Abstract: A package having a container with a layer. The layer has an interior surface and an exterior surface. The layer forms an interior space. The interior space has a plurality of absorbent articles forming a stack within the interior space of the container. Each of the absorbent articles has a thickness and is individually wrapped in a wrapper. The wrapper of each of the absorbent articles has a distinctive design and a first color. The exterior surface of the container has a graphic which has a distinctive color and a first window on the container. The distinctive color is color coordinated with the first color of the distinctive design on the wrapper. The first window reveals at least a portion of the thickness of at least one of the absorbent articles and at least a portion of the first color of the wrapper.

Abstract: A package including at least one absorbent article and packaging. The packaging includes a flexible pocket having a hollow interior, an opening extending into the interior, a flap for covering the opening, and an adhesive closure positioned on the flap for releasably holding the flap in the closed position. The closure is spaced from a distal edge of the flap to permit a portion of the flap to be grasped and separated from the pocket without releasing the closure.

Abstract: A package is provided with usefulness particularly for dispensing of towelettes. The package is constructed as a unitarily formed tub including a floor panel, a pair of opposite side panels, first and second end panels opposite one another and separating the side panels, the first and second end panels having different curvature one from another. An open mouth is formed opposite the floor panel. An outwardly projecting lip at least partially surrounds the open mouth. A cover is arranged over the open mouth and sealed against the lip. The package is capable of standing erect via support contact between a portion of the second end panel and a section of the lip. Graphics are printed on the cover. The asymmetric arrangement of the end panels and adjacent sections of the lip allow the package to stand erect preferentially on one of the end panels thereby orienting right-side up the graphics of the cover.

Abstract: A convenience package for thin film products according to aspects of the present invention places a folded stack of thin film plastic bags inside a container to protect the bags during shipping, handling and dispensing. The container surrounds the plastic bags and includes an opening through which individual bags are retrieved. The plastic bags are attached to each other in such a manner that retrieval of a first bag through the opening in the container partially retrieves a second bag and leaves part of the second bag protruding through the opening. Attachments between bags within the container ensure that each bag is opened as it is retrieved through the opening.

Abstract: A container for dispensation of wet tissues includes an elastically flexible flap causing a part of the uppermost wet tissue exposed outward from the container through an opening to collapse toward a hinge of a lid. The flap has a covering portion adapted to cover the opening and a distal portion on the opening's periphery extending beyond the opening. The container ensures that the part of the wet tissue is held between the opening's periphery and the distal portion of the flap.

Abstract: A container for storing and dispensing plastic bags and process for manufacturing the same. The container includes a front panel extending from the top of the container to the bottom of the container and having a substantially smooth surface with no sharp bents. The container includes a funnel-shaped aperture for facilitating insertion of the plastic bags into the container in a compact and collapsed form. One embodiment of the container has a flat profile that allows the container to be mounted to a vertical surface in a space-saving manner and that helps minimize entanglement as more bags are inserted into the container. The container also includes an access opening for dispensing the plastic bags. Another embodiment of the container is a free-standing structure having a base that can be rested on a horizontal surface.

Abstract: The present invention discloses and claims a packaging system and method for communicating absorbent product features to consumers. The packaging system includes a container and a consumer message label attached to the container. The consumer message label includes one or more swatches of the absorbent product, a future product, a related product, or a competitor's product for direct sensory perception by consumers without opening the container.

Abstract: A dispensing aid is disclosed for facilitating removal of an individual product from a compressed package. The compressed package has multiple sides and contains a plurality of compressed products arranged in a row. Each of the products has first and second major surfaces. An opening is formed in the compressed package and is aligned perpendicular to the first major surface of at least one of the products. The opening is sized to allow the products to be individually withdrawn. A sheath is sized to contain one of the products to be withdrawn from the compressed package. The sheath to an adjacent sheath has an average coefficient of friction value which is lower than the average coefficient of friction value of a first product to an adjacent product. The sheath functions to reduce the force needed to remove the contained product from the compressed package.

