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Claim 1

A FOLDING PARTITION ASSEMBLY HAVING A PLURALITY OF HINGEDLY CONNECTED, GENERALLY RECTANGULAR PANEL MEMBERS SLIDEABLY HUNG FROM AN OVERHEAD SUPPORT TRACK AND SHIFTABLE THEREALONG FROM AN EDGE TO EDGE EXTENDED CONDITION TO A SIDE BY SIDE STACKED CONDITION, AN EXTENDED GUIDEWAY MEMBER PARALLELING SAID TRACK AND INCLUDING A HORIZONTALLY DISPOSED LEG PORTION AND VERTICALLY DISPOSED LEG PORTION, SAID LEG PORTIONS IN THE EXTENDED CONDITION OF SAID PANELS, LYING IN PROXIMATE SPACED RELATION, RESPECTIVELY, TO PORTIONS OF THE UPPER EDGES AND SIDES OF SAID PANELS, SAID GUIDEWAY PORTION DEFINING WITH THE UPPER EDGES OF SAID PANELS A GENERALLY RECTILINEAR CHANNEL PORTION HAVING A VERTICALLY DISPOSED, OPEN-MOUTH PORTION, A HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING INFLATABLE SEAL MEMBER SECURED TO SAID GUIDEWAY WITHIN SAID CHANNEL PORTION AND LYING ADJACENT THE UPPERMOST PORTION THEREOF, SAID SEAL MEMBER BEING FORMED OF RESILIENT DISTENSIBLE MATERIAL SAID SEAL MEMBER INCLUDING WALL PORTIONS ELASTICALLY DRAWN TO A FIRST, RELATIVELY CLOSELY ADJACENT POSITION WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER IN THE UNINFLATED CONDITION OF SAID SEAL, SAID WALL PORTIONS BECOMING MORE WIDELY SEPARATED WHEN SAID SEAL IS INFLATED, VERTICALLY SHIFTABLE FLOOR SEALS CARRIED BY SAID PANELS, AND PNEUMATIC MEANS INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID FLOOR SEALS AND SAID PANELS FOR SHIFTING SAID SEALS INTO FLOOR ENGAGING POSITION, SAID PNEUMATIC MEANS AND SAID INFLATABLE SEAL MEMBER BEING CONNECTIBLE TO A COMMON INFLATION SOURCE.