Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel removable, yet secure, gutter and fastener system. More particularly, the invention relates to elongated roof gutter sections which include a bottom member and a front wall and a rear wall attached lengthwise along the member's opposite edges thereby forming a channel. The gutter sections further include an overhanging lip consisting of the bottom member and protruding away from the channel at either end of the channel. The elongated roof gutter sections are removably mounted using a hook and slot, or an interlocking flange system to an elongated fastener member which, in turn, is mounted along the roof line of a building.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved device designed to be mountable on a building for supporting a ladder and protecting the building from damage due to the ladder. The improved device includes a plurality of leg means, attachment means, and crosspiece means that are mountable to a building and act to support a ladder, prevent lateral movement thereof, and protect the building or portions thereof such as gutters or roofs, from damage due to the ladder.

Abstract: An eavestrough system comprises a particular eavestrough section having inwardly directed locking flanges adjacent opposed upper edges thereof. This eavestrough section is designed to cooperate with a hidden hook having a cored base portion which cooperates with a cantilevered arm whick supports the eavestrough at the free end thereof. A downwardly opening locking slot is provided at the junction of the arm and base.

Abstract: A gutter assembly with a leaf and pine needle guard for attachment along the roof edge of a structure. Mounting brackets are provided for securing the assembly to the structure along its length. The gutter assembly includes a curved water shed surface with a plurality of openings along its vertical portion which selectively allow the water to enter the gutter positioned below while excluding pine needles, leaves and other debris from engagement within the gutter.

Abstract: A gutter guard device (A) is disclosed which includes an elongated, tubular frame (B) formed by a rolled and stamped sheet metal construction. The stamping process defines transverse bracing webs (30) and vertical flanges (32) which brace between front and rear tubular braces (10,14). Pivotal legs (22,24) carried by frame (B) allow for easy installation of the guard in a gutter (12). Spaced indicator brackets (26,28) assist the support of the front of the frame while providing visibility to determine location of the frame from the ground. A ladder may be leaned against the gutter between the indicator tabs.

Abstract: The dual position eaves trough apparatus has a mounting bracket which is L-shaped and has a vertical mounting leg and a horizontal projecting arm united to the mounting leg and extending in spaced relationship underneath the overhang of the roof. The projecting arm has a pivot base hole spaced from its outermost end for pivotably mounting an eaves trough support bar, and has a base lockmate hole spaced from the pivot base hole. An eaves trough support bar has a pivot mount structure, a first lockmate hole spaced from the mount structure, a second lockmate hole also spaced from the mount structure, and an extension portion which extends beyond the mount structure and serves as the support portion for the eaves trough. The eaves trough support bar is pivotably mounted at its pivot mount structure to the pivot base hole of the L-shaped bracket. An eaves trough is mounted to the extension portion of the eaves trough support bar.

Abstract: A hinged support bracket for a drain trough is disclosed having a harness member which nests above a bracket member. Both harness and bracket members are joined by a hinge mechanism at their forward extremities, thereby permitting the harness member, containing the drain trough, to be forwardly rotated at least 180 degrees of circular arc, causing inversion of the trough and the discharge of any debris contained therein.

Abstract: A ladder support is provided for use with an eavestrough or gutter. The support is mounted in the eavestrough without the necessity of using fasteners. It is also mostly concealed by the eavestrough and yet supports the ladder in spaced relationship thereto so that the ladder does not contact the eavestrough and cause damage to it. The ladder support includes two main legs having members at first ends adapted to engage the eavestrough at the juncture of a back wall and a bottom thereof with the legs being of sufficient length to extend above and beyond a front rim of the eavestrough. Second ends of the main legs have brackets for engaging the rails of the ladder to support it spaced from the eavestrough and to resist sideways movement. Outwardly-extending leg braces are affixed to intermediate portions of the main legs and have feet for engaging the interior of the rim for resisting movement of the main legs when a ladder is supported thereby.

Abstract: A rain gutter adapted to be mounted upon the fascia of a building beneath the lowermost extremity of a sloped roof is designed in a manner to easily discharge any accumulated wind-borne debris. The gutter is comprised of a flexible trough having first and second parallel stiffened edge extremities. The first edge extremity is held in fixed position and the second edge extremity is adapted to fall, causing dumping of the contents of the trough. Tether lines control the positioning of the second edge extremity.

Abstract: A gutter assembly with a leaf guard and soffit strip for attachment along a roof edge. Mounting brackets are provided for installing the assembly to rafters having variations in spacing, length, height, and parallelism, and for supporting one side of a soffit strip. The gutter, including its leaf guard and connectors, is integrally constructed as is both the soffit strip and its accompanying wall connector. The soffit strip is shaped to allow slidable insertion into and removal from the assembly. The leaf guard has numerous elongated aperatures with rearward facing depressions. Assemblies having combinations of these features are also disclosed as are methods of installation, the assemblies being adapted both for new construction with or without fascia and for replacing existing gutters.

