APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETACHING STRIPS OF MEAT LOCATED ON A KEEL OF A POULTRY CARCASS

The invention relates to an apparatus (10) designed and set up for detaching strips of meat (13) on a keel (11) of a poultry carcass (12) from poultry carcasses (12) of slaughtered bodies of poultry or parts thereof from which breast fillets have already been removed, the apparatus comprising a circulating conveyor (14) with at least one holding device (15) with a supporting body (16) for receiving and holding the poultry bodies or the parts thereof as they are being transported through the apparatus (10) in the transporting direction T, and also comprising at least one processing station (17) along a conveying route of the conveyor (14), wherein one of the processing stations (17) is designed in the form of a release unit (18) for detaching the strip of meat (13) from the keel (11), this processing station being distinguished in that the release unit (18) comprises a loosening element...