Patent ID: 7686795

Claim:
A pull-on diaper, comprising a front waist region and a rear waist region joined together, by means of joining sheets, along transversely opposite side edges of said waist regions so as to form a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes; each of said joining sheets being permanently bonded to both the front and rear waist regions along the respective side edges of said waist regions; and each of said joining sheets being provided with a finger-grip formed integrally with the joining sheet and rupture guides extending from said finger-grip toward said waist-hole and the associated one of said leg-holes, respectively, wherein said rupture guides define weakened zones along which rupture of said joining sheet is to be effected when said finger-grip is pulled, thereby facilitating separation of the respective side edges of said waist regions and removal of the diaper from a wearer after use; wherein said joining sheets are not bonded to the front and rear waist regions at the rupture guides; said front and rear waist regions do not overlap each other in a circumferential direction of said waist-hole, are not directly attached to each other, and are completely spaced from each other in the circumferential direction of said waist-hole by two gaps each between one of the side edges of said front waist region and a respective one of the side edges of said rear waist region; and each of the joining sheets bridges one of said two gaps between said front and rear waist regions in the circumferential direction of said waist-hole.