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An apparatus for removing the neck of an plucked, headless fowl hanging by the legs from a hook of a overhead conveyor. The apparatus is built in the manner of a merry-go-round and has a number of clamping units, regularly spaced about the circumference of the apparatus and moving along with the conveyor, each unit being slidably mounted on a vertical slide bar and adapted to grip the fowl's neck, so that the vertebrae of the neck are separated from the remaining part of the fowl's spine without damage to the skin of the neck. After separating the vertebrae the unit moves downwards relative to the fowl, so that the vertebrae are at least partially pushed out of the skin together with the meat adhering thereto. Finally the unit releases the fowl's neck, moves back to its upper position and its slide bar and is ready for removing another fowl's neck.
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