Patent ID: 8500524

Claim:
A method for suspending poultry to be slaughtered held in conveyor brackets of an overhead conveyor, comprising: delivering the poultry by a belt conveyor onto a distribution surface on which the poultry is guided or pushed outwardly against an edge of the distribution surface to individual positions which receive the poultry at which the legs project from an edge of the positions, fixing the legs at the positions to fixing means; moving the individual positions successively upwardly relative to the distribution surface to suspend the poultry for a subsequent downward movement of the positions, running the brackets of the conveyor above and spaced from the distribution surface along a part of the conveyor extending past the distribution surface, moving the positions to a level of the distribution surface, and moving the fixing means during suspension of the poultry downwardly to the positions to provide downward movement of the legs of the poultry in the brackets.