Abstract: Here is disclosed a pull-on disposable wearing article formed by connecting front and rear waist regions to each other wherein an auxiliary sheet having a given area and placed upon outer surface of a backsheet extends from a crotch region into the front waist region and comprises a free end zone lying in the front waist region and circumferentially extending and fixed side edge zones longitudinally extending along the transversely opposite side edges in the front waist region as well as in the crotch region and fixed to the outer surface of the backsheet.

Abstract: The disposable pull-on garment of the present invention comprises a chassis having a front region, a back region and a crotch region between the front region and the back region. The chassis comprises a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet associated with the topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet.

Abstract: An individually wrapped absorbent article, such as a catamenial device, is disclosed. The absorbent article has first and second ends, first and second longitudinal sides and first and second major surfaces. The second major surface has a garment attachment adhesive secured thereto. The absorbent article is enclosed by a wrapper having first and second ends, first and second longitudinal sides and first and second major surfaces. The first major surface of the wrapper is releasably affixed to the garment attachment adhesive such that the first end of the absorbent article at a minimum is flush with the first end of the wrapper. When so attached, the second end of the wrapper will extend beyond the second end of the absorbent article and the first and second sides of the wrapper will extend laterally outward from the first and second sides of the absorbent article, respectively. An attachment device is secured to the second major surface of the wrapper approximate the first end.

Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper is provided, in vicinity of transversely opposite side edges in a rear waist region, with fastening tape strips adapted to hold the diaper in its rolled up state for disposal after the diaper has been used, each of the tape strips includes a first portion extending longitudinally of the diaper parallel to the associated one of transversely opposite side edges and a second portion branched from the first portion and extends longitudinally of the diaper, longitudinally opposite end regions of the first portion are bonded to edges of waist- and leg-openings, and an anchoring zone adapted to be separably anchored on the outer peripheral surface of the rolled up diaper is defined on the second portion.

Abstract: A shorts type disposable diaper includes a body having a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent member interposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The body includes a stomach-side portion which is located on the stomach side of a diaper wearer when the diaper is worn, a back-side portion which is located on the back side of the wearer when the diaper is worn, and a crotch portion which is located between the stomach-side portion and the back-side portion. The body has a pair of first expansible side panels, each of the first expansible side panels being affixed to each longitudinal side of the stomach-side portion and a pair of second expansible side panels, each of the second expansible side panels being affixed to each longitudinal side of the back-side portion.

Abstract: A disposable pull-on garment is provided along at least one of front and rear regions an auxiliary flap. The auxiliary flap is elastic circumferentially of the garment and has its circumferentially opposite side edges unitized with the waist region along transversely opposite side edges of this waist region.

Abstract: A reusable undergarment (10) in the shape of a panty of lightweight stretchable fabric having a seat (16) of fluid resistant material where one or more female receiving grooves (20) are stitched or depressed in at a standard spacing running transverse to the longitudinal axis of the reusable undergarment seat (16). A disposable absorbent article (22) of pre determined material where on the bottom (28) is stitched or depressed one or more male insert ridges (30) at a standard spacing corresponding to that of the female receiving grooves (20) in the seat of the reusable undergarment.