WO2020121160A1

WO2020121160A1 - Hygienic article product

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Publication number: WO2020121160A1
Application number: PCT/IB2019/060563
Authority: WO
Inventors: Paul Kunick; Lothar Schmidt
Original assignee: Hygiene Oederan Produktionsgesellschaft Mbh Herstellung Von Damen- Und Erwachsenenhygiene
Priority date: 2018-12-10
Filing date: 2019-12-09
Publication date: 2020-06-18
Also published as: DE202018107039U1; EP3894335A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a hygienic article product, which comprises: a plurality of hygienic inserts and/or sanitary pads intended to be inserted into underpants, on the rear side of each of which hygienic inserts and/or sanitary pads at least one adhesive layer having at least one covering strip that can be pulled off of the at least one adhesive layer is provided; and packaging for the hygienic inserts and/or sanitary pads. According to the invention, the hygienic inserts and/or sanitary pads are not packaged individually, and the packaging is a reclosable film packaging and/or paper packaging based on paper tissue packaging, in which film packaging and/or paper packaging the hygienic inserts and/or sanitary pads are inserted lying one over the other in a stack and from which film packaging and/or paper packaging the hygienic inserts and/or sanitary pads can be removed individually like paper tissues, and the film packaging and/or paper packaging has a reclosable opening on each of the narrow sides of the film packaging and/or paper packaging lying opposite one another.

Description

Hygiene product

The present invention relates to a hygiene article product that a plurality of provided for an insert in a pair of underpants and / or sanitary napkins, on the back of which at least one adhesive layer is provided with at least one of the at least one adhesive layer peelable cover strips, and their packaging having.

The term hygiene pads and / or sanitary napkins in the present invention are understood to mean pantiliners, sanitary napkins for monthly hygiene and / or incontinence pads.

Known hygiene pads and / or sanitary napkins are often packaged individually, whereupon a large number of such individually packed sanitary pads and / or sanitary napkins are sold in a plastic bag or in a cardboard box. The respective individual packaging is made of plastic and encloses the hygiene insert and / or bandage, which is usually folded once or twice or also unfolded. For the use of the respective hygiene insert and / or sanitary napkin, it is first removed from the foil bag or cardboard box and must then also be freed from the individual packaging. In addition, a cover strip made of paper and / or plastic is also provided on the hygiene insert and / or bandage, which also has to be removed from the hygiene insert and / or bandage before it is used. The current individual packaging of the hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins enables hygienic storage of the respective hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins until they are used. For example, the individually packaged hygiene pads and / or sanitary napkins can be conveniently carried in a handbag. The result, however, is a huge amount of packaging waste that has to be disposed of.

Although the individual packaging can in principle be used to wrap an already used hygiene insert and / or sanitary napkin in order to properly dispose of the used hygiene insert and / or sanitary napkin, the garbage problem associated with the amount of packaging material still exists . This is being considered the already excessive pollution caused by the huge amount of packaging material is no longer justifiable.

Furthermore, we do not know, for example, individually packed and only with a protective strip provided with hygienic inserts and / or sanitary pads that are sold in cardboard boxes. Once the respective cardboard box is opened, it cannot be closed again in such a way that the hygiene inserts and / or bandages therein are adequately hygienically protected. In addition, such cardboard boxes are bulky and therefore not suitable for on the go.

Finally, there are also sanitary napkin packaging in the prior art, in which individually wrapped sanitary napkins are present in a film packaging, the film packaging being tearable on its packaging top side along two parallel perforation lines which extend centrally and transversely across the packaging top side. At a free end of the resulting by tearing, still hanging at one end on the film packaging, an adhesive strip is provided with which the film strip can be fixed to an outside of the film packaging after removal of a sanitary napkin from the film packaging. By opening the film packaging, however, it is unlocked in the area of the opening in such a way that the film strip, even if it is fixed to the film packaging, does not hygienically close the opening again. The sanitary napkins can even fall out of the film packaging despite fixed film strips. In addition, this sanitary napkin packaging is too large for a handbag.

