Patent ID: 8105138

Claim:
A device for conditioning slaughtered poultry, comprising: a carrier provided with a contact surface for locally engaging a first carcass part of a slaughtered poultry animal defined by two separate legs at a first position, wherein the carrier forms part of a transport system with which the poultry are displaced hanging in the carrier, an engaging element provided with at least one contact surface for locally engaging a second carcass part of the slaughtered poultry animal at least at a second position, and drive means for relatively displacing the carrier and the engaging element toward each other, wherein the drive means are to relatively displacing the carrier and the engaging element toward each other such that the first and second carcass parts move relative to each other, and the engaging element is a pusher with a contact surface directed toward the carrier, the contact surface having an inclining position such that the contact surface encloses an acute angle with the vertical through the carrier with which the carrier and the pusher move toward each other, such that an angular position of the second carcass part relative to the legs engaged by the carrier is changed due to a force exerted by the contact surface making a body of the slaughtered poultry animal shifting or sliding over the contact surface as the pusher moves inward.