Koichi Morimoto, Beijing, China; Kazuaki Tameishi, Kobe, Japan; DonSub Lee, Akashi, Japan; Fumitake Yamashita, Kobe, Japan; Ying Jia, Beijing, China; and Shiqiao Li, Beijing, China.
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH.

Filed: 5/23/19
Issued: 4/12/22

A wearable article continuous in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, comprising: a center chassis and a ring-like elastic belt comprising a front belt and a back belt; the center of the front belt is joined to a front waist panel of the center chassis, the center of the back belt is joined to a back waist panel of the center chassis, and the remainder of the center chassis is a crotch panel, the front and back belt each having a left side panel and a right side panel where the center chassis does not overlap, and the transverse edges of the front belt and the back belt are joined by a seam to form a waist opening and two leg openings; wherein the front belt and back belt are discontinuous of each other in the longitudinal direction; the front and back belt each formed by a laminate comprising a plurality of elastic bodies running in the transverse direction, an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an outer sheet fold-over, the outer sheet fold-over being an extension of the outer sheet material formed by folding the outer sheet material toward the body facing side at distal edges of the front and back belts, the outer sheet fold-over directly joined to the center chassis; and wherein at least one of the front belt and the back belt has: a) a longitudinal edge of the center chassis being distal an outer sheet fold-over proximal edge such that the outer sheet fold-over overlaps the center chassis; b) in the left and right side panels: b-1) at least one elastic body disposed between the outer sheet and the outer sheet fold-over in regions where the inner sheet is not present; b-2) one to no more than 8 elastic bodies disposed between the outer sheet and inner sheet in regions where the outer sheet fold-over overlaps both the outer sheet and the inner sheet, and b-3) the remaining elastic bodies disposed between the outer sheet and the inner sheet in regions where the outer sheet fold-over is not present, wherein any elastic body disposed between the outer sheet and the inner sheet is disposed at least about 5 mm away from an inner sheet distal edge.