Patent ID: 8317766

Claim:
An individually packaged absorbent article comprising, an absorbent article comprising an absorber situated between a liquid-permeable surface sheet and a back face sheet, an adhesive layer, for adhering the absorbent article to a wearer's undergarment, formed on an outer face of said back face sheet, and a package sheet which individually packages the absorbent article, the individually packaged absorbent article being produced by a process comprising forming said package sheet from an elongated continuous band sheet and, at at least one side edge at intermediate sections of the band sheet where the absorbent articles are to be placed at a predetermined interval, forming a notch cut out section which satisfies the following conditions: (1) said notch cut out section is formed by an outward curved cut line in a shape bulging to the outside of the band sheet toward a slanted forehand inclined direction of a line front from the cut start point of the side edge section, the inward curved cut line which continues from the terminal end of said outward curved cut line through an inflexion point, and is in a shape bulging to the inside of the band sheet, and the cut shaped line is in a nearly longitudinally half cut drop shape which continues from the inward curved cut line, and extends in a width direction of the band sheet to reach a cut terminal point of the side edge; (2) when the sectional distance in the line direction of said outward curved cut line is referred to as B and the distance from said inflexion point to the side edge of the band sheet is referred to as A, the condition B>1.5A is to be satisfied; cutting the band sheet into individual package sheets having a matched pair of longitudinal side edges corresponding to the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article and the matched pair lateral side edges parallel to a lateral direction of the absorbent article at a cut line following the width direction of the band sheet from the inside of the section of said outward curved cut line and the inward curved cut line, and providing, on the face of the package sheets which will contact the absorbent article, a release treatment in a region corresponding to at least a region of said adhesive layer, and placing each absorbent article on said face of said package sheet to which said release treatment has been applied, then folding both side sections on the longitudinal side edge side of the package sheet to the liquid-permeable surface sheet whereby a front end section of the absorbent article is made to be presented to the outside from said notch cut out section, and in an overlapping tab section of both side sections of said longitudinal side edge side, releasably bonding both side sections on the longitudinal side edge side by a line of adhesive provided in the longitudinal direction, and then folding together the package sheet and the absorbent article in the longitudinal direction and then sealing the packaged absorbent article with a tab tape.