Processing apparatus for poultry comprising one or more transfer units

A processing apparatus for poultry, comprising

• one or more transfer units placed intermediate and conveying poultry from a first line to a subsequent second line, wherein both the first line and the second line are selected from the group comprising a slaughtering line, an evisceration line, a chilling line, a sorting line, a cutup line and/or another type of line or lines, wherein each transfer unit comprises
• a circulating support onto which a plurality of transfer means are mounted that in a not obstructed situation do not carry out a relative movement with respect to the support, yet in an obstructed situation are able to move relative to the support, the circulating support arranged to convey the transfer means between a supply station at the side of the first line and a discharge station at the side of the second line and vice versa;
• the transfer means provided with at least one magnet so as to induce eddy currents in the circulating support that counteracts relative motion between the transfer means and the circulating support;
• wherein the circulating support comprises material susceptible to eddy currents;
• wherein the at least one magnet is embodied with a series of alternating north-poles (+) and south-poles (−) facing the circulating support, and sandwiched between each of these alternating north-poles (+) and south-poles (−) is a combination of a north-pole (+) and a south-pole (−), which combination of north-pole (+) and south-pole (−) is shifted over an angle of π\2 (pi/2) radians or 90° with reference to the alternating north-poles (+) and south-poles (−) on opposite sides of the combination of north-pole (+) and south-pole
• wherein at the side facing the circulating support a north-pole (+) of the series of alternating north-poles (+) and south-poles (−) is immediately adjacent to a north-pole (+) of the shifted combination of a north-pole (+) and south-pole (−);
• and
• wherein at the side facing the circulating support a south-pole (−) of the series of alternating north-poles (+) and south-poles (−) is immediately adjacent to a south-pole (−) of the shifted combination of a north-pole (+) and south-pole (−).