Patent ID: 7322968

Claim:
A disposable wearing article, comprising: a wearer-facing surface adapted to face a wearer's body and a garment-facing surface adapted to face away from the wearer's body; front and rear edges extending in a transverse direction of said article, and a pair of lateral edges extending in a longitudinal direction orthogonal to said transverse direction; a crotch region, a front waist region extending forwardly in the longitudinal direction from said crotch region to said front edge, and a rear waist region extending rearwardly in the longitudinal direction from said crotch region to said rear edge; and a pair of folded tape fasteners respectively attached to the lateral edges of said front or rear waist region; wherein each of said folded tape fasteners has a fixed end portion permanently joined to said garment facing surface, and a free end portion adapted to be gripped by fingers so that said folded tape fastener can be unfolded, by pulling said gripped free end portion, to a unfolded state, said free end portion having at least a part extending in the transverse direction outwardly beyond the respective lateral edge, and upper and lower surfaces of said part being free of adhesive material; wherein each of said folded tape fasteners further comprises: a first tape section defining a top layer of said folded tape fastener, said first tape section having said free end portion and a first end portion which is opposed to and located inward from said free end portion in the transverse direction, and a second tape section underlying said first tape section so as to face said garment facing surface, said second tape section having said fixed end portion and a second end portion which is opposed to and located outward from said fixed end portion in the transverse direction and is connected to said first end portion of said first tape section, wherein said first end portion of said first tape section is directly releasably bonded to said fixed end portion of said second tape section; and wherein said garment facing surface to which said tape fasteners are attached is made of a sheet being elastically stretchable in said transverse direction.