Individually packaged sanitary napkin having cleaning wipe packaged therewith
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsDaniella J. Fisher, Thomas W. Osborn, III, Mark D. Seymour, Gary W. Kingry, Charles J. Berg, Jr., Charles D. Cook, Steven R. Gilbert, Douglas Toms
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Abstract
An individually packaged sanitary napkin having a cleansing wipe packaged therewith. The individually packaged sanitary napkin includes a wrapper that covers the sanitary napkin's adhesive fastener prior to use. The sanitary napkin wrapper can be provided with a flap or pouch for securing the used sanitary napkin for disposal. A number of alternative arrangements are disclosed for packaging the cleansing wipe with the wrapped sanitary napkin.
Claims14
An individually packaged sanitary napkin comprising:
- a sanitary napkin having a body-facing side, a garment-facing side, a length, a width, two longitudinal edges, and two end edges, said sanitary napkin comprising:
- a liquid pervious topsheet;
- a liquid impervious backsheet joined to said topsheet, said backsheet having opposed inwardly and outwardly oriented faces;
- an adhesive fastener on said outwardly oriented face of said backsheet;
- an absorbent core positioned between said topsheet and said backsheet;
- a releasable wrapper releasably affixed to the adhesive fastener on said outwardly oriented face of said backsheet, said releasable wrapper having a longitudinal dimension, a transverse dimension, an inwardly oriented face, an outwardly oriented face, a pair of longitudinal side edges, a pair of end edges, and a pair of ends, wherein only said releasable wrapper is folded about a longitudinal axis adjacent at least one of said longitudinal edges of said sanitary napkin in a C-fold thereby wrapping said at least one of said longitudinal edges, and wherein said sanitary napkin and said releasable wrapper are folded about two transverse axes which form said wrapper into first, second, and third trisections, wherein said first trisection is folded over said second trisection to form a package body and said third trisection is folded over said first trisection to form a package flap;
- a pouch disposed on one of said faces of said wrapper and positioned entirely within one of said trisections said pouch comprising a first portion of said wrapper and a thin flexible material having sides that are joined to said first portion of said wrapper with a seal, at least a portion of said seal being releasable;
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- a cleansing wipe positioned inside said pouch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.