrapper and folded together with the wrapper, and the absorbent article being wrapped individually by the wrapper; and
a bag containing the plurality of wrapped absorbent articles, wherein
the wrapped absorbent articles are provided with a perfume,
at least one surface of the bag comprises: aperture through which the perfume of the wrapped absorbent articles contained in the bag can pass; and a perfume indicator for indicating an existence of the perfume,
a compressibility of the package is 10% or more when a load of 1.35 kg in weight is applied in an area of 100 mm×200 mm of the package for ten seconds, and
a compression resilience of the package is 95% or more after ten seconds has passed after removal of the load.

2. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the wrapped absorbent articles are stacked in a thickness direction of the absorbent articles, and
the surface of the package faces a side part of the wrappers that wrap the absorbent articles.

3. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the surface is a front surface of the package.

4. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the aperture is disposed in the perfume indicator.

5. The package according to claim 1 , further comprising a sealing portion covering the aperture and removably fastened to a surface of the bag, wherein
the sealing portion is re-attachable to the bag after the sealing portion is removed from the bag.

6. The package according to claim 5 , wherein the perfume indicator is disposed on the sealing portion.

7. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the aperture form a perforated cut line for tearing the bag, and
when the bag is torn along the perforated cut line, a window is made in the bag to access to the wrapped absorbent articles.

8. The package according to claim 1 , wherein the bag is made from polymeric resin film.

Assignees

• Unicharm Corp

Inventors

• Nishimura Kiyoko
• Noda Yuki
• Hayashi Toshihisa
• Nittono Taro

Classifications

• B65D75/5838

  combined with separate fixed tearing means, e.g. tabs · CPC title

• A61F13/535

  inhomogeneous in the plane of the pad, e.g. core absorbent layers being of different sizes ({A61F13/5323,} A61F13/537 take precedence) · CPC title

• B65D75/54

  Cards, coupons or other inserts or accessories · CPC title

• B65D75/38

  Articles or materials enclosed in two or more wrappers disposed one inside the other {(for shock absorbing purposes B65D81/03; for thermal insulating purposes B65D81/3893)} · CPC title

• A61F2013/530007

  being made from pulp · CPC title