Disposable wearing article and process for making the same

Abstract

A disposable wearing article is provided on its garment facing surface with tape fasteners. The tape member forming each of the tape fastener has a fixed end portion and a free end portion adapted to be taken between the fingers longitudinally opposed to each other. The free end portion at least partially extend beyond the lateral edge of the wearing article.

1 - 10 . (canceled)  
     
     
         11 . A process for making a disposable wearing article having a wearer's body facing surface and a garment facing surface; front and rear ends extending in a transverse direction and a pair of lateral edges extending in a longitudinal direction orthogonal to said transverse direction; a crotch region, a front waist region and a rear waist region; one of said front and rear waist regions being provided on said garment facing surface in vicinities of said lateral edges with tape fasteners adapted to be unfolded outwardly from one of said front and rear waist regions in said transverse direction beyond said lateral edges, said process comprising the steps of: 
 feeding a sheet forming said garment facing surface to which said tape fasteners are attached, including zones destined to define said lateral edges of said wearing article so that a plurality of said sheets are connected one to another along said zones destined to define said lateral edges and thereby to form a continuum of said sheets which is elastically stretchable in said transverse direction in a vicinity of said zones destined to define said lateral edges in said transverse direction;    applying a first adhesive agent to a single tape member having upper and lower surfaces on said lower surface at longitudinally opposite end portions except for a longitudinally middle portion to permanently join said end portions to said garment facing surface; applying a second adhesive agent to zones defined between said middle portion and respective said end portions to releasably join said zones to said garment facing surface so as to form an adhesive tape unit; feeding said tape unit onto one side of said continuum of said sheet so that a longitudinal direction of said tape unit coincides with said transverse direction and said middle portion extends across said zone destined to define said lateral edge; joining said tape unit to said one side by means of said first adhesive agent; then cutting said continuum of said sheet together with said tape unit along said zone destined to define said lateral edge to obtain individual sheets each forming said garment facing surface which has contracted in said transverse direction more remarkably than said tape unit in vicinities of said lateral edges; and joining said tape fasteners to said sheet in vicinities of said lateral edges to obtain said tape fasteners at least partially extending outwardly beyond said lateral edges.    
     
     
         12 . The process according to  claim 11 , wherein said sheet is elastically stretchable in said transverse direction and fed in said transverse direction in an elastically stretched state.  
     
     
         13 . The process according to  claim 11 , wherein said sheet comprises a non-stretchable sheet and thread-like elastic members bonded to said sheet while said thread-like elastic members are being stretched in said transverse direction.  
     
     
         14 . The process according to  claim 11 , wherein said tape fasteners at least partially extend outwardly beyond said lateral edges by 0.7 mm or more.