Patent ID: 7112189
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A pants-type disposable wearing article having front and rear waist regions opposed to each other and a crotch region extending between said waist regions, said article comprising a liquid-pervious sheet, a liquid-impervious sheet and a liquid-absorbent panel interposed between said sheets and extending over said crotch region into said front and rear waist regions so as to define a waist-hole enclosed by waist ends extending in a waist-surrounding direction and left and right leg-holes respectively enclosed by leg-surrounding side edge portions extending in a leg-surrounding direction, said article further comprising: a first folding guide extending in left half of said crotch region from a free edge of said leg-surrounding side edge portion lying in a vicinity of a top of said left leg-hole so as to define a convexity toward a transversely middle zone of said crotch region, a second folding guide extending in right half of said crotch region from a free edge of said leg-surrounding side edge portion lying in a vicinity of a top of said right leg-hole so as to define a convexity toward a transversely middle zone of said crotch region and a pair of third folding guides spaced from and opposed to each other in said leg-surrounding direction and transversely extending between said first and second folding guides; a first region extending between said first folding guide and said free edge of said leg-surrounding side edge portion, a second region extending between said second folding guide and said free edge of said leg-surrounding side edge portion and a third region contoured by said first and second folding guides and said third folding guides in said crotch region; and said first region and said second region folded along said first folding guide and said second folding guide to be tucked toward inner sides of said left and right leg-holes and said third region is folded along said third folding guides to be tucked inwardly of said article toward said waist-hole.