Abstract: A portable, quick-assembled tent includes a central tent pole with a horizontal, circular plate and an upstanding housing threadedly mounted thereon. The housing supports a stack of at least three spring retraction, lockable spools of strand, each rotatable in a horizontal plane on a vertical axis. The free terminal end of each strand is unwound against spring pressure and anchored at a spaced distance from the bottom of the pole. A canopy of limp fabric has its closed upper end draped over the central pole and its larger area, lower, open, end held extended by the strands.