Abstract: An enclosure is provided for resealing a package. A body of formable material has an open end and a closeable end. The body may have slits on opposite sides for expanding the open end. An adhesive strip is provided on the open end of the body for securing to the package. The adhesive strips extend beyond the slits in the body for securing the first side of the body to the second side of the body. A closing mechanism is provided on the closeable end of the body. The closing mechanism has a lip and groove along the closeable end, and a locking mechanism for inserting the lip into the groove to reseal the enclosure. The closing mechanism slides across the closeable end of the enclosure to allow the enclosure to be opened and closed. The enclosure may have a spout formed in the closeable end of the enclosure.

Abstract: An openable closure assembly including: a) a base having two end edges, a front longitudinal side and a back longitudinal side, a top surface and a bottom surface; b) an opening mechanism mounted on the top surface of the base adjacent to and spaced from both of the longitudinal side edges; c) at least one gripping aid joined to an end edge of the opening mechanism. Also disclosed are packages comprising the closure assembly. Additionally disclosed are securement loops which can be attached to the package bottom panel and into which the gripping aids can be inserted.

Abstract: A dispenser dispenses personal effects such as, panty liners, condoms, wet wipes, tampons, etc., for use by occupants of a particular establishment (home, prison, office, hospital etc.). The personal effects dispenser has a first housing that holds the tampons and the panty liners and dispenses each within a respective opening on the housing with the opening for dispensing the tampons having a hinged door covering the opening. A second housing holds the condoms or wet wipes and has an opening that corresponds to an opening on the first housing whenever the second housing is received within the first housing. A spacer is received within the first housing in order to replace the second housing whenever the second housing is not being used. Various attachment schemes are used to attach the personal effects dispenser to a wall.

Abstract: A cover and a dispenser for a tissue package, said dispenser comprising a tissue dispensing aperture and a manipulating opening, both opening into a tissue-containing space of the package. The tissue dispensing aperture is sized for dispensing one tissue at a time while separating a duty tissue from a successive tissue; and the manipulating opening is normally closed by a flap and is deformable to allow introduction of a user's fingers into the tissue-containing space, and wherein said tissue dispensing aperture and the manipulating opening are coverable.

Abstract: A combination includes a dispenser package having a sheet of material with an opening for dispensing at least one item therefrom and a cap assembly attached to the sheet of material and surrounding the opening, the cap assembly including a flange. The combination also includes a holder including a front wall having an interior face, an exterior face and an aperture extending between the interior and exterior faces. The dispenser package is insertable into the holder so that a portion of the cap assembly passes through the aperture of the front wall with the sheet of material opposing the interior face of the holder and the flange opposing the exterior face of the holder, wherein the flange includes a portion that extends beyond the aperture of the front wall for preventing the flange from passing through the aperture when the dispenser package is inserted into the holder.

Abstract: A packet of stacked absorbent paper tissues, such as a plastic wrapping sheet includes an opening part allowing a region to be uncovered for grasping at least one tissue so as to extract it individually from the wrapper, with a parallelepipedal overall shape defined by a height, a width and a thickness, the height and the width being equal so that the packet has square front and rear frontal faces.

Abstract: A novel packaging article and method are disclosed for an array of flexible, absorbent articles compressed or uncompressed, having an article front face, an article back face, an article top face, an article bottom face, and a pair of article side faces. An upper article section and a lower article section have mutually different calipers. The flexible, absorbent articles are placed in a configuration array such that article front faces contact article front faces or such that article back faces contact back faces of adjacent absorbent articles. The package provides an array having preferred size and requires less compressibility force. A flexible outer casing does not require compressing wrapping to maintain the array as previously required in conventional packaging arrays having a flexible outer casing. The packaging article and method are particularly suited for providing preferred advantages to the packaging and commercial distribution of disposable diapers.

