WO2023072762A1 - A gutter system and a method of assembling a gutter system - Google Patents
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
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- E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
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- E04D13/04—Roof drainage; Drainage fittings in flat roofs, balconies or the like
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- E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
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- E04D13/04—Roof drainage; Drainage fittings in flat roofs, balconies or the like
- E04D13/064—Gutters
- E04D13/068—Means for fastening gutter parts together
- E04D13/0685—Means for fastening gutter parts together in combination with hanging means
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Abstract
A gutter system comprising a number of gutter sections and gutter fittings, and where a gutter section comprises a gutter trough extending along a longitudinal axis with at least one open end with a convex outer surface and where a gutter fitting have a concave inner surface and is adapted for receiving and fixing the open end of two gutter sections so that the convex outer surface of each gutter section rest against the concave inner surface of the gutter fitting, and where the gutter fitting comprises two grooves having an undercut cross section and being open at one end and where the gutter section comprises one or more projections arranged on the convex outer surface of the gutter trough, each projection having corresponding cross section al- lowing that the projection can be inserted into and slide in a groove from its open end.
Description
Title:
A gutter system and a method of assembling a gutter system.
The prior art:
The present invention relates to a gutter system comprising a number of gutter sections and gutter fittings, and where a gutter section comprises a gutter trough extending along a longitudinal axis with at least one open end with a convex outer surface and where a gutter fitting have a concave inner surface and is adapted for receiving and fixing the open end of two gutter sections so that the convex outer surface of each gutter section rest against the concave inner surface of the gutter fitting.
Gutter systems are well known in many different embodiments providing the user to assemble a gutter adapted for any type of building and for this purpose such gutter systems typically comprises a number of long slender gutter sections forming the dewatering troughs of the finished, and a number of gutter fittings forming e.g. gutter end caps, gutter comers, gutter brackets, gutter unions or gutter outlets.
GB patent application number 2394728 discloses a gutter system as mentioned in the introduction adapted for easy assembly of gutter sections to a gutter fitting.
The object of the invention:
On this background, it is the purpose of the present invention to provide a gutter system being easy to assemble and providing a tight and secure assembly using relatively few separate components.
This is obtained by the invention according to claim 1 specifying that the gutter fitting comprises two grooves having an undercut cross section and being open at one end and that the gutter section comprises one or more projections arranged on the convex outer surface of the gutter trough, each projection having corresponding cross section allowing that the projection can be inserted into and slide in a groove from its open end and into an interlocking engagement with the groove.
In a preferred embodiment, the projection is an undercut ridge.
In a further preferred embodiment the groove and the projection forms a dovetail connection.
The groove may preferably comprise a stop arranged at a distance from the open end of the groove so that the projection is limited from further sliding into the groove.
Preferably, the two grooves are arranged mutually parallel with a distance between them, and the projection on the gutter section are arranged at a distance from the open end of the gutter trough being half the distance between the two grooves.
The gutter section is advantageously open and comprises projections arranged at both ends.
The gutter fitting may also further comprise a bracket part adapted for attaching the gutter fitting to a supporting structure.
The gutter section and the gutter fittings are preferably made from a plastic material.
Preferably, the projections are separate elements attached firmly to the gutter trough, e.g. by gluing.
The present invention also relates method of assembling a gutter system comprising at least one gutter fitting and two gutter sections according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the projection on each gutter section is first arranged in front of the open end of a groove on the gutter fitting, and where the gutter section is then rotated about its longitudinal axis so that the projection arranged on adjacent ends of the two gutter sections slides from the open end of a groove and into interlocking engagement with it.
The drawing:
In the following, one or more embodiments of the invention will be described in more detail and with reference to the drawing, where:
Fig. 1 : Is a perspective drawing showing a gutter assembled using components according to the present invention.
Fig. 2: Is a perspective drawing showing one embodiment of a gutter section according to the invention and as shown in figure 1 .
Fig. 3: Is a perspective drawing showing one embodiment of a gutter fitting according to the invention, and as shown in figure 1 .
Fig. 4: Is a perspective drawing showing a second embodiment of a gutter section according to the invention.
Fig. 5 Is a perspective drawing showing a third embodiment of a gutter section according to the invention.
Fig. 6 is a perspective drawing showing a second embodiment of the gutter fitting according to the invention.
Description of exemplary embodiments:
Figure 1 shows an embodiment of a gutter assembly according to the invention using two gutter sections 1 as shown in figure 2 and one gutter fitting 6 formed as a gutter union as shown in figure 3. For illustrative purpose this embodiment thereby only shows a part of a complete gutter assembly e.g. adapted for a specific building and it will be apparent for the skilled person that a complete gutter assembly may be assembled using multiple gutter sections 1 and gutter unions 6. Furthermore, it will be apparent that the gutter sections may vary in length and design, such as the gutter segments shown in figure 4 and 5, without thereby departing form the teaching of the present invention.
The gutter segments may also comprise gutter segments forming gutter corners or gutter outlets.
As shown in figure 3 the gutter fitting 6 have a concave inner surface 7 adapted for receiving and fixing an outer convex surface 5 at the open end 4 of each of the two gutter sections 1 so that the two gutter sections 1 in figure 1 extend in each other’s prolongation along a common longitudinal axis 3 and thereby the two gutter sections together forms a single gutter trough 2.