Document EP 0 030 601 A1 discloses a conventional soft pack for paper handkerchiefs, but is also described in its application as being suitable for other cellulose products, such as napkins, sanitary napkins, etc. The soft pack made of a plastic film has a substantially cuboid structure with the formation of the front wall, rear wall, side walls and end walls, parts of the pack bounded by perforation lines being able to be torn open. In particular, either the large front wall or the rear wall are provided with markings tapering towards a tab end that can be grasped, perforation lines and connection perforations or other markings ensuring the tearability of the material. bordered pull tab. The tab end of the tear tab is covered in particular with an adhesive strip.

An alternative form for handkerchief packaging is disclosed in DE 295 04 873 U1. The tissue paper packaging described here has an additional packaging chamber on the front, rear, side, top or bottom packaging side, which is used to hold used tissues and is closed off by a partition from the chamber containing the fresh tissues.

In the document DE 89 11 486 U1 a soft packaging is disclosed which serves for the packaging of non-rectangular, flexible flat objects, in particular elongated slip inserts rounded at the ends, which are wrapped in the folded state with film material, according to the invention a plurality of folded to rectangular shape Flat objects would be stacked one on top of the other and surrounded by a cuboidal packaging sleeve lying relatively close to the stack, and the packaging sleeve being designed to be open and resealable over the entire width of a cuboid side face and at least part of its depth.

In the document DD 2 76 624 A1, a method for producing sanitary napkins with adhesive strips is disclosed, the adhesive strip being applied using a hotmelt adhesive and then being covered with a cover strip. An absorbent core is underlaid on the side of the bandage facing away from the body with a liquid-impermeable film. The absorbent pad is covered with a layer of bandage cellulose and the whole bandage is covered with hygienic nonwoven and closed on all sides. The adhesive strip is then attached to the nonwoven.

In the publication DE 20 2004 015 961 U1 a hygiene product is described which has a suction product and a cleaning product combined therewith. The suction product can be a bandage or a slip insert or an incontinence product. The cleaning product is a cotton pad or a cleaning cloth. In one embodiment, the suction product is in a folded form and the cleaning product is placed on the suction product and partially folded in with it. Suction and cleaning products are put together in one bag packed, the bag also acts as a cover of a pressure sensitive adhesive strip arranged on the suction product.

It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins that can be transported hygienically packaged, for example, conveniently in a handbag, without causing a lot of packaging waste.

This object is achieved by a hygiene article product which has a plurality of hygiene inserts and / or bandages provided for an insert in a pair of underpants, on the back of which at least one adhesive layer is provided with at least one cover strip which can be peeled off from the at least one adhesive layer, and the packaging thereof , solved, the hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins not being individually repackaged and the packaging corresponding to a paper tissue packaging, such as the closable foil and / or paper packaging, in which the sanitary inserts or sanitary napkins are placed in a stack one above the other and from which the hygiene inserts and / or bandages can be removed individually, such as paper handkerchiefs, and the film and / or paper packaging each has a reclosable opening on opposite narrow sides of the film and / or paper packaging.

The hygiene article product according to the invention comprises both the packaging and the hygiene inserts and / or bindings incorporated therein and, if appropriate, further agents which are introduced into the packaging and serve in the broadest sense of hygiene.

In the present invention, a plurality of hygiene inserts and / or bandages having only the at least one cover strip and no individual packaging are in a film and / or paper packaging which corresponds to or resembles a paper tissue package.

By the description that the packaging is a reclosable film and / or paper packaging corresponding to a paper tissue packaging, it is meant that the packaging is constructed as described in the document EP 0 030 601 A1. So the packaging in the present invention is a soft pack. The paper handkerchief process used in the present invention Package corresponding packaging has a substantially cuboid construction on the formation of front wall, rear wall, side walls and end walls, where parts of the pack which are delimited by perforation lines can be torn open. In particular, either the large front wall or the rear wall with a tapering tab end he tapering through perforation lines and connection perforations or other markings ensuring the tearability of the material markings tear tab are provided. The tab end of the tear tab is covered in particular with an adhesive strip.