Abstract: A tissue container comprising a tissue receiving enclosure and a re-closable opening for dispensing tissues there through, and an associated auxiliary compartment holding a preparation for use in conjunction with the tissues.

Abstract: A napkin container includes an opening formed in one surface, and a cover device having a peripheral frame secured onto the container and having a pivotal cover adhesive onto the container for blocking the opening of the container. The cover may be solidly secured onto the container in a water-tight seal after the cover has been opened, for preventing the wetted napkins from being quickly dried. The cover device may be quickly manufactured with a planar or flat sheet material. A panel may further be secured to the cover for engaging into the opening of the container.

Abstract: A packaging unit for absorbent articles including a number of folded absorbent articles arranged with their folded edges placed head to tail in the packaging unit, the folded edges arranged at a first side of the packaging unit being situated at different distances from the first side, and the folded edges arranged at the opposite side of the packaging unit being situated at different distances from the opposite side.

Abstract: The invention relates to a package and method for storing and dispensing wet wipes in a pop-up format. A group of wet wipes are positioned in a container base between the container base and a pop-up style dispensing partition, each wipe in the group of wet wipes having a first visibility index. The container top has a second visibility index and the pop-up style dispensing partition has a third visibility index and the first visibility index is different than the third visibility index such that when the container top is closed the wipe from the group of wet wipes is visibly indicated at the container top as being in-position or not-in-position for pop-up dispensing as soon as the container top is next opened.

Abstract: A package assembly includes a package and a plurality of disposable diapers. These diapers are compactly packed in a state of compression with the front and rear regions placed against one another in a back-and-forth direction. The diapers include first diapers that have the waist-surrounding end portions lying on the side of a top surface of package and second diapers that have the waist-surrounding end portions lying on the side of a bottom surface of the package. Both lateral portions of the crotch regions' bottom of the first and second diapers are folded inwardly of the respective diapers. In a row G formed by the diapers placed against one another in the back-and-forth direction, the number of the first diapers and the number of the second diapers are substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: A packaging bag for containing a plurality of disposable absorbent articles includes a generally polyhedral enclosure having an interior space, a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls, a top wall, and a bottom wall. A plurality of disposable absorbent articles contained in the interior space, with each one of the articles being adapted to be worn by a user and including a front panel and a back panel. A first graphic is provided on the front panel of each the absorbent article, and a second graphic is provided on the back panel of each the absorbent article. A first and a second of the walls include an at least substantially clear portion, with the plurality of disposable absorbent articles being folded and positioned in the enclosure such that at least a portion of the first graphic is visually perceivable through the first of the walls and at least a portion of the second graphic is visually perceivable through the second of the walls.

Abstract: An easy-opening feature in a flexible package is provided by forming a tear feature in the package material by slitting, perforating, or otherwise forming a stress riser in the material, and affixing a label to the package material so that the label adheres to the tear feature. The formation of the tear feature and affixing of the label are performed prior to wrapping a product in the package material and sealing the material, and preferably are performed while the package material is moving along a path in a packaging apparatus. The label in one embodiment includes a detachable middle portion that tears free of the rest of the label upon pulling the detachable portion, such that remaining portions of the label remain on the package adjacent the opening created by the tear feature.

Abstract: A packaging container for accommodating at least two stacks of moist cloths or moist cosmetic pads. The moist cloths or moist cosmetic pads of different stacks overlap only in one partial area in such a manner that a moist cloth or cosmetic pad of one stack protrudes into the partial area while being situated between two moist cloths or cosmetic pads of the other stack. The packaging container has an external shape that corresponds to the external shape of the moist cloths or moist cosmetic pads located in overlapping areas while, however, deviating from the respective fundamental shape of the moist cloths or cosmetic pads. A removal opening is provided in a manual access area located on the overlapping area of the moist cloths or cosmetic pads.

Abstract: Disposable dispensers for stacks of tissue products are provided that include one or more odor control agents and one or more means for containing and releasing the odor control agents. When the means for containing and releasing the odor control agents is activated the odor control agents are released into the surrounding environment. The odor control agents include fragrant materials, odor-absorbing materials and materials that yield chemically active vapors.

