Pants-type disposable wearing article

A pants-type disposable wearing article, comprising:

• front and rear waist regions opposed to each other and a crotch region extending in a longitudinal direction of said article between said waist regions;
• a liquid-pervious sheet, a liquid-impervious sheet and a liquid-absorbent panel interposed between said sheets and extending over said crotch region into said front and rear waist regions;
• a waist-hole, and left and right leg-holes;
• a first folding guide comprising two sections extending from a transversely middle zone of said crotch region toward the front and rear waist regions, respectively, and up to an edge of the left leg-hole;
• a second folding guide comprising two sections extending from the transversely middle zone of said crotch region toward the front and rear waist regions, respectively, and up to an edge of the right leg-hole;
• a pair of third folding guides spaced from each other in said longitudinal direction and transversely extending between said first and second folding guides;
• a first region defined between said first folding guide and the edge of said left leg-hole;
• a second region defined between said second folding guide and the edge of said right leg-hole;
• a third region contoured by said first, second and third folding guides in said crotch region;
• said article being folded along said, first and second folding guides, and said first and second regions being tucked inwardly of said left and right leg-holes, respectively;
• said article being further folded along said third folding guides, and the third region being tucked inwardly of said article and toward said waist-hole;
• and
• a pair of fourth folding guides located inwardly of transversely opposite side edges of said panel and extending between said third folding guides and an end of said panel lying in one of said front and rear waist regions;
• wherein said fourth folding guides are defined by low stiffness zones in which said panel has a stiffness lower than in other zones of said panel.

A pants-type disposable wearing article, comprising:

• front and rear waist regions opposed to each other and a crotch region extending in a longitudinal direction of said article between said waist regions;
• a panel comprising a liquid-pervious sheet, a liquid-impervious sheet and a liquid-absorbent core interposed between said sheets, said panel extending over said crotch region into said front and rear waist regions;
• a waist-hole, and left and right leg-holes;
• a first folding guide comprising two sections extending from a transversely middle zone of said crotch region toward the front and rear waist regions, respectively, and up to a peripheral edge of the left leg-hole;
• a second folding guide comprising two sections extending from the transversely middle zone of said crotch region toward the front and rear waist regions, respectively, and up to a peripheral edge of the right leg-hole;
• a pair of third folding, guides spaced from each other in said longitudinal direction and transversely extending between said first and second folding guides;
• a first region defined between said first folding guide and the edge of said left leg-hole;
• a second region defined between said second folding guide and the edge of said right leg-hole;
• a third region contoured by said first, second and third folding guides in said crotch region;
• said article being folded along said first and second folding guides, and said first and second regions being tucked inwardly of said article and toward each other;
• and
• said article being further folded along said third folding guides, and the third region being tucked inwardly of said article and toward said waist-hole;
• wherein said third region, which is tucked inwardly of said article and toward said waist-hole, defines a concave bottom of said article.