Patent ID: 7172583

Claim:
A disposable pull-on wearing article, comprising: opposite body-facing and garment-facing surfaces; a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region extending in a longitudinal direction of said article between the front and rear waist regions; a waist hole and a first and second leg-holes; a pad containing therein absorbent material and extending from the front waist region to the rear waist region via the crotch region, wherein said pad has front and rear end edges opposed in the longitudinal direction of the article, and first and second side edges opposed in a transverse direction of the article and connecting the front and rear end edges; a pair of oblique first folding lines converging from a peripheral edge of the first leg-hole toward a middle zone of said pad in the crotch region; and a pair of oblique second folding lines converging from a peripheral edge of the second leg-holes toward the middle zone of said pad in the crotch region; wherein said crotch region includes a first side portion associated with the first leg-hole, folded along the first folding lines, and tucked inwardly of the article to define a first inward tuck; said crotch region further includes a second side portion associated with the second leg-hole, folded along the second folding lines, and tucked inwardly of the article to define a second inward tuck; a stiffness of said pad in the middle zone is less than in a remaining zone of said pad, said remaining zone being located outside said middle zone; and said middle zone is free of said absorbent material.