Device for picking or plucking poultry-feathers and an apparatus for driving such a device

A device for picking or plucking poultry feathers, comprising:

• a sleeve-coupling;
• a plucking plate with receptacles for plucking fingers, said plucking plate connected or connectable to said sleeve coupling,
• at least one drive shaft for said plucking plate, said sleeve-coupling being mountable to said drive shaft;
• wherein said sleeve-coupling is provided with a circumferentially extending slot for receipt of a radially extending pin that is provided on said drive-shaft, the circumferentially extending slot including an opening between the slot extremities to allow the pin to enter and to exit the slot, so that the sleeve-coupling is securely mounted on the drive-shaft with the pin being located at one of the slot-extremities.