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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2019
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Bad Soden, DE;
Hans Adolf Jackels, Mechernich, DE;
Claus Peter Stoelzel, Bad Soden, DE;
Christine Elisabeth Zipf, Lauda-Königshofen, DE;
Roland Engel, Sulzbach, DE;
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A package comprising a stack of absorbent articles which are bi- or tri-folded, and each article comprises a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core comprises an absorbent layer comprising a central portion, a first side portion and a second side portion, a first folding guide between the central portion and the first side portion, and a second folding guide between the central portion and the second side portion. Each side portion comprises a plurality of winglets, each winglet having a proximal side relative to a folding guide and extending outward from this proximal side. Neighboring winglets are separated by a gap between their neighboring sides. When the absorbent core is folded along the folding guides, the central portion and the side portions form a three-dimensional basin and the gaps between the winglets decrease, the neighboring sides optionally coming into contact. The articles in the package are either bi-folded along a transversal fold line and are compressed at an In-Bag Compression Rate of from 5% to 50%, or the articles are tri-folded along a first fold line and a second fold line parallel to the transversal direction.