Portable dance floor

Claim 1

A portable dance floor elevated above a support surface comprising: a plurality of load supporting platform segments, each segment comprising a generally triangular pie-shaped member having an upper plane surface, a base edge defining a groove extending the length thereof, opposed side edges, and an apex, said segments disposed with their upper plane surface in a common horizontal plane and their opposed side edges in abutting engagement; means disposed in said opposed side edges extending continuously substantially the entire length of said opposed side edges for maintaining said upper plane surface of adjoining segments in said common horizontal plane; a connecting hub assembly for coupling the apexes of a plurality of platform segments together and for maintaining said upper plane surface of adjoining segments in said common horizontal plane, said connecting hub assembly including and ball member mounted to and extending downwardly therefrom a member engaging said ball member and extending to said support surface for supporting said connecting hub assembly and said apexes and upper plane surface in said common horizontal plane; a belt member seated in said groove and extending around the peripheral margin defined by the base edge of the plurality of platform segments, and means for applying tension to said belt member to urge said segments and connector hub assembly into tight engagement; and adjustable leg members extending from said support surface to said segments in proximity to said base edge of said segments and supporting at least some of the platform segments.