US 12,352,049 B2
Gutter cover system
Gary A. Knudson, Superior, CO (US)
Filed by Gary A. Knudson, Superior, CO (US)
Filed on May 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/747,082.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/189,927, filed on May 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0372763 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. E04D 13/076 (2006.01); E04D 13/068 (2006.01)
CPC E04D 13/076 (2013.01) [E04D 13/068 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gutter cover system for an open trough rain gutter having a front wall with an upper end and a spaced back wall attached to facia below a roof of a building, comprising:
a plurality of horizontally spaced clips mountable on said facia above said back wall, and
a gutter cover of impermeable material having a back edge, a front edge, a body and a nose, said body having a linear profile that slopes downwardly, forwardly, said nose having a convex first section that curves from said body forwardly, downwardly and then rearwardly, downwardly, and a concave second section that curves from said first section rearwardly, downwardly and then forwardly, downwardly to said front edge, said second section being sized and shaped to clip into said upper end of said front wall of said gutter, said nose having alternating fore-alt extending grooves and ridges extending from said body to said front edge with said grooves having a selected shape and said ridges having said shape, said back edge being shaped to be received and secured by said clips, and said cover being sized such that said ridges on said nose contact said upper end of said front wall of said gutter,
whereby rain water flows down said grooves, around said nose, into said gutter, and said ridges prevent small leaves and evergreen needles from entering said gutter.