Patent ID: 8201386

Claim:
A method for making a package-absorbent article assembly comprising: an absorbent article packaged with a wrapping sheet wherein said absorbent article has a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and comprising an inner sheet facing a user's body, an outer sheet facing a user's garment and a liquid-absorbent structure sandwiched between said inner and outer sheets, wherein said method comprises the steps of: using a first absorbent article and a second absorbent article as said package-absorbent article assembly alternately feeding said first and second absorbent articles at regular intervals onto a continuous wrapping sheet web along a center line extending in said transverse direction so as to bisect a dimension of said wrapping sheet web as measured between its upper and lower ends opposed to each other in said longitudinal direction and extending in said transverse direction; displacing said first absorbent article aside from said center line toward said upper end and displacing said second absorbent article aside from said center line toward said lower end; folding back said first absorbent article from said upper end toward said center line in a two-ply fashion, folding back said second absorbent article from said lower end toward said center line in a two-ply fashion, then folding back said upper end of said wrapping sheet web toward said center line along a fold line of said first absorbent article and folding back said lower end of said wrapping sheet web toward said center line along a fold line of said second absorbent article; bonding two layers of said wrapping sheet web overlapping each other in a joint zone defined between each pair of said first absorbent article and said second absorbent article adjacent in said transverse direction; and cutting said wrapping sheet web substantially in a middle of said joint zone to obtain each set having a given number of pair of a first package-absorbent article subassembly containing therein said first absorbent article and a second package-absorbent article subassembly containing said second absorbent article.