Patent ID: 8225556

Claim:
A gutter bracket comprising: a substantially L-shaped bracket body; said bracket body having: (a) a base possessing a first end which installs within a gutter against a roof side gutter wall inner surface and a second end which engages a gutter lip on an outside gutter wall; (b) and (c) a substantially vertical neck rising from said first end of said base, said neck having a distal side facing said roof side gutter wall inner surface when installed within a gutter, a proximal side facing said gutter lip when installed within said gutter, a top end, an inferior end, and fastener channels extending through said neck; a gutter lip hook on said second end of said base; and a positioning tab extending distally from said top end of said neck so as to increase the spacing between said distal side of said top side of said neck and a support onto which said gutter is mounted thereby depressing said gutter lip when said gutter lip is engaged by said gutter lip hook and lower a proximal end of a gutter floor below a distal end of said gutter floor.