Protective beach appliance

A portable protective appliance, for providing protection from the ground and the sun, said protective appliance comprising:

• covering means, for covering a portion of the ground, said covering means including opening means for creating an opening in the covering means, the covering means adapted to be converted from an expanded deployed shape, to a smaller, contracted movable shape;
• shade means for providing protection from the sun's rays, said shade means having a first, support end and a second, protection end, the first, support end being adapted to removably extend downwardly through the opening in the covering means and into the ground a sufficient depth to support the shade means in a generally vertical orientation, the shade means being movable between a first, expanded shape in which the protection end provides a larger amount of shade and a second contracted shape in which the protection end provides a lesser amount of shade, the opening means further including constricting means for restricting the size of the opening and biasing the opening means against the portion of the support end of the shade means passing through the opening;
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• carrying means adapted to secure and carry the separated covering means in its movable shape and the shade means in its contracted shape;
• whereby the shade means provides protection for an object on the covering means from direct exposure to the sun and the covering means provides protection for an object on the covering means from exposure to the ground and the portable protective appliance can be carried from a place of use by disassembling the covering means and the shade means, placing the covering means in its contracted movable shape and the shade means in its contracted shape and then securing them together for convenient portability with the carrying means and carried to a new place of use in the carrying means to be assembled at the new place of use.