Optionally Heated Moss Inhibitive Gutter Guard

Abstract

The system includes a substantially corrugated rigid screen body providing underlying support for a heating element. The body includes a heating wire or other heat source coupled with the body formed of heat conducting material. The body is configured with downward extending protrusions, that may be L-shaped or otherwise shaped, forming flexible heat element receiving channels that are open faced toward the front end of a rain gutter for easy insertion of the heating element during installation of the corrugated rigid body. The gutter guard also employs an ultra-slick coating, tape, or intrinsic material on portions of the gutter guard to prevent or limit ice or ice cycle formation.

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         14 . A gutter guard system comprising a first portion that attaches to or is positioned over the front lip or forward most plane of an underlying rain gutter and having a second screened portion that overlies an underlying rain gutter: the second filtering portion having a downward extending flexible inseam such inseam having an area on which a heating cable or other element may rest. 
     
     
         15 . A gutter guard system comprising a first portion that attaches to or is positioned over the front lip or forward most plane of an underlying rain gutter and having a second filtering portion that overlies an underlying rain gutter: the second filtering portion having a first distending member; such member having a plane that extends away from it and toward the front of a rain gutter and having a second distending member; such member being parallel to the first distending member and having a plane that extends away from it and toward the rear of the rain gutter, the first and second distending members each having their extending planes of similar shape and being located in the same or approximate plane allowing for the free ends of a clip to wrap around the extending planes allowing said clip to support overlying elements that may be inserted between the two downward distending members. 
     
     
         16 . A gutter guard system comprising a first portion that attaches to or is positioned over the front lip or forward most plane of an underlying rain gutter and having a second portion that receives and directs water into the underlying rain gutter, the first portion being comprised of, or having attached to it, a material whose dry static coefficient of friction value is less than 0.2