Demountable structure

A sun shade assembly including:

• shade means including a flexible cover attached to a plurality of support arms, said support arms being movable from a lowered position in which the cover is in a stowed attitude and a raised position in which the cover is in an operative shading attitude;
• support means having a mounting base and a support structure upstanding from said mounting base and extending in part above said shade means for supporting said shade means offset from said mounting base;
• a plurality of cables connected to respective ones of said support arms and disposed above said cover for maintaining said cover in the operative shading attitude, said cables extending upwardly from said support arms into said support structure;
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• spreader members operatively connected to said support arms for maintaining an operative divergence between the respective cables and the support arms such that outer ends of said spreader members supporting said respective cables are in a first position when the cover is in the stowed attitude and are in a second position when the cover is in the operative shading attitude said second position being upward from said first position.