Portable sunshade canopy

Portable sunshade apparatus for ground-based deployment, comprising:

• a first strip of a flexible material that is generally impermeable to water having first and second ends and a pair of opposite lateral edges;
• a mounting base fixedly secured to the material strip inwardly of the strip first end and extending transversely of the strip lateral edges, said mounting base having first and second opposite ends;
• a second strip of a flexible material permitting a portion of incident light to pass therethrough secured to the first strip second end and extending back over the first strip;
• a length of a soft-to-the-touch material secured to the mounting base and extending over the second strip and underlying first strip;
• first and second indexing plate means affixed respectively to the mounting base opposite ends;
• a first element having two ends fixedly secured to the respective indexing plates and extending over the first strip adjacent the first strip first end;
• second and third elements each having two opposite ends which are respectively pivotally connected to the indexing plate means, said second and third elements being so constructed that they can be selectively pivotally moved past each other from a first position where the second element is closer to the first mounting base to a second position where the third element is closer to the first mounting base;
• means for interconnecting the first strip first end to the third element while said first strip slidingly contacting the second element;
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• an extent of flexible material that will allow a predetermined portion of incident light to pass therethrough interconnecting the second and third elements.