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US 2012/0066983 A1Published application
Inside corner gutter piece
OwnerJimmy J. Dehart, SR.inventor
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Abstract
An inside corner gutter piece for a roof gutter system having an angled outer wall of a center segment extending at a 45 degree angle to outer walls of two straight end segments, the outer wall of the center segment acting as a flow diverter for directing rain runoff from a roof valley into connected straight gutter sections, with a top and down turned edge acting to block a rainwater off-flow stream from flowing up and out of the outer wall of the inside corner gutter piece.
Claims2
An inside corner gutter piece for a roof eave gutter system comprising:
- a pair of straight end segments each configured to receive an end of a respective adjacent gutter system section and extending at right angles to each other, each end segment having an outer wall, bottom wall and an inner wall connected by said bottom wall to said outer wall;
- an angled center segment having an outer wall connected to a respective outer wall of each end segment, said outer wall extending at an angle of about 45 degrees to said outer walls of said end segments, said center segment outer wall formed with a top extending inwardly back toward a right angle corner formed by two sections of said vertical rear wall of said corner piece and also formed with a terminal edge extending downward from the inside of said top to create a channel capturing any rainwater flow surge climbing to the top of said outer wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.