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Debris separator for downspouts
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Inventors: Williams, Robert M.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Fisher; Richard V.
Assistant Examiner: Jones; W. Gary
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Gifford, VanOphem, Sheridan, Sprinkle & Nabozny
A debris separator for rain gutter systems includes a substantially tubular housing having an upper port, a lower port, and an expanded chamber beneath the top port having a transverse opening. An inclined grate is secured within the chamber to extend angularly upwardly from the bottom peripheral edge of the transverse opening so as to extend across the chamber and the top port. Preferably, the grid includes a plurality of spaced, parallel plates which permit water to fall therebetween while diverting large particulate along the grid to direct it out of the housing through the transverse opening . |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE PRESENT INVENTION Referring first to FIG.
1, a debris separator 10 is shown positioned between a rain gutter 12 and a downspout 14.
The debris separator 10 comprises a substantially tubular housing 16 having a top opening 18 defined by a tubular upper wall portion 20 adapted to receive a depending tubular drain 22 of rain gutter 12.
A lower housing portion 24 has an opening 25 (FIG.
2) adapted to be received in the upper end of the downspout 14.
The lower housing portion 24 preferably extends at an angle with respect to the axis of tubular wall portion 20 as can best be seen in FIG.
2.
While in the preferred embodiment, the debris separator 10, the rain gutter 12 and the downspout 14 are made of a plastic material, it will be understood that it is within the scope of the present invention to construct these components from other materials as well.
Moreover, while the tubular housing portion 16 is substantially rectangular, and the upper housing portion 20 and lower housing portion 24 have a symmetrical, square cross section which enable them to mate with depending gutter portion 22 and the upper end of the downspout 14, respectively, the shape of these housing portions can be modified to mate with differently configured gutter flanges and downspouts.
In addition, adaptors can also be inserted into the upper housing portion 20 and over the lower housing portion 24 to permit the debris separator 10 to be used with cylindrical conduit members of the type typically used in aluminum rain gutter systems.
Referring to FIGS.
1 and 2, the substantially tubular housing 16 includes a central portion 26 forming a chamber 28 beneath the opening 18.
The chamber 28 is at least as large as the opening 18 so that effluent passing through the opening 18 flows without obstruction directly into the chamber 28.
In addition, as best shown in FIG.
2, the central housing portion 26, and thus the chamber 28 is larger than the opening 18 in at least one direction, i
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Gutter-related 
