Patent ID: 7028841
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: A61F,B65D

Abstract:
1. A packaged assembly of disposable diapers, comprising a package formed of a flexible sheet substantially in a rectangular hexahedron having first through sixth surfaces, each pair of said surfaces adjacent to each other being substantially orthogonal to each other; and a plurality of pull-on disposable diapers, each of said diapers including front and rear waist regions opposed to and connected with each other along transverse opposite lateral portions extending in a longitudinal direction in a vicinity of edges thereof so as to form a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes, and each of said diapers having a waist's end portion forming said waist-hole and a crotch region's bottom lying below said leg-holes; wherein said plurality of diapers are compactly packed within said package so that said plurality of disposable diapers may have the respective waist regions placed in a state of compression one with another between opposed surfaces of said package; each of said diapers is folded at both lateral portions of said crotch region's bottom along a pair of fold-guiding lines each bifurcating from a transversely middle zone toward higher points of said leg-hole; said package contains therein first diapers each having said waist's end portion lying on a side of said first surface of said package with respect to said crotch region's bottom, and second diapers each having said waist's end portion lying on a side of said second surface of said package opposed to said first surface with respect to said crotch region's bottom, so that said first and second diapers are alternately placed in close contact one with another to form a row in which the number of said first diapers is substantially equal to the number of said second diapers; each of said diapers comprises a liquid-pervious topsheet facing a wearer's body, a liquid-impervious backsheet facing away from said wearer's body and a liquid-absorbent core interposed between said top- and backsheets and extending between said front and rear waist regions; and each of said diapers is further provided with a pair of second fold-guiding lines extending in said transversely opposite lateral portions in said longitudinal direction immediately outside transversely opposite side edges of said core so that said diaper is folded inwardly of said diaper at said transversely opposite lateral portions along said second fold-guiding lines.