Patent ID: 8844208
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: E04D

Abstract:
1. In a peaked roof building having adjoining roof portions, said portions meeting at an approximate right angle thereby forming a concave V-shaped roof valley, a rain catching and screening assembly comprising: a rain gutter for attachment to the building along a roof line thereof, the rain gutter having an approximate right angle between a first and a second gutter portions, the gutter portions joined at a position in line with the roof valley, wherein the gutter portions have a generally U-shaped cross section shape defining an outer gutter leg terminating at an outer gutter lip, and an inner gutter leg terminating at an inner gutter lip, the inner gutter leg enabled for being fastened to the building approximately parallel to and under the roof line; plural rectangular gutter screens, each one of said screens having a peripheral edge, a top surface, a bottom surface, a structural mesh layer and a fine screening layer, the screens arranged in side-by-side positions overcasting the rain gutter and a portion of the roof portions, the peripheral edge of said screens fastened to the outer gutter lip of the rain gutter, and being wedged between roofing materials of the roof portions; one of said gutter screens positioned for being placed over the two adjoining roof portions, the one said gutter screen having a V-shaped crease in the mesh layer and fine screening layer thereby being adapted for lying in contact with the adjoining roof portions in alignment with the V-shaped roof valley.