Abstract: A gutter section of plastics material comprising front and rear walls and a bottom, the front and rear walls carrying fastening elements for being removably secured to complementary fastening elements of a hanger bracket and a raised bead or projection on the inner surface of the rear wall extending in the same direction as the top of the rear wall and spaced therefrom whereby when a hanger bracket is secured to the gutter section, a hanger bracket engages the bead or projection on the rear wall of the gutter to rigidify the structure and permit ease of expansion and contraction of the gutter section relative to any hanger brackets supporting the gutter section.

Abstract: Apparatus for holding a rain gutter having a strip running the length of the gutter. The strip may be nailed to the side of a building. The strip has an internal cavity running the length of the strip. The strip has an entrance opening to the cavity. The lower part of the strip includes a hook which cooperates with a hook at the upper end of one leg of a U-shaped gutter to suspend that leg of the gutter from the strip. The other leg of the U-shaped gutter is held in place by a series of cantilever beams. Each cantilever has a bar on one end that locks into the cavity in the strip. The cantilever projects through the entrance opening of the cavity and extends above the U-shaped gutter to support one of the legs of the U-shaped gutter. The strip with its cavity and opening acts as a socket into which the cantilevers with their associated bars may be inserted as required.

Abstract: A fascia-gutter system has a series of fascia brackets fixed to the rafters of a building structure to support a roll-formed metal fascia snapped onto the brackets. The top portion of the fascia supports the roofing tiles and the bottom portion supports the soffit. A tunnel formation having opposed channels releasably supports the backing plates of a series of mounting brackets locked into the fascia. Releasably engageable formations are provided on the backing plate and on flanges of the mounting bracket. Similar formations are also provided on mounting plate. The mounting brackets supports respective gutter brackets at selective relative heights to provide the desired fall to a gutter supported by brackets allow the fall to be accurately set.

Abstract: An eaves troughing assembly includes elongated eaves troughing members of resilient material with generally U-shaped section having a rear portion, base portion and front portion, the front portion of each eaves troughing member having a longitudinally extending recess in a front face at least adjacent an end of the member. Elongated connectors of resilient material with generally U-shaped section have a rear connector portion having an inwardly extending upper free end portion forming a recess between the free end portion and an adjacent part of the rear connector to receive an upper end of the rear portion of an eaves troughing member. The front portion of each connector member has a longitudinally extending projection in a rear face shaped for snapping engagement in the recess of an eaves troughing member.

Abstract: "Gutter Jack" is a mechanical device which is temporarily attached to the facia board at the end of the roof to support and to adjust the slope of the rain gutter during the installation. A gutter jack is generally used at each end of the rain gutter to be installed or at an intermediate position as required. The gutter jack includes a base mounting plate which is temporarily attached to the facia board and an adjustable Z-Bar bracket which supports the rain gutter and sets the slope. The Z-Bar bracket is easily adjusted and locked in position by loosening and re-tightening wing nuts.

Abstract: A bracket assembly for attachment to a building for mounting a gutter allows the gutter to be inverted for dumping accumulated debris. Two parallel bracket members are latched together closely adjacent to the mounting wall. One bracket member pivots outwardly when the two members are unlatched to empty debris from the gutter. The gutter when inverted is directed at an angle away from the longitudinal axis of the mounting wall to direct dumped debris away from the mounting wall. The latch comprises a hook latched by vertical movement of the pivotable bracket member about the pivot axis. Structure for latching and unlatching from ground level is provided by a cable pulley arrangement for vertically moving the pivotable latch member.

Abstract: An eavestrough corner bracket made from an elongated bendable sheet strip with a longitudinal axis. The bracket has inner and outer portions folded about the longitudinal axis to produce respective corner side portions inclined to each other to define side walls of opposed corners which are generally complementary to adjacent intersecting inner and outer portions of the eavestroughing. The bracket has an intermediate portion disposed between the inner and central portions thereof, the intermediate portion having a plurality of folds to incline corner portions of the bracket for both an outside corner and for an inside corner of the bracket.

Abstract: A dually adjustable eaves trough bracket for installation of eaves trough at varying angles to roof rafter and eaves board structure. The bracket including a securing plate adapted for vertical orientation to the roof eave structure and including a plurality of brace slots, and further including a trough support member for interlocking connection to the upper end of the securing plate as an adjustably positionable brace plate supports the trough support member relative to the securing plate brace slots at a proper drainage attitude.

