Patent ID: 11950992
Assignee: ONTEX BV
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 14:
15. 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.