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Abstract

Slaughtered poultry, which has already been headwise introduced into a plastic bag member, is placed in a holder with a mouth of the plastic bag member being oriented upwardly. Two upper pivotal jaws are moved together to form a narrow cylinder about an upper end of the poultry, an overlying tubular member is forced down into a narrow cylinder for pressing the leg ends of the poultry downwardly, with the piston having a bottom closure which is active as a piston end but openable to enable a free bag mouth portion to be drawn into the tubular piston when vacuum is applied to the upper ends thereof. When the bottom closure is thereafter closed, the drawn up bag mouth portion will be clamped to the piston and the piston is rotated for twisting the bag mouth portion. Thereafter, the bag holder is moved past a tape applicator device for fixing of the twist bag mouth portion, with the bag portion outside of the tape being cut off and drawn away through the piston.

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First Claim