This film and / or paper packaging can be opened by, for example, breaking open a tab-shaped, pre-perforated line of the film from which the film and / or paper packaging is formed. Then, as is also known from paper handkerchiefs, a closure flap formed by breaking the film can be lifted and a hygiene insert and / or bandage can be removed from the film and / or paper packaging. The other hygiene layers and / or bandages remain clean and protected in the film and / or paper packaging. The film and / or paper packaging can then be closed again.

This can be realized, for example, in that an adhesive bar is provided on the sealing flap, by means of which the sealing flap can be fixed to the further film material of the film and / or paper packaging. In this case, an adhesive or adhesive layer is provided on the adhesive bar, which enables easy adhesion, but also easy manual release of the adhesion of the adhesive bar to the material of the film and / or paper packaging.

The film and / or paper packaging with the hygiene inserts and / or bandages incorporated therein is designed to be light and space-saving and can therefore be carried easily in a handbag, for example. Although the hygiene inserts and / or bandages in the film and / or paper packaging are hygienically protected, it is only necessary for the use of the hygiene insert and / or bandage removed from the film and / or paper packaging, the respective at least one Remove from the cover strip, which - in addition to the thin film and / or paper packaging, which only has to be disposed of when all the hygiene inserts and / or bandages incorporated therein have been disposed of - is the only one to be used by the person using it disposing of waste material. Compared to the prior art, this is associated with an enormous reduction in waste.

The at least one cover strip is preferably a paper strip, but can also be made from a different material, such as plastic or a composite material.

After removing the cover strip, the adhesive layer remains at least in large part on the back of the respective hygiene insert or sanitary napkin, so that the hygiene insert or sanitary napkin can be fixed in the crotch area of a pair of underpants when it is used functionally.

In the hygiene article product according to the invention, the hygiene inserts and / or bandages introduced into the film and / or paper packaging are either unfolded or folded at least once, as a result of which their length is halved or third in comparison to their unfolded state of use.

If the hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins in the present invention preferably have a short length that is different from conventional hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins or are folded, they can easily be formed into the typically shorter than conventional hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins, a foil and / or paper packaging modeled on a paper bag cloth packaging.

In the present invention, film or paper packaging can be used as well as a transparent film packaging otherwise used for the packaging of paper handkerchiefs. In the present invention, however, being modeled on a paper tissue packaging does not necessarily mean that the foils or paper packaging must be designed exactly like a paper tissue packaging. The film or paper packaging used according to the invention can taper on one side along its length, for example, and thus be adapted to the shape of the hygiene inserts and / or bandages introduced therein, or be significantly shorter than conventional paper tissue packaging. In the present invention, the hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins lie flat on top of one another in the film or paper packaging. The hygiene inserts and / or bandages preferably lie one above the other in such a way that a cover strip facing the back of a hygiene insert and / or bandage lies on the front side of another hygiene insert and / or bandage. The respective hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins can lie in the same orientation or in alternating directions in the film or paper packaging. The latter is advantageous if the hygiene inserts and / or bandages have a shape that tapers in length, for example, on one side. Then the cuboid shape of the film or paper packaging is well filled.

Because the film and / or paper packaging has a reclosable opening on opposite narrow sides of the film and / or paper packaging, the two narrow sides of the film and / or paper packaging are advantageously suitable for removal. This can be used, for example, to ensure that different hygiene deposits and / or bandages are stored in the film and / or paper packaging, which can be removed from the film and / or paper packaging by the different narrow sides.