Abstract: A packaged assembly includes a package formed of in a rectangular hexahedron having first and second side walls opposed to each other and third and fourth side walls opposed to each other and a plurality of disposable diapers, each including a main body having an absorbent core attached thereto waist-surrounding peripheral end portions of the front and rear waist regions free from the absorbent core, packed within the package so that the plurality of disposable diapers may be stacked one upon another in a vertical direction of the package.

Abstract: A bathroom organizational assembly is presented for organizing the bathroom vanity area. The bathroom assembly creates an organized method of organizing bathroom toiletries such as tooth-brushes, combs, lotions, antibacterial soaps, facial tissue, barrettes, contact lens cases, and practically any other toiletry item. The bathroom organizational assembly consolidates and simplifies daily necessities with an enjoyable theme for the appropriate age group to encourage their usage. Storage and dispensing of items stored in the present invention simulates actions in the theme, to create functional decoration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for storing moisture-sensitive products such as moisture-curable orthopedic splinting/casting product, in flexible, preferably elongated, pouches. The product is folded into a repeating series of discrete sections where each section has at least one segment that extend along the pouch length. By configuring the product in this way, it can be efficiently packaged, stored, and dispensed. Other embodiments of the invention include closure systems that permit sealing the pouch opening when product is not being dispensed and substantially sealing the pouch around the product during dispensing.

Abstract: A wiper sheet packaging arrangement including an envelope package incorporating a mouth opening with at least one pair of adjacent columns of stacked folded wiper sheets with folded edges of the wiper sheets aligned in transverse relation to the mouth opening. The folded edges of the wiper sheets in adjacent columns are disposed in opposing relation to define a finger access channel between the adjacent columns.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stack of wipes for use in a reach-in wipes dispenser having a dispensing opening, and related method. The stack includes a plurality of wipes stacked upon each other. Each wipe is separably joined to an adjacent wipe to form a joint therebetween. For at least 50% of the wipes in the stack of wipes, dispensing a top wipe from the stack of wipes causes an adjacent following wipe to at least partially be drawn upwards towards and/or through the dispensing opening, and the top wipe completely separates automatically from the following wipe at the joint before the following wipe completely passes through the dispensing opening, and when the top wipe completely separates automatically from the following wipe the following wipe falls back towards the stack of wipes and is positioned within the dispenser and below the dispensing opening.

Abstract: An auto-start dispensing container for sheet products includes a sealing member secured to a first sheet to be dispensed from the container. In a preferred embodiment, there is provided an auto-start dispenser for dispensing moistened inter-folded wipes which includes: (a) a container provided with a dispensing aperture for receiving a plurality of moist wipes; (b) a removable sealing member affixed to said container to seal the aperture wherein the sealing member and the container form an enclosure adapted to retain moisture; and (c) a lead sheet engaged with the plurality of moist wipes and secured to said removable sealing member, the removable sealing member and the lead sheet being adapted to draw a moist wipe partially through the aperture upon removal of the sealing member from the container. Preferably, the lead sheet is affixed to the removable sealing member by way of a hot-melt adhesive.

Abstract: A windowless tissue carton comprises, in one embodiment, a film aperture having a printed design such that the interior of the carton is not visible through a colorless transparent plastic window.

Abstract: A package is disclosed having an enclosed compartment with a pair of oppositely aligned walls and a perimeter. An array of compressible articles is retained in the enclosed compartment in an initial orientation. The package also includes an opening mechanism capable of being activated to provide an opening into the enclosed compartment. The opening is of sufficient size to allow the articles to be individually removed. The package further includes an expansion member secured to the enclosed compartment and capable of expanding outward through the opening. The expansion member permits removal of the articles from the opened package while retaining the remaining articles in their initial orientation.

