Patent ID: 7220251

Claim:
A pants-type disposable wearing article, comprising: a liquid-pervious sheet, a liquid-impervious sheet, and a liquid-absorbent panel between said sheets; a waist-hole and a pair of leg-holes surrounded by leg-surrounding flaps extending in a leg-surrounding direction outside transversely opposite side edges of said panel, wherein a transverse dimension between said transversely opposite side edges of said panel is minimized at bottoms of the leg-holes; first folding lines extending from the respective side edges of said panel at said bottoms of said leg-holes toward side edges of the respective leg-surrounding flaps lying at tops of said leg-holes; second folding lines extending outwardly in a transverse direction from the respective side edges of said panel lying at said bottoms of said leg-holes toward said side edges of the respective leg-surrounding flaps lying at said bottoms of said leg-holes; and leg-surrounding elastic members extending in said leg-surrounding direction and being secured in a stretched state to said leg-surrounding flaps; wherein said leg-surrounding flaps lying at said bottoms of said leg-holes rise on said panel and said side edges of said leg-surrounding flaps get nearer to each other in said transverse direction with said leg-surrounding flaps being folded along said first and second folding lines and tucked inwardly in said transverse direction into a tucked state; a minimum spacing between said side edges of said leg-surrounding flaps is substantially same as a minimum transverse dimension between said side edges of said panel at said bottoms of said leg-holes; said leg-surrounding flaps are free of absorbent material; and each of said leg-surrounding elastic members comprises a plurality of elastic strands running along side each other and getting closer to each other as said strands extend toward the crotch region.