Abstract: A drain trough system is disclosed wherein the drain trough may be mechanically inverted to permit any debris therein to fall out. The system involves a series of hinged mounting brackets in horizontally spaced alignment, at least one of the mounting brackets being motorized, a length of drain trough supported by the mounting brackets, and a downspout associated with the drain trough. The motorized mounting bracket includes an electric motor positioned below the bracket, a drive mechanism fixedly attached to the spindle of the motor, and a driven mechanism activated by the drive mechanism and associated with a pivotable upper harness member of the mounting bracket.

Abstract: A rotatable gutter system including a longitudinally elongated gutter, a plurality of supports and a pulley and cable drive mechanism is disclosed. The support may be attached to the facia board of a building, or the underside of an eave. Each support includes a support bracket for attachment to the building and a gutter support member having roller bearings. The support member is attached to the gutter. The gutter can be rotated into a substantially inverted position for emptying debris therefrom by a cable actuated pulley affixed to one end of the gutter. A specially designed downspout having a gutter receiving aperture permits unhampered rotation of the gutter.

Abstract: Gutter hangers with sealing means for fasteners such as nails, piercing the gutter rear wall and the facia board of a building. The sealing means may be of widely varied types, as for example, compressible grommets surrounding the nails in an eaves trough hanger or may be in the form of a flexible compressible sealing strip positioned in the U-bend portion of a gutter hanger positioned over the rear edge of the gutter. The sealing means are preferably of compressible elastomeric material such as a polychloroprene.

Abstract: An eavestrough corner bracket made from an elongated bendable sheet strip with a longitudinal axis. The bracket has inner and outer portions folded about the longitudinal axis to produce respective corner side portions inclined to each other to define side walls of opposed corners which are generally complementary to adjacent intersecting inner and outer portions of the eavestroughing. The bracket has an intermediate portion disposed between the inner and central portions thereof, the intermediate portion having a plurality of folds to incline corner portions of the bracket for both an outside corner and for an inside corner of the bracket. The invention discloses a method of folding a structure from a blank to eliminate joining together of portions of the bracket.

Abstract: A gutter hanger for attaching a horizontal, generally U-shaped gutter to the wood fascia of a building features a rigid, one piece, generally L-shaped bracket having integrally connected, mutually perpendicular, upper forwardly extending and rear downwardly extending legs.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mechanism for attaching a gutter to the bottom portion of a roof so as to carry water away therefrom comprising an L-shaped bracket having a vertical and a horizontal leg, a hinged member attached to the horizontal leg at an extremity remote from the vertical leg and a releaseable fastener on the top portion of the vertical leg adapted to cooperate with a pop rivet disposed on the gutter. The gutter is hinged to the horizontal leg of the L-shaped bracket and affixed by the pop rivet to the fastener so that it can releaseably removed from the bracket and tipped over to remove the contents of the gutter which typically takes the form of leaves and other forms of debris.

Abstract: A one-piece gutter hanger bracket has a nail guide portion located in its mid-section. The nail guide positions the head of a nail angularly upward with respect to the main body of the hanger bracket so that the nail head is easily accessible to a driving tool. A nail driven through the nail guide provides additional support to the mid-section of the bracket.

Abstract: Gutter hangers with sealing means for fasteners such as nails, piercing the gutter rear wall and the facia board of a building. The sealing means may be of widely varied type, as for example, compressible grommets surrounding the nail in an eaves trough hanger as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 1,635,871 dated July 12, 1927, or may be in the form of a flexible compressible sealing strip positioned in the U-bend over the rear edge of the gutter shown in FIG. 3 of U.S. Pat. No. 3,416,760, Sauder, dated Dec. 17, 1968. The sealing means are preferably of compressible elastomeric material such as neoprene.

Abstract: A roof gutter of channel shape sheet material, its front flange of greater height than its rear flange, has a series of overflow ports formed in the front flange at a level below that of the top of the rear flange, to prevent water overflowing the rear flange and entering the roof structure, these overflow ports being formed in the bottom part of a continuous longitudinal groove (viewed from the front) formed in the front flange of the gutter, and so the ports are not visible when the gutter is viewed from below.

Abstract: An improved gutter hanger is disclosed of one piece construction having an elongated body portion which horizontally spans the open top of a trough-shaped rain gutter, an upstanding support portion which projects upwardly from one end of the body portion above the gutter, and an upwardly and rearwardly facing hook portion at the other end of the body portion which interlocks with an oppositely directed hook-shaped front edge portion of the gutter. At least one upwardly projecting tongue, struck out of the upstanding support portion, engages under an inwardly and reversely bent rear upper edge portion of the gutter. A nail receiving hole extends through the upstanding support portion at a position above the upper extremity of the one or more tongues so that when a nail is driven through the hole into a building wall, the nail cooperates with the gutter hanger to support the gutter from the building wall and to securely lock the gutter against displacement without the nail piercing the gutter.

