Abstract: An apparatus for detaching wings from a poultry body is described in which the detachment is effected by means of three pairs of separating tools with varying arrangements and forms of knife blades. The poultry bodies are prepared as front halves and pass through the processing areas of the separating tools fixed on supporting saddles which are moved forward by conveying means and convey the poultry body with the neck portion leading and the breast portion uppermost. This "three-cut" separation procedure allows an extremely economical detachment of the wing and greatly increases the yield of breast fillet meat while avoiding bone splinters in the region of attachment of the wings.

Abstract: A process for gaining meat from the bodies of slaughtered poultry and an apparatus for performing this process are described. Importance is attached to the processing in the region of the clavicle in preparation for the same, and the problem to be solved is to ensure that even in the case of a broken clavicle, fragments thereof do not remain in the breast meat. This problem is solved by introducing a block into the V-bifurcation of the clavicle, said block having a wedge-shaped configuration in plan view and its flanks being provided with groove-like recesses, in which can be flushly engaged the branches of the clavicle, so that they disappear in these recesses. By means of peeling knives guided over the flanks of the block, the clavicle can be peeled free at its outer contour without a risk of any broken fragments being grasped and removed.