Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for breaking tissue connections in poultry suspended by the feet prior to the evisceration of this poultry. The tissue connections connect a portion of the viscera with belly fat located at the breast side of the inner cavity wall of the poultry. The apparatus includes an instrument to be inserted into the poultry via an incision provided at the vent side and performs a movement inside the poultry to break the tissue connections, wherein the instrument breaks the tissue connections between the belly fat and the gizzard.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for breaking tissue connections in poultry suspended by the feet prior to the evisceration of this poultry. The tissue connections connect a portion of the viscera with belly fat located at the breast side of the inner cavity wall of the poultry. The apparatus includes an instrument to be inserted into the poultry via an incision provided at the vent side and performs a movement inside the poultry to break the tissue connections, wherein the instrument breaks the tissue connections between the belly fat and the gizzard.

Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out a cleaning operation applied to the internal neck skin of slaughtered poultry by removing the windpipe, gullet, glandular tissue or remainders thereof, includes suspension devices for suspending the poultry by the legs, a presser device, which during the cleaning operation presses on at least a part of the poultry, and a rotatable bore organ to be inserted from the top into the poultry being suspended by the legs for carrying out the cleaning operation. During the cleaning operation, the presser device pushes the neck skin of the poultry toward the bore organ.

Abstract: An apparatus for carrying out a cleaning operation applied to the internal neck skin of slaughtered poultry by removing the windpipe, gullet, glandular tissue or remainders thereof, comprising suspension devices for suspending the poultry by the legs, presser means, which during the cleaning operation press on at least a part of the poultry, and a rotatable bore organ to be inserted from the top into the poultry being suspended by the legs for carrying out the cleaning operation, wherein during the cleaning operation the presser means push the neck skin of the poultry toward the bore organ.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for processing an trails package removed from slaughtered poultry, comprising two parallel and adjacently positioned shafts drivable for an opposite rotation, with a helically extending surface profile, the shafts defining a slot between themselves. At least one of the shafts is provided with at least one ring-shaped circumferential section at which the helically extending surface profile is missing and of which the surface is positioned at least at the level of the crest of the adjacent helically extending surface profile. Both shafts may be provided with a number of such circumferential sections.