IP Library Granted Patent US 12,018,490
Granted Patent B2
US 12,018,490 · App. 16/864,089 · Granted Jun 25, 2024

Single piece gutter guard with truss

Inventor: Robert C. Lenney (Lincoln, CA)
Assignee: GUTTERGLOVE, INC.
E04D13/076E04D13/064E04D13/068
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Patent No.
US 12,018,490
App. No.
16/864,089
Granted
Jun 25, 2024
Kind
B2
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.

Claims (37)

1. A single piece gutter guard device, comprising:

a bridge member composed of a decking material having sections with a plurality of orifices, the bridge member having a roof side and opposing gutter lip side;

at least one truss formed from a fold in the bridge member, continuously spanning a majority of a top surface of the bridge member, the at least one truss having a height and a width, wherein the height is greater than the width, wherein a bottom surface of the bridge member is substantially continuous across a bottom width of the at least one truss;

a roof attachment member formed from the roof side; and

a gutter attachment member formed from the gutter lip side,

wherein the roof attachment member, the bridge member and the gutter attachment member are formed from a unitary single piece of material and the gutter guard device is configured to be self-supporting due to support from the at least one truss.

2. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one truss is a plurality of trusses.

3. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein a structure of the at least one truss has a first wall of the fold joined to an opposing second wall of the fold via a connecting top of the fold.

4. The gutter guard device of claim 3 , wherein the first and second walls are disposed perpendicular to the bridge member.

5. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one truss is disposed at an angle from a plane of the top surface of the bridge member.

6. The gutter guard device of claim 2 , wherein the plurality of trusses are equidistant from each other.

7. The gutter guard device of claim 2 , wherein a truss of the plurality of trusses spans the bridge member in a non-orthogonal orientation.

8. The gutter guard device of claim 2 , wherein a truss of the plurality of trusses is bifurcated.

9. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein a portion of the at least one truss protruding on at least one of the gutter attachment member and roof attachment member has a reduced profile.

10. The gutter guard device of claim 9 , wherein the reduced profile is obtained by flattening the portion.

11. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein a length of the at least one truss is less than a length between the bridge member's roof side and gutter lip side.

12. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one truss has a cross-sectional profile shape of an inverted “U”.

13. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , further comprising at least one barricade disposed in the bridge member.

14. The gutter guard device of claim 13 , wherein the at least one barricade has a shape of at least one of a number, letter, circle, arrow, crescent, bump, dimple, and polygon.

15. The gutter guard device of claim 13 , wherein the at least one barricade is a plurality of barricades.

16. The gutter guard device of claim 13 , wherein the at least one barricade is not made from the bridge member's decking material.

17. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein a first section of the roof side has a first elevation and a second section of the gutter side has a second elevation, the first and second sections being joined together by a third section, to form a non-linear bridge member profile, wherein a profile of the at least one truss is matched to the bridge member's profile.

18. The gutter guard device of claim 17 , wherein the first and second elevations are the same and the third section contains an apex, to form a peak.

19. The gutter guard device of claim 17 , wherein the first and second elevations are the same and the third section contains an inverted apex, to form a trough.

20. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein the roof attachment member is flexible, allowing it to be deformed into different attachment angles.

21. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein an upper portion of the at least one truss is angled with respect to a lower portion of the at least one truss.

22. The gutter guard device of claim 2 , further including at least one of a regular shaped and irregular shaped groove disposed in the bridge member between the plurality of trusses.

23. The gutter guard device of claim 22 , wherein the at least one regular shaped and irregular shaped groove is a plurality of grooves.

24. The gutter guard device of claim 22 , wherein a first cross-sectional profile of the at least one regular shaped and irregular shaped groove has a shape of at least one of a hexagon, half-hexagon, triangle, box, sinusoid, off center, dip, and V.

25. The gutter guard device of claim 22 , wherein a second cross-sectional profile of the at least one regular shaped and irregular shaped groove has a different shape than the first cross-sectional profile's shape.

26. The gutter guard device of claim 22 , wherein a second cross-sectional profile of the at least one groove has a different size than a size of the first cross-sectional profile's shape.

27. The gutter guard device of claim 22 , wherein a first groove of the at least one groove is in a reversed orientation to a second groove of the at least one groove.

28. The gutter guard device of claim 22 , wherein an end profile of the at least one regular shaped and irregular shaped groove forms a train of angled segments.

29. The gutter guard device of claim 28 , wherein the train includes a curved segment.

30. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , further comprising a trough disposed in the bridge member and proximal to the gutter attachment member.

31. The gutter guard device of claim 30 , wherein the trough contains at least one screened window.

32. The gutter guard device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the roof side and the gutter lip side is non-orificed.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Jul 17, 2021
From: GUTTERGLOVE, INC.
To: GUTTERGLOVE, INC.
Reel/Frame 056892/0306 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 29, 2020
From: LENNEY, ROBERT C
To: GUTTERGLOVE, INC.
Reel/Frame 052793/0662 →
Continuity (5)
Continuation In Part 16862537 · Apr 29, 2020
Provisional Application 62841438 · May 1, 2019
Provisional Application 62841387 · May 1, 2019
Provisional Application 62841427 · May 1, 2019
Related Publication 20200347605A1 · Nov 5, 2020
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