Patent ID: 8377026

Claim:
An absorbent wearing article comprising: a liquid-absorbent chassis having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, an inner side facing the article wearer's skin, an outer side facing the article wearer's garment, a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region between these front and rear waist regions; a liquid-absorbent structure provided so as to occupy at least said crotch region; and a barrier cuff provided on said inner side facing the article wearer's skin of said liquid-absorbent chassis so as to extend in said longitudinal direction, said barrier cuff comprises: a pair of first and second side cuffs opposed to and spaced from each other symmetrically about a longitudinal center line bisecting a dimension of the article in said transverse direction so as to extend in said longitudinal direction; each of said first and second side cuffs comprises an outermost edge extending in said longitudinal direction, an innermost edge lying aside from said outermost edge toward said longitudinal center line, a fixed edge formed by an inelastic first sheet fixed to the liquid-absorbent chassis at least in the vicinity of said outermost edge and a free edge being spaceable from said liquid-absorbent chassis at least partially along said innermost edge and formed by an elastically extensible second sheet; and said second sheet is attached to said first sheet under tension in said longitudinal direction so that, with said absorbent wearing article put on the article wearer's body, formation of gathers along said innermost edges in said longitudinal direction is prevented, wherein said barrier cuff includes front and rear ends opposed to and spaced apart from each other in said longitudinal direction and said barrier cuff has said outermost edges as well as said front and rear ends formed by said first sheet, said innermost edges formed with notches and said second sheet joined to said first sheet so as to fill said notches.