Patent ID: 7937777

Claim:
A disposable wearing article, comprising: a front waist covering panel; a rear waist covering panel; a crotch covering panel; a waist-hole; a pair of leg-holes; each of said front and rear waist covering panels at least partially comprising a body facing sheet and an undergarment facing sheet, each of said sheets being elastically stretchable in a waist-surrounding direction of said article; said two sheets being respectively formed of nonwoven fabrics and have regions in which said two sheets are placed upon each other and spaced from each other by air gaps in a thickness direction of the respective waist covering panel; and said undergarment facing sheet of said two sheets defining said regions repetitively undulating in said waist-surrounding direction to form a plurality of gathers in an intermediate zone defined between said waist-hole and said leg-holes, wherein the waist covering panels are free of waist elastic members, and a peripheral edge of said waist hole is rendered elastically stretchable solely by the elasticity of said two sheets of each said front and rear waist covering panels.