Patent ID: 7500762

Claim:
A pendant bracket/stabilizer for a fluorescent light fixture comprising in combination: a light fixture having a housing extending along a longitudinally extending axis holding straight fluorescent tubes within said housing extending parallel to said longitudinally extending axis; a single vertically extending support pipe intersected by a single pendant bracket, said pendant bracket having a horizontally extending top brace attached to said support pipe passing through said top brace, a bottom end of said support pipe attached to a flat top wall of said housing; said pendant bracket including a pair of obliquely extending arms extending parallel to said longitudinally extending axis downwardly in opposite directions from opposite ends of said top brace; each said obliquely extending arm having a flat, horizontally and outwardly extending attachment foot extending parallel to said longitudinally extending axis along said top wall of said housing, each said foot terminating on said top wall; each said foot terminating on said flat top surface; and each said attachment foot attached to said top wall of said housing.