Patent ID: 8684989
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A wearing article comprising: a liquid-absorbent chassis having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, an inner side facing the wearer's skin, an outer side facing the wearer's garment, a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region extending between the front and rear waist region; and fastening means adapted to detachably fasten said front and rear waist regions to each other along respective pairs of side edges thereof opposed in said transverse direction and extending in said longitudinal direction, wherein: said fastening means comprise first fastening members lying inside as viewed in a circumferential direction and second fastening members lying outside as viewed in said circumferential direction when joining said front and rear waist regions to each other; said first fastening members are attached to said side edges so as to extend in said longitudinal direction and respectively have inner and outer side edges opposed in said transverse direction; said second fastening members are attached to said side edges so as to extend in said longitudinal direction and respectively have inner and outer side edges opposed in said transverse direction in a manner that said second fastening members are detachably engaged with associated said first fastening members; said second fastening members and said side edges to which said second fastening members are attached are provided with folding guide means serving to facilitate said second fastening members to be folded along foldable regions defined by said folding guide means, said second fastening member includes upper and lower ends opposite to each other in the longitudinal direction and extending in the transverse direction; said foldable region includes an end lying on said outer side edge and an end lying on said inner side edge, wherein said end lying on said outer side edge is closer to said upper end relative to said end lying on said inner side edge so that said foldable regions extends as a continuous structure in an oblique orientation with respect to a longitudinal center line that bisects the second fastening member in the transverse direction; said foldable region extends from said outer side edge to said inner side edge in a manner that said foldable region and a line orthogonal to the longitudinal center line bisecting the second fastening member in the transverse direction form an angle of 30° to 60°; and said folding guide means is formed by heat processing.