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Repositionable, flexible, and extendible connector
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Inventors: Smith, Jeffrey E.; Noble, Christopher D.;
Assignee: Gutter World, Inc. (Altanta, GA)
Primary Examiner: Hook; James
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Morris, Manning & Martin
An integrally molded, repositionable connector has a collapsible obround body that includes lockable annular members that allow the body portion to extend, compress, bend, and lock into selectable lengths and angular positions. Each lockable annular member includes a static side, a movable side, and a reinforcing bead. Each annular member also has a plurality of arcuate segments defining the obround body. The connector can be extended by manually pulling the movable sides away from the static sides until the movable sides lock into position. The connector can also be compressed by pushing the movable sides towards the static sides until the movable sides lock into position. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The various embodiments of the present invention described herein are a plastic connector that satisfies the need for an apparatus that is inexpensive, flexible, extendible, locks into place, holds its position, has a unitary structure, has an obround cross section, and is interlocking with gutters or downspouts to form a downspout assembly.
A connector in accordance with the preferred embodiments of the present invention is extendible and collapsible to different lengths and flexible to different positions.
As used herein, the term "obround" means a closed figure having at least two generally parallel or curved sides and generally semicircular ends, quarter rounded ends, or curved corners.
Stated in other words, obround as used herein means having periphery segments with rounded intersections.
The periphery segments on adjacent sides have unequal lengths; but the periphery segments which oppose one another are generally parallel and are of equal length.
The term is thus intended to encompass closed figures having generally parallel opposite sides with rounded corners, generally elliptical closed figures, and generally rectangular closed figures having rounded corners, for example quarter rounded corners.
Accordingly, the term obround is meant to be interpreted broadly to cover figures having cross sections that are generally rectangular, generally elliptical, or generally obround, but have rounded corners that facilitate locking, extendible, flexible corrugations constructed as described herein.
As shown in FIG.
1, the first embodiment is an obround plastic downspout extension connector 10 that is connected to the end of a downspout to exhaust water away from the foundation of a building.
A number of downspout extension connectors, 10a, 10b, can be coupled together to form a downspout extension assembly.
A downspout extension connector constructed in accordance with this aspect of the present invention is shown in FIGS.
1-12.
Other embodiments of the present invention include obround downspout extension connectors 100 and 200 shown in FIGS
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