In order to hold the two gutter sections 1 in place in the gutter fitting the gutter fitting have two parallel grooves 8 each having an undercut cross section and an opening 9 at one end, and the gutter sections have projections 10 with a cross section corresponding to the cross section of the undercut grooves 8, so that each of the gutter sections 1 can be mounted on the gutter fitting 6 by first
arranging one of the projections 10 in front of the open end of a groove 8 on the gutter fitting 6, and then rotating the gutter section about its longitudinal axis 3 so that the projection 10 slides from the open end of a groove and into interlocking engagement with it.
In the embodiments shown in the drawings the cross section of the grooves 8 and the projections 10 are shaped so that they form a dovetail joint, but it will be apparent to the skilled person that any cross section providing an interlocking connection between the grooves 8 and the projections 10 may alternatively be used as long as the projection 10 can slide in the groove 8.
In this embodiment the grooves 8 on the gutter fitting 6 is provided with an end stop 11 at the opposite end compared to the open end 9 so that the gutter segments 1 can only be rotated with respect to the gutter fitting 6 until the projections 10 reaches the end stop 11.
Figure 4 shows an another embodiment of a gutter segment 1 where the gutter segment 1 is a tube provided with holes on one side is a tube provided with holes on one side.
Figure 5 shows yet another alternative embodiment of a gutter segment 1 where the gutter segment 1 form a gutter trough extending about 3/4 around the longitudinal axis 3.
Each of the two alternative embodiments of gutter segments 1 according to figure 4 and 5 are provided with a convex outer surface 5 and projections 10 allowing it to be assembled to the gutter fitting 6 exactly in the same manner as described above with reference to the gutter segment 1 shown in figure 2
Figure 6 shows an alternative embodiment of a gutter fitting 6 where the gutter fitting further comprises a bracket part 13 with screw holes 14 so that the gutter fitting form a gutter bracket adapted for being mounted onto a supporting structure (not shown9. Apart from that the gutter bracket in figure 6 can be comprises undercut grooves 8 arranged in the same manner as the grooves 8 on the gutter fitting shown in figure 3, and thereby the gutter bracket shown in figure 6 can be assembled with any of the gutter sections shown in figure 2, 4 or 5.
Claims
1. A gutter system comprising a number of gutter sections and gutter fittings, and where a gutter section comprises a gutter trough extending along a longitudinal axis with at least one open end with a convex outer surface and where a gutter fitting have a concave inner surface and is adapted for receiving and fixing the open end of two gutter sections so that the convex outer surface of each gutter section rest against the concave inner surface of the gutter fitting, and where the gutter fitting comprises two grooves having an undercut cross section and being open at one end and where the gutter section comprises one or more projections arranged on the convex outer surface of the gutter trough, each projection having corresponding cross section allowing that the projection can be inserted into and slide in a groove from its open end.
2. A gutter system according to claim 1 , wherein the projection is an undercut ridge.
3. A gutter system according to claim 2, wherein the groove and the projection forms a dovetail connection.
4. A gutter system according to claim 1 , 2 or 3, wherein the groove comprises a stop arranged at a distance from the open end of the groove so that the projection is limited from further sliding into the groove.
5. A gutter system according to any one or more of the preceding claims, wherein the two grooves are arranged mutually parallel with a distance between them, and the projection on the gutter section are arranged at a distance from the open end of the gutter trough being half the distance between the two grooves.
8 A gutter system according to any one or more of the preceding claims, wherein the gutter section is open and comprises projections arranged at both ends. A gutter system according to any one or more of the preceding claims, wherein the gutter fitting comprises a bracket part adapted for attaching the gutter fitting to a supporting structure. A gutter system according to any one or more of the preceding claims, wherein the gutter section and the gutter fittings are made from a plastic material. A gutter system according to any one or more of the preceding claims, wherein the projections are separate elements attached firmly to the gutter trough, e.g. by gluing. A method of assembling a gutter using a gutter fitting and two gutter sections according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the projection on each gutter section is first arranged in front of the open end of a groove on the gutter fitting, and where the gutter section is then rotated about its longitudinal axis so that the projection arranged on adjacent ends of the two gutter sections slides from the open end of a groove and into interlocking engagement with it.
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| US165388A (en) * | 1875-07-06 | Improvement in eaves-troughs | ||
| GB2089394A (en) * | 1980-12-17 | 1982-06-23 | Paragon Plastics Ltd | Attachment Brackets for Plastics Rainwater Guttering |
| GB2101168A (en) * | 1981-05-14 | 1983-01-12 | Robert James Munro | Rainwater gutter comprising coupled channel sections |
| GB2394728A (en) | 2002-11-01 | 2004-05-05 | Marley Extrusions | Attachment means for securing a gutter fitting to a gutter |
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| US165388A (en) * | 1875-07-06 | Improvement in eaves-troughs | ||
| GB2089394A (en) * | 1980-12-17 | 1982-06-23 | Paragon Plastics Ltd | Attachment Brackets for Plastics Rainwater Guttering |
| GB2101168A (en) * | 1981-05-14 | 1983-01-12 | Robert James Munro | Rainwater gutter comprising coupled channel sections |
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