INDIVIDUALLY PACKAGED ABSORBENT ARTICLE

• Main Authors: KUME YUKIO, NAKAO NAOTO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 09.03.2010
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CONVEYING; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGINGARTICLES OR MATERIALS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROSTHESES; STORING; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; UNPACKING

[PROBLEMS] To make it possible to easily take out mainly a napkin, while maintaining the surface sheet thereof in a hygienic state and avoiding the occurrence of individually-packaging failures such as bending or wrinkling in a package sheet during the production line. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] In the process of producing individually packaged absorbent articles, absorbent articles (1) are provided at definite intervals on a band-shaped sheet (10A) and a notch (13) satisfying the following requirements is formed at the intermediate site between each pair of the absorbent articles. [1] The notch (13) is formed by an outward curved cut line (20), which starts from the cutting-starting point in the side periphery toward the diagonally tilting direction forward in the line and shows a convex outward of the band-shaped sheet (10A), and an inward curved line (21) which is connected to the endpoint of the outward curved cut line (20) via an inflexion point (P) and shows a convex inward of the band-shaped sheet (10A). [2] When the interval distance in the line direction of the outward curved cut line (20) is referred to as (B) and the distance from the inflexion point (P) to the side periphery line of the band-shaped sheet (10A) is referred to as (A), the relationship B>1.5A is satisfied.