On-the-go package of absorbent articles and method of making

A substantially cuboid reclosable flexible package (8) of personal hygiene absorbent articles (1,100), having a front wall (81), a rear wall (82), two opposed side walls (83,83′) and two opposed end walls (84,84′), wherein the package (8) includes a stack of at least two personal hygiene absorbent articles (1,100) comprising a garment attachment adhesive covered by a removable release paper (2), wherein each personal hygiene absorbent article (1,100) has a central section (4), an inner-outboard section (5) and an outer-outboard section (6), and wherein each personal hygiene individual absorbent article (1,100) is asymmetric between the outboard sections (5,6) and an outboard section extends laterally outward of the central section (4), and wherein the inner-outboard section (5) and the outer-outboard section (6) of each personal hygiene individual absorbent article (1,100) are folded inwardly along two spaced-apart laterally oriented fold lines (3) with the removable release paper (2) exposed, characterised in that the folded absorbent articles are free of an individual wrapping pouch and comprise closure means (7) for securing the folded absorbent articles and characterised in that the package (8) is made of a wrapping material sealed at one position on either the front (81), the rear (82), or one of the two side walls (83,83′), and on the two end walls (84,84′), and in that it comprises, on at least one wall, a tear-open flap (86) limited by at least one tearing line (87).

A process for making a substantially cuboid reclosable flexible package (8) of personal hygiene absorbent articles (1,100) free of an individual wrapping pouch, having a front wall (81), a rear wall (82), two opposed side walls (83,83′) and two opposed end walls (84,84′), comprising the steps of:

• (i) providing personal hygiene absorbent articles (1,100) comprising a garment attachment adhesive covered by a removable release paper (2), wherein each individual absorbent article (1,100) has a central section (4), an inner-outboard section (5) and an outer-outboard section (6), and wherein each individual absorbent article (1,100) is asymmetric between the outboard sections (5,6) and an outboard section extends laterally outward of the central section (4);
• (ii) folding inwardly along two spaced-apart laterally oriented fold lines (3) the inner-outboard section (5) and the outer-outboard section (6) of each individual absorbent article (1,100) into a folded article wherein the removable release paper (2) is exposed;
• (iii) providing each folded article with closure means (7) for securing the folded article;
• (iv) stacking at least two folded articles;
• (v) delivering a continuous rectangular sheet of wrapping material;
• (vi) wrapping the sheet around the stack of folded articles;
• (vii) cutting the sheet longer than the periphery of the stack to create an overlap region (85),
• (viii) thereby forming a tube around the articles;
• (ix) folding over the open ends (840) of the tube towards the stack of articles;
• (x) sealing the sheet at least in two regions selected from the group consisting of the overlap region (85) and the two end walls (84,84′);
• (xi) making one region selected from the group consisting of the overlap region (85) and the two end walls (84,84′), openable and reclosable.