Patent ID: 8082639

Claim:
A method of producing a tampon packaged in a protective sleeve, which is made from a preform formed by winding a strip of fibrous non-woven material which is shaped to form the tampon in separate forming stages by pressure forces acting on the preform from outside, and which is individually packaged by providing a film sleeve tightly enclosing the tampon serving as a protective sleeve, wherein the film sleeve is produced as a cylindrically smooth, non-profiled sleeve that is impervious to moisture and surrounds at least an external surface of the preform, subsequently a substantially cylindrical preform is placed in the film sleeve before a final forming stage, and the preform including the film sleeve surrounding the preform is then fed to the final forming stage, where the preform is formed between at least two pressing jaws which can be displaced relative to one another until the preform has assumed a non-cylindrical final shape, and the tampon is individually packaged by closing the film sleeve.