Patent ID: 7316675

Claim:
A disposable pants-type wearing article, comprising: a front waist region; a rear waist region; a crotch region; an inner sheet defining a surface adapted to come in contact with a wearer's skin; an outer sheet defining a surface adapted to come in contact with a garment; an intermediate sheet formed by a plurality of plastic film strips sandwiched between said inner sheet and said outer sheet; a plurality of band-like elastic members extending in a stretchable fashion in a waist-surrounding direction in at least one of said front and rear waist regions; a plurality of leg-surrounding elastic members extending in stretchable fashion in a leg-surrounding direction in said crotch region along peripheral edges of respective leg-openings; said intermediate sheet including an overlapped region in which the plastic film strips overlap one another in a width of 10 to 100 mm as measured in a longitudinal direction of said wearing article; and said overlapped region extending in a transverse direction to a vicinity of said leg-surrounding elastic members; wherein the intermediate sheet includes two overlapped regions; a front one of the overlapped regions is closer to the front waist region than to the rear waist region and consists of a front one and a middle one of the plastic film strips, said front and middle plastic film strips overlapping and bonded to each other in said front overlapped region by a bonding line that extends continuously in the transverse direction of the article from one end of the front overlapped region to an opposite end of the front overlapped region; and a rear one of the overlapped regions is closer to the rear waist region than to the front waist region and consists of a rear one and the middle one of the plastic film strips, said rear and middle plastic film strips overlapping and bonded to each other in said rear overlapped region.