Roll-fold floor mat for gymnastic and athletic purposes

Claim 1

In a foldable floor mat for gymnastic and athletic purposes, said mat in its unfolded condition on the floor comprising successive lengths of discrete mat sections connected to each other at their top surfaces to provide a substantially continuous mat top surface, said connections forming substantially parallel axes for pivoting movement of said sections thereabout relative to one another, the improvement wherein said mat sections include three or more main sections and one or more connecting sections, the first one of said main sections forming one end of said mat and connected as aforesaid to the second one of said main sections, the second, third and remaining ones of said main sections each having one of said connecting sections connected as aforesaid therebetween, the respective lengths of said main and connecting sections permitting folding of said mat sections relative to one another beginning at said end main section by pivoting movement thereof in the same direction of rotation about successive ones of said axes in order to convert said mat into a folded condition on the floor in which said main sections are stacked upon each other with the planes of their top surfaces substantially parallel to the plane of the floor and said connecting sections are disposed adjacent at least some of the ends of said main sections with the planes of their top surfaces transversely of the plane of the floor.