Patent ID: 8286390

Claim:
A removable downspout system for mating a downspout and a gutter coupled with a structure, the removable downspout system comprising: a spout forming an enclosure for receiving water collected in the gutter and having an upper opening for communicating with the gutter and a lower opening for discharging the water received by the spout, wherein the upper opening of the spout and bottom portions of the gutter are mated by a connection between the bottom portions of the gutter and the upper opening of the spout without raised features in the bottom portions of the gutter; and a box forming an enclosure for receiving water from the lower opening of the spout and having an upper opening for engaging the spout and a lower opening for discharging the water received by the box, wherein the box is mated with the downspout for receiving the water from the box, and wherein the downspout is disengageably mated with the structure; wherein the box slidingly engages the spout so that the spout is received within the box and so that the spout is nested within the box for preventing leakage between the spout and the box, wherein the box is disengaged from the spout when the downspout is disengaged from the structure and wherein upper portions of the spout are slidingly engaged by and are nested within upper portions of the box, and wherein lower portions of the spout are loosely engaged by funnel shaped lower portions of the box.