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Abstract

The machine has two laterally separated banks of pickers located on opposite sides of the path of travel of poultry carcasses conveyed through the machine. Each bank includes three horizontally extending lines of rotary pickers set in spaced opposition to the corresponding lines of pickers on the opposite bank so as to define a picking zone therebetween. The two banks may be rocked about a pair of respective horizontal axes extending parallel to the path of travel so as to adjust the shape of the picking zone to the extent needed for optimum performance, i.e., rocking the banks inwardly toward one another at their upper corners correspondingly brings the upper pickers closer together while separating the lower pickers and, on the other hand, rocking the banks toward one another at their lower corners causes the lower pickers to be brought closer to one another while the upper pickers are spaced further apart. The intermediate or middle lines of pickers are independently adjustable toward and away from one another relative to the other pickers, and both banks may be bodily shifted toward and away from one another to expand or contract the picking zone as may be necessary or desirable.

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