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The present invention is a uniquely designed gutter cleaning tool with no moving parts. Designed to move debris from elevated rain gutters by pulling it to an operator stationed on a ladder, to be scooped out and placed into a container. The preferred configuration conforms to the bottom of both K-s

The present invention is a uniquely designed gutter cleaning tool with no moving parts. Designed to move debris from elevated rain gutters by pulling it to an operator stationed on a ladder, to be scooped out and placed into a container. The preferred configuration conforms to the bottom of both K-style and half round gutters and includes a neck with an acme screw throat, protruding from a rectangular, two edged blade, positioned from the neck at an oblique angle. The head, when attached to an extension handle has a cleaning range of fourteen feet left and fourteen feet right for a total of twenty-eight feet from a set station.

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1. A rain gutter cleaning tool, comprising:a) a tool head including a flat blade portion defined by opposed flat surface areas and parallel side edges interrupted at one end of the blade portion by an arcuate end edge and interrupted at the opposite end of the blade by an end edge perpendicular to s

1. A rain gutter cleaning tool, comprising:a) a tool head including a flat blade portion defined by opposed flat surface areas and parallel side edges interrupted at one end of the blade portion by an arcuate end edge and interrupted at the opposite end of the blade by an end edge perpendicular to said parallel side edges;b) a neck portion having opposed ends one of which is integrally formed on one of said opposed flat surface areas of said blade portion at a location thereon spaced from said side and end edges, said neck portion projecting therefrom at an angle of about 20° to terminate at its opposite end spaced from said one of said opposed flat surfaces with which said neck portion is integrally formed and coincident with a plane angularly disposed to said flat surface area, and;c) a continuous series of threads formed on said neck portion.2. The rain gutter cleaning tool according to claim 1, wherein said tool head is formed from metal.3. The rain gutter cleaning tool according to claim 2, wherein said flat blade portion having opposed flat surface areas is provided with an orifice spaced from said side and end edges and said neck portion is provided with an axially aligned throat formed in said neck portion that extends through said orifice in the flat blade portion and said threads on said neck portion are formed interiorly of said throat.4. The rain gutter cleaning tool according to claim 3, wherein an elongated extension handle having threads on one end portion thereof is detachably secured to said threads formed interiorly of the throat formed in said neck portion.5. The rain gutter cleaning tool according to claim 1, wherein an elongated extension handle having threads on one end portion thereof is detachably secured to threads formed on said neck portion.