In advantageous embodiments of the hygiene article product according to the invention, the film and / or paper packaging has at least one openable and closable sealing flap, the flap width of which essentially corresponds to the width of a narrow side of the film and / or paper packaging, the respective sealing flap consisting exclusively of one a material area of a front or back of the film and / or paper packaging is formed cover area and a richly adhering to the masking tape is formed. Since the covering area is formed only from the material of the front or back of the film and / or paper packaging and the rest of the film and / or paper packaging maintains its shape, the film and / or paper packaging does not open after opening, but only releases the area under the cover area. The cover area thus formed almost completely closes the opening area when it is fixed with the aid of the adhesive strip on the outside of the film and / or paper packaging. Due to the fact that the closure flap and thus the cover area have a width that corresponds to the width of the narrow side on which the hygiene inserts and / or bandages from the film and / or paper packaging are removed, the hygiene inserts and / or bandages can be removed particularly conveniently from the film and / or paper packaging.

Preferably, only a single line of perforations is provided between the covering area of the respective closure flap in the unopened state of the film and / or paper packaging and the remaining material of the front or back of the film and / or paper packaging. This perforation line course defines the shape of the covering area of the closure flap. The course of the perforation line is preferably realized by a single perforation line, but can also be realized by several perforation lines running one above the other or close to one another.

In other embodiments, other predetermined breaking points in the film material of the film and / or paper packaging can be used instead of perforations.

In preferred embodiments of the invention, the perforation line or breaking point profile is semicircular. However, it can also be angular or wavy or has a course that forms a square covering area.

Typically, the hygiene liners or sanitary napkins used in the present invention have useful lengths in a range from 140 mm to 160 mm, preferably 150 mm. In special configurations of the present invention, the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins in their unfolded use state have a length in the range from 100 mm and 120 mm, preferably from 1 10 mm. In many cases, this length is sufficient to fulfill the function of blood and / or secretion uptake by the relevant hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins. The specified length corresponds to the length of conventional paper tissue packaging. Thus, the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins can be inserted into the foil and / or paper packaging and stored there without having to be folded.

In other embodiments of the invention, the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins are each folded at least once transversely to their longitudinal orientation in order to shorten their storage length in the film and / or paper packaging. However, the hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins can also be folded more than once, for example with the formation of a storage length halving or thirding. It is particularly hygienic if, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins are folded in such a way that the at least one cover strip after the respective sanitary insole or sanitary napkin is folded is on the outside. In this embodiment, the respective hygiene insert or sanitary napkin is grasped on the at least one cover strip when it is removed from the film and / or paper packaging and not on its suction side which later faces the body, so that the suction side remains hygienically clean. This also applies to the further hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins that remain in the film and / or paper packaging after removal of one of the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins, which is advantageous, for example, if the film and / or paper packaging after one of the Hygiene inserts or ties are not completely closed again or the closure of the foil and / or paper packaging is damaged.

It has proven to be particularly favorable if the film and / or paper packaging has a reclosable opening on at least one of its narrow sides and the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins are introduced into the film and / or paper packaging in such a way that folded edges of the respective hygiene inserts or bandages on the side of the opening of the packaging. The respective hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins can be pulled out of the film and / or paper packaging at the folded edge by a simple handle, for example between the thumb and index finger.

The narrow sides of the film and / or paper packaging are not the two largest trained visible sides in the present invention, i.e. the front and the back of the film and / or paper packaging, but the narrower ones, either the top and the bottom or the both long sides of the film and / or paper packaging.

In one embodiment of the invention, a first closure flap of a first of the two reclosable openings can be provided on a front side of the film and / or paper packaging and a second closure flap of a second of the two reclosable openings on a rear side of the film and / or paper packaging. However, this embodiment of the invention can also be used to store hygienic inserts and / or bandages on the one hand and paper handkerchiefs on the other. Accordingly, it is provided in a variant of the present invention that a stack of the hygiene inlays and / or bandages and a stack of handkerchiefs lying one above the other are introduced into the film and / or paper packaging in such a way that the hygiene inlays and / or bandages from a first reclosable opening on a first of the narrow sides of the film and / or paper packaging and the handkerchiefs can be removed from a second reclosable opening on a second of the narrow sides of the film and / or paper packaging.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention, their structure, function and advantages are explained in more detail below with reference to figures, in which:

Figure 1 shows schematically a simple embodiment of a Hygieneartikelproduk tes in a perspective view;

FIG. 2 shows schematically the embodiment of the hygiene article product from FIG. 1 with the film packaging open;

Figure 3 schematically shows an embodiment of an inventive

Shows hygiene product in a perspective; and

Figure 4 shows a further possible embodiment of a hygiene product according to the invention in a perspective view.

