JP2000083991A - Packaging structure of absorptive article - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packaging structure of an absorptive article which prevents respective tacky adhesive parts from adhering to each other and facilitates the taking-out of the article. SOLUTION: This packaging structure 1 of the absorptive article consists of a sanitary napkin 2 which has a main body 3, first and second wing parts 4a, 4b and is provided with the main body tacky adhesive part 33 and first and second wing tacky adhesive parts 41, 41 and a packaging sheet 5 and is formed by freely peelably sticking the main body tacky adhesive part 33 and the inside surface 51 of the packaging sheet 5 and integrally folding the napkin and the sheet. The first and second wing parts 4a, 4b are folded to the skin contact surface 31 side of the main body 3. The packaging sheet 5 is stuck to the entire area of the main body tacky adhesive part 33. First and second flap tacky adhesives 41, 42 are freely peelably stuck to a tacky adhesive part protective sheet 6. The tacky adhesive part protective sheet 6 has an extension part 60 on a front end edge 52 side from the first flap tacky adhesive part 41 on the front end edge 52 side of the packaging sheet 5. The extension part 60 has a fixing part 61 for fixing the tacky adhesive part protective sheet 6 to the outside surface 56 of the packaging sheet 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a packaging structure for an absorbent article formed by packaging an absorbent article having first and second wing portions with good take-out.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an absorbent article, a main body, a pair of left and right first wing portions provided on the left and right sides in front of the main body, and left and right sides behind the main body are provided. There are provided sanitary napkins having a pair of left and right second wings and the like having first and second wings. The first and second wing parts are vertically long, and the absorbent article whose rear part is located at the buttocks when used is wrapped around shorts or other underwear, or is attached to shorts without wrapping the second wing part around shorts. It is intended to be used in a fixed manner. Conventionally, in a packaging structure for individually mounting such sanitary napkins and the like, a release material is used separately from the individual packaging material to cover the adhesive portion of the main body and the adhesive portions of the first and second wing portions. Was. For this reason, in the above-mentioned packaging structure, when attaching a sanitary napkin, not only the time required to remove the peeling material protecting the adhesive portion of the main body and the adhesive portions of the first and second wing portions is required, but also However, there is a problem that the detached release material remains as dust. Furthermore, the adhesive part of the main body and the adhesive part of the wing part are in an uncovered state from the time of removing the release material to the time of attaching it to underwear such as sanitary shorts, and the above-mentioned release material that is dust also exists. Therefore, there is a problem in terms of ease of handling, for example, the mounting operation is apt to be erroneous, and there is a possibility that the adhesive portions of the main body and the adhesive portions of the first and second wing portions may be mutually bonded.

[0003] In order to solve the above problems,
In JP-A-10-127686, the adhesive portions of the first and second wing portions are covered with release paper, and the release paper is further extended from the rear end of the absorbent article. Has been proposed, in which is adhered to a packaging sheet. However, in such a packaging structure, apart from opening the packaging structure, an operation of peeling the adhesive portions of the first and second wing portions from the release paper is required, and the absorbent article cannot be taken out smoothly.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a packaging structure for an absorbent article which can be easily taken out without the adhesive portions being adhered to each other.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems The present inventors protected the adhesive portions of the first and second wing portions with an adhesive portion protection sheet, and provided a front end of the adhesive portion protection sheet with respect to the front of the adhesive portion of the first wing portion. It has been found that a packaging structure of an absorbent article having a side position fixed to a packaging sheet can achieve the above object.