Abstract: A package (20) of articles comprises a bottom panel (24), and a top panel (26). The top panel is operatively positioned and joined with the bottom panel (24) to provide a closed package. The top panel (26) is appointed to face toward a user, and a plurality of personal care articles (22) are contained in the package (20). The package (20) includes an opening mechanism (34) which provides access to the articles (22), and each article includes a liquid-permeable topsheet layer (36), and a backsheet layer (38). A data layer (42) is operatively joined to the article (22), and is intended to be selectively repositioned prior to using the article, to enable full functionality of the article. Data indicia (44) are located on the data layer (42) and configured to communicate a message to the user. The message can be related to at least one of motivating the user, entertaining the user, educating the user, and inspiring the user.

Abstract: An easy load packaging system, and a stand and a dunnage conversion machine therefor are disclosed. The stand includes a base and a pair of upright guide members mounted to the base and supporting at the upper ends thereof a dunnage conversion machine. The guide members define there between a channel for guiding sheet stock material to the dunnage conversion machine. The dunnage conversion machine is pivotable relative to the stand between an operating position and a servicing/loading position whereat access to internal components of the machine is simplified. A stack of sheet stock material is jacketed and/or baled for simplified loading into a packaging system or stand. An adhesive layer on the bottom or top of the stack enables the stack to be easily spliced to another stack.

Abstract: A package of individually packaged interlabial pads.

Abstract: A flexible sheet container is provided that permits a user to quickly and easily feed a leading sheet. The container has a base portion that defines a storage area and a top covering the base portion. The top includes an opening into the storage area through which individual flexible sheets are dispensed. A pair of opposing flaps is pivotally attached to the top at their first ends and each extends toward the dispensing opening with its second end. The complementary second ends of the flaps together further define the dispensing opening while in a dispensing position. The flaps pivot inward toward the storage area to provide access through the opening into the storage area. As such, to feed a leading flexible sheet, a user may rotate the flaps inward, grab a leading flexible sheet, and pull it through the opening. During dispensing, the flaps rotate outward and retain subsequent sheets.

Abstract: A container for a stack of interfolded tissue-sheets has a generally planar top wall, a bottom wall, side walls and an opening provided in the top wall for the removal of tissue-sheets from the container. The opening is provided with elements for presenting the tissue, preferably in the form of elongated projections, extending in-between each other from opposite sides of the opening in a first, inactive position. Adjacent projections are spaced apart both in the first, inactive position, in which the projections are substantially in the same plane as the top wall, and in a second, active position, in which the projections are raised and impart a primary wave-shape to a tissue sheet in a presentation position. The opening has a main axis with a predetermined curvature, which opening imparts a secondary wave-shape to the tissue sheet in the presentation position when the projections are in the second, active position.

Abstract: An infant accessory system and method of making the same for providing an array of necessary infant care items. The infant accessory system and method of making the same includes a base layer, an intermediate layer, and a top layer. The base layer includes a plurality of diapers rolled to form a cylindrical base. The base layer includes a first diameter. The intermediate layer includes a second diameter less than the first diameter. The intermediate layer includes a second plurality of diapers rolled to form a cylindrical intermediate stage. The intermediate layer is positioned on top of the base layer. The top layer includes a third diameter less than the second diameter. The top layer includes a third plurality of diapers rolled to form a cylindrical top layer. The top layer is positioned on top of the intermediate layer.

Abstract: A framework supporting a substantially moisture-sealed enclosure and a wall that cooperates with the framework to define an open compartment, wherein the wall is movable along a reciprocal path for adjusting the size of the open compartment.

Abstract: A method of providing a series of types of pant-like garments and corresponding information to consumers. The series includes two or more pant-like garments, each of the garments corresponding to a stage of toilet training. Each of the garments in the series may differ from one another in terms of absorbent capacity, size, and/or features. The information provided to the consumer helps the consumer discern which garment from the series is most appropriate for a child in a specific stage of the toilet training process.

