Sanitary napkin having a wipe article associated therewith

Abstract

An absorbent article, preferably a sanitary napkin, having a body-facing side, a garment-facing side, a length, a width, and two longitudinal side margins. The sanitary napkin comprises a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet joined to said topsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and said backsheet. A pair of flaps are provided, each flap extending from a longitudinal side margin and each of the flaps are folded over the topsheet in a topsheet facing relationship. Means for maintaining the flaps in the topsheet facing relationship have a wipe article associated therewith. In a preferred embodiment the means for maintaining the flaps in the topsheet facing relationship comprises a release strip and the wipe article comprises a wet wipe. In a further embodiment, the absorbent article is an individually packaged sanitary napkin having a releasable wrapper affixed to the backsheet adhesive, and provided in a tri-folded package.

1 . An absorbent article having a body-facing side, a garment-facing side, a length, a width, two longitudinal side margins, said absorbent article comprising: 
 a liquid pervious topsheet;    a liquid impervious backsheet joined to said topsheet;    an absorbent core positioned between said topsheet and said backsheet;    a pair of flaps, each said flap extending from a longitudinal side margin;    each of said flaps being folded over said topsheet in a topsheet facing relationship;    a release strip maintaining said flaps in said topsheet facing relationship; and    a wipe article enclosed in a pouch, said pouch being joined to said release strip.    
     
     
         2 . The absorbent article of  claim 1 , wherein each said flap has a garment facing portion and attachment means disposed on said garment facing portion.  
     
     
         3 . The absorbent article of  claim 2 , wherein said attachment means comprises pressure sensitive adhesive.  
     
     
         4 . The absorbent article of  claim 1 , wherein said pouch is hermetically sealed.  
     
     
         5 . The absorbent article of  claim 1 , wherein said wipe article is a pre-moistened cleansing wipe.  
     
     
         6 . The absorbent article of  claim 1 , wherein said wipe article is a dry wipe.  
     
     
         7 . An individually packaged sanitary napkin comprising: 
 a sanitary napkin having a body-facing side, a garment-facing side, a length, a width, and two longitudinal side margins, said absorbent article comprising:    a liquid pervious topsheet;    a liquid impervious backsheet joined to said topsheet, said backsheet having opposed inwardly and outwardly oriented faces;    an absorbent core positioned between said topsheet and said backsheet;    a pair of flaps, each said flap extending from a longitudinal side margin;    each of said flaps being folded over said topsheet in a topsheet facing relationship;    a release strip maintaining said flaps in said topsheet facing relationship;    a wipe article enclosed in a pouch, said pouch being joined to said release strip; and    a releasable wrapper releasably affixed to an adhesive fastener on said outwardly oriented face of said backsheet, said releasable wrapper having a longitudinal dimension, a transverse dimension, and inwardly oriented face, an outwardly oriented face, a pair of longitudinal side edges, a pair of end edges, and a pair of ends, wherein only said releasable wrapper is folded about a longitudinal axis adjacent at least one of said longitudinal edges of said sanitary napkin in a C-fold thereby wrapping said at least one of said longitudinal edges, and wherein said sanitary napkin and said releasable wrapper are folded about two transverse axes which form said wrapper into first, second, and third trisections.    
     
     
         8 . The absorbent article of  claim 7 , wherein each said flap has a garment facing portion and attachment means disposed on said garment facing portion.  
     
     
         9 . The absorbent article of  claim 8 , wherein said attachment means comprises pressure sensitive adhesive.  
     
     
         10 . The absorbent article of  claim 7 , wherein said pouch is hermetically sealed.  
     
     
         11 . The absorbent article of  claim 7 , wherein said wipe article is a pre-moistened cleansing wipe.  
     
     
         12 . The absorbent article of  claim 7 , wherein said wipe article is a dry wipe.  
     
     
         13 . An absorbent article having a body-facing side, a garment-facing side, a length, a width, two longitudinal side margins, said absorbent article comprising: 
 a liquid pervious topsheet;    a liquid impervious backsheet joined to said topsheet;    an absorbent core positioned between said topsheet and said backsheet;    a pair of flaps, each said flap extending from a longitudinal side margin and having on a garmnent-facing side thereof attachment means;    each of said flaps being folded over said topsheet in a topsheet facing relationship;    a release strip covering said attachment means on each of said flaps and maintaining said flaps in said topsheet facing relationship; and    a wipe article enclosed in a pouch, said pouch being joined to said release strip.    
     
     
         14 . The absorbent article of  claim 13 , wherein said attachment means comprises pressure sensitive adhesive.  
     
     
         15 . The absorbent article of  claim 13 , wherein said pouch is hermetically sealed.  
     
     
         16 . The absorbent article of  claim 13 , wherein said wipe article is a pre-moistened cleansing wipe.  
     
     
         17 . The absorbent article of  claim 13 , wherein said wipe article is a dry wipe.