Patent ID: 8317769

Claim:
An absorbing article for wear by a person, comprising an absorbent interposed between a liquid-permeable surface sheet and a back sheet, each sheet being adhesively joined to each other so as to sandwich the absorbent therebetween, and, relative to a longitudinal axis of the absorbing article, Z-shaped stereo gathers that extend a length on two lateral sides of a body-facing surface of the liquid-permeable surface sheet that comprise nonwoven fabric foldably layered into a Z-shape along the entire length of said stereo gathers when viewed in cross-section, wherein said Z-shaped stereo gathers are affixed to said back sheet and have first folded-back portions in which a respective folded-back portion extends from the vicinity of a body liquid discharging portion of the person toward a back end of the article and upwardly relative to the body-facing surface, and wherein a width between the stereo gathers on the lateral two sides, as measured from where the folded-back portions begin to upwardly extend from the body-facing surface, increases toward the back end of the absorbing article, and the absorbing article has a larger width between the stereo gathers on the back end of the absorbing article than the width at the body liquid discharging portion.