and in the detailed description of the invention and the claims below and in the accompanying drawings reference is made to particular features including method steps of the invention it is to be understood that the disclosure of the invention in this specification includes all possible combination of such particular features for example where a particular feature is disclosed in the context of a particular aspect or embodiment of the invention or a particular claim that feature can also be used to the extent possible combination with and or in the context of other particular aspects and embodiments of the invention and in the invention generally the invention described herein is a rain gutter guard 10 hereafter referred to as u201c gutter guard u201d or u201c guard u201d where fig3 is a perspective view of the gutter guard 10 the gutter guard 10 can be installed when roofing is installed or retro fitted into a conventional rain gutter system fig4 is an exemplary side view of the gutter guard 10 installed on a conventional rain gutter 1 where a conventional rain gutter 1 is defined as a conduit which is secured to a support plate or fascia of the roof structure by conventional means fig5 is an exploded view of the of the gutter guard 10 the gutter guard is comprised of a guard shell 20.