Abstract: A packaging wrapper, for handkerchiefs, baby care, household or other hygiene paper tissues and including a front wall, a rear wall, a first side wall and a second side wall and two end walls, with a reclosable opening in the area of the front wall, a lid mainly including at least part of the front wall covering the reclosable opening, with the lid having an outer side and an inner side, where the lid on its inner side is equipped with a fastening element adapted to successively engage the upper-most lying paper tissue as one after the other of the paper tissues is taken out of the wrapper.

Abstract: Active additives in absorbent articles, such as sanitary napkins, panty liners, tampons, incontinence protectors and diapers have been found to lose their properties due to taking-up moisture during storage and transportation for instance, when conventional packaging materials are used. The invention relates to the use of a moisture impervious film material for packaging an absorbent article comprising one or more active moisture-sensitive additives. Packaging is effected in film material that has low vapor and gas permeability and in packaging unites that have tight joins or seams.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stack of wipes for use in a wipes dispenser. The stack includes a plurality of wipes, each wipe of the plurality of wipes formed from a portion of a common material. Each wipe includes a leading edge portion with a pleat-like zone located along at least a portion of a length of the leading edge portion and the pleat-like zone is distinct from an adjoining main portion of each wipe. Each wipe is folded upon itself at least once and each wipe is positioned relative to adjacent wipes to form the stack of wipes.

Abstract: There is provided a multiple layer baffle structure for dispensing a wipe therethrough. The structure includes at least a first layer having a first length and a first width and a first dispensing orifice; and, at least a second layer having a second length and a second width and a second dispensing orifice, where the first layer is disposed over the second layer and at least partially contacts the second layer proximate the dispensing orifices and the first layer is distinct from the second layer so as to be movable relative to the second layer and the wipe may be dispensed sequentially through the first dispensing orifice and the second dispensing orifice.

Abstract: A package to protect a plurality of dry articles during use in a wet environment comprises: a) a contaminate reducing access element; and b) a water repellant chassis. The package is designed such that contamination of the dry articles remaining in the package is reduced during removal of articles for use in the wet environment.

Abstract: A packing for a stack of tissue paper or nonwoven, where the top and/or bottom layer is provided on its outside with at least one glue layer, which packing comprises a packing wrapper. The packing wrapper has, at least within the area of each glue layer, a small capacity to adhere to the glue layer(s) of the stack on at least the side which faces the stack.

Abstract: A packaging container for accommodating at least two stacks of moist cloths or moist cosmetic pads. The moist cloths or moist cosmetic pads of different stacks overlap only in one partial area in such a manner that a moist cloth or cosmetic pad of one stack protrudes into the partial area while being situated between two moist cloths or cosmetic pads of the other stack. The packaging container has an external shape that corresponds to the external shape of the moist cloths or moist cosmetic pads located in overlapping areas while, however, deviating from the respective fundamental shape of the moist cloths or cosmetic pads. A removal opening is provided in a manual access area located on the overlapping area of the moist cloths or cosmetic pads.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a package for compressible flat articles according to the preamble of claim 1. Moreover, the present invention is related to a method for filling such a package.

Abstract: A diaper dispenser simplifying the storage and removal of diapers consists of a container (1) designed for receiving horizontally stacked diapers, comprising a front wall (2), a bottom (9), and a removal opening (7, 8) disposed therebetween. The removal opening includes an approximately slot-shaped entry hole extending upwards from the lower edge (2c) of the front wall (2), preferably for the thumb of the hand, and a recess defined by a set-off of the edge (9a) of the bottom (9) on the side of the front wall, so that the respective bottommost diaper preferably comes to lie between thumb and index finger of the removing hand and can be withdrawn at an angle in forward and downward direction.

Abstract: A hermetic storage system for storing wipes is provided. The hermetic storage system may include a flexible container, a first member, and a second member configured for holding the wipes. The first member is coupled to an open first end of the flexible container and the second member covers an aperture defined by the first member. The hermetic storage system is configured to provide a hermetic seal when the second member is releasably engaged with the first member.