Gutter guard with girder
AssigneeGutterglove, Inc.
InventorRobert Lenney
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Abstract
A gutter guard device is described, comprising, a bridge member composed of a sheet or micro-mesh decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side; at least one girder spanning a bottom surface of the bridge member from a proximal end of the bridge member's roof side to a proximal end of the bridge member's gutter lip side; a roof attachment member attached to an end section of the roof side of the bridge member and configured to attach to a roof; and a gutter attachment member attached to an end section of the gutter lip side of the bridge member and configured to attach to a gutter lip, wherein the device is self-supporting.
Claims11
A gutter guard comprising:
- a mesh decking having a plurality of orifices, a gutter lip side and a roof side;
- a plurality of main folds of the mesh decking extending from the gutter lip side to the roof side, forming a plurality of unitary girders under the mesh decking;
- secondary folds on opposing ends of the plurality of main folds;
- a roof attachment rail, coupled to a flattened gutter lip side end;
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- a gutter lip attachment rail, coupled to a flattened roof side end, wherein the gutter guard is self-supporting due to the plurality of unitary girders.
A gutter guard comprising:
- a mesh decking having a plurality of orifices, a gutter lip side and a roof side;
- a plurality of main folds of the mesh decking extending from the gutter lip side to the roof side, forming a plurality of girders protruding under the mesh decking;
- and
- a plurality of height-reducing bends at the gutter lip side end and roof side end of the plurality of main folds, reducing a terminal end height of the main folds;
- wherein the gutter guard is self-supporting due to the plurality of girders.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.