Hip and ridge asphalt roof covering

An asphalt composition roof covering comprising:

• an elongated sheet of material having a first end, a second end, a first edge, a second edge, a tapered front portion, a tapered body portion, a tapered end portion and a longitudinal axis;
• at least a first fold line at a first juncture of the front portion and the body portion;
• at least a third and a fourth fold line in the body portion;
• said first end tapering outward to said first juncture to form the widest part of the sheet at the first juncture, the front portion of the sheet being between the first end and the first juncture;
• the elongated sheet tapering inwardly from said first juncture to a second juncture of the body portion and the end portion, which second juncture point is the narrowest part of the sheet, the portion between the first juncture and the second juncture being the body portion of the sheet;
• the elongated sheet tapering outwardly from the narrowest part of the sheet to the second end, this portion of the sheet being the end portion;
• said elongated sheet being folded under the body portion about its first fold line and about its third fold line at fourth fold line on top of the body portion to provided multilayers of said sheet at the wide end of the body portion and in the main part of the body portion.