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U.S. Patent No. 11,439,544
October 28, 2022
By: Tara Olivo
Associate Editor at Nonwovens Industry
Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Bad Soden, Germany; Hans Adolf Jackels, Mechernich, Germany; Claus Peter Stoelzel, Bad Soden, Germany; Christine Elisabeth Zipf, Lauda-Königshofen, Germany; and Roland Engel, Sulzbach, Germany. Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH. Filed: 9/12/19 Issued: 9/13/22 A package comprising at least one stack of compressed absorbent articles, wherein each absorbent article extends in a longitudinal direction and a transversal direction, and comprises: a topsheet; a backsheet; an absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet, wherein the absorbent core comprises an absorbent layer in a core wrap, the absorbent layer comprising an absorbent material and having a longitudinally extending central portion having opposing longitudinally-extending side edges, wherein each longitudinally-extending side edge comprises a recess, wherein the absorbent layer further comprises a first side portion disposed transversally outward of the central portion in a crotch region and a second side portion disposed transversally outward of the central portion on another side of the central portion in the crotch region; wherein the absorbent core further comprises 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; wherein each side portion comprises a proximal edge adjacent to a nearest folding guide and a distal edge laterally further outward from the nearest folding guide, and each side portion is completely encompassed within the recess such that the distal edge is laterally inward of longitudinally-extending side edge at a maximum width of the central portion; wherein each side portion further comprises a winglet; wherein each of the first folding guide and the second folding guide are substantially free of absorbent material; wherein each of the first folding guide and the second folding guide substantially continuously extend from a first location of a longitudinally-extending side edge of the absorbent core to a second location of the longitudinally-extending side edge of the absorbent core to separate each side portion from the central portion; wherein, when the absorbent core is folded along the folding guides, the central portion and the side portions, the side portions including the winglets forming upstanding sidewalls for a basin; and wherein in the package, the articles are folded and are compressed at an In-Bag Compression Rate 5-50%.
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