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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2012
Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Adrienne Rae Loyd, Neenah, WI (US);
Marcus David Weiher, Sherwood, WI (US);
Carrie Nicole Sinkele, Austintown, OH (US);
Daniel Thomas LaBash, Appleton, WI (US);
Thomas William VanDenBogart, Slinger, WI (US);
Gary John Borkowski, Hortonville, WI (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A package includes a tampon and applicator assembly and a wrapper for enclosing the tampon and applicator assembly. The wrapper is selectively configurable between a sealed configuration wherein the tampon and applicator assembly are sealingly enclosed in the wrapper and an opened configuration for allowing the tampon and applicator assembly to be removed from the wrapper. The wrapper has a front panel, a back panel, two side edges, two end edges, an interior space, a longitudinal axis, and a transverse axis. The front panel has, in the opened configuration of the wrapper, a pair of spaced-apart longitudinal components extending generally parallel to each other and longitudinally of the wrapper to define an opening in the wrapper. Each of the longitudinal components is spaced inward from the respective side edge.