Patent ID: 7717896

Claim:
A disposable pull-on wearing article having a vertical direction, a back-and-forth direction and a transverse direction being orthogonal one to another, said article comprising: an annular waist region having a front section and a rear section; a crotch region extending between said front and rear sections of said annular waist region; a waist hole; a pair of leg-holes; a first elastic member extending along a peripheral edge of said waist hole; second elastic members extending along peripheral edges of said leg holes; and a pair of connector sheets connecting transversely opposite lateral zones of said front and rear sections, each of said connector sheets extending in said vertical direction from said waist hole to one of said leg holes and having an outer surface, an inner surface opposite to said outer surface, two joint zones on said outer surface, extending in said vertical direction and being permanently directly joined to inner surfaces of the respective lateral zones of said front and rear sections, and a non-joint zone extending in said transverse direction between said joint zones and defining a tearable line which, when torn in said vertical direction, disconnects the respective lateral zones of said front and rear sections from each other; each of said front and rear sections of said waist region further comprising ear portions which are contiguous to the lateral zones of said section and extend in the transverse direction away from the waist hole; each of said ear portions being located outside said non-joint zone of the respective one of said each pair of said ear portions facing each other having respective inner surfaces releasably, directly and adhesively joined to each other; and said non-joint zone of each of said connector sheets being free of said first and second elastic members.