Patent ID: 7255688

Claim:
A pull-on disposable wearing article, comprising: a first waist region, a second waist region and a crotch region extending between said first and second waist regions in a longitudinal direction of said article which further has a transverse direction orthogonal to said longitudinal direction; side edges of said first waist region opposed to each other in said transverse direction being bonded together with side edges of said second waist region opposed to each other in said transverse direction to form a pair of bonded zones extending in said longitudinal direction; a waist-hole; a pair of leg-holes; said first and second waist regions being elastically stretchable and contractible in said longitudinal direction and said transverse direction or at least in said transverse direction; said first waist region being elastically stretchable and contractible in said transverse direction over its full range between said bonded zones; said second waist region comprising: a pair of finger-grip zones each extending from a peripheral edge of said waist-hole to a peripheral edge of one of said leg-holes and a vicinity thereof, along one of said bonded zones, and over a range of 10 to 100 mm as measured from said bonded zone in the transverse direction, and each of said finger-grip zones being substantially non-stretchable in said longitudinal direction as well as in said transverse direction; and a middle zone defined between said finger-grip zones and being elastically stretchable and contractible over its full range in said transverse direction; wherein each said finger-grip zone is a part of the second waist region that is located between and connects the middle zone with the respective one of said bonded zones.