ROOF GUTTER SYSTEM WITH REMOVABLE COVER

• US 20110126477A1
• Filed: 11/24/2010
• Published: 06/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: All Clear Gutters LLC
• Original Assignee: All Clear Gutters LLC
• Inventors: Hurn, Clifford E.
• Application Number:
  US12/954,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20110126477A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 52/12
• CPC Class Codes: E04D 13/076 Devices or arrangements for removing snow, ice or debris from gutters or for preventing accumulation thereof

Abstract

The present application relates generally to a roof gutter system, and in particular, to a roof gutter system with a removable cover for allowing rainwater and preventing material from flowing into a gutter. The gutter system comprises a hanger adapted to be secured to a sidewall of a building underneath an eave of a roof, and a cover that can be attached and removed from said hanger.

Claims

1. A gutter system comprising:

a hanger adapted to be secured with respect to a sidewall of a building underneath an eave of a roof, the hanger having a front portion and a rear portion, wherein, when the hanger is secured with respect to the sidewall;

the front portion extends frontward from the building sidewall, the front portion being configured to support a front wall of a gutter positioned underneath the eave, the front portion having a front flange extending upwardly from the front portion; and

the rear portion extends upwardly from the front portion, the rear portion having a rear flange extending downwardly from the rear portion; and

an elongated cover having an upper rear edge and a lower front edge, the cover having an attached position in which the rear edge of the cover is positioned rearward of the rear flange of the hanger and in which the front edge of the cover is positioned rearward of the front flange of the hanger, the cover in said attached position being substantially fixed with respect to the hanger, the cover in said attached position being configured to extend above and along the gutter and to substantially prevent the collection of debris within the gutter, the cover having sufficient flexibility to permit a user to bend the rear edge and the front edge toward one another to remove the cover from the hanger, or to bring the cover to said attached position by positioning the rear edge of the cover rearward of the rear flange of the hanger and simultaneously positioning the front edge of the cover rearward of the front flange of the hanger.

2. The gutter system of claim 1, wherein the cover comprises a sheet of material extending from the rear edge to the front edge.

3. The gutter system of claim 1, further comprising the gutter.

4. The gutter system of claim 1, wherein the front portion further comprises a mounting flange for mounting the hanger to the eave of a roof.

5. The gutter system of claim 1, wherein the front portion further comprises a lip configured to be received by a lip extending longitudinally within a gutter.

6. The gutter system of claim 1, wherein the cover is non-perforated.

7. The gutter system of claim 1, wherein the front edge and/or the rear edge extend continuously along substantially an entire length of the cover.