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US 4,051,573 AGranted
Poultry leg retainer
OwnerAnthony J. Volkinventor
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Abstract
A limitedly flexible retainer as an integral plastic unit having a curved upper crosspiece with hooked legs depending from the ends thereof and a bar extending between lower portions of the legs. The retainer includes a locking arrangement including extensible straps connected to the upper crosspiece and to an extensible lower crosspiece for engagement with the hocks of poultry legs to retain them in trussed position.
Claims6
A poultry leg retainer comprising a crosspiece having a downwardly bowed center,
- a pair of legs depending one from each end of said crosspiece and each having a substantially rigid hook portion extending laterally outward and upwardly from the bottom of the leg,
- a central resiliently extensible bar extending between said legs below said crosspiece for engaging the underside of poultry hocks, and
- a pair of resiliently extensible straps extending between said crosspiece and said central bar in position for fitting in the knuckle creases of poultry hocks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.