Figures 1 and 2 schematically show a hygiene article product 1 a each in a perspective view.

The hygiene article product 1a has a film packaging 2, which is designed similarly to a paper tissue packaging. In Figure 1, the film packaging 2 is closed, in Figure 2 it is open. Instead of the film packaging 2, packaging made of paper and / or a film-paper composite can also be used. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the film packaging 2 is transparent However, it does not have to be in other embodiments of the invention. Furthermore, the film packaging 2 can be printed.

The film packaging 2 is cuboid. The corner edges of the cuboid can be rounded.

In the unopened state shown in FIG. 1, the film packaging 2 has a perforation line course with predetermined breaking points 3, at which the film packaging 2 can simply be broken open and thus opened. The predetermined breaking points 3 are perforations of the material of the film packaging 2 in the embodiment shown. The predetermined breaking points 3 are introduced in the example shown in a semicircle into the material of the film packaging 2, so that when the predetermined breaking points 3 are broken, a closure flap 4 is formed.

In the film packaging 2 there are in the embodiment shown, hygiene deposits and / or ties 6 in the form of panty liners. As can be seen schematically in FIG. 4, the panty liners are stacked one above the other in the film packaging 2 in such a way that the suction and the back of the flat panty liners were parallel to the two largest side surfaces of the cuboid, the front and the Form the back of the film packaging 2, lie.

In the view of Figure 2, the predetermined breaking points 3 are broken and the closure tab 4 is open. The closure flap 4 has a cover area formed from the material of a front side of the film packaging 2, on which an adhesive bar 5 is provided, with which the closure flap 4 can be fixed to the front of the film packaging 2 for closing the film packaging 2. On an underside of the adhesive bar 5 there is an adhesive layer with which the adhesive bar 5 can adhere to the material of the film packaging 2, this liability being easily removable again manually, so that the film packaging 2 can be easily opened with the closure flap 4 and then closed again . On the adhesive bar 5 can also be dispensed with in other embodiments of the invention. Instead of the panty liners, in other embodiments of the present invention, for example, sanitary napkins or incontinence pads can also be inserted in the film packaging 2 as hygiene pads and / or sanitary napkins 6.

In their unfolded state of use, the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins 6 used in the exemplary embodiment shown have a usage length L of between 140 mm and 160 mm, preferably of 150 mm.

The hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins 6 are each folded at least once transversely to their longitudinal orientation to form at least one folded edge 8. The folding is carried out in such a way that a cover strip 7, which is located on an adhesive layer which is provided on a rear side of the respective hygiene insert and / or bandage 6, is located on the outside. As a result, the respective hygiene insert and / or bandage 6 in FIG. 2 is gripped for removal from the film packaging 2 on the respective cover strip 7 and not on the suction side of the hygiene insert and / or bandage 6.

In other exemplary embodiments of the present invention, not shown, the hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins 6 can also be seen unfolded in the film packaging 2. In these exemplary embodiments, the hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins 6 preferably have a length adapted to a length of a conventional paper tissue packaging in a range from 100 mm to 120 mm, preferably from 110 mm.

The hygiene insert and / or bandage 6 is pulled out individually from the film packaging 2, the further hygiene inserts and / or bandages 6 introduced into the film packaging 2 remaining in their starting position in the film packaging 2. After removal of the hygiene insert and / or bandage 6, which is typically at the forefront, the tab 4 is closed again.

