Patent ID: 8720123

Claim:
A rain gutter system comprising: a plurality of interlocking gutter segments, each gutter segment of the plurality of interlocking gutter segments comprising: (i) a first leg and a second leg joined at a top end and separated at an opposite bottom end by a distance; (ii) a non-permeable membrane covering at least the first leg and comprising a skirt extending a specified distance below the bottom end of the first leg and flexing about perpendicular to the first leg; (iii) a male coupler of a male-female coupling mechanism disposed on one lateral end of at least one of the first leg and the second leg; and (iv) a female coupler of the male-female coupling mechanism disposed on an opposite lateral end of the leg to where the male coupler is disposed, wherein the male coupler of a first gutter segment couples to the female coupler of a second gutter segment to interlock the first gutter segment with the second gutter segment with the non-permeable membranes from the first and second gutter segments overlapping.