Masco Corporation of Indiana

American Metal Products Company

Gobind Bahroos

Patrick B. Jonte

Patrick Byron Jonte

Dimitris Katsamberis

Daniel Ford

Dennis Maiello

Stephen Gibbons

David Eisenbraun

A gutter cover for directing the flow of rainwater from a building roof into a gutter mounted to the peripheral edge thereof while preventing debris such as leaves and twigs from entering and clogging the gutter. The cover is secured to the roof of the building such that rainwater flowing down the shingles will flow across the cover at the bottom roof line. A lower end of the cover has an arcuate nose disposed substantially above the outer edge of the gutter. The surface of the gutter is treated with one or more combinations of coatings and/or substrate textures to slow the flow of water while improving flow to the cover surface. Rainwater will flow around the arcuate nose into the gutter while debris carried by the rainwater is expelled outwardly over the edge of the gutter.

Gutter cover device

A hand held spray nozzle (10) for a kitchen faucet has a valve housing (12) with an elongated passage (20) and a valve seat (28). A valve element (36) has a frusto-conical elastomeric sleeve (40) engageable to the valve seat (36) and has a camming surface (44) mounted upstream from the elastomeric sleeve (40) and a stabilizer flange (48) mounted further upstream from the camming surface (40) and a spring seating end (50) which seats a biasing spring (58) which biases the valve element to the closed position. A push rod (62) engages the camming surface (44). The push rod (62) is canted from the vertical position at approximately (60) degrees and has an outer end (75) engaging a pivoting handle (78) where the thumb engaging section (82) is at a wall opposite abutment section (76) which engages the outer end (75) of the push rod (62).

Valve for a hand held spray nozzle

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