Patent ID: 7445544

Claim:
A hanger structure adapted for suspending a meat product during processing comprising: a support member adapted to engage an overhead structure and having a prong-side; a base frame being formed by a plurality of bar members depending from the support member, the base frame having a prong-side and a backside; a plurality of members in the form of pointed prongs adapted to be pressed into engagement with the meat product, disposed at a plurality of elevations generally normal to and extending from the prong-side of the base frame; a stabilizing member attaching the support member to the base frame; the plurality of bar members in the base frame having at least a first bar member having first ends and generally parallel to a second bar member, the second bar member having second ends, an intermediate bar member having third ends and a bottom bar having fourth ends and a transverse bar having fifth ends; and the prongs are arranged in pairs and the pairs of prongs are formed as terminal end sections of U-shaped rod members which have leg portions constituting a part of the base frame and are attached to the base frame with the terminal end sections being bent at an angle to the plane of the base frame whereby the prongs extend at a plurality of elevations with relation to each other.