Single piece gutter guard with truss
AssigneeGutterglove, Inc.
InventorRobert Lenney
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Abstract
A gutter guard device is described comprising a bridge member composed of a decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side, at least one truss spanning a top 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 configured to attach to the roof side of the bridge member, and a gutter attachment member configured to attach to the gutter lip side of the bridge member, wherein the roof attachment member, the bridge member and the gutter attachment member are a single piece of material and the device is self-supporting.
Claims33
A gutter guard device comprising:
- a bridge member composed of a non-mesh decking material, having a roof side end and an opposing gutter lip side end;
- at least one continuous main fold in the bridge member to form at least one truss spanning a top surface of the bridge member;
- a secondary fold of a terminal end of the at least one continuous main fold, wherein the secondary fold reduces a height of a portion of the at least one continuous main fold proximal to at least one of the roof side end and the opposing gutter lip side end of the bridge member;
- a roof attachment member formed from the roof side end of the bridge member;
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- a gutter attachment member formed from the gutter lip side end of the bridge member,
- wherein the roof attachment member, the bridge member and the gutter attachment member are a single piece of material and the gutter guard device is self-supporting.
A gutter guard device comprising:
- a unitary member having a roof attachment portion, a bridge portion and a gutter attachment portion,
- wherein the bridge portion is made of a non-mesh material and has a plurality of orifices, and a unitary at least one truss disposed on a top surface of the bridge portion to enable the gutter guard device to be self-supporting over a gutter, wherein the at least one truss is formed from a continuous main fold of the unitary member,
- wherein the bridge portion is disposed between the roof attachment portion and the gutter attachment portion;
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- a secondary fold of the continuous main fold is disposed at the roof attachment portion and gutter attachment portion, flattening terminal ends of the continuous main fold.
A gutter guard device comprising:
- a bridge member having a non-mesh decking material with a plurality of orifices and a top surface, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side;
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- at least one truss having a length spanning at least a portion of the top surface, the at least one truss being unitary and formed from a continuous main fold of an entirety of the bridge member, and having a secondary fold of the continuous main fold at terminal ends of the continuous main fold to flatten the at least one girder at the roof side and gutter lip side,
- wherein the bridge member and the at least one truss are a single piece of material and the gutter guard device is self-supporting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.