Abstract: This invention provides a shade umbrella which is tiltable about a horizontal axis and which can be rotated about a vertical axis. A resiliently placed cam button protrudes through an opening adjacent each end of two annularly mated shaft portions supporting the umbrella. The button can be manually depressed to release the outer shaft, permitting removal of the umbrella or rotation for shaft control. A plurality of openings around the circumference of the outer shaft permits indexing of the shade control and the outer surface of the cam button is so shaped as to permit easy interconnection of the two shaft portions and secure locking thereof together.

Abstract: A wind-up mechanism for a tiltable umbrella is mounted on the umbrella pole for opening the umbrella and then tilting same in response to the winding of respective first and second portions of the same flexible cable. The wind-up mechanism comprises a rotatable wind-up shaft and a wind-up spool connected to the cable and rotatable in response to the rotation of the shaft. The spool comprises first and second axial sections of unequal diameters, with the first axial section being relatively larger for winding the first portion of the cable and the second axial section for winding the second portion of the cable, whereby the wind-up mechanism opens the umbrella at a relatively higher speed than during tilting.