Abstract: An eavestrough bracket formed of a length of stamped sheet metal which has a straight bar portion having an upwardly curved hooked portion at an outer end for engaging an upper hooked marginal edge of an eavestrough and an upstanding leg at an inner end for engaging an opposite upper marginal edge portion of the eavestrough, the leg having an opening for receiving a securing nail, a strengthening rib extending continuously from substantially centrally of the bar portion and upwards through the hooked portion and a trough extending continuously from substantially centrally of the bar portion and upwardly through the upstanding leg and terminating at the hole for guiding a nail to be driven to the opening.

Abstract: A support system which enables a rain gutter to be inverted and emptied of debris includes a link pivoted at its rear end to a bracket attached to a building, and at its front end to the gutter. The gutter can pivot about the front end of the link to an inverted position. In its normal position the gutter rests on support arms extending outwardly from the building underneath the gutter. The support system is usable with all commercially available gutters.

Abstract: Disclosed is a combination safety device and gutter protector for use with a ladder which is leaned at an angle to the wall of a house or the like, the upper ends resting laterally secure against a relatively narrow extending surface of the device and not against the outer edge of a gutter installed on the eave of a roof. The device of the invention serves to prevent slippage or other undesirable movement of a ladder when it is placed in position for use and is a support means supporting the ladder and its load directly to the fascia board of a house, rather than to the gutter. The device is an "H" shaped support means attached to a gutter backwall and to a fascia board and is composed of two spaced apart stanchions and a crossmember, each of the stanchions having a longitudinal passageway thereto and an elongated spike disposed in the passageway. One end of the spike protrudes through the gutter backwall and is embedded in the fascia board.

Abstract: This invention consists of a hanger by means of which eavestroughing can be nailed to a building so that the nail is embedded into the wood framework of the building, at a downward angle, and so that the head of the nail is not visible on the front wall of the eavestroughing. The hanger is provided with a hook at its front end for attachment to the upper rim of the front wall of the eavestrough, and a plate at its rear end, which abuts the inside of the rear wall of the trough, when it is inserted therein. Starting from about half way of the hanger and running at a downwardly inclined angle to the rear wall is an open ended tube for holding and guiding a nail therein. The hanger and the tube are provided with attached strips for reinforcement.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for manipulating a gutter to facilitate the dumping of debris from the gutter. Mounting structure supports the gutter for rotation about a longitudinal axis of the gutter, the longitudinal axis being located within the gutter between its upper edge and its bottom whereby the radius of rotary motion of the gutter is less than its depth. A drive apparatus is connected to rotate the gutter in response to the application of power thereto. A crank assembly is connected to the drive apparatus to transmit power to the drive apparatus for rotating the gutter. The drive apparatus responds to the application of power to the crank assembly in a continuous uniform fashion to rotate the gutter over a reciprocatory rotational excursion. Detent structure indicates when the gutter is in a substantially upright position. Structure is disclosed for providing for fluid communication between two gutters rotatable relative to one another, without inhibiting their relative rotatability.

Abstract: The invention permits a conventional rain gutter to be converted into a dumpable rain gutter system which can be easily cleaned. The system comprises a plurality of rain gutter supports, each including a mounting bracket adapted to be secured to the facia or trim board of a building and a gutter bracket adapted to be secured to a conventional rain gutter. A pivot connection is provided between the mounting bracket and the gutter bracket. A recoil spring normally retains the gutter upright, yet allows the gutter to pivot downward to be cleaned. Preferably, the system includes an elongated pivot rod rotatably supported by each mounting bracket and non-rotatably coupled to each gutter bracket to allow all gutter brackets to be operated simultaneously.

Abstract: An apparatus made of a synthetic resin for attaching, in breakaway fashion, a rear view mirror mounted within an automobile. A base member is attached to the automobile body and is provided with a thinned region having numerous tiny holes therein whereby when a substantial impact is applied to the mirror section, the base fractures in the thinned region causing the mirror device as a whole to break away from the base.

Abstract: Heating cables are secured in proper position by supports extending into the rain gutter of the house or building. In new installations, these supports may extend across the gutters and support the outer wall thereof in addition to serve as an anchoring means for heating cables. The construction is such that the supports serve as a means of supporting heating cables extending longitudinally of the gutter and in spaced relation to the bottom of the gutter. The supports may also serve as anchors for zig zag cable portions of a heating cable overlying the edge portion of the roof.

Abstract: An expandable rack comprising a plurality of shelf sections, each having beaded longitudinal edges of such size as to allow one section to telescope into the next section and bracket means only slidably supporting said sections and having a shelf receiving portion which substantially matches the exterior shape of said shelf sections thereby allowing said shelf sections freedom of movement only in a longitudinal direction.