The present invention is directed to a main body, a pair of left and right first wing portions provided on the left and right sides in front of the main body, and a pair of left and right second wing portions provided on the left and right sides behind the main body.
A main body adhesive portion provided on a non-skin contact surface side of the main body, and a first wing adhesive portion and a second wing adhesive portion on the non-skin contact surfaces of the first and second wing portions, respectively. Part comprising an absorbent article and a packaging sheet for mounting the same, the main body adhesive portion and the inner surface of the packaging sheet are releasably adhered to each other, and the absorbent article and the packaging sheet In the packaging structure of an absorbent article obtained by integrally folding the main body, the first and second wing portions are each bent toward the skin contact surface side of the main body, and the packaging sheet is provided with the main body adhesive portion. The first flap adhesive portion and the second flap adhesive portion are both adhered to the adhesive portion protective sheet in a releasable manner, and the adhesive portion protective sheet is attached to the front edge side of the packaging sheet. 1st or 2nd An extending portion extending to the front edge side from the adhesive portion, wherein the extending portion is an outer surface of the packaging sheet or a packaging sheet extending outward from a rear end of the absorbent article. An object of the present invention is to provide a packaging structure for an absorbent article having a fixing portion for fixing the pressure-sensitive adhesive portion protection sheet on an inner surface.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, a sanitary napkin packaging structure 1 as an absorbent article according to the present embodiment has a main body 3, and a pair of left and right first wing portions provided on the left and right sides in front of the main body 3. 4a and a pair of left and right second wing portions 4b provided on both left and right sides behind the main body 3, a main body adhesive portion 33 is provided on the non-skin contact surface 32 side of the main body 3, and the first and second wings are provided. A sanitary napkin 2 as an absorbent article in which a first wing adhesive portion 41 and a second wing adhesive portion 42 are provided on the non-skin contact surface 32 side of the portions 4a and 4b, respectively, and a packaging sheet for individually mounting the same. Consisting of five,
The body adhesive section 33 and the inner surface 51 of the packaging sheet 5 are peelably adhered to each other, and the sanitary napkin 2 as an absorbent article and the packaging sheet 5 are integrally folded.

More specifically, in the sanitary napkin 2 used for the packaging structure 1, the skin contact surface 31 is made of a liquid-permeable sheet material, and the non-skin contact surface 32 is made of a liquid impermeable sheet. Each of which is formed of a material, and further has a liquid-retentive absorber between the skin contact surface 31 and the non-skin contact surface 32 (not shown), the main body adhesive portion 33, the first wing adhesive portion 41, The second wing adhesive portion 42 is also a normal sanitary napkin (a so-called night sanitary napkin) formed using a normal adhesive. The first wing 4a is located on the front side of the napkin, and the second wing 4b is located behind the napkin in the longitudinal direction. Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the main body adhesive portion 33 is provided over substantially the entire non-skin contact surface 32.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the packaging sheet 5 has a substantially rectangular shape, and a front edge 52 thereof is provided with a well-known tab tape 53 for fastening the packaging structure.

As a material for forming the packaging sheet 5, a known material can be used, and specifically, polypropylene, polyester, polyethylene, polyvinyl alcohol, nonwoven fabric or paper having a thickness of 5 to 50 μm, or a composite material thereof And other packaging sheet materials.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, in the sanitary napkin packaging structure of the present embodiment, the first and second wing portions 4a and 4b are respectively provided on the skin contact surface 31 of the main body 3.
Side, the packaging sheet 5 is adhered to the entire area of the main body adhesive portion 33, and the first flap adhesive portion 41
The second flap adhesive portion 42 is peelably adhered to one adhesive portion protection sheet 6, and the adhesive portion protection sheet 6 is a packaging sheet of the first and second flap adhesive portions 41, 42. 5, an extension 60 extending toward the front edge 52 from the first flap adhesive portion 41 located on the front edge 52 side.
The extending portion 60 has a fixing portion 61 for fixing the adhesive portion protection sheet 6 on the outer surface 56 of the packaging sheet 5.

More specifically, since the first and second wing portions 4a and 4b are bent toward the skin contact surface 31, the first and second wing adhesives are formed on the surface of the skin contact surface 31. The parts 41 and 42 are directed to the skin contact surface 31 side. Further, substantially the entire surface of the non-skin contact surface 32 is in contact with the packaging sheet 5, and the entire surface of the main body adhesive portion 33 on the non-skin contact surface 32 is protected by the packaging sheet 5.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the packaging sheet 5 is formed so as to be entirely larger than the sanitary napkin 2 and has a front edge 52, a side edge 54 and a rear edge 55.
Are adhered to the sanitary napkin 2 so as to extend beyond the periphery of the sanitary napkin 2. In addition, in the present embodiment, the entire inner surface 51 is subjected to the peeling treatment, but the inner surface 51 may be subjected to the peeling treatment except for the portion extending outward from the rear end of the absorbent article.

