Sun-visor for motor vehicles

A sun-visor for a motor vehicle including a flat, elongate sun-visor body including an edge, and means toward the edge of the sun-visor body for supporting the sun-visor body for swinging between a position of non-use above a windshield of the vehicle and a position of use in front of the windshield of the vehicle;

• the sun-visor body having opposite lateral ends in the length direction thereof;
• a plate for providing glare protection,
• a hinge means operatively connected to the plate and disposed inward from one of the lateral ends of the visor body, the hinge means enabling the plate to swing outward beyond the lateral end of the visor body to elongate the visor body in the length direction, the hinge means further enabling the plate to swing inward to a position of non-use which shortens the length of the visor body,
• the hinge means comprising a hinge plate anchored in the sun-visor body, first detent elements on the hinge plate and second detent elements on the plate respectfully positioned for securing the plate in each of its inwardly-swung and outwardly-swung positions by engagement of the respective detent elements on the plate and the hinge plate at each of those orientations.