Abstract: A rain gutter cover comprising an elongate cover member adapted to be situated over an open trough of a rain gutter. The cover member has a first cover portion integrally extending into a second water directing portion following a rounded nose portion. An outer surface of the elongate cover member is adapted to substantially cause water passing thereover to adhere to its surface even under light rainfall conditions. The first portion includes ribs forming multiple channels configured to converge water on the first portion and facilitate initial water adherence to the nose area and to the surface of the second portion.
Abstract: This invention comprises laminar flow generation devices that are adapted to be affixed to the upper, substantially flat surfaces of a rain gutter deflector system. They have at least one water diverting surface which rises abruptly from such upper surface and provides for the smooth redirection of water from the region of its top end through an angular displacement preferably not in excess of 90 degrees to the other of its ends from which the water is discharged. Embodiments may have two such water diverting surfaces with a common leading edge to divide the water and redirect the resulting flows away from each other. They may be further adapted for affixation to gutter deflector surfaces which intersect each other at an angle, as at the site of a roof valley. The diverting surfaces may include apertures to provide flow paths for water to further reduce the volume of the water discharged at the egress end of the diverting surfaces.
Abstract: A spirally wound corrugated pipe of sheet steel or the like is provided with outwardly convex corrugations which are spaced apart, with a flat portion of single wall thickness between adjacent corrugations. In one embodiment, the corrugation have a pitch of five inches and a height of one-half inch; in another embodiment, the pitch is six inches and the height is one inch.