A22B 7/002
Devices for hanging animal carcasses while being conveyed or stored
Official title: {Devices for hanging animal carcasses while being conveyed or stored, e.g. gambrels, hooks}
A22B7/002 (Devices for hanging animal carcasses while being conveyed or stored) appears on 58 US grants and 51 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
- 58
- Published applications
- 51
- Assignees
- 30
- Inventors
- 78
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Tool attachment system for gambrels30 Nov 2023US 2023/0380431 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic tagging device for identifying transported products22US 5,781,112 A1998
- System and method for processing slaughtered animals and/or parts thereof16US 9,004,988 B2Marel Meat Processing Inc. · 2015
- Hook and hook assembly using a sling of band material15US 4,004,770 A1977
- Game winch systems and methods13US 8,210,912 B22012
- System and method for processing slaughtered animals and/or parts thereof10US 9,192,172 B2Marel Meat Processing Inc. · 2015