Patent ID: 7497852

Claim:
A pull-on disposable wearing article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, said article comprising: a first panel and a second panel wherein said first and second panels are connected with each other along respective side edges of a waist region of said article as viewed in the transverse direction; at least one of said side edges of the waist region being provided with a tear-apart zone in which said first panel and said second panel can be disconnected from each other by material failure in said tear-apart zone; a fastening member provided on the side of an inner surface of said first panel in a vicinity of said tear-apart zone, and adapted to reconnect said first and second panels to each other after said first and second panels have been disconnected from each other by material failure in said tear-apart zone; a cover member provided on the side of the inner surface of said first panel, and covering said tear-apart zone and said fastening member; and said cover member being peeled off so as to expose said fastening member as said first panel and said second panel are disconnected from each other by material failure in said tear-apart zone; wherein said cover member comprises a tear line along which said cover member is manually tearable, and said tear line laid adjacent one of transversely opposite side edge of said fastening member, and said tear-apart zone is laid in a vicinity of the other side edges of said fastening member.