The above-mentioned peeling treatment can be performed by using a known technique. Specifically, a peeling treatment agent is applied to the entire inner surface 51 of the packaging sheet 5 or a release tape, a release paper, or the like.
The peeling can be performed by attaching a peeling member such as a peeled nonwoven fabric, a peeled polyethylene laminated paper, or a peeled polyethylene film. As the release treatment agent or the release agent component of the release member, a silicone resin type, a fluorine resin type, an octadecyl isocyanate type or the like is preferable. In particular, as the release treatment,
As the release agent component, it is preferable to use a silicone resin-based one and apply it to make it high molecular weight by heating and drying, ultraviolet irradiation or the like, or to spray it with a spray to form a thin film.

The surface of the adhesive part protection sheet 6 which comes into contact with the first and second wing adhesive parts 41 and 42 is subjected to a peeling treatment, so that the first and second wing adhesive parts 41 and 42 can be peeled off. 42. As a material for forming such an adhesive portion protection sheet 6, a release treatment is performed.
Polyolefin films, polyester films, paper, and the like are used.

The adhesive part protection sheet 6 is a rectangular sheet and is adhered so as to connect the first and second wing adhesive parts 41 and 42. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the sanitary napkin 2 and the packaging sheet 5 are integrally folded in four, and the fixing portion 61 is formed by applying an adhesive. It is fixed to the outer surface of the packaging sheet 5. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the packaging structure 1 of the present embodiment is configured such that the sanitary napkin 2 having the first and second wing portions 4 a and 4 b bent on the packaging sheet 5 is interposed through the main body adhesive portion 33. After the adhesive portion protection sheet 6 is further adhered to the first and second wing adhesive portions 41 and 42, these are adhered to the front portion 11, the intermediate portion 12, and the rear portion 13.
And three folding sections 15 which are divided into four sections of the rearmost section 14 are formed as folding points. At this time, the rearward portion 14 is folded over the rear portion 13, the rearward portion 13 in which the rearward portion 14 is folded is folded together with the rearward portion 14 on the intermediate portion 12, and finally the front portion 11 is folded into the intermediate portion. It is formed by folding toward the 12th side. In other words, the packaging structure of the present embodiment is manufactured in this manner.

As shown in FIG. 1, the packaging sheet 5
The left and right side edges 54 are sealed by heat sealing, and the front edge 52 is a tab tape 5.
3 is sealed.

When the sanitary napkin 2 is used, the tab tape 53 is peeled off, the front portion 11 is opened, and the exposed front end portion 2a of the sanitary napkin 2 is pulled out, so that the main body adhesive portion 33 is peeled off. At the same time
Since the first and second wing adhesive portions 41 and 42 are also sequentially peeled off, the force required to take out the sanitary napkin 2 is only the force in the peeling direction between the sanitary napkin 2 and the packaging sheet 5, and the packaging structure 1 is opened. And the peeling process of the adhesive part protection sheet 6 can be performed promptly and simultaneously, and the sanitary napkin 2
Excellent take-out property. Then, in the packaging structure 1 of the sanitary napkin 2 of the present embodiment, since the adhesive portion protection sheet 6 is fixed to the packaging sheet 5 as described above, after the napkin 2 is taken out, as shown in FIG. The sheet 5 and the adhesive part protection sheet 6 are integrated, so that no extra dust is generated, and a large sanitary napkin 2 for night use or the like.
Can be packaged compactly, so the packaging structure is compact and easy to carry. Further, in the packaging structure 1 of the present invention, since the napkin 2 can be easily taken out as described above, the adhesive portions 33, 41, and 42 adhere to each other at the time of taking out, so that the first and second wing portions 4a. 4b is less likely to impair the function. Further, the second wing portion 4b
Deviation and distortion are also prevented.

