Patent ID: 7744577
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A disposable pull-on wearing article, comprising: an annular waist region having a front section and a rear section connected together to form a waist-hole; a crotch region being contiguous to a bottom of said annular waist region and cooperating with said annular waist region to form a pair of leg-holes; said annular waist region being provided with tearable lines longitudinally extending from said waist-hole to said leg-holes so that the front and rear sections of said annular waist region can be torn apart; and a pair of connector sheets connecting transversely opposite lateral portions of said front and rear sections, said connector sheets extending in a longitudinal direction of said tearable lines from said waist-hole to respective said leg-holes and each comprising wherein a tensile strength of said non-joint zones is at least 8N/25 mm width in a circumferential direction of the waist-hole, and a tear strength of said non-joint zones is in a range of 0.1 to 12N in said longitudinal direction of the tearable lines, and is lower than those of said transversely opposite lateral portions of said front and rear sections so that said tearable lines are reliably defined by the non-joint zones, and a sheet material of said connector sheets is one selected from the group consisting of: wherein each of said front and rear sections has opposite inner and outer surfaces wherein the inner surface is directly contactable with a wearer, in use; and each said connector sheet has opposite inner and outer surfaces, the inner surface having a portion directly contactable with the wearer, in use; wherein the inner surface of each said connector sheet is directly attached to the outer surface of one of said front and rear sections, and the outer surface of each said connector sheet is directly attached to the inner surface of the other of said front and rear sections.