Patent ID: 8529535

Claim:
A disposable wearing article, comprising: a front waist region; a rear waist region; a crotch region extending between said waist regions; a pair of longitudinally opposite ends extending in a transverse direction of said article; a pair of transversely opposite lateral margins extending in a longitudinal direction of said article; opposite body-side and garment-side surfaces; a pair of liquid-barrier sheets laid on the body-side surface in at least said crotch region, said barrier sheets comprising (a) proximal zones lying along said lateral margins of said article so as to extend in the longitudinal direction, (b) elasticized distal zones extending in the longitudinal direction and normally biased to rise up above said body-side surface, and (c) longitudinally opposite fixed front and rear ends bonded to said body-side surface; wherein said distal zones of said barrier sheets partially overlap so that distal edges of said distal zones define together an X shape; a dimension, by which the distal edges of said distal zones are spaced from each other in the transverse direction, increases gradually from an intersection of the X shape into the front region and up to said front ends of said liquid-barrier sheets, and the intersection is in the crotch region and is closer to the rear waist region than to the front waist region.