Patent ID: 7658036
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: E04D

Abstract:
1. A self-cleaning gutter cover for installation over a gutter attached to a roof and having a back edge, a front edge, a trough defined between the back and the front edge, and the back and front edges and opening to the trough being collinear with a first plane, the self-cleaning gutter cover comprising: a metal sheet having terminal parallel edges, the metal sheet extending from the back edge of the gutter towards the front edge of the gutter beyond a midpoint of the trough to assist in carrying water and debris forward overtop the trough beyond the midpoint; a groove in said metal sheet, the groove: a) running parallel between the edges of the metal sheet and positioned between the back edge and the midpoint of the trough; b) providing a bending point to assist in matching the metal sheet to both pitch of the roof and the gutter; c) to assist in leveling a portion of the metal sheet for slowing water passing overtop the metal sheet; an expanded metal strip connected to the other parallel edge of the metal sheet overtop the trough and between the midpoint and the front edge, the flat expanded metal strip extending forward from beyond the midpoint to the front edge of the trough to assist in separating debris from the water and to provide for self-cleaning of debris from off the flat expanded metal strip; an opposite edge of the expanded metal strip capped with a folded sheet; and wherein the expanded metal strip lies substantially in the first plane collinear with the front and back edge and opening of the gutter.