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A portable shade system includes a shade member for shading a user from the sun, an elongated member having proximal and distal end portions for supporting the shade member on an object, and a clamp attached to the proximal end portion of the elongated member for removably mounting the elongated mem

A portable shade system includes a shade member for shading a user from the sun, an elongated member having proximal and distal end portions for supporting the shade member on an object, and a clamp attached to the proximal end portion of the elongated member for removably mounting the elongated member on the object. The shade member is arranged to fold from an open configuration to a closed configuration and to removable mount on the distal end of the elongated member to enable the user to remove the shade member. In one version, the shade member includes a suction cup member for enabling the user to mount the shade member on a car window apart from the elongated member. The shade member may include a sheet of foldable material (e.g., shade material of honeycomb construction) mounted between rigid end pieces with an elastic member that enables a user to rotate the end pieces from a closed configuration in which the sheet of foldable material is folded between the end pieces and an open configuration in which the sheet of foldable material is unfolded in a circularly shaped arrangement.

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A foldable shade member, comprising: a sheet of foldable material having opposite first and second end portions and opposite first and second marginal edge portions extending between the first and second end portions; first and second rigid end pieces, each of the end pieces having a first end porti

A foldable shade member, comprising: a sheet of foldable material having opposite first and second end portions and opposite first and second marginal edge portions extending between the first and second end portions; first and second rigid end pieces, each of the end pieces having a first end portion and each of the end pieces being attached to a respective one of the first and second end portions of the sheet of foldable material such that the first end portion of the first end piece and the first end portion of the second end piece are disposed adjacent the first marginal edge portion of the sheet of foldable material without the first end portions of the first and second end pieces engaging one another; and an elastic member strung through the first end portion of each rigid end piece and through the first marginal edge portion of the sheet of foldable material to enable a user to rotate the end pieces from a closed configuration in which the sheet of foldable material is folded between the end pieces and an open configuration in which the sheet of foldable material is unfolded in a circularly shaped arrangement such that the first and second marginal edge portions of the sheet of foldable material are circularly shaped with the elastic member restraining the first marginal edge portion of the sheet of foldable material between the first end portions of the first and second end pieces so that the first marginal edge portion of the sheet of foldable material can unfold somewhat but only substantially less than the second marginal edge portion.