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OwnerTimothy J. Killworth, Donald D. Eisberginventors
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A rain gutter shield preferably having (a) an elongated layerless screen of porous, non-woven polymeric fiber material and (b) two elongated semi-rigid ribs on each lateral edge of the screen. One of the ribs may have a header portion thereon sized to fit under the shingles on the roof of the building on which the rain gutter is mounted. Alternatively, each rib may have a channel formed in the lateral edge of that rib which is not attached to the elongated layerless screen so that the channels snap fit over the edge of a rain gutter. The method of installation may involve not only the use of the preferred rib structure, but also simply gluing or bolting one lateral edge of the elongated layerless screen to the lip of the rain gutter most distant from the building to which the rain gutter is mounted and, then, attaching the other lateral edge of the elongated layerless screen to the roof of that building.
A rain gutter shield comprising (a) an elongated layerless screen of porous, non-woven polymeric fiber material having first and second lateral edges running along the opposite sides of the length of said elongated layerless screen and (b) first and second elongated semi-rigid ribs, the first rib attached to the first of said lateral edges of said elongated layerless screen, and the second rib attached to the second of said lateral edges of said elongated layerless screen whereby said rain gutter shield may be attached by at least one of said ribs to a rain gutter, said elongated layerless screen of porous, non-woven polymeric fiber material being weather resistant, flexible enough to be handled, but yet when reinforced with said first and second elongated semi-rigid ribs, sturdy enough to avoid sagging and stretching without the need for a backing layer of any kind.
A method of forming a rain gutter shield over a rain gutter comprising:
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