Figure 3 shows schematically an embodiment of a Hygienearti kelproduktes 1 b, the same reference numerals as in the previous figures denote the same elements of the invention, reference being made to the above description. In the case of the hygiene article product 1b, the film packaging 2 has predetermined breaking points 3, 3 'lying on both sides, transversely opposite one another, from which corresponding tabs 4 can be formed, with which the film packaging 2 can be opened. This makes it possible to remove hygiene inserts and / or bandages 6 or therein other hygiene agents, such as paper handkerchiefs 9, as seen in FIG. 4, from both sides of the film packaging 2. As shown in FIG. 4, the paper handkerchiefs 9 lie in a stack on or under the hygiene inserts and / or bandages 6, which are also arranged in a stack, in the film packaging 2.

Figure 4 shows schematically a further embodiment of a hygiene article product 1 c according to the invention, the same reference numerals as in the previous figures denoting the same elements of the invention, reference being made to the description above.

In FIG. 4, two removal openings are also provided on the film packaging 2 through corresponding tabs 4, 4 ′. However, unlike in FIG. 3, these are located on the same narrow side 21 of the film packaging 2.

The above statements regarding film packaging 2 apply analogously to film and / or paper packaging.

Claims

1. Hygiene product (1a, 1b, 1c), which has a plurality of hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins (6) provided for an insert in a pair of underpants, on the back of which at least one adhesive layer with at least one of the at least one adhesive layer removable cover strip (7) is provided, and has its packaging,

characterized,

that the hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins (6) are not individually repackaged and the packaging is a reclosable film and / or paper packaging (2) based on a paper tissue packaging, in which the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins (6) are stacked are placed one above the other and from which the hygiene inserts and / or bandages (6) can be removed individually, such as paper handkerchiefs, and the film and / or paper packaging (2) on opposite narrow sides of the film and / or paper packaging (2) each has a reclosable opening.

2. Hygiene product according to claim 1, characterized in that the film and / or paper packaging (2) has at least one openable and closable closure flap (4, 4 '), the flap width of the width of a narrow side of the film and / or paper packaging (2) corresponds, the respective closure flap (4, 4 ') being formed from a cover area formed exclusively from a material area of a front or rear side of the film and / or paper packaging (2) and an adhesive strip adhering to the cover area.

3. Hygiene article product according to claim 2, characterized in that between the covering area of the closure flap (4, 4 ') in the unopened state of the film and / or paper packaging (2) and the remaining material of the front or back of the film and / or paper packaging (2) a single perforation line is provided.

4. hygiene article product according to claim 3, characterized in that the Perfo rationslinien run is semicircular.

5. Hygiene article product according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins (6) have a usage length (L) between 100 mm and 120 mm in their unfolded state of use.

6. Hygiene article product according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins (6) are unfolded for their storage in the film and / or paper packaging (2) or folded transversely to their longitudinal orientation.

7. Hygiene article product according to claim 6, characterized in that the hygienic inserts or sanitary napkins (6) are folded such that the at least one covering strip (7) after the folding of the respective sanitary insert or sanitary napkin (6) is on the outside thereof.

8. A hygiene article product according to claim 7, characterized in that the film and / or paper packaging (2) has a reclosable opening on at least one of its narrow sides and the hygiene inserts or sanitary napkins (6) thus in the film and / or paper packaging ( 2) that fold edges (8) of the respective hygiene inserts or bandages (6) are on the side of the reclosable opening of the film and / or paper packaging (2).

9. hygiene article product according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a first closure flap (4) a first of the at the reclosable openings on a front side of the film and / or paper packaging (2) and a second closure flap (4 ') one second of the two reclosable openings are provided on a back of the film and / or paper packaging (2).

10. Hygiene product according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in the film and / or paper packaging (2) a stack of hygiene inserts and / or sanitary napkins (6) and a stack of tissue (9) are placed one above the other in such a way that the hygiene pads and / or bandages (6) from a first reclosable opening on a first th narrow side (21) of the film and / or paper packaging (2) and the paper handkerchiefs (9) from a second reclosable opening on a second one of the narrow sides ( 22) of the film and / or paper packaging (2) can be removed.