Patent ID: 7350772

Claim:
A foldable foam-based divider device comprising: a plurality of panels, each panel including a middle foam plate and front and back semi-rigid paper plates mounted on and sandwiching said middle foam plate, said middle foam plate further including at least one outwardly extending connecting tab on one side of said middle foam plate and at least one tab-receiving recess formed on an opposite side of said middle foam plate; said middle foam plate being larger than said front and back semi-rigid paper plates such that said middle foam plate extends beyond the edges of said front and back paper plates whereby the edges of each of said panels are foam; adjacent ones of said plurality of panels connected to one another in accordioned fashion with said at least one connecting tab extending into said at least one tab-receiving recess and being secured therein by connection of said front and back semi-rigid paper plates to said at least one connecting tab thereby securing adjacent ones of said plurality of panels; and said plurality of panels movable between a closed position with said plurality of panels forming a folded stack of generally parallel panels and an opened position where said plurality of panels forms a wall operative to selectively divide an area.