The adhesive part protection sheet is not limited to a single sheet, but may be a combination of two sheets instead of a single sheet. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the packaging structure can be folded into three instead of four, and the rear edge 55 of the packaging sheet 5 does not extend from the rear edge of the sanitary napkin 2. It can also be. Further, the fixing portion may be fixed to an inner surface of a packaging sheet extending outward from a rear end of the absorbent article. In particular, when the adhesive part protection sheet is fixed to the inner surface of the packaging material with an adhesive, the packaging material is not subjected to a release treatment at a portion to which the protection sheet is adhered, but at least a partial treatment is applied to a region to which the main body adhesive part is attached. Is preferred. Further, the second wing portion 4b may be located on the front edge 52 of the packaging sheet 5, that is, the rear end 2b of the sanitary napkin 2 may be located on the front edge 52. In the above-described embodiment, the sanitary napkin has been described as an example. However, the present invention can be applied to an incontinence pad and the like.

[0021]

According to the packaging structure of the absorbent article of the present invention, the adhesive portions are not adhered to each other and are easily taken out.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of a packaging structure for an absorbent article according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a development view of the packaging structure shown in FIG. 1 (a development view of a state in which the adhesive part protection sheet is peeled off from the packaging sheet and the adhesive part protection sheet is adhered to the first and second wing adhesive parts). ).

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a packaging sheet and an adhesive part protection sheet after removing a sanitary napkin.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view (corresponding to FIG. 2) showing another embodiment of the packaging structure of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Sanitary napkin packaging structure 11 Front part 12 Intermediate part 13 Rear part 14 The rearmost part 2 Sanitary napkin 2a Front end 2b Rear end 3 Main body 31 Skin contact surface 32 Non-skin contact surface 33 Body adhesive part 4a 1 wing portion 4b second wing portion 41 first wing adhesive portion 42 second wing adhesive portion 5 packaging sheet 51 inner surface 52 front edge 53 tab tape 54 side edge 55 rear edge 6 adhesive portion protection sheet 60 extension portion 61 fixing portion

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Yoji Gumi 2606 Kabane-cho, Akaga-cho, Haga-gun, Tochigi Prefecture Inside the Kao Corporation Research Institute (72) Inventor Minoru Nakanishi 2606 Akabane, Kaiga-cho, Haga-gun, Tochigi Prefecture F-term in Kao Corporation Research Laboratories (reference) 4C003 EA03 GA08

Claims (2)

[Claims] A main body, a pair of left and right first wings provided on both left and right sides in front of the main body, and a pair of left and right second wings provided on both left and right sides behind the main body; A main body adhesive portion is provided on the non-skin contact surface side of the first and second wing adhesive portions and a first wing adhesive portion and a second wing adhesive portion are provided on the non-skin contact surface side of the first and second wing portions, respectively. An absorbent article comprising an article and a packaging sheet on which the article is individually packaged, and the main body adhesive portion and the inner surface of the packaging sheet are releasably adhered to each other to integrally fold the absorbent article and the packaging sheet. In the packaging structure for a sexual article, the first and second wing portions are each bent toward the skin contact surface side of the main body, and the packaging sheet is adhered to the entire area of the main body adhesive portion, The first flap adhesive portion and the upper The second flap adhesive portion is both detachably adhered to the adhesive portion protection sheet, and the adhesive portion protection sheet has a front end more than the first or second flap adhesive portion located on the front edge side of the packaging sheet. An extension portion extending to the edge side, wherein the extension portion is provided on the outer surface of the packaging sheet or on the inner surface of the packaging sheet extending outward from the rear end of the absorbent article; A packaging structure for an absorbent article, comprising: a fixing portion for fixing an absorbent article. 2. The absorbent article and the packaging sheet,
It is folded in four in one, and the fixed part is
The packaging structure for an absorbent article according to claim 1, wherein the packaging structure is fixed to an outer surface of the packaging sheet.