A compactly packaged product, and equipment and process for forming the package, are disclosed. The product is contained in an envelope package formed of polymeric film, with a pair of substantially straight parallel oppositely-disposed side seams defining an enveloped width therebetween. The process and equipment used provide for the enveloped width to be relatively close to the width of the contained product, and for effectively secure seams of relatively narrow width. The equipment and process includes a pair of rollers with respective seaming and severing elements oriented along a cross direction, and forming a nip therebetween. The equipment is configured to simultaneously form secure seams in, and effectively sever, flow wrapping about respective leading and trailing products, and thereby effectively sever completed leading packages from trailing packages as the flow-wrapped products move through the nip. The equipment and process enables the described functions at a relatively high throughput rate.

A compactly packaged product, and equipment and process for forming the package, are disclosed. The product is contained in an envelope package formed of polymeric film, with a pair of substantially straight parallel oppositely-disposed side seams defining an enveloped width therebetween. The process and equipment used provide for the enveloped width to be relatively close to the width of the contained product, and for effectively secure seams of relatively narrow width. The equipment and process includes a pair of rollers with respective seaming and severing elements oriented along a cross direction, and forming a nip therebetween. The equipment is configured to simultaneously form secure seams in, and effectively sever, flow wrapping about respective leading and trailing products, and thereby effectively sever completed leading packages from trailing packages as the flow-wrapped products move through the nip. The equipment and process enables the described functions at a relatively high throughput rate.

An individually wrapped absorbent article that includes an absorbent article, and a wrapping sheet configured to wrap the absorbent article is provided. The wrapping sheet is folded toward an inner surface of the wrapping sheet so as to cause a first region including one end in a first direction of the wrapping sheet and a second region including an opposite end in the first direction to overlap with each other, and a seal portion is formed at each edge portion in a second direction of the wrapping sheet. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The seal portion includes a plurality of compressed recesses and compressed projections along the first direction. The compressed projections are formed between the compressed recesses.

A package including a bag and at least two absorbent articles arranged in the bag, the bag being made of a first paper material, wherein the bag has a sealed bottom, a top seal, and a peripheral wall extending between the bottom and the top seal. The peripheral wall includes a front wall, an opposite rear wall, first and second side walls connecting the front and rear walls, a first top surface extending between the top seal and the front wall, and a second top surface extending between the top seal and the rear wall. The top seal has been formed by adhering inner surface top portions of the peripheral wall to one another. The package further includes at least one adhesive patch configured to hold the top seal folded onto one of the first and the second top surfaces.

An individually-wrapped absorbent article includes a wrapping sheet including paper, and an absorbent article individually wrapped with the wrapping sheet. Printing is provided on an exposed surface of the wrapping sheet, which is exposed when the wrapping sheet individually wraps the absorbent article. The exposed surface has MMD of 0.050 or less before printing, and the exposed surface after the printing has a coefficient of static friction of 0.60 or greater against an exposed surface of another individually-wrapped absorbent article.

An individually packaged absorbent article, for which an absorbent article is individually packaged by a packaging sheet made of paper, wherein the packaging sheet is inwardly folded in a longitudinal direction with the absorbent article disposed inside the packaging sheet, and both edge portions in a transverse direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction are sealed, and the packaging sheet has tensile elongation in the longitudinal direction and tensile elongation in the transverse direction that are 15% or more.

In an individually packaged absorbent article formed by wrapping an absorbent article in a packaging sheet made of paper, a sealing portion is formed by folding the packaging sheet toward an inner surface side in a longitudinal direction of the packaging sheet and sealing both edge portions in a lateral direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, a heat sealing agent is provided on at least a region included in the sealing portion of one of the inner surface and the outer surface of the packaging sheet, and the packaging sheet is a barrier agent-uncoated sheet or a barrier agent-coated sheet, and a coating weight of the barrier agent is 10% or less with respect to a total basis weight of the packaging sheet after the heat sealing agent is provided.

An individually packaged absorbent article, for which an absorbent article is individually packaged by a packaging sheet made of paper, wherein the packaging sheet is inwardly folded in a longitudinal direction with the absorbent article disposed inside the packaging sheet, and both edge portions in a transverse direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction are sealed and form a seal part, the packaging sheet has tensile strength in the longitudinal direction that is 15 N/25 mm or less, and when peeling strength in the seal part between different portions of the packaging sheet is referred to as Ss and the tensile strength of the packaging sheet is referred to as Sw, Ss<Sw is satisfied.