Gutter guard with girder
AssigneeGutterglove, Inc.
InventorRobert C. 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.
Claims20
A gutter guard, comprising:
- a rear beam;
- a decking having a plurality of orifices, with a plurality of folds in the decking to form girder structures on a bottom of the decking, a and wherein the decking has-a front edge and rear edge;
- and
- a front beam,
- wherein the rear edge of the decking is attached to the rear beam and the front edge is attached to the front beam, and wherein the gutter guard is self-supporting via the girder structures.
A gutter guard comprising;
- a
- a waterproof planar decking, with orifices;
- girders disposed on a bottom of the decking formed from folding the decking to cause the girders to protrude from a bottom of the decking and traverse from an upper end of the decking to a lower end of the decking;
- a rear beam coupled to the top end of the decking, configured to rest on a roof, and
- a front beam to the lower portion of the decking, configured to rest on a gutter lip,
- wherein the gutter guard is self-supporting via the girders.
A gutter guard, comprising:
- a sheet of weatherproof material, having a plurality of orifices therein;
- a plurality of girders disposed on a bottom of the weatherproof material, formed from multiply-folding sections of the weatherproof material into a U-shaped structure;
- a roof attachment rail coupled to a top portion of the weatherproof material;
- and
- a gutter attachment rail coupled to a bottom portion of the weatherproof material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.