Patent ID: 7217261

Claim:
A pull-on disposable wearing article, comprising: a base sheet assembly which defines front and rear waist regions and a crotch region extending in a longitudinal direction of said article between said waist regions, wherein said front and rear waist regions defined by said base sheet assembly are connected to each other in vicinities of lateral marginal zones of said base sheet assembly to form a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes; a liquid-absorbent panel which is attached to an inner side of said base sheet assembly so as to extend over said crotch region further into said front and rear waist regions; a waist-surrounding elastic member which extends in a waist-circumferential direction and is attached in a stretched state to said base sheet assembly along a peripheral edge of said waist-hole in said front and rear waist regions; and auxiliary elastic members which extend in said waist-circumferential direction and are attached in a stretched stated to said base sheet assembly in at least said front waist region and between said waist-surrounding elastic member and said leg-holes, so as to be spaced apart one from another at regular intervals in the longitudinal direction; wherein said base sheet assembly comprises a first sheet facing said panel and a second sheet facing away from said panel; said auxiliary elastic members comprise first elastic elements lying below said waist-surrounding elastic member and interposed between said first and second sheets, and second elastic elements lying below said first elastic elements and interposed between said first and second sheets; said first and second elastic elements respectively have longitudinally opposite end portions in vicinities of said lateral marginal zones of said base sheet assembly, middle portions underlying and extending across said panel, and remaining portions lying outside transversely opposite side edge zones of said panel and extending between and connecting respective said end portions and said middle portions; and said longitudinally opposite end portions of said first and second elastic elements and said middle portions of said first elastic elements are directly secured by adhesive to at least one of said first and second sheets, while said remaining portions of said first and second elastic elements and said middle portions of said second elastic elements are free from direct securement to both said first sheet and said second sheet.